sky box

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband-Technical-Issues/Sagemcom-F-ST-2304n-Issues/m-p/76029#M9100

fan for my computer

http://www.laptop-part.co.uk/acertravelmate-2300-series-cpu-cooling-fan.html

Lee.Evaluation

What were you asked to do? (Project brief tasks)

For this project we had to create a web site with at least two podcast pages.

What did you make/present?

I made an art site based on my art and designed with my personality in mind.

What did you want to communicate?

I wanted to help poeple see how easy it can be to colour things and show how it can be done.

Who was your intended audience?

I think i'm directed at everybody, but mainly young adults because children are to young to understand.

What materials and processes did you experiment with?

i tried several designs and spent a while working out how i wanted to link them together.

What materials and processes did you use in your final designs?

I used photshop to build the actual template, cam studio to record the videos and dreamweaver to put everything together.

What did you do to ensure you worked with tools and materials safely?

As i do most of my design work at home i tend to get carried away very rapidly and forget to take a break, but in class at least i do have one.

How well did you manage your time?

I don't think i managed my time very , in fact i've had the same problem threw out every project this therm.

What would you like to have done differently?

I think i should have concentrated more on the design and functionality.

What will you do to ensure you improve for the next project?

i'll definitely do more research and develop my designs better next time. I'll also try to organize my time better in order to get more done. Also i need to stay focused on what i have at hand.

Mark evaluation

What were you asked to do? (Project brief tasks)

We had to create a digital story from either a famous quote or a poem that wasn't clichée.

What did you make/present?

I mad a short video based on a mall poem including two of my characters and their story. I hand drew all the images used.

What did you want to communicate?

I wanted to show that on video or poem could have several meanings. Some can be very obscure and hard to spot. This is why my video seems to have unfitting music.

Who was your intended audience?

I don't think i have an intended audience but one i could think of is my age group, 16 to 30.

What materials and processes did you experiment with?

i combined both scanned material, final cut pro, photoshop..

What materials and processes did you reject?

i wanted my images to have a slight realistic feel to them but still have my style.

What materials and processes did you use in your final designs?

I combined scanned images with photoshop editing techniques to create images used in the video.

What did you do to ensure you worked with tools and materials safely?

I took a break when i needed and scanned my materials out of the way.

How well did you manage your time?

i didn't manage my time vary well at all, i find that i haven't done enough research and i'm sure that it isn't varied enough.

Mark. More reality

Do you forget all men inside of here...
Sobbing all night and drinking beer...
Wine comes out of every tear...
Are you sure, you don't want to get out here?
You said they all lied to you...
And all they left you too...
And you don't know what else to do...

You don't want to be alone, but you just trust no-one
You think everyone lies and you don't look beyond
You just close your eyes and pretend to run...

When you finally leave that place...
You are still the same lies your face...
You are drunk with no left grace...
Are you stuck, or inside an endless maze?
You're walking home at last...
The night is dark and time go's fast...
Now you think you live in the past...

You don't want to be alone, but you just trust no-one
You think everyone lies and you don't look beyond
You just close your eyes and pretend to run...

You try to sleep but you just can't do...
You can't go on and just pretend too...
That you are fine where you just went to...
Is this really the life that you have choosen to live?
When you finally fall asleep in the dark night...
Inside your dream you have a rough fight...
The next day must be a journey to light...

You don't want to be alone, but you just trust no-one
You think everyone lies and you don't look beyond
You just close your eyes and pretend to run...
From reality

Mark. Chosen poeme

Reality

If you need a place, in this reality

Just to be yourself, while everything seems awfully

To cry, to scream, to relief your heart

When you feel your world is falling apart

I will be right here, to wait and hope

And I will gently remove the rope

Which lies and tightens around your neck

Pull you away, and of course I’ll check

The light in your eyes is fading away

Turning black, turning cold, clearly with dismay

Your heart feels far away, gone to disappear

I want you to stay, I want you near

I smile at you, and try to remember

What it was like, no need to go further

Loneliness and sadness passing by

Hand in hand, with tears in the eye

Drowning in words, unnecessary pain

No need to describe, no need to complain

Your eyes are open, lightning once more

Watching, sparkling, just like before

I’ll hold you in my arms, hold you tight

Tell you, that we, together, have won this fight

While reading this poem the first things that come to mind are love, war and death.

Love: ""If you need a place, in this reality

Just to be yourself, while everything seems awfully

To cry, to scream, to relief your heart

When you feel your world is falling apart

I will be right here, to wait and hope""

This whole poem is about love and the pain of loosing the one one cares about. This section is about the search for comfort, a place to hide and recover.

I also feel that depression is hinted within this poem, get this from the verse, "When you feel your world is falling apart". Depression does make you feel lost and that everything around you is going wrong. Some often feel that it is their own fault.

