Ceremonial Stamps

Kenyan ceremonial stamps made in 1981. Each colour is different in each background on each stamp.
A chinese stamp published in 1949 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek when china was a nationalist republic.

A taiwan stamp made in 2001.
A stamp made in 1914. Done with blue colour. Lightly hinged fresh colours very fined.

Digital Communication

3/10/09 Digital Communication.

Digital communication means how the modern world uses digital media to communicate and entertain, Such as mobile phones, the internet, radio, and television. The best example of digital communication would be mobile phones because they are used most in the terms of what we know as digital communication. The internet plays a huge role in digital communication; the internet supports programs such as quick messaging like msn, Skype and other internet links which allow an instant chat service (Facebook etc.) Radio and television serve a different purpose; they are used not only to communicate through the media, but to entertain. So in other words, the television or radio channel is communicating to the audience.

SMS - Stands for either short message service or silent messaging service. Known for phone texting, SMS texts typically have a maximum limit of 160 words. They are the most common form of texting, it is said that 74% of mobile texts are used by SMS texting. SMS works by sending your data (information) to a satellite and transfers the signal from the satellite (a probe in outer space) to the other end (Other mobile phone user.)

WAP – Stands for wireless application protocol that lets mobile phones (e.g. iphones) get to the mobile web, this is how the most recent mobiles get a web browser.

EMS – Stands for enhanced messaging service is a messaging service used by phone companies Samsung, Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens and Alcatel.

RSS – Stands for really simple syndication is a family web feed used to give out updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video.

CSS – Cascading style sheets is a style sheet language used to describe presentation of a document written in a mark up language.

Example in detail:
HTML – Stands for hyper text markup language which is a language used to activate internet pages and helps to make documents such as headings, paragraphs, links and quotes.

Html is a mark up language for making a website function; it’s a language computers can easily understand in order build a website. It also uses mark up tags to describe web pages. A mark up language is a set up of mark up tags which allows website users to interact and lead to other websites. Html tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets to make them work for example ; they usually come in pairs like and the first pair in the start tag and the other is the end tag; these are called opening tags and closing tags. Html documents describe web pages, html documents contain html tags and plain text, and html documents are also called web pages.
Example Explained
The text between and describes the web page
The text between and is the visible page content
The text between

and

is displayed as a heading
The text between

and

is displayed as a paragraph


Editing HTML is possible using plain text (note pad) or even Dreamweaver or FrontPage.

Scanned Images.

This turned out to not be as good. This is where it turned out not so good because i failed to get any detail.


This is the intaglio portrait. This one i did in black ink.
The next one below is the same one i used with blue ink. I used this for the background.


This is the one i used with blue ink.

This is what i used for the image three images down, this is a leaf i printed.

This is the copy which has more ink because i rolled this one first.

This is my copy of the lino cut. This is the one with less ink because i rolled this one second.

This image i did in photo shop. For stamping, i used the print of the leaf i printed. Each stamp is a copy of the leaf.

This is an image i also did on photoshop with the brush tool, it has a variety of red, yellow, and blue together.

Image File Formats

JPG
'JPEG' is especialy good and are used for realistic photographs but not for cartoon style images. They are not as good for high images such as print type images which are less realistic. JPG is typically used for realistic scenes on photographs and paintings and with smooth variations with tone and colour. Here is a classic example of an image using JPG photography .




GIF
'GIF' stands for "Graphics Interchange Format". This format supports up to 8 bits per pixel and enables a single image to move and behave like a film/animation, they are used for images where more than one scene is needed to be shown, they behave in a way of a very short clip. This is an example of one.


PNG
"PNG" stands for "portable network graphics" a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license.

PNG supports palette-based ,greyscale, RGB, or RGBA images. PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not professional graphics, and so does not support other colour spaces.

What we did on wednesdays lesson:

On wednesdays lesson, we ink printed our stencil engravings by using roll paint to in order to make a print onto a sheet of paper. We also used a big roller to press and engrave ink into the plastic sheet we drew on. Then we washed away the ink left on the plastic sheet to make sure that there is a visable mold.

Funny, mad, Wierd Cats

Monday, 14 September 2009