Web Hosting Services Shopping

I have finally started looking for my Web hosting service company. I have never bought one for myself, but I really should have one as web designer. I have mentioned few times in my blog postings that I'm taking portfolio class right now. I have to create, code, and publish my own website with my own domain name onto my own server. It is one of many requirement to pass this class. I have started creating my site, and will be up withing next 5 weeks or so. I'll post the project and website here soon.

I don't know much about Web hosting companies, but I am thinking about getting one from one of these companies:

• HostMonster
• BlueHost
• DreamHost
• FatCow
  

These are some of the sites where you can find ranking of good and cheap Web hosts:
www.findmyhosting.com
www.webhostingmasters.com

If you have some suggestions and recommendations, please let me know!

Photography for My Microsite Project ~part2~

I have posted three images of my addiction series. I used Barbie dolls to show how addictions could become large issue, and affect on human life. Huge addictions are taking over these small dolls as human who are powerless.

AND my new project using these images (I probably not using the last image of this page) to create microsite/minisite. I am working on coding the site right now, and will be posting the project soon.

From Wikipedia:
"A microsite, also known as a minisite or weblet, is an Internet web design term referring to an individual web page or cluster of pages which are meant to function as an auxiliary supplement to a primary website. The microsite's main landing page most likely has its own domain name or subdomain."

Related blog post:
Photography for My Microsite Project ~part1~
Photography for My Microsite Project ~part2~
Microsite Project for Addiction ~part1~

Photography for My Microsite Project ~part1~

Today I am posting the photos I have taken. Theme is "Addictions". These three images are part of the series and I was trying to post them last night, but there was some technical issue with the blogspot, so I couldn't finish the post. I have 4 more images for this series, and I will post them tonight with better explanations for this project and coming project using them.

Alcohol

Plastic Surgery

Sex

Related blog post:
Photography for My Microsite Project ~part1~
Photography for My Microsite Project ~part2~

Microsite Project for Addiction ~part1~

Photography: Food is art too 1 & 2

Something had been wrong with blogspot. I lost two posting from past a couple days when I woke up today! I don't know if I remember everything I wrote for this post, but I will try to write same:)

I think photography is one of my favorite type of art. I really enjoy looking at them and I would love to be better at taking them. I also believe food is art, and we enjoy looking at good food and eating them as well, of course.
I have a image gallery project with theme, and I decided to take photos of food I create. I am not professional on either one of them, but this combination would make my project fun. I have to start taking some photos to get better at it too:)



Related posts:
1. Photography: Food is art too 1 & 2
2. Photography: Food is art too 3 & 4
.....more to come

Magazine Layout: Jojoba Oil

This is the magazine layout I have done as my project few month ago. All the images are from stock photos, and information about jojoba oil is from internet. I have designed all the logos, titles and all other layout of this two page spread.



This was done in Adobe InDesign that is very good software to use when you are working on something like magazine layout and other typographic related work.

I wanted to post this layout as work I have done, but I also wanted to share the jojoba oil because I use this for my skins everyday and I would highly recommend to others:)

Photography: Absolut Vodka Advertise

Some of you are familiar with Absolut Vodka advertise campaigns (if not, you could visit their website and check it out).
This was done in one of my classes I have taken 2-3 years ago. Everyone had to come up with one concept something to do with the year 2009 when I took the class.
I decided to do "Absolut Analog" because all the analog would be gone in that year.

These are the images I used to create this in Adobe Photoshop:


Well, real reason why I posted this old project was that I decided to use one the image I used here in my new project:) I'll post the new project near future!

Gallery Opening Visit: CORE

This past Thursday (it was First Thursday Art Walk Day in Downtown Seattle).
I went to visit one of the Galleries in Pioneer Square call CORE for show opening of Scott Mansfield. He is mainly teaching Graphic Design Program student at the Art Institute of Seattle, and I enjoyed the show and I was very much inspired by his sculptures!

You can see his sculpture works from this page.









The show will go on until May 28.

http://coregallery.org/
Location:
CORE
117 Prefontaine Place South
Seattle WA 98104
Business Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 12:00 – 6:00 P.M.



I hadn't gone to any gallery visit for a while specially on art walk day of First Thursday. I walked around a little bit to see some stuff on my way to the bus stop, but unfortunately weather wasn't so good. I may want to walk around the area another first Thursday in summer. I think there will be more people and more art works to see out there when weather is much nicer.