SNIFFING GOOD

So my best friend is from Korea - she went back there during the end of the last holidays...

And on her return I recieved MUCH WANTED STATIONARY - i love stationary - i love stickers, pens, texters, highlighters, rubbers, nifty rulers, pencils - you name it - i enjoy it!

ANYWAY she came back with a huge load of stuff - i got a hamburger cd case, highlighters that smell awesome, stickers in the shape of paddle-pos and lollies, i got rubbers, coloured biros and i got tiny texters....

the story is...I was doing some note-making and using a yummy smelly highlighter - and it was green and smelt like the forest in springtime...*shrugs* ANYWAY i thought i'd smell the other highlights...PINK/BLUE/YELLOW/PURPLE...which smelt great-



and then i thought "What about the textas/texters...i wonder if they smell nice"

So i picked up the box they were in, in the shape of a suitcase....And i went through and started to smell them - i got to the green one and OH MY...HOLY COW FACE!!!! IT WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD - it was the most disgusting-est thing EVER...it was like someone had found out how to cature the essence of rotting man foot and shoved it into the green ink...the case itself does not smell what so ever...but this particular pen...UGH.



And it was so eventful and exciting i thought i'd write a blog about it!

What was the smelliest thing that you have ever smelt?

ASSESSMENTS and EXAMS

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i hate this time...the assessment period!!!!

Its so frustrating when you are running behind...I have been so tired lately and a bit sick...and i just found out i am moving...not too mention emotional changes - MY BROTHER IS HOME....ALL COMES RUSHING at me like a tsunami...or getting generally dunked by a wave...

The things that are due and that i am really stressing about is my GRP103 assignment, my photography assignment and my exam for com...and then this MPI104...

I am freaking out...

i guess the best way to deal with it is in small goals! Like if i read a chapter in my com text or two a day...and then do 3 hours of work on my MPI104 and GRP assignment each day as well...and FIGURE OUT how to attack my photography assignment - I have trouble asking lecturers though - especially since its coming up to the dead line. I shouldn't be afraid, I know that, but its bad enough knowing what situation I have put myself in - i don't wnat it to be rubbed in!...I guess i just need to bite the bullet and ask for help...

If anyone has done the photography assignment and could give me a pointer that would be great help...i am so lost!



assessment help can be seen at this
link

Portraits are far from truth

So I was involved in a photoshoot not too long ago...I was part of a portrait assignment in which the photographer needed to take a photo of me that represents who i am meant to be...and i assumed that menat - get me wearing my vans, black jeans and my ghostbuster tshirt that my bro - who is now 26...wore when he was like 12?...so ist old skool and ha sthe bright green fat ghost on it!...and maybe wear a chain or something...?

but no - she wanted me to have my hair all up (i was cool with this) and had a feather in it and wore this weird white dress - and i held a fan and wore a silver and black thing chain...

What i didn't understand was why wouldn't you take a photo of me - if that is your assessment requirements!...But I guess they figured it was a bit different shoving a fetaher in my hair...*shrugs* I did enjoy it...maybe it was cause they wanted to avoid a "typixal" photo of a emo person? like with the jeans...big glasses...a balloon perhaps??? *shrugs*

But once i get photos i will post them up...on my flickr account...

In conclusion though - how often do you think porttraits of people are real....that really convey the person?

I always think the best ones are when the subject in question is crying or laughing, as long as it is legitimate...then and only then i believe is when true emotion and the persons personality captured...

quite a nice photography sitesee it here

POTC the THIRD

So lets see...a few weeks ago when the Pirates film came out - I was one of those who chose to believe this film may triumph over the 2nd film. Aything is better than the 2nd film. So i guess in saying that you'd have to believe that the 3rd in the trilogy (as stands) should be better than the 2nd flm.

Kiera Knightley's lips appear even bigger - and she seems to have a natural talent with swords and guns! Orlando Blooms character is not as frustrating in this film - although - the costume designer seems to think once you become a freaking pirate you have to wear a bandana...LAME!!!! And Johnny Depp is rather wonderful particularly if you have a fetish for hairy, arty type men with lots of belts and a wonderful compass!!!!

Things i did enjoy in the film is the ending...that sounds rather like i wanted to leave after the three hour screening...but no, i loved how everything was tied back to the beginning! I enjoyed the makeup, a lot of the costume and the sets were very attractive - so lots of thumbs up to the art department...I enjoyed the Jamaican woman and howthe beginnin she connects to Davey and i loved seeing the human version of Davey - but please i do not want to hear another person say to me "omg that guy was in Love Actually" because blah - i have no reason - just its so obvious!!!!

Things i did not enjoy - the beginning, I just got so muddled - and that is partly cause i was exhausted when i was watching it and i was so close to the screen...i didn't like Kiera not aging at all at the very end, i didn't like the lines about johnny's family - i thought it was obvious and not necessary - like if you had no idea about the "relation" then tough - you're not in the know and shouldn't diserve to know that cute little fact!!!! (in my opinion).

What else i don't mind the CG - some people get flustered with the use of it - especially if it's used toooooo much!!! But you know what - if you are watching a fantastical kind of film like Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Batman, Hellboy...etc YOU HAVE TO EXPECT THE USE OF COMPUTERS!!!!!!!

