Jennifer Sakraida: I am currently a student of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, but I am originally from New Jersey. The year I left for college, my parents moved out to Utah. Since of this I usually spend my time off from school at the Las Vegas airport and Utah state. I hate talking about myself and for the most part I don't take much seriously. I think almost everything has a aspect to it that could be artistic, so I usually have the erge to post almost anything onto this site.
Music: like most people, I listen to variety of types of music. I listen to my music usually on random to try and get the most variety everyday. For the most part though, I listen to Japanese music, but I still listen to music from other countries. I listen to a lot of instrumentals, mostly from artists like Shigeru Umebayashi, Yann Tiersen, Pablo Casals, and Michel Legrand. But I also enjoy popular music. My tastes can range from Fionna Apple to Sonata Arctica to the Boredoms. For more information about my music taste check out last fm for a log of all my favorite singers and songs.
Movies: I like Silent Films. I like the "Classics." I like goofy comedies. I like horrors. I like foreign films. I think what I like the most are music videos. I thouroughly enjoy when music has visuals to go with it. Granted I don't like videos like Britney Spears, but I like when more creativity is added to them. For example YUKI's Sentimental Journey and Kylie Minogue's Come Into My World. If anything my goal in film is just to make something visually nice without computers. I would probably have to say my favorite directors are Wong Kar-Wai, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Nagi Noda.
Sonic Bite: The site name came from my AOL screenname, one sonic bite. At the time I was really into the band Sonic Youth. The name somehow came about from 100% by the band. I am not really sure how. I originally created the site to dump random art works on along with my blog. I stole my screenname for the simple fact that I hate making up names for things. As time went on, I tried to revamp the site to make it look more professional but got lazy during the process. A year later, I revamped the site fully.
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Layouts: When I first started layout making, it was all about WHO was featured in the layout and what IMAGE I used. But now I am starting to more more and more away from that and try to capture feelings. I still rarely use my own images just because I am lazy. Yeah, lazy. But I am getting better with keeping stuff and trying to get ideas on how to use it again. The first layout was made for a blog purpose. It featured images from the Love Bug by BoA & m-flo and featured popup jutebox and menu. Coding all the pages was draining so I asked Cassie to make a layout for my vault. The first layout I guess is alright, but relied mainly on the images from the PV, not much what I did. I had a similar layout based on the images from Paradise Kiss. The layout was in all black and white, along with the pop content. The jutebox featured images that changed with the song you were listening to. This layout I think is pretty nice with just the placement of the pictures. Of coarse my 3rd layout makes babies cry, along with the pop content. But the jutebox has a nice campy feel to it, which I like. ^^ Then I made another vault layout featuring Emile Hirsh from Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys! Whoot! I altered the colors getting a nice glowing feel but the arrangement SUCKS! I then got a livejournal and stopped blogging. So I tried to convert the page into a collective and used a frames styled layout. This is the first time I used a layout not really featuring a person. I never got the site revamped fully. So over the summer I attempted to make a new layout featuring images from 2046. But I got bored halfway through and started to play around with the color making two different themes: two and three.
