visual portfolio brainstorming

one of the sites i like is this one http://www.jonathanyuen.com/_main.html . I really like how simple it is with just the black and white for the colour scheme, it looks professional.  i also like how if u put your mouse over the little red + sign it brings up the other things you can do on the site. what makes this site professional from others is that its very clean and easy to understand how it works. i really like how he made it slide the the right instead of growing up and down.

i also really like the actions on this one  http://www.cathybeck.com/   how the branch of the tree grows to the next subject of the blog. for my blog i would like to make it colourful like some of the other ones but a lot of them aren't working so i cant see what they look like.

for my visual portfolio i would like to do some kind of a street theme. I think it would be cool to take pictures of the the streets and use them as the backgrounds for my portfolio.i think it would be cool to have it as like an alley in the streets with a dumpster or something like that as a button and have a person skate by and hav the sound of the wheels on the cement. also ad in like a pipe or a sewer with gass floating from it.

for about a month now i have been thinking about doing a write up about my barn and some how showing it to the world that i have an indoor skatepark in my barn.  i think people would find it cool that i live on a farm and in my barn theres graffiti and street art + all the normal things in a barn. i think that my barn would be a great theme for my visual profolio because it is a part of me and it is where i spend alot of time creating.

sound sculpture reflection

What I like about my sound sculpture. I really like the bottom button of the skateboard and how I used a picture of the same skateboard just one was all marked up and one was new. I like how there is a sounds for all the parts on my skateboard button.  I’m glad I chose skateboarding because its something I enjoy and I hope the sounds give the user an experience of what its like to skate.

What I dislike?  I don’t really like how the long board is on the road by itself. I wish I added a skateboard on the side walk and made it make a clicking noise.  I don’t really like how big the background picture is either I was originally looking for a picture with just a side walk on one half and a road on the other from a birds eye view. 

What makes this a sculpture?  When just looking at it i see it as a picture not a sculpture, but when you click one of the buttons and you see the old thrashed part of the board and here the sound I feel like it is pretty realistic to the actual skateboarding experience.