Friday, February 18, 2011

Week 19

Feb 18/11 - I bought a housing case for my Nintendo DS, which means physically taking the system apart to replace the broken hinge and have a fresh new look. I wouldn't have had the confiednece to go inside of the expensive system without having these detailed step-by-step guides of how to do it. Also the skills learned from some of my new media courses definitely helped as well.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Week 18

Feb 10/11 - I began prototyping for the name and logo of my webdesign "company". I came up with the name Auric Eye essentially meaning "Golden eye". To have a golden eye means to have an eye for beauty, or art. I felt this was an appropriate expression without being too specific. With that I came up with a design for the logo and played around with different texts. The one the majority of people on my facebook liked got finalized...

Thursday, February 3, 2011

week 17

Feb 3/11 - I watched 24/7, a HBO documentary of two NHL hockey teams. I love the fact that they take the two most loved players in the league (Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovetchkin) and take you inside of their daily lifes. HBO makes a sport that is something so ordinary that you watch, into something epicly compelling, even if you don't like hockey.