Daily Inspirations.

Everyday I try to read or watch clips of great speakers or anyone that interests me. Today I want to share with you a video from Chris Abani. Such a bold man, having poetry as his interests, that added to his sentence constructions blended well with emotions and humor , now am inspired by this fellow. What a great story teller!

Chris Abani muses on Humanity.

Abbreviated Messages depicted in Different Contexts!

Personal Context

This can be based on memories, the concern of my grammar and other aspect can be my curiosity why this is so common to today's youths. The endless encounter of misspellings during writing and this is a concern more so that I need to be a professional. It is quick way of communicating and the knowledge about is fascinating.

Social Context

It can apply to communication in general as we know that the society is based on communication for them to develop. The grammar and lingo usage and the society e.g online chats or hang out places like facebook, Myspace and so on.

Political Context

This can be a provocative topic being elders against youths or informal way of communications vs formal way. The is can be termed as diversity and labeled class, upper vs lower class of the society .

Historical Context

This is a concern to literature and language structure of the society.It can be a direction to what the future is to become. The transition of usage of typography since the ancient age.

Cultural Context

It is a new sign of a new culture approaching, just like pop culture did in the olden daisy. A new way of communication setting new norms, language and class.

Institutional Context

This can be an alteration of education; informal vs formal writing. Classified as breaking of rules of ways of writings.

Text/Abbreviated Messages!!

Communication is the most important aspect of life in the society, nationally and globally. Many ways of communications are precedent, we used to use smoke to call meetings, drums, or verbatim( word to word) before technology came in.

Due to the advancement of technology, wireless ways of communicating is evident, the use of Bluetooth, wirefii, 3G,4G, internet even GPS came in handy . Mobile phones also included, we now began a way of writing that is shorthand. The point is, it communication.

Abbreviated Messages (The Future Language).

This topic to come about, I had challenges with my way of writing formal reports or documents. I realized that I had problems with spellings and grammar but as for online chats, I discovered that as I was writing in short hands, It was little bit fast.

Abbreviated messages are the latest way of COMMUNICATION mostly done by young adults, this is evident through online portals like facebook, yahoo, hotmail,skype messengers and so on. I researched that in schools,teens included sort of inherited this.

By the look of things, shorthand writing has to been there, in the fields of programming, the main reason is that it is speedy. Though back in the days, during the times of Guru literature like William Shakespeare, the present way of communicating that is English evolved from their English Literature. Formal writing and poetry goes together though in poems there is involvement of metaphors it evident that grammar is the main base to communication. If we understand each others grammar no matter what language one speaks.

Nowadays these are phrases used when we communicate; OMG (oh my god), l8 for late, the millenia speak as some experts call it. The netSpeak is now spreading at a rapid rate not only chat messages with smileys are involved, online dictionaries for this new language "The Future language" are now present. Shops, Banks and many corporate businesses have inherited the trend. e.g maybank2u.

Pros

1. It is fast

2. Stimulates creativity.

3.Popular, the new trend

4.Future language

Cons

1.Spelling errors

2.Alteration of grammar

3.Distortion of language literature

4.multiple interpretation

5.

I will keep on updating the cons and pros of the use of short handwriting. Now with the information I collected my main focus is not take sides on either the cons or pros but to make the society the young adults in particular, to be aware of the involvement in this new form of communication.

Research and Idea Development.

One of the reasons i had to choose the second proposal, are that it is challenging and in sync with reality now. My previous title was Text abbreviation the future language. Now I had to change it to Abbreviated messages the future language because I noticed that smiley's or "emoticons " are still part of abbreviates messages. So in the scope of text, specifying text as only as abbreviated language depicted limitation of scope of the topic.

1.what is typography?

On the web typography is define as the craft of type either for printing or for web. In my opinion I think typography or texts gives the backbone to information or to communications. Type is a big topic that has many subtopics and those topics really show how type gives weight to information. Examples of where type can be found. On the web, Magazines, newspapers softwares, graphics such as posters, illustrations, business cards and so on. I also discovered that typo comes in different forms or fonts.

examples of type:

Type used as portrait.

Vomit Type!!

Gun Type!!

All in all, we can see how type is powerful. The vast creativity and all shows really how when we break away from the tradition use of type like book publication or on newspapers.

Research 2

In my previous gamma 3 project, Our group did a spray illusion that uses Bluetooth and infrared to manipulate the graphics. I came across a project that uses candles as infrared emitters. The most current trend of input in computers nowadays is touch -screen, as I am doing my research I'm looking for some sort of alien way of inputting data in the computer or rather a way to manipulate and interact with the graphics not the usual traditional way of mouse and key board.

Programming.

When I was doing my research, I found a couple of books to be useful, Action script 3.0 bible and Learning Processing. For actionscript 3.0 I see a lot of control in terms of programming, actionscript 3.0 looks structured and a lot can be done in it as long as practice is adhered to.

Processing.

This can be good for manipulating text and graphics through the use of arduino. It's a challenge when now arTists incorporate graphics with graphics.

Research and Trial 1

In my project, what I want to be the pillars are dynamic interactivity, rich graphics, A robust application. I want it to run smoothly. Though I am little bit blurry with the final execution, I'm pretty sure that it will include type( typography) and Symbols (smiley's). Motion graphics can be considered.

Glenn Marshall is one my favorite inspiration

with his slick smooth motion graphic designers using programming art tools(Processing).

Computer-generated Visualisation

The idea is this, if i could incorporate a 5% of typography(layouts and styling). 5% of motion graphics, 80% of interactivity and 50% of information my goals would be reached. Type animation with interactivity and m below is my daily inspirations;

Daily Inspirations:

Almost everyday i make sure I watch talks from different sectors be it engineering, Information Technology, Design and so on to grasp and understand other people's philosophy. Ideas that are worth spreading, like their slogan. I learnt what really is design and creativity and how we can improve the society with design. Speakers like J.J Abrams, Dan Phillips and so on are a few that inspires me.

Second Proposal!

It looks like this interested my lecturers. So I have to stick with this and see where it goes, I'm optimistic that all will go well as I do more research.