how was your day? http://blog.digital-dust.net a photo blog. Wed, 02 May 2012 01:01:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 spring and project summary http://blog.digital-dust.net/2012/05/01/spring-and-project-summary/ http://blog.digital-dust.net/2012/05/01/spring-and-project-summary/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 01:00:21 +0000 mirabel http://blog.digital-dust.net/?p=1917 The semester is ending and, as usual, I’m running around in circles trying to get stuff done around this time of year. First, a post about my spring break! Went to a pasta cooking party, went to the movies, had a good session of dance practice, attended the Legend of Zelda Symphony, and went to the beach. It was a very good week.

Legend of Zelda Symphony

White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecakes

Good times at Natural Bridges!

Some awesome bubblegum ice cream at Marianne’s in Santa Cruz. My favorite!!

Right after spring break ended, all these projects and assignments kind of attacked me all at once. Quick summary of stuff done outside of school:

A few rough mockups for a logo project for a friend.

Rough draft for all natural day spa’s website. I’m really rusty…

Flyer for one of Synergy Ballroom Studio’s events

Photos from my dance teacher’s showcase and, more recently, Stanford Cardinal Classic

Finally, some major school projects. More details on these later:

Experimenting with the vacuum former

Designing my full acrylic laser-cut robot dude

Tron memory disk for a group project

And lastly, I’m trying out Instagram for the first time. I think it’s ok.

I have much left to do before school ends… more documentation on my projects later!

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Yay! Spring! The season of optimism and opportunity I guess!

I’m very excited. I’m suddenly very busy too, but it’s the enthusiastic-positive-feel-good kind of busy.

Just wanted to throw some random pictures of the things I’ve been up to.

First, flashback to 2-3 years ago, when I was a freshman. I made this small project as an assignment for one of my classes. Designed in Google Sketchup, transferred over to Pepakura, then printed and folded.

Years later, I revisited the same form for a project and developed it into a pattern. This pattern could then be transferred into different media, such as clay, fabric, paper, cardboard, etc:

Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted many pictures of the various things in my classes that I’ve been working on, but I’ll take more and put them up soon.

Well, other than school and work, I think I’ve been eating many sweets lately. Everyone’s been getting me sweets and cupcakes and such, and my dance team at school just recently had a very delicious bake sale.

But I am also continuing to work out a bit and dance it off.

More updates to come soon!

Sidenote: I’m thinking about changing the blog banner sometime.

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Did some interesting projects here and there over the semester. My first attempt at using Game Maker for my Game Studies class project ended up being quite hilarious and somewhat frustrating, but overall beneficial and informative.

You are free to download and try out my very first game, called, “World of Color,” here. It’s less of a “complete” game and more of an exploration of the basic functions and first-time uses of Game Maker. I would like to expand on it one day. I learned a lot about the software, and I think there’s definite potential to make something pretty cool if I keep experimenting with the program.

Also did a collaborative project with a partner for my Game Studies class. This is a web-based story/game, called The Lost Panda. You can try it out here (yes, I drew all the pictures).

Still doing plenty of dance-related activities and events.








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A photo of my partner Josh and I at Pacific Grand Ball about 2 weeks ago:

Also, here are a couple photos of professionals Victor Fung and Anastasia Muravyeva performing at PGB. It was awesome. =D

I have many photo highlights from PGB, but still around 500 backlogged that I still have to upload. I am slowly, but surely, going through them all.

Also, Halloween is almost here, but I can’t stop thinking about Christmas!!!!!!!

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Tada

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