Death: ""And I will gently remove the rope

Which lies and tightens around your neck

Pull you away, and of course I’ll check

The light in your eyes is fading away

Turning black, turning cold, clearly with dismay

Your heart feels far away, gone to disappear""

War: ""Loneliness and sadness passing by

Hand in hand, with tears in the eye

Drowning in words, unnecessary pain

No need to describe, no need to complain

Your eyes are open, lightning once more

Watching, sparkling, just like before

I’ll hold you in my arms, hold you tight

Tell you, that we, together, have won this fight""

Mark. Immersive games

""Early last year, despite disliking most racing games, I found Burnout Paradise to be incredibly enjoyable. It’s arcade style and forgiving controls made flying through the streets of Paradise City exhilarating.

Just recently I got to try GRID and Project Gotham Racing 4 at my friends house. I also bought WipEout HD off of PSN. After playing PGR4 for a while I ended up frustrated and kind of bored. Something about it failed to engage me. Even after plowing through levels on a motorcycle weaving in between cars the game seemed to lack something.


After switching to GRID I was immediately impressed by the games look and couldn’t help but burst out laughing after making my first turn at 200 mph only to slam into a wall and explode. I was also very pleasantly surprised to then learn about the games rewind feature, just like in Prince of Persia or Braid, you can rewind your car to a safe spot before your crash. However, after an hour or so with GRID I had become increasingly irritated with trying to take turns at high speeds. If I tried to slow down, I’d make the turn at a crawl. If I tried to maintain some speed and slide through it, I’d end up in the dirt or slammed up against the wall. Any time I found the perfect medium for a turn I found I couldn’t replicate it. Every turn required a similar trial and error process that was no less easy than the last. I simply could not get a feeling for the game.

That or I just suck at it and didn’t want to spend the time getting good. Shut up Aaron, I know you’re reading this. ;)


Later that week I decided to pick up WipEout for the PS3. It is only 20 bucks, and GameFly was taking forever to ship me my next game. Also, it looked startlingly like F-Zero GX for the GameCube and I loved that game. Right away I started having fun, the game looked great, had tight controls and where and how to make a turn was instantly intuitive. My only complaint was the game didn’t seem fast enough, but after a quick bout online in the fastest speed class I changed my mind.

I knew why I preferred Burnout and WipEout to GRID and PGR4. I’ve always preferred the more arcade style racing games to the realistic ones. This led me to wonder if this applied to other genres.

As far as shooters go, two good games to compare are Gears of War and Rainbow Six Vegas. I love both those games, but the over the top violence in Gears is satisfying and hilarious. It’s also cartoony enough to not be vomit inducing. Rainbow Six on the other hand required a bit more thought before even firing your gun. You have to balance your gear between protection and mobility, pick your gun from many options, decide which two additional items you want to bring along, and finally what upgrades you want to put onto everything. RSV is very satisfying once you get your character tailored the way you like, but it is an inherently different experience than Gears.


Another comparison is Oblivion versus Fable 2. Oblivion is a great immersive game that, while I did enjoy, was a bit overwhelming. The sheer amount of things you were responsible for in that game was a bit too much, not to mention the leveling system felt more detrimental each time you “dinged” than helpful. Fable 2 on the other hand was much more cutesy. The world was big and fun to explore like Oblivion, but the barriers to entry were much lower. The game also had a great sense of humor.

One last genre I thought about is the sandbox genre. One of my favorite games of 2007 was Crackdown. The entire world felt like a playground for you to romp around in. The story in it was basically an excuse to give you people to mow down. The world was huge and colorful and housed some of the coolest looking explosions I’ve ever seen. Compare this to GTA4 and you’ll quickly see a huge difference. The world of Liberty City is dark and brown, the story is depressing, and even though you have a huge sandbox to mess around in, the character development doesn’t lend itself so nicely to murderous rampages.


After thinking about other genres it seems being realistic only seems to deter me from racing games. Despite what I said about Rainbow Six Vegas, Oblivion, and GTA4, I still loved all three of those games. GRID and PGR4 I couldn’t even play after an hour with each. I think the main difference is while the stylized games are more fun for me; I look for more than just fun out of most genres I play. GTA4 has an excellent story and Oblivion has one of the most immersive worlds I’ve ever played in. Racing games on the other hand rarely even try to offer anything else than a good time. """

Video game producers are trying to create games that are as immersive as possible therefor creating an alternative universe.

The down side to this is that some people forget what is reality. Some of the games today are blamed for youngsters attitude and violent natures but that is probably more due to personal problems and past more than the games them selves. For some the games are probably a form of escape, a way to forget about their problems and relax. Alot of these games often have influences from real life, some are even contain real events that were happening while the game was being create.