A lot to live for

     Today in this little blog of mine, I am going to tell you about a man named Neil Pastricha. Well not really all of who he is but more, how my life and your lives relate to his story. As a start, Neil is a wise man who admires and points out the small yet beautiful things in life that make life fantastic! Oh did you forget how awesome life is? Well that's why Neil is here to save us all! Neil has a blog of his own where he discusses life and how great it is. Through his tough times he learned that having a good attitude is a 100% better way to go through life than to have a bad attitude.

     In a speech of Neils' he talks about how you only have a hundred years to live and you better make those years great. yep that's right, trigger the water works. Well maybe just for me. Over the past three years I have had hundreds of thoughts pass through my mind. For a while i was happy go lucky every single day. After that phase I became slightly depressed at how much of my life was being wasted. I went to a different school last year and this school caused me to feel upset and I just want to skip the next three or four years of my life. Life felt like it wasn't special and every day I hoped the week would go fast. It was a tough year personally too, so no, life did not go fast so I spent much time just waiting. Then I stopped myself, I jumped into the light and realized if I wanted to be happy and to love long days, then I would have to create a cause for me to be happy. This started with waking up and looking outside at the beautiful spring and having a smile every day, this later led to switching schools and I tell you, now I want to wake up every morning, I want to live my life! I hope you do too, I hope you find a reason to wake up happy in the morning or just make a forceful habit of it.

     Every so often I lose sight of why life is beautiful and I fall into a state of haplessness, sometimes I don't even realize it. So I go back to the things I love in life like graphic design, I make something new and realize that is what living is for. Living is for enjoyment and love and happiness. Whether your hobby be graphic design or horse riding, singing or dancing, painting or carving, let it grip your soul and guide you into a life full of beauty.  Look at the bright side and the the world will never dull.

Good luck, I hope this inspired you to love life more.

WIP- what!

Most people know what a WIP is but if you do not, then read on. If you do, than scurry off and make your own WIP.

Ok then, many people in the world of graphic design, use the term WIP. It took silly me about two years to figure out what a WIP is. It is great to know the term WIP because it is a fun acronym in the graphic design dictionary (that's a metaphorical dictionary of course). Ok, moving on, like I said above, a WIP is an acronym for Work In Progress. So, when you see something labeled WIP you can know that the piece of artwork is a work in progress.

I have a current WIP right now, next step for me is shading (it looks very un-professional right now). Here it is

Artistic Nouns

     Oh the art of grammar. Yep that's right, I am now considering grammar an art. Of course I am sure many of you consider writing and poetry an art but have you ever thought of grammar individually being an art. If you have, kudos to you. If you have not, then you are in the same boat as me. So, why is grammar an art you ask?

     Well today I am just going to talk about nouns and their artistic abilities. Nouns as you probably know, are  defined as a person, place, or thing. Simple right? Just kidding, there is so much more to nouns than that which meets the eye. Nouns also have this incredible ability to be complicated, I am talking plurals an possessives here. I never really understood what that meant, but now I do! You wonder why a noun has an apostrophe on it and why it changes position in different nouns. This is pure grammar art. It is tricky if you do not know how possessive and plural nouns work so try learning! Grammar is very important in graphic design if you are ever trying to describe your image, set up a website or sell your artwork. Correct grammar shows you care and are knowledgeable about what you are making or selling.

     So, here you go, here are are some fantastic websites for learning about nouns. It may take you a moment or two to understand (that's what happened with me) but once you do, trust me it will be helpful. Good luck

http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=wcn1601

http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN6502

Inspirational Blogger

     Wow, I just watched an amazing and very unique speech! Your interested now right? Well, as I have become a recent blogger, the person who made blogging a worldwide sensation is very important to me. That person is named Mena Trott. She is very unique and different and outgoing from what I noticed in her speech and stage presence. Mena talked about what blogging is for and how it can express the thoughts of any person to an audience who is willing to listen. She talked about her friends who blogged and how it made them more open and connected. She also talked about the documentation of peoples lives and how others may look back on it some day and find loads of helpful information in discovering the past. Can you imagine if blogging was around 100 years ago, 200 years ago? I agree completely with all of her ideas on blogging and I send great thanks to her for what she has opened peoples eyes to.

