ILLUSTRATOR STUDIO

-Review of Illustrator techniques: Groups, importing bitmaps, layers / Arrangement

-Creative Suite Help Files

DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS TUES

FOR MONDAY BRING IN YOUR .AI FILE ON YOUR USB DRIVE.

POST ANY ISSUES OR QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO ILLUSTRATOR ON YOUR BLOG

Intro To Illustrator

Today we will have an introduction to vector graphics in Illustrator

I WOULD ADVISE TAKING NOTES SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO REMEMBER THE TOPICS AND TECHNIQUES COVERED TODAY.

Topics:
Adobe CS5
Proprietary Software and peripherals / protocol
What are Vector Graphics?
Uses
Anchor Points / Paths
Fills
Strokes
Shape Tools
Line Tool
Type Tool
Pen Tool (lines / Bézier curves )

Importing Bitmap images

File Types -- .AI .PDF

BLOG POST DUE THUR


You will need to locate a piece of vector art that you will be reproducing for an illustrator project.
I'll give you details in Class
This will need to be posted on your blog for Thur.

review for test

Today i'll give you guys a review for our test on Thur.

Discussion----Where do we go from here? Evolution of the Web

1. DISCUSS YOUR ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS POSTED ON YOUR BLOGS FROM LAST TIME
FROM WEB 1.0
to
Web 2.0
to

(Chris Anderson- the long tail, Jimmy Wales, Larry Lessig)

2. DISCUSSION OF WEB 3.0

lets watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg

Where to go from here?

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-30.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

semantic web video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg

TIM BERNERS LEE ON THE SEMANTIC WEB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUrEh-nqtU&feature=related

3. WHEN CORPORATIONS BORROW FROM THE FRINGE CASE STUDY OF TACTICAL MEDIA ART (MEDIA BELOW)

4.  DEBATE: THE INTERNET AND DEMOCRACY (MEDIA BELOW)

RELEVANT MEDIA:

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 TACTICAL MEDIA ART -- CASE STUDY

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY

GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB - L.A.Z.E.R. TAG

PITTSBURGH'S DEEP LOCAL

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Andrew Keen: "Web 2.0 is F****d!"

Keen is caught after a few too many cocktails at a conference on networked technologies


Debate: The Internet and Democracy

Miller Center of Public Affairs
It Is Easy to Ignore Facts Online

Authority Can Exist on the Internet

No Expertise on Wikipedia or Expertise No Curators

Free Information has greater transparancy

IN CONTRAST TO Rushkoff's new book:

Program or be Programmed

Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff

The Commands are not commandments, meant as orders from God to a population, but rather ways of taking command of any of the biases of digital media. The way to take command of digital media’s asynchronous bias, for example, is not to be “always on.”
Here are the ten from the book.


I. TIME
    Do Not Be Always On
II. PLACE
    Live in Person
III. CHOICE
    You May Always Choose None of the Above
IV. COMPLEXITY
    You Are Never Completely Right
V. SCALE
   One Size Does Not Fit All
VI. IDENTITY
    Be Yourself
VII. SOCIAL
    Do Not Sell Your Friends
VIII. FACT
    Tell the Truth
IX. OPENNESS
    Share, Don’t Steal
X. PURPOSE
    Program or Be Programmed 

Intro to Andrew Keen

1. I want to discuss some of the things that you Discovered after reading and commenting on each other's blog postings on digital nation.. I'll Take volunteers or select students to share in class THIS IS HOW YOU GET CLASS PARTICIPATION POINTS!!!

2. Pass out "The Great Seduction by Andrew Keen"

3. Have The Great Seduction Read by Thur. the 10th

and 

answer the following questions, using the reading and keen's commentary from the google talk as reference points:

1. How does Keen define Democratized media, and what are his main issues with this trend? use examples from the web in the form of links. Include this idea of "disintermediation".

2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. What are these differences in opinion? Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why? You may include the ideas of such utopian technophiles as Larry Lessig, Chris anderson, and Jimmy Wales (who are these guys!?)

If we have time we will watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

and

keen on colbert: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/91639/august-16-2007/andrew-keen

keen's blog http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

RELATED MEDIA:

Web 3.0 the semantic web: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2102852,00.asp

The Talent Show at PS1: http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/318

I thought you maybe interested in this: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Catfish-4848.html
and exit through the gift shop

SHORT RUSHKOFF VIDEOS / WISDOM OF THE CROWD DISCUSSIONS AND RESPONSES (DUE TUES)

Case Study IS the Internet Making us smarter?(or dumber)

 2 WSJ essays:
1. Nick Car--its making us dumber
2. Clay Shirky making us smarter



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 RUSHKOFF ON COLBERT REPORT:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/238643/july-15-2009/douglas-rushkoff

RUSHKOFF'S NEW BOOK LIFE INC.


This didn’t just happen.
In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.

