"A kiss from a rose"

Recently I heard a song on the radio one day going to one of my graphic arts classes, I had heard it before but I never knew the lyrics or the meaning or who even sang it. Thank goodness for the app Sound Hound because I found who sang it and downloaded it to my phone. Now I know this is just a silly blog on a song but the more I listen to it the more it means to me in a lot of different ways. I think the lyrics that stick in my head most about this song is well, one, it is a beautiful song so beautiful each time I listen to it I fall into a trance
"baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray"
"Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the gray"
"There is so much a man can tell you so much he can say, you remain my power, my pleasure, my pain"
In my opinion, because everyone could look at this song in different ways, to me this could mean a lot. It could mean life, new life. One tragedy or one bad life event can open the door to a better thing. There is always something bigger and better out there it is just up to us to go and find it.
And now that you have found this better thing, a light hits the gloom on the past.
Also, I can dedicate it to my fiance in a sense, he always brightens my mood no matter what life throws at me he is my light that hits the gloom.
I've always been that kind of person to listen to any kind of music and pick apart its meaning, what the singer or vocal artist is trying to say and see if I can find any personal meaning behind it for myself. In my opinion music is life and without music in life, it would be grey, meaningless, lifeless, and boring. Music is my savior when I don't need it, it listens when you need listened to, it can describe an emotion, it can bring back the good and the bad memories, it can spark an inspiration, it can bring you down , it can spark a motive, it can do anything, for me it's a solace. When I get stressed out I listen to things like this song, Phil Collins, Journey, positive classical music. When I am angry I listen to faster music like Metallica or Avenged Sevenfold. But of all the songs I have on my playlist to listen to on a daily basis, "A kiss from a rose"inspires me the most because in my opinion it is more than a song, it is a beautiful work of art.

Designing CD covers

I took graphic design classes in high school since my 9th grade year. And I got advanced with it once I reached my senior year being able to import from Illustrator to DreamWeaver and all kinds of stuff and improving my drawing skills in the process. But I didn't realize how demanding of a field technical and graphic design was until I got into this semester of college, Fall 2013. I am a year and a half into college   but I was originally an IT major until they cut out the web design and development track to I switched to graphic design to get some training done in Adobe software. 

Just about a week ago we were assigned to design CD covers for a band. We had a list to chose from, I chose Evanescence mainly because I am a rock and metal music lover.... well I confine myself to that kind of music because I like the sound and beat of it. But we had to create it all using Photoshop. Normally for projects like this I would finagle the tools in Illustrator but Photoshop was what we are going over in class. 

I am not real familiar with Photoshop but I couldn't figure out a design for the background of the cover so I went onto Google and Kunaki for some free templates and found a really cool background for the CD cover and added a photo filter to make it fade out of purple to blue because I chose to stick with the color scheme of Evanescence's What You Want album. The combination of the purple, blue, aqua and cyan green fascinates me and I thought that would make a good color scheme for a black background. 

Just turned it in today so here is the final product .... Just for a classroom project though nothing major. I'm pretty satisfied with it :)