Illustrator Update

I made two changes to my ad using the pen and white selection tools. I made the "rainbow gradient shadow" narrower towards the end instead of a regular angled rectangle and I also tried to fix the endpoints of the right palm tree to made it look less squared off.

Wikipedia Update

I just checked the status of my revised/expanded Wikipedia article for the flag of the city of Madrid (Spain) and everything is as I changed it, still up and running! Apparently Wikipedia considers me a reputable source and has not taken down my added information. This is just another example of how easy it is to doctor media and how consumers of media should cross reference sources before they take anything for face value.

here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_City_of_Madrid

Illustrator: Caress Ad

This is the ad I created in Illustrator using tools such as: the pen tool, gradient, live trace, expand, text box, place, rectangle tool, both selection tools, the blob brush, live paint bucket, texture effect, and the line segment tool.

Wikipedia Article

The article I chose to expand on Wikipedia was an article about the city of Madrid's flag. I am currently taking a Civilization of Spain course for my Spanish major and thought that it would be appropriate. Although I could not find a lot of extra information on the symbolism of the flag I did add a paragraph to the article and corrected the spelling of the word "centered" on the initial entry.

Here's the part that I added: "The significance of the bear leaning against a madroño, or strawberry tree, is unknown however, the tree is native to Madrid. One known theory is that bear and tree represent a farming rights dispute between the clergy and citizens. The seven stars supposedly represent the seven stars in the Plough constellation closest to the Ursa Major (Great Bear) Constellation. These stars symbolize the North and therefore, since North is the direction on which all others are based, the stars represent Madrid as the seat of government for Spain."

It took me a little while to figure out how to hyperlink certain words and add references but at least two of the links work and my reference did link at the end correctly. I will go back and edit the "plough constellation" link so it redirects to an existing wikipedia link.