This fascinating journey reveals the roots of our debacle, from the late Middle Ages to today. From the founding of the chartered monopoly to the branding of the self; from the invention of central currency to the privatization of banking; from the birth of the modern, self-interested individual to his exploitation through the false ideal of the single-family home; from the Victorian Great Exhibition to the solipsism of MySpace; the corporation has infiltrated all aspects of our daily lives. Life Inc. exposes why we see our homes as investments rather than places to live, our 401k plans as the ultimate measure of success, and the Internet as just another place to do business.

Most of all, Life Inc. shows how the current financial crisis is actually an opportunity to reverse this 600-year-old trend, and to begin to create, invest and transact directly rather than outsourcing all this activity to institutions that exist solely for their own sakes.

Corporatism didn’t evolve naturally. The landscape on which we are living – the operating system on which we are now running our social software – was invented by people, sold to us as a better way of life, supported by myths, and ultimately allowed to develop into a self-sustaining reality. It is a map that has replaced the territory.

Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected from our world, and how we can reconnect to our towns, to the value we can create, and mostly, to one another. As the speculative economy collapses under its own weight, Life Inc. shows us how to build a real and human-scaled society to take its place.

In Life Inc, Douglas Rushkoff presents the unnerving, unbelievable, but ultimately undeniable proof that our world has been overtaken by an absolutely artificial economy.

He shows how our most fundamental assumptions about money and commerce are actually false ones – artifacts of a 400-year-old plan by a waning aristocracy to maintain control of Western Europe. Although the architects of this corporatism have long since passed on, we still live in a landscape defined by their plans and have internalized their values as our own.

Taking on some of the biggest assumptions of our age, this is a book filled with dangerous ideas and rather unspeakable heresies:
•Money is not a part of nature, to be studied by a science like economics, but an invention with a specific purpose.
•Centralized currency is just one kind of money – one not intended to promote transactions but to promote the accumulation of capital by the wealthy.
•Banking is our society’s biggest industry, and debt is our biggest product.
•Corporations were never intended to promote commerce, but to prevent it.
•The development of chartered corporations and centralized currency caused the plague; the economic devastation ended Europe’s most prosperous centuries, and led to the deaths of half of its population.
•The more money we make, the more debt we have actually created.


FIRST WATCH IN CLASS:
 RUCHKOFF LIFE INC


1. we will find partners today to start the "Digital Nation" Discussions..

2. Under my direction we will divide into groups of 2-3
3. By the end of class you need to read your partner's essay,  and post their thesis on your blog (if not finish the entire commentary)..

followed by a in-class discussion..

DUE FOR TUES the  8TH

RESPOND ( in the comments section of your partner's blog)
YOUR REPONSE should be 1-2 pages
I also want you to read 2 other students postings and make a  response in their comments section..

MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE YOUR FIRST, LAST NAME, AND A FULL LINK TO YOUR POSTING IN THE COMMENTS

***ALSO MAKE A POSTING ON YOUR BLOG THAT LETS ME KNOW WHICH OTHER PEOPLES BLOG ENTRIES YOU ARE RESPONDING.
(LIST OF STUDENT'S BLOGS ON RIGHT OF THIS PAGE-->)

Posting is Due Thur the 3rd

Social Media and The Wisdom of the Crowd Postings
After Finishing Digital Nation and Reading "Social Media and Web 2.0" and The Blog Posting on Transparency in Social Media

I would like to pose the Following topics taken from online talks from boingboing.net about "the crowd" - particularly the way group activity, creativity, and awareness are both enhanced and exacerbated by our digital networks. 

TOPICS LIST:

Open Source and Crowdsourcing.
What are the values implicit in both collaborative open source activities and "crowd-sourced" activities on behalf of a corporation or organization? Has the open source movement created new forms, or just copies of old ones? What are the possibilities, here, for new cultural and economic institutions, and how might they be improvements on the status quo? 


Whither the Individual?
As we join groups and social networks from affinity sites to Facebook, are we extending and expanding identities, or increasingly conforming to the cookie-cutter profiles demanded of these interfaces? Is the loss of "personal space" and "reflection" so many users complain of merely the necessary surrender of "ego" as we learn to participate as members of a more evolved "collective organism" of "hyper-people?"

Folksonomy and the Folks.
Everybody is, indeed, here now - but should everyone be here? Does the rise of the amateur lead to an unnecessary devaluation of the professional? Do collective online activities promote a new form of participatory democracy and the development of new and accurate folksonomies, or rather to they lead people to overestimate the value of their unconsidered posts and opinions? Do representative democracy, academic disciplines and other seemingly elitist artifacts fall by the wayside?

choose one of the above topics for a blog posting on the topic equivalent to about a 3 page paper ..

You can take a positive or negative stance towards your chosen topic, but you need to back up your opinions with examples from valid sources, such as the reading on social media, Rushkoff's digital Nation and other in class topics--This means to include links to your sources.

After that I am going to have you respond to each others blogs in the form of commentaries. 

First Posting is Due Thur the 3rd

FINSH DIGITAL NATION / BLOG ASSIGNMENT

Lets finish Digital_Nation..

Then we will have a discussion about the film,

If we finish today, then I will give you a blog assignment pertaining to the film.