     

     Not only do I appreceate Mena's gift to the world, I appreceate how she has inspired me as an individual. Yes it may sound rediculous for me to become inspired by a single speech of hers but it is not. I found such inspiration in her simple progress with blogging. Every day I think about my future and what I will do. I love graphic design and technologie and science and I have always worried about how I could keep those passions alive. I thought that I of course could not change the technological world but now I know that an idea as simple as blogging can make a difference. I want to make a difference, I am not shure how but I will.

     So keep your confidance  up my friends, and don't wory about the future like I have. Just wait for an inspiration experience to take your hand and run away with you.

Grammer in Everything

     Hello my dearest friends who happen to be watching this blog. I am here today to talk about grammer! Yes thats right, grammer. Grammer may seem to be irrelivant but in truth, grammer and sentance structure is very important in graphic design. You certainly want to have correct sentences if you are creating a website or designining a picture with text on it. Grammer is even important to keep you organized if you are doing html coding. Laslty, grammer is important in blogging although it may not be apparent to some bloggers.

     Sentance fragments ans run-ons are very annoying to read, don't you agree? So, if a blog has tons of incorrect grammer why would you want to read it. To be a blogger you have to know what you'r doing in terms of grammer, to keep your audience engaged. A choppy and fragmented blog is hard to flow with and think about. I certainly would want my readers to think about the blog rather than the sentance structure. So in conclusion of that brief paragraph, make shure your blog can be read fluently.

The question is, are you prepared for the terrifying but terrific world of grammer? Why not take these quizzes to find out?

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_quiz.htm

http://www.chompchomp.com/frag01/frag01.htm

     I just took them and did extreemly well for my standards. I got a 9/10 on the first quiz which was very difficult in comparison to the second one. The last question was a bit confusing due to the fact that several of the answers could potentially be correct. The second quiz is only on fragments, which made it very easy for me (plus it is kinda fun). I got a 20/20 on the second quiz but got bored quickly. If you are looking for harder more diverse test, deffinetly take the first one. 

     So remember, keep your blog or graphic or website, flowing and gramatically correct. 

Ideas?

Hey everyone! I haven't posted all weekend and thought today would be a great time to post. I don't have much to say about graphic design today because I have been relaxing/camping all weekend long. I would still like to post something relating to graphics so here it is!

I am looking for creative ideas and projects for me to draw or photmanipulate. Please feel free to give me ideas! In return I would love to send you the completed image. Thanks so much and I can't wait to hear your ideas!   -no guarantees that I will do your request.

Self Direction? Whats that

     Yep yep, I am here today to tell you all about my view on what self direction is and why it is oh so important! Self direction from my view is what keeps a person learning, improving, changing and overall living. Self direction is that powerful force inside or you that drives you toward the things you love. Though it may be hard to realize, you as a person can manipulate that self direction to what you want and what you need. For example, I need to work on spelling but with spellcheck at my fingertips I have the choice of weather or not to use it. There is a small chance I will improve my spelling if I just use spell check, but with my powerful self direction I can move my mouse away from the spellchack button and learn how to spell better. It is sometimes very difficult to trust yourself and make yourself do the right thing but by learning what self direction is, you can think about it and use it.

     Self direction is also a driving force that keeps you alive and moving forward. (Forward in life that is) So many people say that goals help you live but without self direction, there is no way to complete these goals. So, self direct yourself toward a brighter and more intelligent tommarow.

     On a slightly but not completely different note, self direction relates to blogging. Blogging is completely self directed, you as a writer have the choise of what to write, how much to write, and when to write. It's all yours with a few technological guidelines. I hope to work hard on my blog and put hard work into it, that is self direction.