Mona Lisa

The famous, well known painting called "Mona Lisa" painted by Leonardo da Vinci. According from what I researched Mona Lisa was a person. A woman named Lisa Gherardini the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. How come that the painting's name become Mona Lisa? The word "Mona" came from the word Madonna which means "my lady", for short it's called "monna" but Leonardo changed the spelling and made it a single "n". Leonardo began painting the Mona Lisa since  1503 or 1504 something like that year, in Florence, Italy. According to many people, there are mysteries from that painting that Leonardo left for the people, but it hasn't been revealed and discovered yet. The Mona Lisa painting has survived for over 500 years and still counting. Since the paint that has been used in that painting was not that good and didn't have the capacity to last longer. Museum who held the Mona Lisa painting, did some cleaning and retouching. Jean-Marie Hooghstoel, was one that who was responsible for restoring the painting, and for the galleries of Musee Napoleon.


One of the mystery of the painting is her eyebrow, because there's only one stroke of brush in her eye and in her eyebrow. Also the left finger was not finished completely by Leonardo da Vinci. The people who has the possession of Mona Lisa's painting who does the retouching, doesn't change his work and just repair some damage. One of the damage that has been made in the Mona Lisa's painting was on 1956 on the elbow of the painting, because of a rock thrown into the painting. Luckily the painting did not get so much damage, and the painting is still the original made by Leonardo da Vinci. It is said that the painting is acquired by Leonardo da Vinci assistant Salai. King Francis I of France bought the painting from Salai for only 4,000 ecus, and has been in the property of the French Republic. Today it is displayed at the Musee du Louvre in Paris, France. It is said that when you are happy and looked at the Mona Lisa painting, the painting is smiling. Once you are sad and depressed the Mona Lisa painting is sad also. After I have read that, it came to my mind that the Mona Lisa painting is becoming to look the same way you are feeling.

The Mona Lisa has been a famous painting since Leonardo da Vinci painted it. According to research Leonardo da Vinci didn't finished the Mona Lisa painting. It is said that he regretted that he didn't finished any single work that he created in his life. The Mona Lisa painting is displayed in a  purpose-built, climate-controlled enclosure behind a bulletproof glass. Since this famous is very famous in the world, many people go to France just to see this master piece. Even I, I want to go to France and see personally the famous painting that is called "Mona Lisa".  It is said that it captured million of hearts of the people, because its special and it has an unusual smile. In my opinion, it became famous because it is a painting of a woman who has no eyebrow and eyelashes. Lets tell the truth a drawing or painting of a person, doesn't look good if it doesn't have any eyebrow and eyelashes, but this painting still became famous. If I have been given a chance to go to France, I will go directly to Musee du Louvre and look at Leonardo da Vinci's painting.

Things to do to enhance creativity

Art, most art are done with creativity and passion. If you want your art to be known to people, you must have your own creativity in making one. Your creativity must be unique, good, and etc. If you're just new in ARTS you must learn to be creative, if your not creative enough, then your project will be just like the others. Make your own idea and style in making art, be creative. But what do you know in creativity? How can you improve your creativity? these questions will pop-up into your mind. You will think that you can't do it, but you will not know unless you tried, your not gonna loose anything if you tried. In enhancing your creativity you must think always. Use your imagination, as if you were still a child, cause most children have wonderful imagination. Also try not to have stress, cause it might ruin your idea.

In my opinion as a multimedia artist, lets say that use your imaginations often. I do these allot in making our projects. Try to draw in a pad everyday, to enhance your drawing skills and your creativity in making characters. Don't work so hard, try to relax and have time for yourself. Don't do always the same routine you always do. Explore there are lot of new things and idea you might get. Write, enhance your creativity in writing or making a story, also learn different words everyday to increase your knowledge in speaking. Don't think negative, always think positive, don't let yourself down. If your work didn't look as expected, try not to undo things, cause things might get worst. If your work is not beautiful as you imagine, thus it looks closely from what you copy, don't change it to be perfect. According from what I have read in the internet, one thing that also helps you to think deeply, is taking a shower, because Einstein get his idea whenever he takes a shower.

blogging

blogging? what do people think of blogging? 
who are the people that are capable of blogging? 
what can you blog about? where can you do blogging?

blogging, for me, its like expressing your emotions and posting whatever is in your thought. Also it is like a journal or diary, but its public, everyone might see it. But it is like more of a journal for me,blogging about what happened this day. It also connects peoples to the government, because of their blogs, government actually see their blog. It is like a voice of the people to the government. People think that blogging is very helpful for most of them, because they get some information from people who are blogging. Everybody can blog even a child can also blog. Blogging is so easy, they just to write and type afterwards post whatever is in their thoughts. All they need is an internet connection for them to post their blogs. There are no choices in blogging you can blog about everything. 

You can blog about everything in any place, as long as you have internet connection. You will also need a computer or laptop or any digital device that can connect in the internet. For people who think that blogging is hard and boring, they are wrong. Blogging is fun, because you can express your thoughts here. I never thought in the first place that blogging is fun. On the first day I blog, I got bored and lazy to finish it. As time pass by, there are many blogs that I've created. I think that I still might blog even if i'm on vacation, because its like a hobby for me to blog about what happened in the whole week. Also its helpful for the people who has no knowledge about some things in the world, because of the blogs that people create.Blogging is so much fun and a boredom killer.

