Casper Cafferata's Blog

      My idea was to create a logo surrounding what I grew up doing and has been my whole life, diving and fishing. So with the help of my classes ideas, I came up with adding a fishing rod and spear in a cross with a mask over the top, to sort of ressemble a skull and cross bone. I had a lot of fun creating these logos and I really think the logo does resemble me as a person seeing as it has been my whole life.

  Estimated time: 2 and a half hours     I enjoyed doing this project a lot more than the coding project, this was a lot more up my speed and a lot easier to figure out how to use and create the shapes I wanted to create. I am a commercial fisherman and spear-fisherman and when I am currently working on becoming a fishing you tuber/influencer, and have some huge collaborations coming up to try and  full-fill my dreams. So I made a picture of my favorite fish to catch on line, a yellowfin tuna.     I have never used Adobe Illustrator before, so it was very fun to try and figure out, and felt a lot more rewarding to make this image. Over all I love how the image turned out, because I used very small font to try and sharpen the shapes up a bit better so you could clearly see what it was, and with the color scheme I used, I think it tied the picture together and it turned out great. The image I took the inspiration from is shown below: The letter I wr...

  Video #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzumUieDPY     I think that layers are going to be the hardest thing to conquer for me and I may mess up a few activities trying to layer what I am creating. How ever once I get it down I will use it to create cool images a lot easier seeing as I will be able to keep things in the background and make the main images pop by keeping them on top of everything else. I found it very interesting how there were many little short cuts to do things inside the app, for example hitting 'A' for the direct selection tool in order to manipulate specific points of shapes. Video #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBosZVeRc8     I think that all of the little shortcuts, such as holding alt and clicking on a shape and dragging it in order to create another copy, are going to be a challenge to remember, how ever once they are remembered it will make life a lot easier. I will use this in order to create pictures a lot quicker a...

    My canvas project was created in Dreamweaver using HTML Canvas in order to create a night sky, with a shooting star going past a moon over a city, as you can see the sky scrapers. My image consists of shapes, curves, gradients, and a dark background. I had no inspiration for this photo, it kind of just came to my mind and seemed simple enough for me to do, however my sketch is shown below. The reason I ran with this idea is because I love looking into the sky at night at all of the stars, and always sleeping on a boat over night on a long fishing trip I loved just laying on my bean bag and staring for hours. I went with a cartoony look because it was honestly a lot more simple to do that way, and this took long enough as it is. This was done over the course of two days and took about a total of 7 hours to  finish in total.     This was my first time ever using Dreamweaver, and while it was kind of fun to learn, it was very stres...

      The internet is network that connects computers all around the world. Through the internet you can share information from and to anywhere with an internet connection. The internet provides a capability to communicate with people all over the world via social media, email, etc. The people who invented the internet are Bob Khan and Vint Cerf. The internet was originally used as a government weapon more then 50 years ago in the  Cold War, and also scientists and researchers used it in order to communicate with one another. Now it is obviously used for things such as social media/communication, quick and easy access to any information you may need, etc.     The World Wide Web is an information system where different web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators. Simply it is the part of the internet that contains the websites and pages. The inventor of the World Wide Web is Tim Berners-Lee, i t was invented i...

 

     Hello, my name is Casper Cafferata, I am 18 years old, I am from the Bahamas, was raised on a little island called Grand Bahama, and I am a Sports Management Major here at the University of Tampa. Growing up on an island you can only really have fun when you are on the water, so I became very good at fishing and spearfishing, but mainly spearfishing. In the Bahamas you have to free dive when spearfishing, so I can hold my breath for around 4 minutes and free dive up to 130 feet. I am sponsored by 2 big spearfishing/free diving companies and am big into the social media aspect of what I do, so that is why I decided to take this class, to be able to use my skills I learn for social media.     On social media I developed a big following of 400,000 followers, which is what I would say is my biggest accomplishment how ever, it does seem as if they are going to ban me from this specific platform due to a lot of people finding my spearfishing content hard to ...