My goals for the day are:
1. Review the project I did last time and check whether I remember the information I researched last time.
2. Check websites of how to create my typography and start creating.
3. Try to put color to my typography.
http://blog.templatemonster.com/2012/02/03/40-typography-photoshop-tutorials/
This link shows the types of examples of typographic designs you can use and create.
There are more than 40 types of effects you would like to design.
I chose the Suspended Text effect.
http://www.photoshopstar.com/text-effects/suspended-text-effect//
This link describes accurately the process of designing the typography in rainbow colors. It is very well described and it is easy to understand and follow the directions.
The picture in the right is the final image.
The picture on the left is the final image I designed today in class. I haven't finished the design yet, but I have put the colors for the word "Computers". I followed all the directions from one link.
I didn't have enough time to explain the whole process of what I had done, sorry. Ms Shawn knows I have worked hard throughout the whole period.
If I finish my design, I'll start creating my own character.
I agree with the professor's statement that students could have done better in their exams after taking their lectures if they weren't distracted with technology. According to an experiment, people are unable to think clearly and fast than before because they are always being distracted by their emails, a Youtube video, Facebook and Twitter. I agree with this statement because even I am being constantly distracted by technology while I am trying to do my homework.
According to a data, more teenagers are spending fifty hours a week on digital media. It is bad because they are getting constantly distracted while their brains should be developing. Even brains while doing Internet search are proved more active. The digital era was moving so rapidly, it needs more time for people to stop their behaviors of interacting so closely with technology.
There's another contradiction whether the world is getting risky and our health is being affected. However, I agree because the Korean kids who are addicted to video games are harming their health and their mental state because they aren't concentrating on their studies and they are constantly being distracted.
A lot of Korean parents are worried of their kids of playing games 7 hours a day, and the Korean government is building up a new system to prevent the kids who are addicted to Internet. It is the first country which considered Internet addiction as a disease. I agree that Internet addiction is a scary thing nowadays. There are clinics and camps that cure these kids with those diseases, and help them focus to go back to their simple lives.
The Korean teachers and governments believe it is right to learn the ethics and technology first and learn how to not be distracted, then learn the techniques.
Some principals say the kids have to be fluent in technology and be used to it to adapt in the new digital world. They say kids should do their homework in laptops and learn more about technology, that technology is like oxygen in the current world.
A lot of professors say they need more education in technology, especially in multitasking. The world has sped up, and due to digital distractions, the kids are not as academically capable as they were before.
For parents, it is a devastating loss for their young children to be interacting so closely to technology. It's not that they shouldn't learn how to communicate or learn how to use the Internet, but the new learning system is not believed to be helping the students in any way.
Some people believe they are grateful for the new technology, and it has made our lives more comfortable than before. It is changing so fast, if you don't learn how to use the Internet, you will be left behind. Bubbe is an old woman who believes all age groups should use technology in this new era. For this statement, I am neutral because it is true that you will be left behind in digitally developed countries. However, I don't think we should be grateful about it because extreme addiction is causing us to be distracted, causing less face to face communication, and we are wasting too much money on unnecessary technology devices by just trying to catch up with the society.
Nowadays, even relationships are build up in the Internet and one third of every women has met their boyfriend while playing games. The technology was a new way of being more social. I agree with this statement because even I made more friends through facebook by sharing or expressing my ideas without being shy.
Some companies use technology to have meetings and talk with others who are just a few feet away. I disagree with this idea because it proves that people are being more lazier than ever by talking through technology, even if a person is just a few feet away.
The military is the driver of technology by using the Internet, aircraft, weapons, jet engines and more. It is believed as the frontier of technology but it creates new dilemmas. The cameras everywhere has made it more easier to attack, or build up security inside the army.
Overall, I am pessimistic of this new digital society. We should question ourselves whether all this technology is necessary. It is true the world is being comfortable, however it is not making the world a better place.
