Straight into School Work

Ok so holidays are quite obviously over given the amount of assessments that i have been bombarded with..... Actually there aren't that many BUT they are hard to do so they each take a while.
The worst one that i've got since i got back is the VIS101 or Visual Communication essay, now this one is a real pain as you have to be extremely thorough in your research and also careful in your layout..... My main problem is that essay for me are really difficult and even with help from other students, teachers and student services i still manage to scrape a pass, my other problem is that i have it due TODAY and i only started it yesterday.. :(
So basically i am not going to do very well, which SUCKS!! But it is my fault for leaving it to the last minute *sigh. I have to accept the inevitable, but not before i ask a really good friend of mine - who by the way is an awesome essay writer - to look over my essay.

This is my question, see if YOU can make your own essay out of it; 
'Successful persuasion in the mass media often depends on appropriating to one's own use the icons of one's culture.'  Discuss this statement, either in reference to advertising or more broadly towards an aspect of mass culture. Address the question through the characteristics of a consumer society. Identify aspects of mass culture – albeit film, theatre, television, advertising, or comic-book art – to which you can refer informatively. Compare and contrast at least two significant bodies of work. What role have symbol and metaphor played? Expand.
Good Luck. :)

The next assignment that will be due is ALSO VIS101, but it is and "informal" 'talk' as my lecturer likes to say, we choose a subject, mine is; Political and religious signs: Towards Global Culture. Then we have to compile a short essay type response and read it in front of the class.... Sounds easy right, WRONG, i absolutely hate talking in front of people so that one is going to be even more fun than the other VIS101 essay *Heavy Sarcasm*

After that there is my MPI104 and my VFX101 assignments due, better known as multimedia and animation, but they won't be due until somewhere around June i think.

So a belated Happy Easter to everyone and good luck with whatever you have going on at the moment.
Talk to you all later

Lauren

iiiiiimmmm Baaaaack!!

Ok so i'm back after the holidays......
Actually i came back a few days ago, but any way, into another bunch of assessments we go, these include assessments for Animation, Visual Communication (and FML this one has TWO) - essays can go die in a hole - I'm getting one for Photography on thursday.... or later today, whatever, and i'm sure that our Multimedia teacher Matt is going to be giving us another assessment any day now....

*Sigh* And i thought high school sucked.

Uni's not THAT bad though, i'm just complaining cause i can, anyway the people are nice and they love to help you out when you need it so it's all good and the teachers really know what they're talking about so that's awesome.

I don't think people actually look at my blog but it's a good way to keep track of everything, you know, so...
ta ta for now xo

Lauren :)

Holidays ROCK!!!

Hey, so it's the first non-contact day for university today, so only ONE MORE LECTURE then it's time to relax for a couple of days before getting back into school work......

I'm so excited to be going home and seeing my family, it's been over two months since i've seen them... :( But i'm also heaps excited to just be able to kick back for a bit and take a breather, uni is so much harder than i thought it would be, but in the end it will all be worth it.... I hope :)
So some exciting news, well exciting for me, during this holidays i get to climb the Harbor Bridge in Sydney... YAY.... With my sister, cousin and my aunty, this is going to be an amazing holiday.

It will also be my sisters 16th birthday, so here's a shout out to Emma, love you baby sis, and i can't wait to see you and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

So here's to everyone, have a happy holidays!

Assessment 1

Well, it looks like we've reached the end of our assessment 1 for MPI104 and i can't say that im not relieved cause i really am, COMPUTERS SUCK!!!!
I don't like them and the feelings mutual, but MPI has taught me a few things that i would never have known or even attempted to to EVER!!!
Im Serious!!
But it's all good really, i find that the class is actually quite fun;

What we've done in MPI104 so far;

Well there are a few things that we've done, like create a Gmail account, and this blogspot account -
Blogger
Then there was the Flickr account, i have to admit though, i like using Flickr even though i don't use it very often -
Flickr
After that there was the Delicious account, though i do really hate this one, it always takes forever to open and then often shits itself halfway through doing something >P Really, Really HATE IT!!!
Delicious
This whole subject isn't very hard, it's just a bit time consuming and you have to worry about keeping the posts regular, thats the most annoying part i reckon, cause if you forget for a couple of days then you have to do catchup posts, and they're a BITCH to do, can't wait till i get a desktop computer, will be so much better them my shoddy laptop, will make keeping the posts done regularly easy.

Anyway this class is pretty cool, Matt is a good teacher and the other people in my class are heaps nice and willing to help, BTW... thanks Matt for constantly helping me when my computer wouldn't let me log into ANY ACCOUNT!!!!!
HOWEVER, i'm still glad that this assignment is over even though it means that we are getting closer to when we get the next assignment. *sigh* i guess it never really ends when your in uni.......

To Be Continued......

Heaps Cool!!!

This is an insanely cool sketch that was done by Raison Bassig back in 2009, It may be an oldied mut it's definately a goodie and it was done in just 15 MINUTES!!! Enjoy

Speed Sketching in 15 minutes using Pen & Ink (An Architectural Perspective)

Johnny Depp - All the Love Going His Way

Hey Everyone,

I actually found this link years ago when I was in year 7 and thought that it was awesome.
And now......
I STILL think it's AWESOME!!!!
<3 this dude Martin Missfeldt is so skilled with the computer Captain JACK SPARROW - speed painting by Martin Missfeldt

Stop Motion Animation Drawing

This is SSSSSSOOOOOO COOL......

this is called stop motion animation, drawing style... not sculpture PEOPLE THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. <3 No bad comments allowed because this is THE BOMB!!!!!! Must have take so freaking LONG, I would have no patience for it. The Stop Motion Animation

I mean THE BOMB!!

Delicious

EVEN MORE CONFUSING THEN FLICKR!!!!
GRRRR SO FRUSTRATING. :S

FLICKR

I reckon Flickr would be pretty cool if.....

I knew how to use FREAKING COMPUTERS!!!!
It's alright though not too hard to use ......

1st post AWESOME

link to facebookThis is my first post EVER! it's for MPI104!!!! ! I've been living under a virtual rock!