After never having used a video editor, it was a learning experience! Even though i only did the simple stuff I had fun and would like to learn more in-depth things about it.

So, this was quite entertaining. Finding random things, linkng this to that…ya know. So, here it is Sasha Marie!

Here is a kind of generalized tutorial…Embedding

And another one…HTML code

Within the code you can change/add these…

autostart=”…”
This sets whether the file should start playing straight away. It can be true or false. If you set it to false    the file will not play until the user presses the play button. I would advise that you do let the reader decide when to turn it on, as having a song blaring unexpectedly out of your speakers is usually a bad thing.

loop=”…”
This specifies whether the file will start again once it has finished and loop, or stop after one play. True or false. Or number (ex.”3”)
Dreamweaver instructions!! I haven’t tried them, but I found these and in theory they should work!

1.   Click in the section of your Dreamweaver document where you want the video to appear.
2. Pull down Insert | Media | ActiveX. A small placeholder widget will appear in your document.
3. In the widget’s Properties panel, specify a width of 320 and a height of 256. Be sure the width is equal to the actual width of your movie, while the height is 16 pixels higher than the height of your movie — the 16px is the height of the QuickTime playback controller.
4. Select the checkbox labeled “Embed”
5. Type the name of your poster frame file into the “Src” field (or click on the folder icon and navigate to the file).
6. Click the Parameters button. Click in the Parameter column and type “href.” Click in the Value column and type the name of your movie file. Click the “+” sign to add another parameter called “autoplay” and give it a value of “true.” Click “+” one more time and add a parameter called “target” with a value of “myself.” You should be looking at a Properties panel and Parameters panel that look something like the image below.
7. Click OK to set the parameters.

Video embed parameters options

Note that neither the movie nor the poster frame file will display in DreamWeaver. Save your document and open it in a web browser to check your work. If all has gone as planned, you should see your poster frame as the document loads. Clicking the poster frame should cause the video to load in its place. It’s a good idea to put a text cue under the poster frame, saying something like “Click image to begin playback.”

You will likely notice one remaining issue: You’ve embedded a one-frame movie, but the user needs to click on the image portion of it to begin playback. And yet there’s a playback controller staring the user in the face. Most users will be tempted to click that controller, but will end up viewing only your one-frame poster movie if they do so. To make this problem go away, add one more parameter to the list above:
controller = false

You’ll still get a controller on the destination video, but the “confusing” controller on the one-frame video will go away.

Hi-lar-i-ous!

on another note…There’s a new HP trailer! OMG! I’m in class and I just had to hold in my squeals!!!

Well, nobody wants to show their bad sides so of course it took me a while to think of something to do with this.

And I couldn’t decide if I wanted to keep the pictures their original color, or to go with the old movie style all in black and white, so here’s both!

My friend Alicya is going to the Art Institute for Photography and has been taking pictures of a lot of us from work for her class assignments. Here are some of me that I love! The pictures are taken by her, Alicya Tebo, but any of the changes and adjustments are me playing around

So, there is my beautifulness

Well, after playing around in Photoshop for way too long and not getting anywhere, I finally was able to start getting somewhere. It was my first time using it, so there’s nothing particularly fancy going on. I liked the poster I used earlier and wanted to go off of that somehow and make my own version. So, I googled a bunch of vampire pictures, from tv shows, movies, and random ones. I played around with the opacity a bit and messed around with the text to make it pop out more so that it was readable. It took me a while to figure out the best font and colors to make that possible, and then I added in a drop shadow. I wanted to show that vampires can still feel human emotions, and the photos I chose show that; “They can still love”. Most of the photos I know for sure that the male is a vampire, while the female is not, yet they are still able to have a loving relationship with one another. The two more “vampire looking” photos I am guessing that both of the beings are vampires. The larger picture is of the two characters from the HBO show True Blood, which is what the original poster was for.

Using digital technology as an actual art medium create a higher level of participation and are more capable of customizing the art work for specific people and purposes. While it can be argued that all art work is interactive, a painting, for example, cannot physically change before your eyes. Also, as a piece of digital art, it can be customized to the user’s needs or preferences. As a creation, digital art can span many different kinds of form. One could use a computer’s music player’s Sound Waves and manipulate those into an actual piece of art. An example of a well-known type is Digital animation.  Some installations are influenced by the movements and decisions of the people walking through them; some are Time controlled.

As a tool, you can take a piece that you found on the internet, and then competely change the way a viewer sees it, depending on the actual change of the piece, or simply putting it into another context to create a different meaning. With digital techology, it is now possible to re-do, change, or create images. It can be used as a tool to do these things, or to simply make them out of nothing.

So, I was just perusing the Denver Center for Performing Arts website, and I just about had a heart attack. I was under the impression that the RENT national tour was not stopping in Denver. In which case, I had planned on going to St. Louis to see the final tour of the amazing musical. However, it’s coming here!!! And I guess the RENT website hasn’t updated the schedule or something, so it was unexpected. And, it’s even more wonderful because Anthony and Adam are going to be saying farewell too   While I have seen the actual Broadway prodution, on Broadway, as well as the movie about a billion times, this is the last tour EVER!! and it really makes me sad…

AND, not only is RENT coming (THANK GOD), I also get the enormous pleasure of seeing    I’m so flippin excited!!!

Anyway, as you can see, I’m a theater geek (in high school I was in Choir, so musicals=wonderfulness). And, upon seeing the 2009 lineup, I am ecstatic!!!! eek!!!

When I first saw this ad in Entertainment Weekly magazine, it immediately caught my eye. I recently read a vampire series of books and fell in love. However, it wasn’t just that that made me inquire about it. It says nothing about it being related to something (a television show, movie, or book). I was intrigued! The woman in the ad is apparently supposed to be a vampire herself, but looks perfectly alive. Above the photo of the woman it says, “Vampires were people too”. At the bottom is says “Support the Vampire Rights Amendment”, which says to me that all she wants to do is ‘live’ her life, dead or alive, with the same rights that alive people have The text is written in red and blue ink, which makes me think of the election. As though this Amendment will actually be voted on. After seeing a couple of these ads in the magazine issues, I finally looked it up out of curiosity and found out it was a promotional ad for a new HBO series called True Blood. Very effective in my opinion. And, after watching the first episode of this show on Sunday, I am hooked