Exercise One: Character Profile

For this exercise, we've been instructed to "chat" with a fellow N190 friend via Facebook to compile information we will be using to construct a character profile. We were told to exaggerate as much or as little as we like. Here is my character profile:

Name: Kristi Cline
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Superpower: Psychokinetic Saxophone abilities; can control matter when playing saxophone
Loves: Music
Dreams: Graduate IUPUI, Move Away From Indiana

Kristi Cline was given a special gift the day her mother gave birth to her; as the legacy was passed down yet another generation. Kristi was granted the gift of musical superpowers that would later in her life result in musical crime-fighting. Kristi was born in Galveston, Texas in the same hospital room and delivered by the same nurse as her mother; it had to be this way. There were always certain protocol and procedures for people like Kristi and her mother; people with abilities. By the time Kristi's mother was giving birth to Kristi; the nurse had grown very aware of the mother's musical abilities and turned rogue, and even jealous towards her mother. The nurse contacted a wise evil-doer who suggest that she kidnap the newborn child; who will guarantee to inherit musical powers from her mother, and use them to her own financial and successful gain.
As Krsti grew up in the mountains of Chile, she immediately found love with the saxophone. She mastered the instrument at age 5. It wasn't until age 10, when she realized that she could control physical object by using her mind in combination with playing the saxophone. Kristi had psychokinetic powers when she played the saxophone and she practiced these skills for years until she grew quite proficient at it; boasting even one time she had stack four vehicles on top of each other in an abandoned junkyard. The day came when Kristi realized that the mother she knew of was nothing short of a life of lies. When she uncovered the truth; she challenged the "nurse" mother in an epic duel of musical psychokinetic magnificence in which Kristi remained as the victor.
Kristi was reunited with her mother and immediately began training in the studio. Her mother had a power a psychokinetic ability when she sang; controlling objects with her voice. Kristi also came to learn that she had a brother. Her brother harnessed the ability of psychokinesis while he played his drums; controlling objects mentally combined when his drums are played. The three, together, learned that their power of psychokinesis no longer worked. The family was baffled by this and agreed to send Kristi on a mission to discover a clue or an answer. An answer that would give the family their abilities as a group.
They decided that they should move to Indiana, and they should keep a low-profile in the community while they search for this answer. Her mother agreed that she would attend IUPUI and go for the Bachelor of Science in New Media Degree. She knew by doing this; Kristi would have all of thes answers in the world.

Lab 3 Photoshop

Nothing too impressive with this lab, but I learn and practiced using the quick selection tool and copying the selection to a new layer. I will keep working on these skills for the next lab.

Layer blending tricks lead to a sweet image

This is my first "cool" thing that I've made in Photoshop. Just watched the layer blending podcasts and was walked through the process well. I really like this technique and plan on using it more often.

Success with uploading Photoshop CS4 - first creation

Here is my proof that I can get into Photoshop CS4, create an image, save for the web (jpeg format), and uploaded here at blogger.com. I know this image is elementary in design, just ellipses and gradients. Anyhow, here the September 6, 2009 creation:

What I think could be interactive and tell a story

I think a lighter could be interactive and tell a story.



I think a lighter is interactive because the user of the lighter physically engages with the lighter in order for the lighter complete it's intended purpose. It's because of interactivity that a lighter works at all. A lighter can never be active on it's own (or, at least it shouldn't be. If you see a lighter lighting itself; you should probably stay away from it). A lighter needs to have interactivity in order to "light" or produce flame.



A lighter could tell a story in many different ways. A lighter's story could be based off the interactivity involved to get the lighter to produce flame. A person looks at the lighter. That person then reaches and grabs the lighter. Then, with a calloused thumb, the person strikes the spark wheel down, and the lighter produces the flame; but only for the length of time in which the person is interacting with the lighter. The flame disappears once the person has let go of the fork, and won't reappear until the next time a person interactive with this in exactly the same manner, calling upon the flame one more time until life-fluid runs out, as does happen with every living thing, and the flame would no longer be able to be called upon by any one person. It would be a "dead lighter".

Initial Blog - Oh Boy...if this post were a book, it would be a real page-turner

Hi there. This is my section in the blogger.com realm.
So, all of you should be able now keep track of my thoughts yet another way and hopefully I can find another application that simultaneously updated all of my status twittery tweets and real-time updates of what I'm doing and where. Really, big thanks to responsibility (and fall semester), I now have less time to waste time telling 567 of my facebook friends that I'm watching the stars and it's nice, with facebook's very addictive tweeting feature; you can "like" (by clicking) someone's post from your page. I'm rallying for the "dislike" option; in case you want to let someone know that you disagree with how they feel and you have no life. Really, I'm not a facebook addict; I just see many who really document their concious time with facebook posts - guess it beats a journal. I'm betting a facebook psychology theory will develop from the millions of users who thrive on the site's functionality and sustainability; god forbid if the application servers go down for two minutes at facebook. There are many millions people that rely on facebook games as of current.
Kind of crazy, really. I just wanted to go with a random topic with this first blog; it come to me as I was typing and just felt like continuing with some support and personal feelings. By no way, in any means, did I think of anything I was going to write ahead of time.

I would hope to keep my blogs very conversational-feeling here; as if I was talking to you and knowing that you can hear, but not respond.

Look forward to sharing with yus.