Life@ITP

Well my product is EXTREMELY simple and I’m not sure how much of a technology it is, since there are no wires or light or anything of that sort. It’s just a plain cutting board.

The main reason I decided to redesin a cutting board is because my mom is here for a visit and we have been cooking so much and I have been using the cutting board alot these past weeks. Anyways below is my design.

Since I have some Flash Experiance and mostly because I didn’t have time to work in group for this assignment, because of Red’s Presentation and Finals. I decided it was best if I did this on my own. As I said earlier I do have some flash experiance, but mostly it’s self taught and learning by trial and error. Flash is definitely one of my favorite softwares to work with just because you can do alot with it. I still have a long ways to go to get better at Flash, but I love using it and learning more and more everytime I work with it.

I have not had time to really finish this animation, but I will and the file will be here.

The final product of our video assignment. We were all given a chance to edit the video using Final Cut Pro and met up in as group after and decided that the cut Demetri’s rough cut was the best. So we worked with that. I had a load of fun on this assignment. Well waking up really freakin’ early to shoot in the library wasn’t much fun, but the whole experiance of running around the village and getting random people to be in our video was fun. The funniest bit was definitely the bathroom scene. We shot that scene in the boys bathroom in the basement of the Tisch Building. We girls, Wendy, Nana, and I couldn’t stop laughing. It was great!

After a long discussion, Wendy, Nana, Demetri and I decided to shoot our video about a book. The idea actually came about when Demetri said he always wanted to shoot in a library, and from there Wendy told us about a paticular book her roommate has been reading. So after talking a few more minutes on how the story should go, we all drew some quick storyboards. Below are the results of our discussion.

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DJ Dangermouse

I don’t think what DJ Dangermouse did was really that wrong. He was just trying to express his creativity. If the record labels could just see it as an amazing art work rather than another way to financial gain I’m sure there would have been no problem. I’m not such a fan of hip hop, but I do like the Beatles and although I couldn’t really here much of John Lennon or any of the other Beatles in the Grey Album’s remixes I think it’s sorta interesting that someone was brave enough to remix/combine the Beatles with the world of hip hop music. In my opinion as long as the person who mashes the copyrighted music doesn’t try to make money of it, it’s fine.

I think DJ Dangermouse said it best in his RollingStones interview:

“If somebody like Ringo or Paul McCartney heard it, I think they would dig it,” says Danger Mouse. “If Jay-Z heard it and said, ‘This sucks, dude,’ then I’d be like, ‘OK, everyone please send me back their copies.”

I mean, if the artist themselves don’t have problem with it…why should the big shot corporate people who have nothing to do with the creative process make such a big deal of it?

The creator of Podcasting, Adam Curry

Podcasting is something relatively new to me. Ipods in Malaysia aren’t as widely used as they are here in the States, mainly because not everyone in Malaysia can afford one. I guess you can say it’s one of those luxury items with prices ranging in a couple of thousand Ringgit. Anyways it was interesting to come here and see that almost everyone had an Ipod.

Well back to my response to Podcasting, I for one truly would say that podcasting is one of the most exciting innovations to come along in quite awhile. I mean, it opens up an endlessly varied universe of audio content to anyone who wants it at any time. We live in a time where we are always so busy that we might not have time to catch our favorite shows or what not and having something convenient that notifies us when new content is available through some sort of aggregator and automatically download that content and have it put in a place where it can be put on a portable player for us to listen to at our convenience is amazing.

Definition of Podcasting from Wikipedia:

Podcasting is a means of distributing audio and video programs via the Internet that lets users subscribe to a number of files, also known as “feeds”, and then hear or view the material at the time that they choose. A feed is usually in the MP3 audio format.

Podcasting became popular in late 2004 with the spread of free software that enabled automatic downloading of audio MP3 files onto computers and mobile MP3 players.

“Podcasting” is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, rather than one-time delivery. A series of files are delivered because subscribers want to get the information regularly.

Subscriptions use a “feed” (such as RSS or Atom) to deliver the enclosed files. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated “radio shows,” and gives broadcast radio or television programs a new distribution method. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using “podcatching” software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically.

The word “Podcast” is often incorrectly used to describe any Web link to a media-player-compatible audio file. Some radio personalities post MP3 versions of their shows and call them podcasts even though they offer no subscription feed.

Most podcatching software facilitates copying podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. From the earliest RSS-enclosure tests in 2000-2001, feeds have been used to deliver video files as well as audio. By 2005 some aggregators and mobile devices could receive and play video, but the “podcast” name remained most associated with audio.

“Podcasting” is a portmanteau that combines the words “broadcasting” and “iPod.” The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or any portable player, and no broadcasting is involved.

Aware of that misleading association from the beginning, some writers have suggested alternative names or reinterpretations of the letters “p-o-d”, without winning much of a following.[1] One little-used alternative is “blogcasting”, which implies content based on, or similar in format to, blogs. Another is “audioblogging.”

Last week’s assignment where we had to create a whole different image with 5 other images was pretty fun. Juliana and I weren’t really sure what we wanted to create at first. When Juliana and I first sat down to work on it we thought it would be nice to create a Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Beach Paradise, but we couldn’t find any images that we could use to create it.

Anyways, Juliana was pretty busy with Red’s class so I finally decided to use New York City as an inspiration. Plus I found the t-rex pictures and the rest of the images on google. Juliana added the lightning which I thought was really cool, it definitely in my opinion completes the image.

T-Rex Attacks Manhattan!! By Fazreen Zaianne Kuhiri & Juliana Chan





5 images used to create image above.

We were asked to look for three different manipulated images. I especially like the first photo. It’s a picture was taken from a manga and the effects were done in PhotoShop.

Dream Like Effect

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Evil Liv Tyler

I know this entry is a bit late but, I only started my first CommLab class on the third week. So this is my review of the article I read.

I found the Associated Press article to be very interesting. I’m quite impressed to say the least that Empire High School took this brave step, to have all their students working and studying with laptops rather than the traditional text books.

I’m from Malaysia, and not having to go to school with big bulky heavy textbooks are just unheard off! Most of the school kids in Malaysia do carry backbacks that weigh a ton and to makes matters worst. We don’t have lockers. So no…we don’t have the luxury to keep our folders or notebooks or whatever in a a separate place once we reach school.

I’m not so sure if something like what Empire High School did will ever be accepted in Malaysia. It probably will, but it will have to take alot of time and convincing. The Malaysian school systems thrives on standardized exams and textbooks, creative forms of learning aren’t to popular. Which I have never really been able to accept. But that’s just me. I guess it’s coz I had my early childhood education in the States.

Anyways I really feel that having the kids at Empire High School exposed to the vast amount of information that is readily available online is just wonderful. They have the flexibilty to learn more on their own by searching the internet and get more out of the school’s curriculum.

Anyways…that’s just my two-cents. If only Malaysia would consider something like this!!