Express myself

ex·pres·sion (k-sprshn)

1. The act of expressing, conveying, or representing in words, art, music, or movement; a manifestation: an expression of rural values.
2. Something that expresses or communicates: Let this plaque serve as an expression of our esteem.
3. The manner in which one expresses oneself, especially in speaking, depicting, or performing.
4. The outward manifestation of a mood or a disposition: My tears are an expression of my grief.
5. A facial aspect or a look that conveys a special feeling: an expression of scorn.
6. The act of pressing or squeezing out.
7. Genetics The act or process of expressing a gene.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/expression

The Mona Lisa

"Let us leave the physiognomic riddle of Mona Lisa unsolved, and let us note the unequivocal fact that her smile fascinated the artist no less than all spectators for these 400 years. This captivating smile had thereafter returned in all of his pictures and in those of his pupils. As Leonardo's Mona Lisa was a portrait, we cannot assume that he has added to her face a trait of his own, so difficult to express, which she herself did not possess. It seems, we cannot help but believe, that he found this smile in his model and became so charmed by it that from now on he endowed it on all the free creations of his phantasy".

(Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci: A study in psychosexuality. tr. A.A. Brill. New York, Vintage Books, [1955] Originally published by Freud in 1910, p. 79.)

From the beginning it was greatly admired and much copied around the world, and it came to be considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait. It is difficult to discuss this work work briefly because of the complex stylistic motifs which are part of it and everyone's opinion and discovery on the painting. My interpretation of such a clever art of work is based on the perfect beauty of a woman. The slight opening of the lips at the corners of the mouth was considered in that period a sign of elegance. Thus Mona Lisa has that slight smile which enters into the gentle, delicate atmosphere pervading the whole painting.

Music

"To really appreciate the work of a musical artist you have to experience a song through every mechanism available, through the artist's voice, through the specific music instruments, through the carefully selected melodies, through the wonderfully written lyrics. Your first experience of a song and its interpretation should be by audio only. You have to be able to capture its meaning before it is corrupted by a visual expression. A song has to be free to speak a personal message and if a song is able to do that it is only because of artistic perfection. A music video takes away an artist's majestic power of illustration".

Coenraad de Beer http://ezinearticles.com/?Music-Videos---The-Extension-To-Musical-Expression&id=147796

I decided to look at not just baby expressions and shapes but at it from a Painters point of view on different age, body shapes and facial expressions. The Mona Lisa has a devious yet shows some sort of hidden secret behind the eyes and her smile. I took a look at Coenraad de Beer opinion on Music and video clips on how it conveys message to the viewer and to understand that just because there was a video clip for the music it does not mean that it really illustrates the meaning of the lyrics. The logo should clearly target the type of audience that we are trying to capture. Expression can be explosive or subtle depends on what the artists wants to portray.

Fashion

I could talk on and on about fashion, trend and so on but what I have come across is the African fashion and culture. I belive they are the most colourful country and very expressive in showing who they are. Clothing vary from ethnic groups and culture. Even though they come from the one nation they have different identity which comes back from their history. The people of Mende in Sierra Leone will give a cloth to the bride which denoted the "kind of afterlife one will lead". Everytime there is an event such a burial, wedding, birthday or some sort of celebration they would dress up for those occasions. African people truly know how to be colourful.


http://www.transafricaforum.org/reports/clothing_issuebrief0600.pdf

I shouldn't narrow my thought on logo but the overall impression of the company and how the word expression can be playful.....the song I have stuck in my head is "EXPRESS YOURSELF...." from Madonna!!

An individual can express themself through different areas such as fashion, music and through art. I'm sure there are more ways to express ones opinion but I see the most is through these three main stream categories.

DMT: MIM Student Server Access

Finally I loged in to the DMT: MIM Student Server Access.
Here are the links to the activity.

http://students.mim.iml.uts.edu.au/users/10280891/comments-1.html
http://students.mim.iml.uts.edu.au/users/10280891/comments-2.html
http://students.mim.iml.uts.edu.au/users/10280891/comments-3.html

Influences - Negative and Positive

Drive

I was looking for influences and I came across this identifying baby with rings. This logo is from Kendall Creative Shop, Inc the client is Drive, the industry that it is in, is Financial industry...quite strange and unusual.

