Art is one of my most favorite subject and in KMLA, we learn how to use photoshop in Art class. For a semester we learned many different skills to decorate and change the original image we have, and the final project given to us was to make a album cover of our own favorite song. The song I chose was 'Don't hate me' by Epic High and I decided to use a picture of my own two hands, painted white and bluish black.
I painted them with white water-color paint, and nails with red paint. Then I gave light and shade after the lines on my palm with blue and black pastel, and drew the face of Joker on my palm. I also gave a shade on my nails with black pastel.
After the painting was done, I took a picture of my hand(which is the one you are seeing upward), and used Adobe Photoshop CS5 to erase the background and fill it with red, and black color. Since the song's overall atmosphere is very exciting, I wanted to make my cover look not only creepy, but also colorful, so I filled only the surrounding part of my hands with bright green and pink.
If I don't write the title of the song in the cover of album, no one will realize what song I chose, so I had to put the letters in the picture, and I found out that the number of alphabets used in the song's title was exactly 10, which is the number of my nails! So I inserted each alphabets on my nail like this
D O N T H A T E
M E
I also wanted to write down the name of artist, Epic High, but couldn't find any appropriate font for it, so I just wrote it down on a spare paper, took a picture of it, and changed it as a brush in photoshop
ㄴThis is what I wrote on the edge of my textbook, and changed as a jpg file
After putting my own signature on the top of the picture, I decorated the borders with white, rugged brush and mediated the overall darkness and chroma. My signature was inserted by the same process as the artist's name; draw it with my own hand, take a picture of it, and changing it to a jpg file. Picture on the side is the signature I used in my image.
This is my finished album cover!
In a group of five, KMLA's fresh-mans who listen to Spanish class was supposed to make any kind of visible, and tangible materials(computer files like video clips were not allowed) to introduce interesting cultures of countries using Spanish. Our group was consisted of me, Suyeon Lee, Jae eun Lee, Jiwon Park and Yubin Kim, and we decided to search and introduce about different kinds of 'dance'; flamenco, tango and salsa. We made a big book and attached pop-ups which showed representative moves of three kinds of dances. My work in the group was to research about the history and different aspects of flamenco, and bringing different pictures of flamenco's dance moves, but after we all gathered with the informations we searched, (maybe) the biggest part, drawing part was all given to me :-( It took a lot of time filling out the empty, big papers but the result was a satisfactory!
These are the pictures of our final project
ㄴThe cover page! All credits to Su-yeon <3
'Dance' is called 'Danza' in Spanish
ㄴThe first page was about countries using Spanish, and a brief introduction of the famous dances in those countries
ㄴFlamenco! Flamenco ordinated from gypsys who lived in Spain, and is
danced with a song, guitar and different kinds of stage properties like castanets and fan.
ㄴ The second dance we introduced is tango, which is very popular around the world.
Tango first appeared in Argentina and was initially called as 'baile con corte' which means dance which doesn't stop.
ㄴThe last dance was salsa, developed by Cuban and Puetro Rican who moved to New York.
Latin music, jazz and American rythm style is all mixed in salsa's music and the word 'salsa' originated from word 'sal' and 'salsa', which each means salt and sauce in spain
ㄴOn the last page, we wrote how the upper three dances are used in Korea nowadays, for instance on TV program called 'Dancing with the star', and fusion performance of tango with Korea's traditional song 'Arirang'.
GRACIAS! Thank you for reading
The 21st century has begun. What changes do you think this new century will bring? Use examples and details in your answer.
Everything is changing as time flies by. About 13 years ago, new millennium and another century began with enormous anticipation from people around the world. Since the new era began, the developing technology in different areas have been giving huge influence on people's lifestyle, perspective, lifespan and many other uncountable things. But amongst all those developments, technological development in biological area definitely gave and will give quite huge change in the new 21st century. Biological technology had developed a lot since the late 20th century and human is now able to clone animals, use nanotechnology to cure diseases and transplant organs for longer life.
Once upon a time in a story about ancient China, Qin Shi Huang made numerous attempt to reach immortality. Human being always tried to live a longer life and get free of diseases, and it did have better result; human's lifespan increased a lot than past years, and the biggest reason for this must be the discovery of different kinds of remedies to diseases. As the medical area developed, remedies for diseases which were called as 'untreatable' appeared, such as chicken pox. These days, we can even see the news saying that the cancer patient survived thanks to successful transplanting surgery, and that doctors are developing a cure for Alzheimer, and soon will be able to use it. In short future, cures using cloned animal or human will be developed and used too since cloning animal is already possible nowadays. Recently, scientists found a way to reduce the rejection from human body which occurs when different creature's organ is transplanted, and they said that sooner or later, human will be able to get safe and healthy organs from pigs, and have them transplanted. In the left years of 21st century, we will surely be able to see more development in the area, and find more remedies for dangerous diseases, and this will make human being's lifespan much longer than before.
There also are disadvantageous aspects of biological development, and the most serious expected problem is upcoming of an aging society. As human's lifespan gets longer, and as the medical technology to cure the diseases develop more, the number of elderly increases. Comparatively, the ratio of young people decreases a lot because of the lowering birth rate. This makes the proportion of working people decrease, causes the economic welfare difficulties, and many other social problems. With the aging society, issues about dignity of both human and animal due to development of biological technology is also being concerned and one example which shows it is animal's uses. Some scientists say that animal experiments are needed when carving and developing a new area in biology because we cannot use it directly to human without any security, so countless animals are dying from experiments. It is not only experiments where the animals are used; cloned animal's right might be ignored if their organs are used for human being like I've mentioned in upper paragraph. These abuse of animals which seem to increase a lot in short future causes conflict with people who try to support animal's right. Human rights problem from cloning is also an issue amongst people, and is one of the biggest concern about future which comes from developed technology.
GM's inventor Charles Kettering once said that "We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there." Future is where we will live, and what we all should be concerned of, and that future is made of what we do in present. As the 21st century began, many changes already happened and for the left 87 years of 21st century, there will be much more changes, depending on what we do now. I truly hope that people living now could wisely make a development in many different areas and think seriously about the possible problems which might occur if we try to make a development in wrong way, and be able to hand over a better world to live for our descendant.
After putting my own signature on the top of the picture, I decorated the borders with white, rugged brush and mediated the overall darkness and chroma. My signature was inserted by the same process as the artist's name; draw it with my own hand, take a picture of it, and changing it to a jpg file. Picture on the side is the signature I used in my image.
