Lego Day Teamwork

It is a known fact that teamwork is necessary for many points of business and creation. As amazing as a person may be by themselves, it is arguable that they will never be as powerful alone as with a team of people. 

Everybody has a very unique set of talents and abilities that is always going to be different from their peers'. This variety can always help to approach a single project from different angles, so that it isn't completed in such a linear fashion. Teamwork will also often help to get projects finished faster with the same amount of quality, giving time to polish it.

Today we practiced some forms of teamwork by constructing Lego sets. One person would somehow guide us, them being the only person in a 4-person group who would know what the finished product should look like. That person had to either silently show the rest of the group what to do, or had to describe it. It was slightly difficult, but certainly applied the idea of teamwork, as we were all working on the Lego set to make it as quickly and as well as possible.

e9 Risk Website

Throughout this project, I learned a lot of things. It was a useful experience, and there were many things that may help me in the future. Although I had done a decent amount with the CSS options in the past, this project taught me how to alter and have a more particular setting through the code itself. This helped since I had a better understanding of how the code was actually being carried out and I was then able to know how to alter more minute pieces of the website.

I personally don't believe there was much wrong with my website. It followed all of the regulations that were set, and I think that I had a very pleasant color scheme for the situation.

One thing I might change is the position of the header and sidebar. I admit that they do seem a little awkward, but they certainly aren't as bad as some websites. I also might change exactly which colors are where, as I think they are very harmonious but may be better used in different sections.

Another thing might be the lack of a particularly customized header, as I kept it solely with its text.

Ian Keierleber DreamHouse

This is the dreamhouse I created in Google SketchUp. It is the humble home of Derrick and Stan Lee, whose beings are portrayed in this brief animation. During the process of creating this home I used methods I already knew of SketchUp, which is a relatively easy program. They are very happy in this cozy, one-story house that follows all requirements set prior to the beginning of this project.

Ian Keierleber's Rad Animation

The aim of this E-Comm project was to create a very concise story that held a meaningful plot. I began the process of this production by creating my story, which beheld a difficult challenge since I had to fit an elaborate opus into the miniscule time slot of about a minute, but the strictly made characters (created using the tools in Keynote) allowed for a decent passing of time within my magnificent epic. The actual animation itself was composed of my duplicating photos and altering them on the molecular level so that they flowed smoother than the River Styx. The heavens, at long last, bestowed upon me the power to maintain my illusion of motion with the magics of sound. Along the way, I learned that there is not much I can do to improve my fantastic and inhuman nature other than somehow creating an even smoother animation, which could physically shatter our physical universe by the creation of a virtual 'perfect circle.' In the future I will always recall the aspects of story that I gained throughout this experience. my godly practices amongst this subject are bound to improve in the future due to this favorable practice.

e-Communications Winter Final

The reason I came to Northwest was out of my desire to do things like design and make films. Looking into the e-Comm program, I realized it would be the best thing to happen to me in a while- and I was correct.

The semester began with Video, which was extremely insightful. I learned how to use the program Final Cut Pro, which will no doubt help me in the future. Within it I learned many short cuts.

The second quarter threw me and my newly acquired friends into Graphic Design. We learned many things, especially how to use the programs Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. One of the most influential projects include masking over pieces of an image in order to create an effect that made it seem like certain objects weren't even captured in the photo. I found it very fun, and will no doubt find it very useful in the future, as it allowed me to learn things like the clone tool and the magic eraser.

We also began creating a website in Adobe Dreamweaver, which I would like to pursue further.

So far, I have had the most beautiful year of my life thanks to this gracious program, and I will forever be thankful that I was given these opportunities.

Website

In e9 we worked on Adobe Dreamweaver, and we were able to make some fantastic thing. The website we were instructed to create wasn't difficult, but was very fun to work on. We were taught the basics of HTML code, including tags and bodies which will become very useful in the future. Then, in the design view of the program, we created 'css' styles which allowed us to change the appearance of the site.

B2. Tags like h1 are used to make headings
B3. Content between the body tags shows up in the webpage.
B4. H1 is the biggest
B5. The tag <strong> makes text bold
B6. <em> makes things italicized.
B7. Paragraphs are designated with the <p> tag
B8. &copy;

C1. It is displayed with Times New Roman.
C2. White and black.
C3. Bad
C4. <img...
C5.
C6. They are much more enclosed.
C7. The <a tag makes a link
C8. It created a new paragraph and a class= thing

e9 PHOTOSHOP

In e9 we've spent the last couple weeks or so working with Adobe Photoshop. It is a very fun and educational program, and I've enjoyed working with it. I performed 3 projects, each of which I thoroughly enjoyed. The first was a simple pasting of ONW's logo onto a photo of the school. It was an enjoyably simple project.

The next one involved gradients and was quite difficult, but yet again fun.

The final project included us having to delete and mask objects from the photo, which took a while to get the hang of.