I don't think this logo is very positive...the reaction on the baby's face isn't appealing.

Second logo - FirstFlight
design firm Cavalry Brand Development
designer Tom Nynas
client FirstFlight
art director Tom Nynas
industry
Flight School

A good image, not too much features, plain colours yet very appealing to my mind. But seen as a very structured shape form.

Going back to my logo, soemthing that come to mind, if I refer back to the photo of that flying baby;

• Bunny ears on a baby would show a uniqueness and trend setter of an individual. The icon needs to be clever and a sense of quirkiness.
  Baby = new, bunny ears = uniqueness or trend and maybe a designer with a new signature.



• If a baby icon is designed alone without the bunny ears it will look too plain plus it feels like it is selling baby stuff rather than the designer appeal.
  
  When designing and experimenting, make sure it doesn’t look like an actually bunny flying; must show a clear line to define a baby wearing bunny ears on its head. Something for me to keep in mind when putting the design together.

Have baby flying over some text?? Need to explore and worked on as this can create some personality.

design firm Born to Design
designer Todd Adkins
client Born to Design
industry Graphic Design

Very good way of introducing words such as young and inspired. Image really produce a lot of words into the mind. Suits the design company. A good aspiration, a little too cliche maybe??

The Second lesson in DMT

What a long week it has been works been all over the place gotta get people to be more organised. Working in my weekend what a pain but hey it's what I love to do. Now I get a chance to work on my blog whoohooo!!!

The Second lesson in Digital Media Technology was fun and different.
we learnt about Network, Protocol, Server, Client, and The Internet.

Tim has used interesting metaphors in representing how a network works and how it communicates from one computer to another. Which creates a better visual and idea of what network is really about.

Where the expression that he used was about a customer and a waiter at a restaurant. The customer will communicate where he/she will put an order of what he/she would love to eat. Which is known as Input in a computer's point of view where we will communicate to the computer by typing in the search engine field to what we're looking for.

After ordering your food you than receive the end result where either you been served with the right or wrong meal.
For example if you ordered chicken but in the end you received a steak. This could be because the exchange in language is different.

In a computer terminology this is known as Protocol which is the transmission of data where the language is the most important subject.

Here is a link of what I thought would be a great example about Network.

It's a funny ad about Pc and Mac where PC and Mac are holding hands which is networked together and the Mac is also holding hands with the latest digital camera which is a Japanese girl.The Japanese girl is than communicating in Japanese to the Mac and the PC has no idea of what the Japanese girl is talking about.

In a computer's point of view the PC and the Mac are both networked together and the new digital camera is networked to the Mac where the Protocol or language is than recognised and than both the digital camera and Mac can communicate to each other. Although in the end the PC can't communicate to the digital camera. Even though the Mac is like a server providing a service to let the PC use the digital camera.




incase you guys can't see this short ad here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ph-bU2zfBI



In Conclusion
Network is:
A connected system of computers or people.
Exchanging data from one computer to another.

Protocol is:
A way to communicate between computers or people.

Server is:
A computer on a network which provides a service to clients.
e.g email, internet, scanner.


We also did a quick activity in class where I shared my computer with another student I think her name was Seema she said she didn't know what to do but hey we went through it like as if we knew what we were doing hehehehehehehe. Thanks Seema.

During this activity we found our computer's IP address and the IP address of the UTS web server also how to ping and also we had to register a domain name checking if our name is already taken on the internet.

Seema was lucky she had logos of prestigious cars under her domain name.
I had a engineering service company how boring is that.

Alright I need a good cold beer right NOW or a few Tequila or vodka shots........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Ohh yeh here is my SWOT analysis.

My very first Blog

My very first blog....
I don’t know what to say lets test this out....

Digital Media Technology is one of the subjects I picked up for this semester and one of the criterias is to write a blog.

Today I’ve been researching on what I should do for my project.
I’ve decided that I will be designing a website for my own business, that I would love to start up.

I’ve been researching on my SWOT analysis for my business and I will post it up soon.