I Have Dogs Part 2

Here are photoes of Shady & Coco.  Coco (chocolate)(top picture) is about 12 to 14 years old and Shady (buff color)(Bottom picture) is 11 years old.  They are my foster dogs from the Cocker Spaniel Adoption Center. 

It's The Season

Because it is getting into the holiday season I thought I'd explore some......you guessed it!!!!!!! art :-)  Not just any art; special art which fits into several occasions.  This way we can celebrate together before the end of classes.  

"I have enjoyed this class; sharing our projects with each other; learning from each other; and last but not least sharing some holiday cheer".

Interesting Information I Found While Roaming Around

I found this snowman while roaming around the clip art websites. Thought I'd share him with you.I like the colors and the concept. Tiz the season approaching so I'll see what else I can find which will add to the festivity.

I decided to allow him to have this page to himself so that there are no distractions from his art details.

The Page

My First Coded Page

I'm trying to do this from memory. So far it is working well. Hopefully I will remember everything I need to finish this post. If not, I'll have to study more.


I'm going to try placing a link below this text.

W3Schools

The w3schools is a great place to learn about many different codes. So far this is going ok, I did have to refer to the link code to figure out what I left out.

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I found a picture of Shady and Coco so as promised will add them to this blog tomorrow or at least by the end of the week. And, I will finish the other post I started a few days ago. There I will add the art I found while checking out a search I did on graphics art.

I am planning on adding more to this page using html or perhaps this and a little more html elsewhere. I have learned that the language is very precise and it has changed quite a bit from years ago.

I found a Kitten Hanging Around, here's the link:
http://www.betterphoto.com/forms/discussionDetail.asp?threadID=674214

MOVIE LINK

Because of major computer issues I was limited in what I could use to make my movie, however I successfully made a movie :-)  Please click this link www.photoshop.com/users/vpbanjo/albums/6ce71b383d584850b5c47a955d789986/view#58beb5788fc14b4e927c0ed6abdcc108
and enjoy gardening and dreaming.
Background--husband decides he can do the gardening himself and tells his wife this during supper.  Then retires to bed and starts dreaming.  eventually he wakes up and goes to his garden and finds a surprise.  He gets sick and then decides to get a new hobby.
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MOVIE Trials and Challenges

Making this movie was full of obstacles and major challenges.  It was trial by fire because:
I was unable to get premier to download and run on my computer.  I tried to do this several times almost crashing my computer, so decided to see what would work and go with that.  Fortunately, at least something worked.  

I was very  glad to have at least a program I could use to edit my movie.
The editing process was extremely time consuming and like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.  I had to figure out by trial and error what function did, how to get them to work, and getting them to work when and where I wanted them to work.  This went slowly and I wasn't able to get everything the way I wanted because of my computers shutting down many times and losing some of the material.  when I finally got most of the movie together I decided to keep what I have and not take a chance of losing anymore video and audio.

My major concern then was how to get the movie saved safely and to share it with the class and a few friends.  I had a very limited ability with this program for sharing, so decided that the best solution would be to place a link on my class blog.  I can remind everyone to blog, remind me to visit your blogs, and make it possible for everyone to see my movie without taxing every ones computers to their limits.  And, when I look at projects for this class, I wind up having to down load them.

• editing--challenge because of trying to do this without seeing the characters and other indications of how things were happening
• process--I would gradually remove portions of the media until I got what I wanted the way I wanted. then I would slowly add bits and pieces until I created the full elements picture of what was happening.
• sharing--this required some thought because I didn't want to lose all this work and I had already redone much of the movie several times because of glitches.  My decision was to place the movie on my computer in a file, then place it on the Adobe website in my account, then think more about how to share with everyoneso that nothing would be lost and the movie would be easily accessible.
• movie link--this link has been tested
• click link or copy paste                            http://www.photoshop.com/users/vpbanjo/albums/6ce71b383d584850b5c47a955d789986/view#58beb5788fc14b4e927c0ed6abdcc108  http://www.photoshop.com/users/vpbanjo/albums/6ce71b383d584850b5c47a955d789986/view#58beb5788fc14b4e927c0ed6abdcc108

Work Of Art

I have been reminded about art today while visiting some of the sites for the CAT111 class.

My writing is a work of art because I and change the font color and  font.

I can change the size of font, boldness, underline, and when composing in html and xhtml make other changes.

Actually putting words together is a work of art called "poetry" 

Art can be anything to anyone and nothing to aNYONE.  tHE BEAUTY OF ART IS IT IS VERY PERSONAL.  I have enjoyed this class very much and have because of this learned more about art guidelines and concepts as well as gained a greater appreciation for art and digital design. 

Ups, Downs, trying to get back roaming around

It's about time I catch up from being behind. 

I've spent much time working on Constructivism.  During my travels around the net, I focused only on this topic and now I found this to share with you.  This braille alphabet display came from:
http://www.brailleworks.com/Resources/BrailleAlphabet.aspx 


Most of my life I have been able to choose which format to use for getting information.  If I want to read for a long time, have a lot of information I want to cover, or want to read in bead, I use braille.  Not being a fast braille reader, when I have to cover information in a short period of time and there is a lot of reading, I either use recorded books on CD or recorded books on flash drive. I thought I would share this with you because of the patterns.  Louis Braille developed this system. He lived in France.  Therefore, there had to be some changes or rather additions made for use with English.  Do you see where there is a deviation from the pattern?


For some reason this post isn't turning out the way I planned.  The functions aren't cooperating.  I will return tomorrow or this weekend to try to fix this.


Just so you know, I have vision, however it is limited. The way I use the computer is to set up the accessibility functions in windows and go into other places where I can change things so I can see what's displayed on the screen.


I havn't forgotten about posting the dogs, will try to work on that this weekend :-)

I Have Dogs!

I think I'm going to the dogs!  I have two Cocker Spaniels who were given to me to foster for CSAC.  As soon as I have pictures available I will Share them with you.

I've made some progress!  My cell phone is the Samsung Moment which runs on the new ....wouldn't you know....I can not think of the name of the OS they are using now.  This is important for me because my phone talks to me. I have some stills and video of Coco and Shady which as soon as I try getting them from my phone I will attempt to post.  If anyone has some resource information about working with this kind of media please let me know, thank you.   

Thank you for the comments.  Please let me know when you have pics of your pets up so I can visit and see them.  As I learn about working with the video and stills pictures, I'll be glad to share my experiences and knowledge, so please feel free to visit often and ask any questions you may have. Pets, pictures, and sharing experiences, knowledge and resources go together for this class which is fine with me :-)

I've been working on my project which is going well.  All I need now is the pics and to put the finishing touches on everything.  I hope everyone else is doing well with their class work.
I'm going to try something new here.

First Steps

Welcome to my first post.  Green happens to be my favorite color and then blue, so I thought I'd experiment with the font options & colors.  I like other colors such as yellow & purple.  Purple is my sisters favorite color and so I guess her enthusiasm rubbed off on me.
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