Laura Kim

Friday, February 26, 2010

Friday, January 29, 2010

This piece was done in AP Studio Art class in my 12th grade year in high school.

The teacher first gave the class a packet consisting of different types of paper in it and told us to make a collage.
We were allowed to add a few other materials to this collage other than from the packet she gave us at first.
After we were done with the collage, the teacher then told us that we had to draw the collage in the same scale on another piece of paper.
I started with pencil and outlined all the square and straight edged pieces and drew the rest of the things that I could not used a straight edge with. After I was done sketching, I began to color my drawing with watercolor. I finished my work with a touch of thick watercolor paint for the words on the Van Gogh exhibition ticket. I was not satisfied with the work because there is one mistake I made but i could not change it because I did not want to use acrylic paint. Also, the brown came out darker than the actual colored paper in the collage. Several minor color adjustments here and there might have given me satisfaction.
One thing I learned from creating this piece was that watercolor is not very forgiving.

more AdSense

I started looking into the AdSense and I found out that I have to pay taxes for the money that I get from those Ads. What I did not find was how much I will be paid per click. I'd like to find out even though I only started this just for fun.

AdSense

I signed up for AdSense because it's like free money– and maybe someone will click it!
I signed up for this because I feel that this is harmless.

Laura Kim

I changed my Header name from "laura" to "Laura Kim" to make sure that no one is confused with who I am, and also because I made this blog back in 2007, and at that time I put "laura" to almost anything such as facebook, msn messenger, and skype.
I changed it to "Laura Kim" because it looks more professional.

500

I went ahead and looked at the settings in the formatting section where I can change how many posts I can put up per page. I noticed that it was saved as 7 posts so I changed it to 500. I picked this number because I feel that this number will be a number I will be reaching in the far future.

Changes

I changed who can view my blog from "blog users only" to " gmail account holders" so that my mother can view this without have the trouble to go through the process of me teaching her step by step on how to make a blog that she is never going to use, then view my work.
I did not have any trouble changing this.

Changes

changed comment form placement from "full page" to "embedded below post"
- I sometimes have bad internet connection and I am very annoyed if I want to read some comments but I have I have to go to a new page for it, risking that I might get disconnected. Just looking at comments on the bottom of the post/image helps as well because people can relate better cuz it’s there side by side.

Friday, January 22, 2010

writing about digital publishing

where do you find information that you can trust?

it varies depending on what kind of information, but usually it would be from a reliable source with credibility. even then i may choose not to trust the information. i also find information from other people, and i would usually trust the info they’re giving me if i trust the person.

where do you get your local news?

i don’t really get any local news here in oakland but when i was in korea my mom always read newspapers and pointed out the interesting articles and i’d read them. the “uninteresting ones” that my mom still felt like i should know she usually just told me herself over something like dinner. or we would usually turn on the radio when we eat dinner and listen to different talk shows and get local news from there as well.

why do you trust that source?

i trust sources like the newspapers and radio and people because the society lives based on trust and if i must put a “why” i would say that i don’t have a choice but to trust these sources because i can’t experience everything and it’s kind of like that “give and take” where someone would tell me something they learned and i’d tell him/her something i have learned.

is it important for you to know what’s going on? why?

i don’t think it’s so important that you are desperate to know everything of what’s going on but to have some sort of an idea of how the world is changing is necessary.