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.