I enjoyed texturing the barber shop and wish i had time to do it more successfully, i particularly like how the little ‘swirly’ ornament outside of the barbers shop turned out. 
I tried to add some small details like giving the mat a welcome sign through texturing.
Here is my finished barber shop, if i had more time i would have texture the inside of the shop too, I am pleased with how this turned out though and look forward to creating more things like this in the future.
The statistics i need to turn into a graph
Storyboards are a great way of telling a story with absolutely no text such as the following…
Psycho
Snow White
The Matrix
Aliens
Bladerunner
“The story form is a vehicle for conveying information in an easily absorbed manner”- Will Eisner
The effects used in Scott Pilgrim vs The World are a great example of visuals telling as a narrative.
Visual Narratives can be purely graphic without any text, storyboard and graphic novels etc
Andrjez Kimowski- The Secret
Scott Mcloud is a fantastic comic book artist and his ted talk was fantastic and very interesting
Pup contemplates the heat depth of the universe
http://www.drewweing.com/puppages/13pup.html
Media provides a window back into the world we live in.
Daniel Merlin- Four Derangements
Looking at how the world has been visualised throughout the years is fasinating to, even from cave paintings, to old maps etc
very bad quality video from youtube, but this is a beautiful modern adaption of these cave drawings.
Even early astronomy is very interesting both data wise and visually.
Egyptian Relics are just as interesting and even tell a story.
Early drawings of the human anatomy are very interesting, Da Vinci’s are very interesting, he had gotten almost everything pretty correct.
A student created this animation of the human body looking at the body as an industrial palace, it is very interesting and beautifully thought out.
The Body in An Industrial Palace
Electrical Engineering such as circuit boards are a prime example
The London Underground has been designed not geographically correct but perfectly easy to read and understand by anyone, use of colours and shapes are used thoughtfully. 
Task
Convert a set of statistics into something that can be easily understood by as wide an audience as possible.
We have to do this using the worldwide death penalty stats
Examples of nicely displayed statistics
The newyork times created made a digital graph of how different groups spend their days
It is better to remember simplified pictures than to forget accurate figures- Otto Newrath
Gerd Arntz is the guy who designed a lot of every day road signs and airport signs we see. They are easy to understand in every language.
Otl Atcher is another guy who is interesting, he was a german designer who created signs to do with sports, such as swimming and hockey.
In our lecture on Friday, we were shown some of these images made from lego portraying a film or band etc, i thought this was fantastic! Can you guess what these are?
It’s Gulliver’s travels..
Little red riding hood
Goldilocks and the three bears
The three little pigs
King Kong
The Beatles
Jaws
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
2001 A Space Odyssey
Purple Rain
The Titanic
Nirvana
The Yellow Submarine
Brave heart
Alice in Wonderland
Robin Hood
Ali Baba and the 40 theives
Moby Dick
Pinocchio
Walk the Line
The Police
Reservoir Dogs
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Under Pressure
Kill Bill
Monsters Inc
Men in Black
Inception
Tron
Tortoise and the Hair
The Rolling Stones
Strawberry Fields Forever
Black or White
Hansel and Gretel
Little Red Corvette
The Green Mile
300
Shrek
Maroon 5
Peter Pan
The Matrix
The Colour Purple
The White Stripes
Jurassic Park
Paint it Black
Spiderman
Big Fish
The Colour
Stairway to Heaven
Rule of Thirds
Using the rule of thirds helps with photography in a major way, for example here is two of my photos using the rule of thirds.
The rule of thirds divides a photo into 9 equal parts.
Photos that have something hitting them in the vertical or horizontal line normally looks better, example the building the photo i took below, the line on the right travels down were the building meets the sky. It gives a nice amount of building to space. Also the middle 3 segments are were the light comes through the arc of the building which also leads the eye to it.
With the sharpenings in the photo i took below the rule of thirds helps in a different way, thhere is about the same amount of white space on top and bottom of the photo leaving the centre of the photo to hold the part of the image that we want the eye to focus too. 
The Golden Ratio
The golden ratio works in a different way, helps explain where the eye leads to in the photo and what we want the viewer to focus on.
As you can see below the curve of the shape leads your eye into the lipstick that is closest to the camera lense.
Perhaps its easier to understand with the photo below i took of a church/chapel, there is a strange burst of light through the cloudy sky which i thought may symbolise a heaven above the place of worship for those who are religious. The golden ratio leads your eye exactly to this colourful burst in the sky and also has a large empty space for the church to fill with its dark silhouette.
My top 6 Macros
My top 6 Micros
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