Sirada Laomanutsak

California College of the Arts

Friday, April 30, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Where do you see yourself 10 years from today and 10 years before?

What did you find out through your interviews?

What would you do more to further pursue your question? What would you do different?

What was your contribution to the group dynamic? How did you work together?


I found an interesting of people several ages, which have several answers. For the young age people, they did not have clear goal or answers about their life or their future (marriage, job, child, money). However, for the old age people, they thought more carefully about the last of their life, money and family. Especially they mention about their children.

I might ask them more frequency age. Sometimes the kids might have an interesting idea about their future more than adults. Most of the kids image their future wilder and nicer. Therefore, I will change my question a little bit for the kids.

I help my group suggested the project and find the music and sound track. In my opinion, my team work together very well. We help each other organized the final cut. We listen to everybody comment and we will vote or give our opinion whether we agree or not.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Digital Nation

After watching clips from FRONTLINE: digital_nation, respond to the positives and negatives of time-based media based on your personal experience. 
- How do you create a focused atmosphere? 
- How do you combat “distractions” so that you are capable of managing your attention?

I feel like the kids will not pay attention to the professor 100 percent because they will concentrate with their entertainment more. According to the speech of the professor from Columbia University. He said that his students should get 100 percent for the average on their exam, but they get only 75 percent because they are not concentrate enough in the class. Some of them are listening music, play game, using internet,etc. Those media activity interrupt student's education a lot. Even though some of the students can do a lot of activity at the one time, in my opinion, I don't think the result will not be good as it supposes to be. 

The way that I create focused atmosphere is every time or whenever I want to study, I have to sit on the chair. I cannot lay down and study on my bed, and also I cannot listen to musics too. I just feel like music will take my attention from the books. 
 Moreover, I also has to limit myself to play face book or chat online, otherwise, I will play non stop and I don't think it is a good idea to spend most of my time on face book or chat on line. However, I still want to know what's going on around the world or about my friends, so I will not prohibit myself to stop everything. I just have to limit myself.


Portfolio




Friday, February 5, 2010

Food


I really want to eat Thai food in Thailand. It is very different from Thai food in America. Some of my friends told me to cook by myself, unfortunately I don't know how to cook, it is very sad.






Once I saw my roommate cooked Korean food, it looked so delicious. Honestly, I really wanted to steal her food. Hopefully, she did not see this blog ^_^


By the way the pictures are not Thai food, it is Japanese food. It looks so cute. LOVE IT

Cool Building

I really like to see those cool building everywhere. Sometimes I just sat and look at the building for 30 minutes and I was wandering how those building can carry my weight without collapse. Right now I still want to figure out by myself.





How can human build such an amazing building????
It is incredible. ^^

Enjoy today


Today I feel more comfortable with Blogspot. I enjoy decorated my blog now. Last time when I did this, I did not feel fun at all. It is kind of torture me, but now I don't want to stop it. I add some commercial to my blog, in case I want to see some news update. Moreover I also add some of my friends too.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Social Networking

What are the differences between a physical and digital social networks?

Does the two interact with each other?

Does it compliment? Does it distract?

How do you maintain a healthy social profile? (both real and virtual)

What are the overall positives/negatives of social networking services?



Healthy social is the very important process because it means how save my information will be. First of all, I choose to scan all of my information after finished writing one more time before add it into any site from internet. It is also including the comment to other people block too.

Physical and digital social network is very different from each other, even though both are the way to communicate other people. However, both of them also have problem. Physical social network might know more true detail than digital network because at least we can see the expression of other people easier, but we don’t even know whom we are talking for the digital network. That’s person might lie by post different picture which is not the right person. Sometimes it is complimented me, if I find an interesting information. On the other hand, it also bother me too because random people always post stupid or useless information.

The positive of social networking service is exploring the knowledge and news easily everywhere. No matter how far I will be, I still can connect with everybody around the world. However, it also has a problem too, there is more chance to meet dangerous people.

Photo Essay.



Life is liked movie which has many scenes. Every scene or every moment of our life are moving very fast. Sometimes I might forget the very tiny scene of my life. Going to the restroom also is one of the most important scene in my lifestyle. I am pretty sure that everybody must have this scene in their life. No matter how rich or poor you are. Everybody must go to the restroom.

If you thing you are ready to see the tiny part of your life. Please click the link below this. ^__^


Friday, January 29, 2010

Naked House

Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information content of the concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information, which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a leather soccer ball to a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behavior.


For this project, I want to focus on the abstraction of Naked House. My concept abstraction is about the movement. The reason that I choose the movement concept is because there are five family members of this house; father, mother, 2 kids, and grandmother who live together and often like to rearrange their home. However, they have a low budget to build this house. They need to save money as much as they can.

Processing
1. Researching in the library about the Naked House.
2. Drawing plan and section on vellum paper 18”x 24”. Scale: 1/4 = 1’- 0”


3. Three-concept abstraction drawings on tracing paper. Scale: 1/8 = 1’- 0"




4. One sketch concept models. Scale: 1/4 = 1’- 0”


5.Revising models and drawings.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Digital Publishing

Where do you find the information that you can trust?

Where do you get your local news?

Why do you trust that source?

Is it important to you to know what's going on? Why?

National Library

All the information that I always get and trust the most is the National Library. National Library is the place that sometimes can represent the reputation of the country. Thus, the government always scans and searches the information of the books to make sure that nothing is wrong with its content. Otherwise, if an error or false fact is found in within the information, people will see this source as unreliable. Moreover, I also have specific kinds of books that I trust, Physics textbook. I feel like this source has such strong proves and enough evidences, especially all the experiments for the Physics; all the scientist had argued about those problems long time ago, until now they agree to make the theories and the laws for the Physics. Everything about Physics has the source and the result. For example, if I want to build a building, I must calculate all the laws about the structure of the building that’s the number are exactly right, otherwise the building might fall to the ground. This is the result why I think Physics textbooks can be trusted.


All the information has been undated all the time, it is very important for me to update Physics’ news. I don’t want to be a person who does not know anything about the world. So I try to go to the National Library and read as many books as I can.

Digital Publishing

What do you think achieves clarity of information?

I think I getting used to design by Dreamweaver and I enjoy to create the blog. Instead of setting up an online blog, I learn how to make a website by myself.

Don't understand???


It is my first time to write a blog. I did not know how to set up a blog from internet. After I tries to search from online about the information of the processing how to make a blog. It makes me feel more comfortable.

First Day of Dreamweaver

I learn how to make website by using Dreamweaver. There are several technique that I find out before, but I have never tries. It is very interesting. However, there are several ways to use this program which I have never heard before.