Not Showing Initiative...

I knew that all the work I did would be viewed as nothing. I have done nothing in the eyes of my teachers, but I feel as if I have done everything. I had my entire graduation project turned upside down on me. I was supposed to test out color and emotion for myself, not visit a bunch of place. HOW IS THAT AN ACTION PLAN?

It's not very comforting, hearing from your teacher, who is supposed to help and support you, that you are going to fail. I wouldn't have failed if I had this class when I was supposed to, but I guess it's my fault that I didn't complain then.


Well, it's been fun I suppose... Not really... See you next year...

Well, That's Comforting...

Color Matters.... One of the best sources for my project that I have used a lot... Is apparently an attack site? At least, it is according to Mozilla. Regular internet explorer just tells me

"We're sorry. The Color Matters website is not available at this time.

Please check back June 5."

What do I do about this? I was just about to put this site in my webliography section of my website?

Why...

I've looked at so many different things when it comes to my graduation project. I've put so much work into researching and writing that paper...

I've looked at how colors affect emotions, how people use colors to convey emotions or describe them, I've looked at daycares and marketing... I've looked at how changing the colors of things affect us or our opinion of the object being changed...

Did I do all of this for nothing?

My project seems to have become how color affects us in general... Then what do I do?

I feel so lost. I've been trying to talk to teachers via e-mail so that I don't have to track them down and interrupt them, but they aren't responding. I need more than just a simple 5 minute conversation... I need 10-20 minutes of talking about things before I fall apart....

I'm going to fail....

Lost and Confused.

I'm doomed. Everything needs to be done by Friday (tomorrow). I don't even know what direction my action plan is speeding to anymore. I don't know where anything is going...

I've been pretty much told that everything I'm doing is wrong, so I don't know what to do with my paper or action plan.

I'm not sure if I'm going to make it...

Daycare

Alright, so this post will be a lot like my post about advertising, except it will obviously be about daycare centers. Mrs. Savido suggested I take a look into daycare centers and what not around here, so I decided to do a tiny bit of web searching too.

This was one of the best pictures I can find. Not only is it brightly colored, but it may help teach kids patterns of colors. Also, the use of green suggests that these kids might be a bit calmer than usual (they sure look it in this picture too!). The yellow tables in the background suggest that they have more... wild? play areas.

Now for some of the worst daycare pictures I have found. This one wasn't too, too bad... But it is pretty bad if you ask me... It's peachy color makes me sick, and it doesn't seem to match at all. The white wall is pretty random, but they might have been going for a calmer area? I'm liking the blues and yellows, that seems calm yet excitable to me. It makes a nice balance. I'm still stuck on the horribleness of that peach color though....


Now, here is the absolute worse daycare I have ever seen. It's like they weren't even trying. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't think that this daycare in any way inspires creativity and fun learning. It looks like an office building. It's plain, it's boring, and it's.... Too wide open too.


I would suggest brighter tables, a different carpet (not the blue rug though, I love the blue rug). I mean, those random tents and leaf things are really cool, I think the place needs more of that. Kids need to be excited about learning and interacting with other kids if you ask me....

That's all on that for now I guess....

Bouncing Back to Something Again....

Color Therapy. Something that I have looked at a lot during my study of colors. I've never been sure if it was significant (or true enough) to actually look into. I suppose it is relevant though (at least a bit) and I need more information to shove into my paper.

I also don't know if I'm supposed to change the entire focus of my paper or what.... If I am, I don't think I am. I think it properly reflects the research I have done when it comes to colors. Maybe I just need more about the emotion aspect of it? I'm not sure. Maybe it should just be how color affects us in general?

Anyways, I should get back to my original point of this post.

Color Therapy. Load of crap, or worth saying SOMETHING about?

In ancient Egyptian mythology, healing with color was discovered by a god by the name of Troth (Which is the equivalent to Hermes). Color healing was a thing of magick ... Anyways, they used certain colored stones (and powders, creams, and whatever else can be colored I guess) and also colored certain healing/treatment places certain colors.

This information (that I kinda sorta summarized) can be found here : http://www.spiritual.com.au/articles/healing/color-therapy-1hgraham.htm

I don't feel like summarizing the whole thing just for myself (I know no one really reads this, so there would be no point in me asking my imaginary readers if the information is really relevant...)

Interesting Advertising

I decided to test out a few advertising strategies.

Blue (light blue) is supposed to be a really good color for advertising milk.
What about yellow though?
Now, I didn't really look into how yellow may affect the situation, but yellow can be seen as a sickly color. In this case, I thought of puss.

A similar switch that I had done involved frozen foods



Now, what is the # 1 color you want to avoid if you are advertising for meat?

Of course! Using green to advertise meat would suggest mold.
My last experiment with advertising stems back to my old small business class. Here is a poster I designed to advertise my business

And here is the same poster in a few other colors...



The last poster was a more recent edit. I used black because I have read that men prefer darker colors. (Also, the last pizza poster remings me of the Steelers, which might also attract business)

So, which advertisements here do you think would sell better? (Any of the ads presented here in this post today)

P.S.-- Here is the link that inspired this post
http://belikeliquid.com/blog/marketing-blog/the-effects-of-color-in-marketing/

Turned all the way around again

Well, I have to re-write my entire paper. I am entirely turned around yet again. I really should have had grad project last trimester. I can't think syraight right now, my eyes are burning, I can't breathe, I basically feel like crap.... And I'm supposed to comprehend all of the things I need to do for my paper.

Paper Progress

I turned my paper in for teacher edits. I think I gave it to the teacher that would edit it the harshest, so I'm hoping I don't go too crazy with trying to fix all of the edits and make it perfect. I got an e-mail back from the children's museum, I'm going to e-mail her back in a minute here. Right now I'm just feeling really sick.

Also, I have to look into the professor guy....

Alright Then,

Finally, self revisions of my paper are complete. Now I just need to start sorting through the other pile of things I need to do.

A special thanks to Ms. Anderson, for sending me a plethora of links relating to my grad project.

That also leads me to a concern... There are so many things I can do with this project, and so many things that can affect anything I choose to do with this project. I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew, I can't afford to this last trimester.