Entry 26

I started this course without any basic skills in Flash, Dreamweaver or even MAC computers but now I am astounded with how much skills I have acquired throughout this semester. Moreover, I could not even differentiate between art and design at first, everything was black and white for me but now I have added a bit of colour and craziness to my design to make it look more innovative and arty. This course have inspired and breathed life into me and have made me appreciate the various art and to see beyond the surface and rise above mediocrity. In addition, I just realised I had a creative streak in me and I have discovered my identity within doing the project.

I’d like to acknowledge my lecturer for his patience, inspirational ideas and excellent deliverance of the course. I basically took up this course to learn about creating websites but I have learnt more than expected. It has been a pleasure taking up this course.

Entry 25

After days of hard work it has finally paid off. I created a flash animated interactive website revolving around the theme “Identity”.

Entry 24

This scrolling image is done according to the following website:
http://www.webzo.org/tutorials/flash/scrolling-image-gallery.php

This scrolling image shows photos of me posing from different angles. I love black and white images and that’s why I have filtered out other colours. This reflects multiple personalities… and it varies when I am with my family, Samoan friends, uni friends and workmates or with lecturers. I can be quiet and loud depending on whom I am comfortable with but I get along with everyone.

Entry 23

I have put together a collage representing my identity, my pride, my culture. It highlights the untouched island, our main sport (rugby), traditional Samoan dancing including fire dancing, tattoos, Robert Louis Stevenson a famous writer who is buried in Samoa, Samoa currency (tala) as well as the Samoan fales (house) and church.
My country colors are red and blue and I edited the photos so that only blue and red our left after filtering with the exception of the firedancing at the bottom left… everything else is left grayscale.
By clicking on “footprints” image it links you to this page… and footprints symbolize my journey in fob (fresh off the boat) life where it all began…
All these images are edited one way or the other and collage is my idea therefore my edited images and ideas, my masterpiece…

Entry 22

This is the 2nd link of the tattoo page (2nd pg). It talks about the design specifically and tools used in the design... where I'm from these tattoos are very popular and unique and only people of the tattoo motif can share these privileges... As u can see the design covers back to front and it is very risky and it takes weeks to recover. The tool shown is the main tool out of many. The references of each picture is shown on the bottom.
Moreover, I used a blinking blurred text movie as the header thoughout the pages...this name changes from tattoo to design throught the whole tattoo page.

This is the 3rd link and its the gallery link...here I have set a slideshow including pause and play button...so u can pause the slide show and observe etc. All these images have been edited in photoshop and a transition effect has been added to the slideshow...notice how the arm tat image have transitioned into the pea tat image.

Entry 21

This is my animated tattoo page... the left border is designed according to a typical Samoan arm tattoo where the links are constructed with the primary colors and all grey diamonds are inactive. Once u click on a link a diamond is formed one by one...that is every link constructs its own diamond bringing attention to the contact. Notice the cursor which represents the 3 most important things in my life. The tattoo page is comprised of 3 links.... 1st link is tattoo history/intro, 2nd link consists of the design & the 3rd page consists of gallery.

Entry 20

These are more photoshopd images used in my flash animated slideshow...in the tatto page under 'gallery' tab.
This photo shows a woman's tattoo known as a tatau and it reflects rank or status. The patterns are not as extensive as a the men's. In this photo, I have masked it, applied hue/saturation adjustments as well as photo filter and emboss effect so that the patterns stand out... finally I applied photo filter to give it that cartoonish look.

This is a zoomed in/enlarged version of a man's pea. It shows the pattern specifically with the canoe pattern stretched from the mid back. Same techniques were applied with photo filter finishing it off with a cartoonish look.

All these tattoos are done by a tufuga and only descendents of the tattoo tribe can share these privileges.