I got to present the HealthyHorns Sleep Assessment last week even though it’s still in the works. I’m always nervous when presenting, so I hope I got my points across 😅. It was also really inspiring to see all the other projects too, everyone’s looked amazing!
Here are the slides from my presentation (Bless Canva):
I’ve been putting together title cards for the CLIO Hub, a place where we’ll be compiling all of STA Clio websites and their respective Canvasser activities. Here’s how the cards are looking so far:
Another CS course graphic for Aidan’s animation team. I had to to some research to grasp a good idea of the concepts covered in this class in order to graphically translate them:
Here is what I have so far in regards to the actual graphics:
It’s already my last day of this Spring semester! I’m sad because I love my STA job :(, but I’m also very excited to start my internship. I will (tentatively, but very hopefully) be back, so this is just a see you later!
For seniors who will be graduating after this summer, I might or might not have a chance to say good bye to you, but I know you will do very well in whatever you chose to do! I wish you the best of luck, and congratulations on making it through college. It’s been a pleasure working with you.
Thank you Suloni, Valerie, and Maddy for all the support, and the STA team for always being so kind and cheerful <3. I’ll miss you guys a lot. I’ll keep you updated on my San Francisco stories. Maybe I’ll smoke some meat @Abriella *eyes*.
What’s Thuy’s gbye without a classical piece, so here’s Liszt piano transcription of Schubert’s Schwanengesang (Swan Song) number 5, Abschied (Farewell) played by pianist Valentina Lisitsa. I’ll see you guys in a few months, take care <3.
Here are some updated graphics for COM 302. There are the stingers and then I made a second intro animation video because I felt the first one had too much negative space so I did a different composition to fill it up.
This week, I took over Angie’s project in creating two icons for a Skill Lab and a Debriefing section for COM 302 lecture slides. From what Abriella asked me, I researched some icons in the Noun Project to help me get started on something that could graphically represent these two concepts. Below are some icons I considered:
Once the client approved of the 1st and 4th icons, I created the assets for the lectures in the same style guide that Angie had been following:
During the beta testing of the Video Manager, Poonum and Ruben asked for the creation of new icons for the video manager. Here are the original ones:
The request called for new icons for the following actions:
In following a proportion similar to the one that Apple uses for their iOS icons, I created new icons that aim to be graphically intuitive and simple to understand. Here are how they look on their own and in a mockup screen:
I had a really fun time watching others STAs present the projects they worked on throughout the last semester. Here are the slides that I presented for mine, which covered the design of the ISPRII Logo:
After multiple iterations and feedback from Aidan, it looks like we’re in the final stages of the graphics for Design Principles & Causal Inference and Data Exploration and Visualization. Here are two candidate animations for each course that I’m waiting for Aidan to approve:
It’s been a while since I blog, so I wanted to talk a little bit about classical music here. This semester I learned Beethoven Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 (also known as Beethoven Sonata No. 1) in F Minor, Movement I. This marks my first time learning Beethoven after a long while (my last Beethoven piece was the Sonata No. 5, Movement I). I’ve been playing a lot of pieces of other styles (lots of Romantic, Mozart, Bach), so it’s refreshing to play a Beethoven.
I think it’ll be fun to share a little bit of my learning process, so here’s a snapshot of my annotated sheet music of this Sonata. I try to write down everything Yunzhi said, so it’s sometimes so funny because the annotations are all over the places. For example, at the tempo, I wrote Practice: 70 at some point, then crossed it out the week after when we increased the tempo to 96, then 100, and then 110 for the final tempo.
The challenges for me when learning this piece are:
1. Triplets (the trill-like triplet signature of this piece). Trills are always so difficult for me T.T, and I’ve gotten much better, but still. In the end, I changed the fingerings for the trills and also practice it very loudly with staccato (as suggested by Yunzhi). And also I realized that keeping my wrist low and relax my fingers is the way to go. I think I get too nervous with trills, so that’s why I’m always very tense playing it.
2. Making the piece sounds “dramatic.” Drama and intensity is a common characteristic found in many Beethoven pieces, and certainly in many of his Piano Sonatas (e.g. the famous Appasionata, Tempest, Pathetique, Moonlight, etc.).
3. Practicing with a metronome. I had to practice controlling my pulse for the piece well before increasing the tempo and add some rubato / accelerando.
I’ll be making a recording of me playing some time this weekend / next week (so I might post it later if it’s good enough LOL). But for now, please enjoy this rendition here by pianist Lewis. The timestamp for the first movement is 14:55-19:20. I especially like this interpretation because it is slower than other interpretations, but very lyrical and personal.