My Website

http://users.tricity.wsu.edu/~jesse.nguyen/index.html

So as I was doing research in the 80's I found out Pac-Man was released in 1980 in Japan and also in the U.S. Pac-Man was one of the first video games I have ever played as a kid. I used to love going to Chuck-e-cheese and sitting down at one of their Pac-Man arcade tables and trying to beat as many levels as I can. I was born in 1989 so Pac-Man has been around over a decade before I even got the chance to play it. To this day I will always be terrified of the colorful ghosts.

As I was making my website, I decided I wanted my header to look like the traditional maze they used in the Pac-Man game. It took my forever to design the header since I wanted it to be perfect. Since I already decided that I wanted to sell Pac-Man themed shoes, I wanted the shoes to replace the traditional Pac-Man who is trying to escape the non-escape-able  maze. I then added the tradational ghosts who are always haunting both Pac-Man and me.

Next, I made the menu bar. I wanted to keep it simple and have a home, about, and the product itself. I used a Pac-Man font I found on dafonts.com and liked it since it fitted the theme and went for it. Next I made the footer. I decided to just have more fun buttons like a contact page and a random link that took to Pac-Man eating dots. It is what he is known for.

For the body, I just wanted to have some fun and created text for each page that sounded fun and silly but also still talks about my made-up company.

I used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver to create everything. Overall fun project.

Chapter 8

In Chapter 8 of Launching the Imagination by Mary Stewart, she talks about constructing meaning. A term that involves this is iconography. Iconography is the study of symbolic visual systems. Deborah Haylor-McDowell, The Serpent Didn't Lie, represents this idea beautifully as it shows off many different iconic history theories/stories. This is basically how history was recorded back in the day and still being recorded today (with pictures and technology). 

My trip to Starbucks today.

Today, I had a wonderful lunch with my girlfriend and then decided to went to Starbucks (our overlords) to grab a nice warm green tea. I don't know when they started this but they usually double cup my warm drinks now (maybe to prevent burning one's hand but I thought that was that cardboard cup hugger thingy was for?) and when I got this double cupped drink, I was at first content but then I started driving. They forgot to put a "stopper" in my drink. No matter how flat the streets can be, the liquid in the cup will always jump out from the lid and spill out, which in my case and the point of this blog post that exactly happened with my green tea. That made me a sad panda. I wished Starbucks just gave us stoppers without asking for them or McDonald's giving ketchup to anyone who orders fries.