Week 8 Tute task Internet Field Trip

this week again was a fun tute. We all made a new account with active worlds. This is very very different to msn messenger. It is 3D that is the biggest difference to msn. The environment in active worlds is kind of like a game. You can run blow kisses, ride jetskis, ride magic carpets lol its quite fun. Socialising on msn to me is just a plain old version were all you do is type ur message and chat there is no world although you do have the option to add your photo to the little box when your haven a private convo, its nothing like active worlds. The thing i liked most about active worlds was that you can see the other people your chatting to even though its not really them lol but you can see them. Above there heads is there name and what they are typing. Its quite fun lol. This is the 1st time that i have been on active worlds and compared to msn its very high tech. The normal msn and yahoo have a more serious side to them in a way theres no games, no worlds so its just plain type your message thats it. The 3D environment provides more of a playful down to earth feeling, because it is just like a game. I think this sort of application of 3D environment may lead us to more of a 'real' chat environment. Like nowdays we have webcams i think that maybe in the near future instead of having a animated avitar represtenting yourself you might be able to take a photo of yourself on webcame and use that as your avitar. So it will be you in the world. Or maybe even have a camera that could be hooked up to a simulator so you do the walking and the talking no typing at all and maybe there could be goggles or glasses that you wear so you can see yourself in that world, and talk instead of type. This might already be around but i think if not that this 3D application will lead to something like that in the near future. This was a fun tute lesson i enjoyed every part of it :)

Week 6 tute task

So this task is like last weeks except im going to use photos that i have taken and i am going to edit them or enhance them.

Ok the first photo was taking in 2005 at my friends dress up party i took this photo myself with my old analogue camera, i enhanced it by adding the word friends, adding balloons/bubbles, tinting the photo and adding a frame, it now looks more appealling and represents the theme of friends better i think.

This is the 2nd photo representing the theme "communication". My friend took this photo of me on the phone at school about 3 years ago. Moblie phones are very much apart of communication today so i thought it represented the theme very well. I then cut the edges off the photo, added the word communication, and added a spotlight effect on me to add more emphasis on me with the phone.

This is the 3rd photo representing the theme news-worthy. This photo was taken by my father 2 or 3 years ago when the cast of Fat Pizza a SBS tv show came to the gold coast. At the time it was all over the news and i thought in going with the theme of "news-worthy" i would use this photo. I enhanced it by firstly adding the text newsworthy, fat pizza comes to the gold coast, then i added an effect which made the photo look like a newspaper "turning of the page", then i added a frame that kinda looks like shredded paper eg.newspaper and added the heading "Daily Herald 2007" on the top and "Fat Pizza" on the left.

This is the 4th photo representing "Australian". I took this photo of my nephew last year at his school athletic carnival and he was wearing his wide brimmed hat and to me thats very australian "outback" like. I tinted the photo with a redish tinge to it to resemble an old australian outback photo and added the word Australian over his body. I felt like thats all i needed to do with this photo.

This is the 5th photo, i took it last year at the gold coast greek festival. This festival is very popular not only with the greek people but with australians who come and see how different the cultures are with the greek dancing and food. I edited the photo by adding the words "Popluar - Greek Festival", adding stars to kind of emphasis the theme of popularity and adding the 2 little music notes to represent greek music.

This is the 6th photo representing the theme games. I love the game soccer and i took this photo last year at the grand finals for soccer at carrara stadium the team is musgrave which some of my mates play for. I added the words games - soccer to it and used a scrubby frame on the edge.

This last photo is of me and my friends with tv star Nick Giannopolous you might know him from "The Wogboy". This photo was taken by another friend of mine at the Gold Coast Greek Festival. I added the words "Celebrity - nick giannopolous, a frame because i have this photo in a frame at home because its special to me and i added the stars because nick is a star to me.