Leona's Zine

I took the object I started with, glasses, and combined them with my interset of space and came up with a zine that gives some insight to the new Mars Rover that will be launched in September of this year. It is amazing the cameras that they will have attached to the new rover. Color images and video are all new.

A diverter converts the analog signals to digital elivating radiation and cosmic rays from interfering

I found this article to be very interesting with changing the analog signal to a digital signal before much interference occurs. This is what the tv watching world is experiencing with the BIG switch. Not that I truly understand, but visually I see the results. Cameras in space must be using some of the same technology.

A second attempt

The working collage, I am just feeling my way around illustrator. I just discovered how to crop after spending too much time trying to figure it out. R&D is never billable.

Background image for the collage

This is a illustration trace of Jim's Sand















This is Photo that was taken By Jim Elbrecht. Jim took a picture of dunes that he manipulated. I though it would be a great background to fit in with mars research. I had to take the very large formatted photo and reduce it twice in order to get Illustrator to trace it.

Mars Rovers: The Next Generation

I have been very interested in the rovers that they have sent to Mars. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology is scheduled to launch in September of 09 a new Mars Science laboratory called Curiosity. It will be using different technology then the previous two. It will be using nuclear power instead of solar power to power it.

This mission is focused on analyzing air, rock and soil samples on Mars. Some of the instruments that will be used are an, X-ray diffraction instrument, ultraviolet light, Mars Hand lens Imager (viewing details smaller then a strand of hair), higher zoom lens, Mast cam (for storing HD video in stereo). The most impressive piece of equipment is coming from a working collaboration with France . It is The ChemCam, a laser that will be directed at soil and rock samples. It will produce a vapor that the rest of the instruments will get to analyze in their own way.

I am not as interested in whether there is life on Mars as the scientific study of the rocks and soil that it will yield. For more on MSL here is the link to the article: Mars Rovers: The Next Generation. It should be interesting.

Drawing, scanning and illustrating the glasses

After drawing my glasses I scanned them....













...then I drew them in illustrator....















.....and started filling in the color.









This is an illustration trace of the glasses

illustration logos

After doing the cut out of the glasses. It gave me a better perspective of creating a logo and realizing that my first attempt at this assignment was not right. This is the 2nd attempt. I sort of stylized the glasses using shapes and created the logo words Glass2 to go with each of the designs.

this is the papercut out of my glasses.

I brought three generations of one family together to look through each others eyes, through the same glasses and view a scene in the glass lenses that each holds a different opionion about. The generation in the middle has more to say then the other two.

This image was perfect for the image in the glasses.

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I choose an open mouth because sometimes we have too much to say about things we don't really understand.

Our three reluctant generations

A more sensitive approach to our subject

Looking out through Azalia colored glasses. The words do not convey as nicely as the image of aesthetic glasses and the hard reality of city life.















I love the glasses in this environment because the colors of the bathroom blend in nicely with the glasses. I wish my bathroom could stay as nice as the picture conveys, simple & organized.

A close up of my rightextender with an out of focus frame. Half hidden beneath the bathroom door creating a reflection and shadow on the floor tiles.









Three views of the same frame. Upside down, rightside up, and reversed.













Don't cry for me in a cool hot fuschia Azalia













Going up! Out of focused closeup and an infocus ground cover give the illusion of some kind of depth




















My extender is trying to escape a very small slot.














Just the facts ma'am, do you look good or what?

A description of my subject

They are a reading helper designed to compensate for defective vision. They consist of two plastic lenses set in a very colorful attractive frame. The frame includes a molded nose piece that sits between the two lenses and when placed on a face will rest on the bridge of the nose. The two side pieces are just as colorful, and match the frame, extend over and around the ears.

8:00 am_Good Morning from the bathroom sink.















9:00 am_ Take time out to smell the flowers.















10:00am _Someone has to do the yard work.











11:00 am_Time for some brunch, I am starving!
















12:00 Noon_ Off in the car to work for a few hours.















3:00 pm_ Getting ready to leave work at the computer.















4:00 pm_Trading places for an hour






















5:00pm_Hanging out with friends









6:00 pm_Doing laundry.















10:00 pm_The bed is sure looking good

Why Am I taking this class?

I am enrolled in the Production and Web certificate. My thinking is that this will give me an edge on the creative suite applications that I know already and get me ready for the other classes. I expect to get information that I don't already have and the first class in a great indication of how little I know.