Learning Experience

I bought a graphics tablet and spent the last day getting used to it.
I friend recommended I learn to get used to it by copying a picture. So I did.

I used a reference image my friend gave me:

Drew a sketch:

Figured out how to outline it:




















Made a final Product:

Time to do other stuff with the tablet.

Website Design

I haven't directly pursued designing a website yet before in my life and I hope this project will prove to be some sort of major insight onto the design and concept behind a website. Today we got done some work, more specifically we planned out exactly what were the "Use Cases" or goals of the website and gave them names that we can use for tabs on the Website, we also debated a lot about the overall design plan and layout of the website. We came up with a basic outline and have a general idea of what we could do in the future but we are more focused on the current iteration. While it was a slow day, we deliberated for a long time because we couldn't figure out what we could and couldn't do yet, in other words practical.

The Accidental Masterpiece

Kimmelman manipulates his words in such a way that is profound to me. There is something there that I really want to learn from. I can already tell that reading this book will be very fun and beneficial. They way he describes the various stories gives is a very relaxed sense of colloquial conversation yet it provides an insight into his intelligence. What really surprised me about his style of writing was that he was trying to convey difficult content, yet it proved not to be a challenge to understand. As an introduction to his book he doesn't directly mention the book but instead leads us in with his expert usage of cliffhangers and easy to understand taboo concepts.

"Slow Motion"

Why am I posting this? I don't know why, but why not. I like it; it's optimistically depressing.

By: ピノキオピー
Sung By: Hatsune Miku

Cover Art

Sets it as a paranormal themed story, not a sci-fi theme like I usually do, and gives it a title. 

Page 1 of I don't know how many

For STAC I'm working on a graphic novel project, and while I'm not the best artist in the world I think it's coming together nicely. I got the first page done and It's better than I expected. I like the manga type style

FEAR

Fear is the feeling we get that counters success. Many people accuse fear of being the determent to our success, however fear is a very vital part of our society. Fear is the emotion, while the cause of fear is always anticipated failure. In any situation there is something we hope to accomplish, a goal. To balance this out we have a failure so that the goal becomes visible. Without failure the goal would be invisible and would simply seem like a a step forward but not a step up. Fear pushes us to reach for the goal. We see the possible failure and we don't want to go there, instead we go up. However if there is too much fear it could prevent us from even going forward, we might even end up avoiding the choice. Fear is a fear of failure. If we fear failure too much, we begin to fear the choice.

What we need to do is to overcome this fear. Once we overcome the fear of failure, everything will be guarantied to be better. With all that failure juxtaposing the goal, it will make the goal seem even better when it is fulfilled. If you do fail, you will remember it. And the purpose of memory is for us to learn from. We learn from what we have done wrong to improve ourselves if we ever face a similar encounter again. That is wisdom; wisdom is how to improve ourselves. Wisdom is the key to getting past fear. Even if you don't have enough wisdom, just take the extra step and get wisdom whether you fail or not.

Take for example, confessing your love. The fear is the fear of rejection, the wisdom will be all your past experiences with that person and with love in general, the failure is getting rejected, and the success is him/her saying yes. Everything can be boiled down to example and can be analyzed but if you don't act, there is no point in analyzing it.