Digital Media Assignment blog

 #1 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzumUieDPY This video was about quick easy tools you can use for adobe illustrator. I think the pencil is one of the easiest tools to use because you can make a straight line or curve the pencil to how you want it. The eye dropper tool will definitely be helpful to recreate a certain color you have already used. The video was really fast past which I did not like It is interesting that you can move the points of a triangle to make a completely new shape.  #2 Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubZGKpajXU This video gives tips and tricks throughout adobe illustrator.The narrator recommends keeping pathfinder open when you are drawing for more options. You can add a sketch to the document and trace over the sketch with different brushes and then get rid of the sketch to have your freshly drawn object. I think this is pretty interesting and probably easy to do. It seems easy to  punch in color codes to use a specific color codes. Double clicki

  Time spent: 12 hours                                                                     Original idea:                                                              Drawing I came up with for this idea:                                                                                            Code design:                                                                                      A rtist Statement:  My inspiration of this piece came from the movie Halloweentown.  I wanted to create the larger than life pumpkin in the center of the town in the movie. I also wanted to create a bat because it screams Halloween. This piece has meaning to me because I love fall weather and it also means my birthday is right around the corner. This was not my first idea for the project. The first idea I had was to draw a table with books on it and have a mountain range during the night in the background of the table, but I didn't really like it on the graph paper. It is spooky season so I tho

      The internet  connects to computers all over the world through different  routers.  In the 1960's, the U.S. Department of Defense funded the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) which was the first prototype of the internet. The scientist were able to use several computers to commune on one network. In the 1970's, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The protocols were able to pass on data to several networks. In 1983, the ARPANET was able to use the TCP/IP to create the "network of networks" known today as the internet (Andrews 5). The Department of Defense wanted to create the internet for military purposes, but today the internet allows people to communicate with different people around the whole world. The internet allows us to shop without getting out of bed, watch our favorite television shows, pay our bills and etc.       The World Wide Web allows users to go through different