Colour Changes!!!

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Website review!

Thought id do a quick review on a website ive been using a hell of a lot at the minute! its another user content based website and would have been perfect for the assinment last week but oh well!
The site is sporcle.com by the way! you may have heard of it! pretty much you go on and try out loads of quizes which you have a certain amount f time to finish. its really fun with a couple of mates on the sofa all trying to remember desperately what the 10th pixar film is that you were all certain you'd be able to get a piece of piss 3 minutes ago. the website its self is pretty basic to look at, but everything runs smoothly and its easy enough to create your own quiz for others to try their hands at so i can't see it going anywhere but up from now on!

Thoughts for website...!

I've been trying to think of what I will make a website of and have come up with this list off the top of my head:
-Nottingham Skate park- (arnold bowl/ Maple street park)
-Non-stop skate shop
-My old primary school- kinda ruined when Shaun said it as an idea to everyone! oh well!
-Other shop- maybe backlash (local one not chain shop)
-Arbouretum
-Rock City
-Inside my dads man draw at home
-Old Vicarage (abandoned house in my home village)
-Tuxford School- my old secondary... because it isnt there anymore!
-The progression of my Drum kit!

My favourites are the progression of my drum kit, as a lot has changed with it over the years and will change more over time, skate park, Man draw and my old secondary school. any thoughts on these are very welcome by the way!

3 user content driven websites.

These are my evaluations on three websites which run on content added by the users.
Ratemyink.com
Rate my ink is a website based completely around user added content. There are many other websites which are like this one where predominately you are rating something part of a person or something of theirs. I have used rate my ink a few times to look for any good tattoo designs to build on for my own. The website itself is very very basic looking and not exactly smooth around the edges. There are not many options for the user to keep them interested. You can become a member but all that does is make it so you can view tattoos that are rated as being explicit. Apart from these there are top and bottom ten and a few other links. My opinion of the website is that it is useful to the user but it doesn’t have much to it, especially design wise to keep the user coming back very often.
Blogger
I thought as this website which we have to use to post is all to do with user added content I would evaluate it. Straight off the welcome page is far better than rate my ink. It’s quite a simple design, but very well done with neutral colours. Once you log in it’s more of the same with the nice simplistic layout and design. This makes it very easy to navigate, and never takes very long to find what you want, as all of the buttons are highlighted in blue against the brown background. Because of it looking so nice and being so simple to use from the start, it is a website you end up coming back and using very often, which has got to be one of the main things you aim for when designing a website.
911 Tabs
I have used this website quite a few times to find drum tabs but I know quite a lot of other people who use it for guitar, bass and piano. All of the tabs are added by users for others to try out and alter if they think they’re wrong. There isn’t that much to the website which keeps it simple, however it is still nice to look at and doesn’t look cheaply made like ratemyink. The whole site is very logically set out and therefore easy to use. Over all I very much like the design, and it shows that the designers have thought a lot about how to keep it very simple but classy enough to make you want to go back to this site and not bother finding another tab site.

Flash Game for Box!!!

Here are a couple of screen shots that ive been taking from the TV show Metapocalypse for my flash game, i havnt exactly decided what to do with it fully yet, but i will come together soon!

Filmed the Stop motion druming!!!

Ive now filmed the stop motion drumming with my friend! here are a couple of pics from it...
hopefully get the editing done soon!

Inspiration for AV element!

This video is by Lasse Gjertsen, and i am hoping to do a similar sort of thing with one of my friends, Norm, who is one of the most rhythmically challenged people on the planet, so thought it would be quite fun getting him to play an instrument, Give another update when ive filmed it an shiz!

Update on what ive done with my Drum Kit box so far.
at first i tried to do all of the lugs and bolts by extracting it, but decided against it and went another way. im pretty happy with it at the minute, but pleanty more to do with it!

These are some of the sketches from deciding how my Drum Kit 'box' is going to be set out an look, well hopefully when i have done it!

Research For Box...

These are a few of the pictures that ive found of 3D Drum kits that other people have made, and has made me definitely want to make a drum kit for my box!
i dont think im going to make it quite as big as some of these though!

Logo!!!

Just posting some of the development of my designs for my MDF Cow logo...

I have decided that I'm going to make my logo customisable as well, so people will be able to change the colour, clothing, glasses etc on it. will post some pics of them when ive designed them.

The Box Project!!!

Just a note to say what i have decided to be the box and what the objects in it are going to be...

The Box its self will be a drum kit made in 3D studio max
My avatar is going to kind of look like me, and be a cross between the Mii avatars and the X-Box 360 avatars.
My logo is an MDF Cow
My AV element will be an edit of my friend playing the drums from little segments of film.
Another element is going to be a Flash game of the TV show metapocalypse.
Not 100% on the last thing but am thinking it will be another AV element!

I have been trying to get along with second life, but have not had much luck yet! i gave it a chance last term, and got stuck on some weird little place by my self, so ended up giving up and trying World of Warcraft instead, which to be honest ended up being even worse! I'm now on my second attempt with second life (ironic) and its going a bit better. I've managed to alter my Avatar's appearance, wander about talking to a number of people and even go sledging. Still cant see all of the hype of it tho! I shall continue tho, and try to find something fun to do with it! i am also going to try and get Playstation Home sometime soon, as i think this will been much simpler and better suited to me! Until then it's Second Life tho!

After going to the Figuring light, Colour and the intangible exhibition I chose to talk about the use of colour in the “Dreaming” by Rebecca Partridge. First of all I think that it is extremely cleverly done, by just using red, blue and green, yet creating all of the colours shown by over lapping them. The painting as a whole reminds me of a dodgy disco ball at a party, which is what first attracted me to it. I like how Rebecca has made the colours go from being dull and dark around the edge, to really bright and vivid in the centre, pulling your focus mainly to the centre, where a contrast is made by just having it black in the middle. The spiral effect made by the ovals used in the painting getting smaller towards the middle, and over lapping made my eyes actually follow the path of them as I was looking at it rather than looking at it from a distance and as a whole. I like this, as it gives you a different way to view it rather than just a few quick glances at the main parts.

Colour changing

Im not too sure whether i fully understood this assignment, but any way, these are the two photo's i edited in photo shop contrasting each other.