virtual world/chat rooms

well.. i've never been big on chat rooms of any sort. not that i'm against it or anything, but i just haven't found it to be fun. i suppose it's not always a practicle thing. i use an instant chat at the moment to talk to friends and family that are interstate. but i suppose that is just the thing. these worlds are purly for your social life. thats what it seems to me to be for, a social life. and that's probly the whole reason why i don't like it. that and you're not always too sure who you're talking to. you can tell alot about non-verbal behaviours, tone of vioce and just planly what they look like. i think i prefer that secruity. as for virtual worlds versus instant chat. it seems they are just making their social lives into games. its like if you were to just sit and chat to one person it could get boring. but if you went out let's say ten pin bowling, you can have a chat while doing something recreational. i think all these virtual worlds are starting to supplement social lives and healthy social interaction. no wonder the world is beginning to become obese

Australian

i thought this was pretty australian, also taken in melbourne on a beach. nothing like having your best friend with you on the beach while having a surf. i just added a few shapes to make it look more like a drawing. there are some transparencies on the shapes. i also adjusted the different RGB levels on the picture of the actual dog. i wanted the red in its coat to be as vibrant as the water and the grass. it didn't quite turned out how i wanted.

Friends

this photo was taken in Melbourne we a group of friends went for a trip. i just crop out separate sections of the photo and applied different filters to each. i mostly like the cut out one. i love the separation of colours. then i put a layer of transparent purple over the original image and cut out circles with a feathered edges around where i wanted to the focus. i then placed each of the cropped areas on the photos respectively.

communication

i just simply used the magnetic lasso tool and selected the lady on her mobile phone from another picture and placed her on the lovely desert image. although if you were actually in the desert it might not be as enjoyable as the picture is to look at.

to me this represents the limitless boundaries of technology. when mobile phones first cam out you could barely get reception at the best of times (i suppose that hasn't changed much). but one day i'm sure there will be a way that people could use technology in really distant palces. in the middle of nowhere where noone would really need it.

Summer in Bondi

summer in Australia: the beach and the sun. the best and only place to be during summer. turning brown in the cooker called earth.

News

this is as you may guess the world trade centre towers in the 911 emergency in America. i remember the day this had happened, it certainly proved news worthy even in Australia. there was alot of scare about terrists that resulted from these attacks. i was in high school at the time and it was qutie frightening to think of the possibilities although we all wanted to deny it.

High-Tech

this is kinda more cute than high-tech. i presume that it has origins from japan or china. it seems they like their cute little characters and their booming technology, so to combine the two makes full sense.

University Life

Books, books and more books... that's what university life consists of. there is massive amounts of reading to do, with assingments and regular readings let alone extra reading. i always wished i was better at reading.