ILLUSTRATOR STUDIO

In order to do well on this illustrator project, you need to understand the following topics:

Adobe CS5
Proprietary Software and peripherals / protocol
What are Vector Graphics?
Uses
Anchor Points / Paths
Fills
Strokes
Shape Tools
Line Tool
Type Tool
Pen Tool (lines / Bézier curves )

Importing Bitmap images

File Types -- .AI .PDF

Creative Suite Help Files


DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS MONDAY
FOR MONDAY BRING IN YOUR .AI FILE ON YOUR USB DRIVE.
POST ANY ISSUES OR QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO ILLUSTRATOR ON YOUR BLOG

Intro to Vector Graphics / Adobe Illustrator

Today we will have an introduction to vector graphics in Illustrato

Due Wed.

You will need to locate a piece of vector art that you will be reproducing for an illustrator project.
This will need to be posted on your blog for Wed.

Review for Midterm test

Test next session..

any questions?

The Debate over web 2.0 - rushkoff v keen

 TACTICAL MEDIA ART -- CASE STUDY


INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY
GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB - L.A.Z.E.R. TAG

PITTSBURGH'S DEEP LOCAL


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Andrew Keen: "Web 2.0 is .......!"
Keen is caught after a few too many cocktails at a conference on networked technologies

Debate: The Internet and Democracy

Miller Center of Public Affairs

It Is Easy to Ignore Facts Online
Authority Can Exist on the Internet
No Expertise on Wikipedia or Expertise No Curators
Free Information has greater transparancy

IN CONTRAST TO Rushkoff:

Web 2.0 "How the Web Ate the Economy and Why it’s Great for Everyone."
Web 2.0 by douglas rushkoff 2009
 

and his new book:

Program or be Programmed

Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff

The Commands are not commandments, meant as orders from God to a population, but rather ways of taking command of any of the biases of digital media. The way to take command of digital media’s asynchronous bias, for example, is not to be “always on.”
Here are the ten from the book.


I. TIME
    Do Not Be Always On
II. PLACE
    Live in Person
III. CHOICE
    You May Always Choose None of the Above
IV. COMPLEXITY
    You Are Never Completely Right
V. SCALE
   One Size Does Not Fit All
VI. IDENTITY
    Be Yourself
VII. SOCIAL
    Do Not Sell Your Friends
VIII. FACT
    Tell the Truth
IX. OPENNESS
    Share, Don’t Steal
X. PURPOSE
    Program or Be Programmed 

REMEMBER.. IF YOU WOULD LIKE EXTRA CREDIT, THEN TALK TO ME ABOUT ATTENDING "THE TALENT SHOW EXHIBITION" AT PS1 IN QUEENS
 http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/318

I thought you maybe interested in this: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Catfish-4848.html

don't forget, we are having a "midterm" the week after spring break.

MORE ANDREW KEEN!! and web 2.0

FIRST:
keen on colbert: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/91639/august-16-2007/andrew-keen

THEN Finish Watching andrew keen at google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

For THURS MARCH 10th  I would like you to make sure and finish reading the Great Seduction by Andrew Keen and answer the following questions, using the reading and keen's commentary from the google talk as reference points:

1. How does Keen define Democratized media, and what are his main issues with this trend? use examples from the web in the form of links.

2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why?

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The Talent Show at PS1: http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/318

I thought you maybe interested in this: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Catfish-4848.html

keen's blog http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

intro to andrew keen / discussion on commentaries

1. I want to discuss some of the things that you Discovered after reading and commenting on each other's blog postings on digital nation.. I'll Take volunteers or select students to share in class THIS IS HOW YOU GET CLASS PARTICIPATION POINTS!!!


2. Pass out "The Great Seduction by Andrew Keen"


3. Have The Great Seduction Read by monday. the 8th

If we have time we will watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

keen's blog http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

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INTERNET RADICALS (AND INTERNET FREEDOMS) FROM CAPITOL HILL