Importance of attending college

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College provides individuals with the opportunity to have a better career and personal enrichment. The value of college is more than the opportunity to have a better and well paid job. A college education gives you the ability to understand yourself and you’re environed. A college education enables one to achieve their personal as well as national goals. People have different reasons for attending college and gaining an education. It depends on what they want is important to them and what they want to do with it. There are people who attend higher education to better serve their societies, contribute to world economy; education and peace, there are also those of us who attend college for the purpose of being able to afford a more comfortable life. Regardless of what the reason is for attending a higher education, education leads people out of darkness and calamity towards light and success. As there is a saying “Education is never-ending journey” Therefore we should make education a lifelong habit.

Process: I downloaded a free trial program called Smart Color Splash, I enjoyed doing it because the program was very easy to use..It was fun :)

Godzilla versus Yam

Yam Yarn

This is Godzilla, a hero of mine, vanquishing his foe, the diabolical Yam. Why does a Yam have arms you ask? Foolishness! How else would a Yam climb to the top of a municipal building?

As far as the creative process here, I can’t claim to have done much to this picture, other than the addition of the yam of course.

On the issue of full disclosure, I am actually quite fond of yams, roasted yams in particular. Good on you Godzilla, roasting that yam for thanksgiving consumption. Pass the marshmallows.

2/5 stars

Visual Assignment #1

I did the a-z photo collage assignment, worth 3 stars.

I focused on animals and when it came to the letters u and x I stretched it by using the scientific names sometimes.

here’s my photo collage:

a-zanimals

For photos of all the animals, I used Creative Commons images licensed for non-commercial use. I found them on both fotopedia and google. The animals A-Z are: alligator, baboon, cat, dog, elephant, fox, giraffe, horse, iguana, jellyfish, koala, lemur, manatee, newt, ocelot, penguin, quail, reindeer, sloth, turkey, ural owl, vulture, whale, xerus [ground squirrel], yak, and zebra. First I brainstormed the topic and then listed a-z, filling in the blanks of animals I already knew. Then, google came in handy for finding animals for the letters I couldn’t. I went to creativecommons.org and sub-searched fotopedia and google for the images I needed. I had downloaded Picasa on my computer, and made a folder for the images I was collecting with my pictures. I then imported my pictures into Picasa (available through google), which took all the pictures from the folder and put them into the same area. (For whatever reason, some of the photos I imported would not show up in Picasa,  I’m not sure why.) I then clicked make collage, and mosaic tiled the images. Then, I just clicked and dragged the images into alphabetical order. I saved the image once I had ordered it alphabetically and voila! uploaded it to flickr.

 

Microappoogle

Troll Quotes

Picture of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, quote from Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and attributed to Larry Page, CEO of Google. The quote definitely sounds off for Jobs, and I think his fans would be thoroughly enraged to see someone else’s name on his photograph.

2/5 stars

Demotivate (Motivate) Yourself!

Sticking with my fishing theme from my cartoon collage. I decided to make a motivational/demotivate poster showing what happens most of the time when you are fishing. For some, the waiting is the worst part and for others its why they go fishing! I used the website http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/demotivational-posters#.TpqQL96F9t to create the poster by uploading a photo and editing the dimensions and text.

Demotivate and motivate

All done!

Common Everyday object

The Common Everyday object! It took me a while to figure what I wanted to manipulate for this particular assignment. At first, I wanted to take a picture of scissors, but you know I hardly ever use them. So I looked across my desk and choose my very cool UMW tervis water-bottle  this tends to follow me everywhere, gotta stay hydrated. I manipulated the saturation and temperature of this picture using the pic monkey website again!

Common Everyday object

2 more stars to go!

Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something

This visual assignment was quite fun! I have recently become acquainted with disc golfing over the past year. I regularly take friends who have never gone before , this picture was from a trip in which, the star of the shot was still learning. The action picture did not turn out great but with a blue cross fade effect and witty quote, I could not stop laughing and thinking about how much fun was had.

Pic Monkey was used to edit the picture

 

Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something

4 Stars to Go!

Lack of a good Education System

Education is an important part of everyone’s life, a country with no education is like a body without a soul. Similarly, education system plays an important role in delivering knowledge to individuals. Unfortunately in most of the third world countries the education system is very week, one of the reason is that memorization is preferred than understanding. Thus, students graduate every year but with the lack of understanding.

Due to the lack of a better education system in third world countries, students are under pressure, as students who memorize are encouraged over the students who actually understand the materials. Similarly, every student is expected by their parents to become doctors or engineers. Therefore, every year many students commit suicide because they cannot fulfill what is expected from them. This movie encourages individuals to major on what they are interested and to understand the materials. Similarly, shows the lack of a better education system in third world countries. check the animated GIFs below:

http://afghanwoman786.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=280

Process:  to make the movie animated GIF, I downloaded KMplayer and PhotoScape.  Which are totally free to download. Secondly to capture movie, I opened it with KMplayer, then after it was captured I opened the captured files on PhotoScape. There is a good tutorial available on this, which was really useful to me.
Link to the tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYhnzqnEY

 

Cartoon Collage

So, I have an unyielding passion for fishing. And one of the species that alludes me is the TUNA!! So i made this collage using the ever famous Charlie Tuna from Starkist and a poster of one of the illusive giants. The idea came to me when I was browsing through my options for this week’s visual assignments. I used the website Pic Monkey and went about arranging my collage.

 
Cartoon Collage
4 stars done!

 

ILLustrate 106

ILLustrate 106

I found a background picture in google and 106 picture too. I edited both of them in art viewer program. I copied and pasted the background on to the 106 picture and then lowered the opacity. So then both pictures are blended together. Then I did some adjustments with the picture I messed with the brightness/contrast and inverted the picture. I wanted the background to look like it was painted and the 106 was brought out more because of the background.