Here’s a cool time lapse video of my bike ride yesterday. I took it on my iPhone.

I was inspired by a YouTube video I found while browsing:

https://youtu.be/8xaOOEWGUd8

I thought it looked super cool and, more importantly, easy. I wanted to alter the idea a little but by using a huge canvas that I had at my house. This would require multiple cups of paint and a large area to do so. The canvas that I had in mind was one that we had hanging in our house already. It was a piece of wall art, about 3.5 ft tall and 5 ft wide, from Ikea that we’ve had for years. I felt as though it needed a new look. I first made it white by using three cans of white spray paint. Then it was time for the fun part. In my garage I set down cardboard on the floor, then I mixed acrylic paints with a pouring medium I got from Walmart, which was meant to make the paint more fluid. I mixed a bunch of colors and then put them all together in one cup, gave it one stir, and then poured it on the canvas. I did this about 10 times until all the white parts were covered. Here is the final result:

I took about 3 days to dry completely. My mom loved it and I had so much fun making it!

1 Tie-Dyed To spice up my wardrobe and to do something fun and creative I bought a tie-dying kit and a bunch of white clothing and then went to town.

2 Become a runner I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who can wake up early in the morning and effortlessly run 5 miles. However, my body is not conditioned to endure that much strenuous activity. I did some research and found a technique that can help me reach that goal. Jeff Galloway, or “America’s Coach”, created a running technique for people like me. Basically, I run for 45 seconds and walk for 30 seconds. This allows me to run for so much longer than I would have otherwise.

3 Pick up trash on my run I noticed how much liter were on the sides of the roads. I never noticed all of the beer can, wrappers and random pieces of garbage were all over the place. Me and a family member put on rubber gloves and a face mask and collected all of the trash we found and threw it away.

Open an Etsy shop! This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but I never really got the chance to sit down and plan it out… until now! What I want to sell on testy is downloadable print files. I got the idea when I was looking for art to put on the walls of my dorm room. I looked on Etsy and saw that people were selling art in a digital form. Here is what Im talking about. After the buyer makes the purchase it is up to them to get the file printed to get it framed as well. That means that the only thing an artists has to worry about is making the actual art. I thought that this would be a great idea because it is simple and almost free to make. Or at least I thought…

For my first listing I made this on photoshop:

The first problem I ran into was that the photo of the pug that I downloaded from Pexel was for person use and not commercial use and if I were to make money off of it I could be sued. Secondly, Etsy wanted me to include a picture of a “styled scene” on the listing. Here’s what tis would look like:

It’s basically a picture of how my art would look hanging up in someone’s house. I thought this would be easy, I find a mockup and use photoshop to place my image into the mockup. However, after a quick Google search I realized that there was a huge market for this sort of thing.

After running into these errors I realized that there are two things I need to do to start my business:

1. Figure out a way to find pictures that are legal to use in my art.
2. Find out how to properly use a mockup

Wish me luck. I will keep the ipmdiabod community updated on my journey.

Sharknado is a horror science fiction movie that features sharks being sucked up into a tornado and falling from the sky. The city of Los Angeles is in great danger until a broken family teams up to try and save humankind. In the movie there are many scenes that display gruesome and horrific accidents that are a result of this natural disaster, such as a school bus emerging in shark filled water. 

The team is shown traveling all around the city fighting off these sharks with weapons such as chainsaws and dynamite. In the school bus scene the main character uses a rope to reach the bus from the bridge above. There are many other dramatic scenes such as this one that display panic, heroism and thrill. 

The nature of this movie certainly sparked some controversy. Some found it marvelous and wrote reviews on Google such as “This film is a reflection of our society, it has foreseen the future, it has opened my third eye to many new possibilities in life” and “I don’t know why this just has a mere 58% percent rating by my fellow google users. This movie is an absolute masterpiece in every sense of the word.” Other’s did not agree and wrote things like “One of the worst rubbish disaster movies I have ever watched” and “so bad it’s funny.” 

After reading the reviews it stuck out to me that a lot of people commented on the poor animation quality. What was ironic to me was that some spoke about how bad the graphics were and put one star but others wrote the same thing and put five stars.

Some people loved Sharknado others hated it; but one thing that everyone could agree on was that fact that it was horribly made. Here is an example 

This movie reminded me of another movie I watched, San Andreas, because they both featured the result of natural disasters. However, while I was watching San Andreas the graphics felt so real to me that I was often questioning if they were real or not. Here are examples of action scenes from each movie:

San Andreas: 

Sharknado: 

Both clips feature similar elements; bloody gory injuries, buildings collapsing, explosions, helicopters, etc. However, when I was watching the San Andreas clip I felt scared. The buildings crumbling, the people falling from the sky, the chef on fire, and the panic in everyone’s demeanor all felt so realistic to me even though I know that it is just animation. When I was watching the Sharknado I felt humored. I could pick out so easily what was edited. The sharks flying in the air, the stomach injury that one character got from a shark falling on him and the actual tornado itself sweeping through the city were so poorly edited that it did not communicate the dramatic feel that the director intended. 

Here is what I thought of Sharknado; I enjoyed watching it but I did not enjoy it for the reasons that the directors and screenwriters wanted me to. I enjoyed it because it made me laugh. I agree with what one of the Google reviews said; that “it’s so bad it’s funny.” I would recommend this movie to a friend looking for a funny light hearted movie. I feel as though the genre classification “horror” is very misleading to someone who is looking for a scary movie to watch.

Above is a Pintrest board of the trends that I predict will emerge this upcoming spring/summer. Some specific styles that will be popular include:

• A-Line Silhouette Jeans
• Clear handbags/mini backpacks/belt bags
• Cow print
• Layered dainty gold jewelry such as necklaces & bracelets
• Pearl statement hair clips
• Fluffy eyebrows
• Pastel colors, especially yellow, pink & purple
• Tie-dye sweat suits
• Maxi skirts with chunky shoes

Here’s a collage I made on Photoshop that coveys the “mood” of SS20:

For my sound recording, instead of talking I want to use object to make sounds. Then I want to edit those sounds to make some sort of song. The objects I will use will be pens, a salt shaker, my body, the keyboard and the zipper on my backpack.

I feel like there is purpose in living a random life, and that is to learn and to get uncomfortable. In other word, it’s a way to ignore your preferences and experiment with things you would have not otherwise. It raises the question; is there a problem with destining you life around your preferences? I believe that it’s okay to stick to what you’re comfortable with, button to limit yourself when an opportunity arises. I wonder if Alex ever wanted a break. Would he ever want to make a decision based on his preferences , not on an algorithm?

You can print on Photoshop on a laser printer, but also you can print onto socks. A seller on Etsy found a way to print files onto socks. Buyers can purchase a pair and upload a photo of their face to receive a pair of socks with their face printed all over them.

If you want your face even more of your clothes, you can get your face printed on a bathing suit.