But partly for the crazy jokes, Johnny's personality split (if i can call it that without giving away too much), the artistry and the summing up "The Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Dead Mans Chest" - oh and for those who love kiera (aka NOT ME) or Johnny will like this film pretty much....

all in all - just go see it! If i haven't convinced you...or said something you do not agree with or ould like to add too...feel free to comment - i am interested in what you think about the film!!!

Heres the official link

RSS POSTINGS

An XML feed is none as "Extensible Markup Language" it is described as "a class of adta objects called XML documents and partially describes the behavior of computer programs which process them. XML documents are made up of storage units called entities, which contain either parsed or unparsed data. Parsed data is made up of characters, some of which form character data, and some of which form markup. ...Quoted from" HERE

An RSS feed is an XML-based format that organises information about particular resources on the web. It organises hyperlinks, assorted information or "metadata" by helping viewers chooooose what link they want to follow. RSS enables the chosen sites and information to be organised and personalised for the viewer. This is from HERE

I chose "Googlereader" because I was worried i would get confused with having so many user names and passwords. It also helps as I have alreday have a google account - thus i can check my emails, check my rss feeds and go on blogger.com!

Assessment 1

Well its the end of my first assessment, I have rather enjoyed the experience.

I think I have satisfied almost everything on the list. I do know that I haven't done some tasks such as saving the links for others - on flickr.com, Del.icio.us.com and I also did not do the technorati as listed on the blogger marking criteria - but I did do the RSS feed that is in the "about me column" on my blog - that was very hard to find - for a little, middle-class, white person.

On my Flickr.com account I really enjoyed looking at other users photos.
Some tags that I have used are - just in case I have writen the incorrect code or just because some one else may have. I have used mpi104 and mpi1042007, nazi, nazism and nazis, cardcaptor, card and captor just to name a few. Variations of the word, if you will!

I Tried uploading some of my own pictures and photos, joining other groups and I believe I commented on other peoples images. But it may have been only one person...possibly a lion king image?

A lot of the photos that I have been looking at, on flickr.com, are to do with Japanese "cosplaying" in Tokyo, Make-up, Clothing, fashion photography and costume like fashion. The reason for this is because I really love how bright the colours are in some of the images I have found.

I love the sense of style that is expressed by some of these people, say from Tokyo; Tokyo is a place I have always wanted to visit - being a Japanese animation fan. So really I have made those particular images my favourites because I either envy what the person wears, has done their make up, aesthetic look to their hair even - makes my visual senses in my brain bubble - or s p a r k (or some other sort of adjective that sounds exciting!!!!)


Del.icio.us was a very interesting site to get my head around. I tried saving bookmarks to some of my favourite things, such as Sailor Moon and Scrubs. I did save websites that were very useful to some of my other assignments (under "class" bundle) such as Nazi Germany's propaganda - for COM226. I also tried to bundle all my tags into organised folders and join a few networks.

I believe I have around 38 favoured websites so far. And I believe Four subscriptions as we speak. India, "Emo" culture, clothing stores, Nazi Propaganda, T-shirt design sites, photoshop tutorials, postcard designs Disney, sailor moon and scrubs were a few of the things I have been saving in my journeys on Del.icio.us.com

I have found it to be such a useful website, as I have found a new place to look up information, photos to draw, tutorials, brushes and clothing - rather than just using google.com.au .


And finally there is BLOGGER.COM. My siteI have posted 13 blogs on blogger or 17 - my login in page says 17 and the main site says 13 - so I do not know who to believe there! It has been some what of a hurdle, realising that i need to keep posting and trying to be creative and interesting with my posts.

With my blog posts - I have attempted to make them all look different from each other by changing the fonts, the colours, the size of texts and I have changed my layout three times since I started running the account for MPI104. But one of the most important things I tried to accomplish, whether or not people commented on my blogs, was that I wanted to involve people. I tried to capture their attention with large, bold headings (LINK), I asked questions to try and create a response from someone (LINK) and i attempted to connect with my audience by posting topics about late night tv, scrubs
and Sailor Moon I even tried to capture their attention by talking about assignments and India! I mean if i could have had just 2 comments I would be happy - but I only got one from my dad. I did leave one in particular to Alex and i discussed my hatred for Pirates of the Carribean 2 - if you would scroll down in that particular post...(link)

In CONCLUSION I felt tested by this assignment - tryiong to figure out all the tags, bundles, html codes and trying to make it part of routine - that I would go and visit blogger, flickr and delicious. Thank you for introducing these tools to me (and no - I wont bring a gun to class *taps nose in Jo's direction*)

To do...STILL!

For Workies

* Take photos for VPA104

* Take photos for GRP103 for postcards

* COM226 notes

* Buy a b'day present for the 4th of May and for the 9th of May

* COM226 Essay due near the 20th of May

*MOTHERS DAY

*ROOMIES MOTHERS DAY GIFT

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For my own happiness

* See my old block mates

* Buy The Used CD

*Get Used to a Mac.

*Finish my drawing of Frankie

* Set up folders for my itunes

*Say 'Hi!" to James and Dad

* Hugs for all! And a smile...how corny does it sound - but i hear it helps!

in the mean time i will just check out