Effects of New Media to our Daily Life

New Media, what comes to our minds when we hear the word "New Media"? maybe came from the word itself? a new kind of Media. Maybe that's what comes to our mind when we hear it. New Media now rely on technologies. New Media for examples are computer, laptops, social networks and many more. while Old Media are televisions, radio, beeper and etc. New Media is definitely more helpful and easy to use. Many more advance technologies are being created. Maybe new media will grow a lot more because of the new technologies. Maybe if no technologies are being created, media will still be old. Televisions with black & white color, radios with a difficult way of finding a reception and many other things if technologies were not invented.



I think that new media is a lot of fun now than the old days. You can easily watch TV and listen to radios without difficulty. It is easy for us to have new media, thanks to the inventors who keep inventing things. But old media is not that bad. Many people will not get socialized and informed, without the help of old media. We have an oblige to new media if it wasn't for them our society might be a lonely one. New media is now very useful to everybody's daily lives. Many people nowadays uses new media, almost every one of them, no matter what the age is everyone has one. Even me! I use new media for a living, well not almost everyday of my life. Thanks to the help of technologies, new media were invented.

Rainy Season o.O

this time of the year is the most boring time. its always raining and raining, storms coming, and strong winds along with it. we call this time of year rainy season. the rain is constant in this season. for kids back then, I know that they are bored and sad if it is raining, because they can't play outside. Now even if it is raining, there is so many things to do.

When raining you can play some PSP,PS3,PS2,PS1,X-box and many indoor games that you have. Some people like in my age just surf the internet when it is raining. Rain can sometime be a disaster because of what you planned for the day, then it will rain and your whole plan will be ruined. So in this time of year, many people should bring their own umbrellas and raincoat, because they might catch a flu.

For me when it is raining, the best thing I do is sleep, because of the cold weather. I know that many people at my age usually surf the internet and play computer games. I used to do that before when I was in high school, but now that I'm in college I need sleep and rest more often. Some people doesn't know that watching rain can also be fun. Especially when you took some pictures of it and capture it. But its no fun to watch a heavy rain, especially storms. Most of the rain have a strong blow of wind along with it. Now that I'm in college, when it is raining, I will just enhance my editing skills. I will take some pictures of the rain and its drop and edit it, and make it a 3D art rain drop. 

Most people say that they Love Rain, but they use umbrella for them not to be wet.

internet highways

what is internet? who invented the internet? whats the first purpose of having it? is it called internet before? is it really necessary to use the internet everyday? who does use the internet often, nowadays? Internet is a reliable source of research and for connection and also entertainment for some people. Some people nowadays use internet for gaming purposes and for social networking. Social networking sites in the internet such as FACEBOOK,TWITTER,MULTIPLY and many social networking sites. Internet is used in online games because the games nowadays requires internet for playing. The first purpose of having the internet was for military purposes. The internet back then was called 
"ARPANET". ARPANET or Internet was used by military back then, for their communication to their other bases. 
The military put their battle strategies and information in the 
ARPANET and send it to their home base or their ally base 
to know their strategies.

 Using the internet everyday is really not necessary, because it is just for use such as research, communication and updates. A little look at the networks and sites are fine, you don't have to be in the online world in 24 hours. The use of internet nowadays has been easy, much younger people get into the online world. At my age for me Internet is a usable source of assignments and for research works. It can also be used as an business purposes and for communicating to other persons. Internet is a usable network that you can rely on. For the younger people who log in too much on the online world, should reduce their being online in the online world. Parents should prevent their children in being online too much. 

Multi Media Arts Family

My name is John Claro V. Labitoria and I'm an MMA (MULTI MEDIA ARTS) student of LPL (Lyceum of the Philippines-Laguna). I chose MMA, because I have this hobby of editing pictures/videos/sounds. I was right to pick this course, because I am enjoying my 5 weeks of learning the course. Even if they are still teaching us some basic skills, I am still being patient, because I want to enhance my editing skills sooner as possible. Yesterday, July 19,2012 1pm we went to the room beside the faculty. The gathering at that time was about our society, the MMA family. We elected our set of officers for our society. They say that, that society is strictly for MMA students only and we will do our own activity even if it is part of the CAS department. I was amazed and inspired when I heard the officers personal background. I heard that our elected president Andrew Abrigo worked with ABS-CBN, and that ispired me a lot.



They say that we shouldn't be bored of  learning the basics, because this is a step-by-step procedure. That phrase made me think and agreed to what they said. No one can become a professional or a well known person if they did not went through the basics, lets say for example Mark Zuckerberg, he wont be able to create the facebook if he didn't learned how to make a program. 
It made me patient about learning the future. Now I research on my own and learning about what we will study about in the future, so I have background on what are we doing and it would be easy for me also. I am ready for the obstacles I might encounter of being a professional Multi Media Artist. I enjoy my MMA family, even though we have the most few students in this course, still its fun being and MMA student. MMA wouldn't be complete and happy if Ms. Anna Kagaoan is not our adviser. I wish I will know better my fellow classmates and my fellow MMA students.