Slow Down

http://dada.cca.edu/~eivanova/slow_down/

Reprimer Project

Reprimer movie

Reprimer Project

Reprimer movie

Reprimer Project

Reprimer movie

Portfolio

dada.cca.edu/~eivanova/portfolio

Development 6

The page elements from this template were rounded at the corners with images like this put on top of them. Now that the background and header-background picture were set, these corners were no longer usable (because the width and colors did not match) . I wanted to get rid of them, but I did not want to lose them. I started surrounding the part of the code that consisted them with /* */, which makes it inactive. While I was doing this, I accidentally found out that the sidebars do not need to have a background different from the patterned one. I really liked the sidebar transparent and left it this way.

Development 5

I decided to make it more interesting and put a pattern on the background. I typed "patt" in Google Images and started plugging in URL-s in the code here:
body {
background:url("http://free4illustrator.com/wp-content/uploads/1%282%29.jpg");
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

Then I figured I should narrow down the search and choose green color from the search options. I found this pattern and really liked it, because of the 3D effect.

Photo Essay

You can see my Photo Essay here
Enjoy! :)

Development 4

I uploaded an image as header background. First, I changed the width of the outer-wrap to 1000px (I did it because I wanted to add another sidebar). I cropped the photo I wanted to put there and resided it to be 1000px wide. I uploaded it on the dada.cca.edu (using FileZilla btw). Then I copied the URL in the code: #header {
background:url("http://dada.cca.edu/~eivanova/header_pic1.jpg") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:50px 15px 8px;
}
The top and the bottom of the image were cut off and I had to play around with the padding for the text to fix it.

When I uploaded a header-background image through Layout/Page Elements it was not centered.

Development 3

I played around with the page elements and since I could not achieve what I wanted with the Page Elements tab in the Layout menu, I went to the HTML. I changed the values in a few places to see what in the code changes what on the layout. I figured out that float:$startSide; and float:$endSide; define where the elements appear on the page. I changed "startSide" with "endSide" and "endSide" with "startSide" and the result was that the box for the blog posts and the sidebar exchanged their places.

Development 2

After I added some info about me and uploaded a picture, I worked on my first two posts. When I published them, I realize it looks very dry. I clicked on the customize button, then on pick a new template. I looked through all of them and picked the one that suits me best.

Development 1

After I created the blog the first thing I did was to change the colors. I chose pale green for the background and gray, purple, dark green, black and white for the different types of text. I also changes the font.

3D Project

This is a project I did for my 3D Visual Dynamics course last semester. The assignment was to create an asymmetrical three-dimensional composition from three round elements - spheres, cylinders, cones, semi-spheres, semi-cylinders, etc. The material had to be plaster.

The first thing I did was to make different shapes out of plasticine and make some experiments with them. After I figured out how my project was going to look like, I started thinking about ways to make it.

I made a hollow cone shape, using aluminum foil and Bristol paper, a cylinder, using a plastic cup and piece foam-core board. For the sphere I used a ping-pong ball.

I mixed plaster and poured it into the shapes. When the plaster was dry, I cut the plastic, foil and paper away. Using a rasp and some other tools, I removed a piece from the cylinder to make the intersection of the cylinder and the cone. I refined the shapes and created a nice texture on the surfaces. After that I attached the cone and the cylinder with plaster and the cylinder with the sphere with a piece of toothpick and Super glue.

Finally, I glued the whole thing to a wooden board to make it stay up.

Digital Publishing

Nowadays information pours out from everywhere. Radio, television, printed media, internet, or just the people around share information on many subjects. While some news is completely useless and uninteresting for me, other is very important. I do not care if Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are splitting, but I need to know thing like the Bay Bridge being closed, or how the economic crisis is going, because they can effect me. For information like this I go to the most popular sources. Websites of local TV channels and newspapers, for example. Whatever the source is, I do not trust it blindly. I usually check other medias to confirm the data.
Usually, I do not spend a lot of time searching and reading about events. I expect that if something major is happening I will learn about it from my friends. Politics, sports or lives of celebrities do not interest me. However, it is important to know what is happening, in local and global scale, in order to have an adequate reaction to the events and therefore to be accepted from the society.