Saturday, February 20, 2010

Next Class 2/24

Show & Tell of finished "Odd Number" website assignments.

Dreamweaver continued (page properties/properties window).

William J Mitchell’s ideas about the radical reshaping of traditional photography in the wake of the introduction of digital image manipulation tools plus New types of imaging have resulted in new types of ways of viewing the world itself - his book "The Reconfigured Eye"



Reading – WEB REDESIGN 2.0 – WORKFLOW THAT MATTERS
Chapter 5: Design Visual Interface

Monday, February 15, 2010

Virtual Revolution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/3dexplorer_start.shtml

Today's class Monday 15th February

Today's class

Using QuickTime pro to edit .mpg4

Digital Video on the internet: issues of compression and delivery.
• realtime playback vs downloading • present bandwidth constraints • video streaming /real & QT • hinting video and audio tracks. Youtube, VIMEO and other web hosting services compared to archive.org and having your own shell account FTP directory.

Shooting, editing and processing web ready video using iMovie and PhotoShop & QuickTime. Sound processing using itunes, QuickTime Pro

Using online resources such as http://www.archive.org


iMovie to edit movies & stills

Dreamweaver - page properties panel

Episode 2: "The Virtual Revolution"

NOTE - "ODD NUMBERS WEB SITE" DUE 24th FEB!

SELF PORTRAIT PHOTOMONTAGE DUE 10th MARCH

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Today's class - WED FEB 10th 2010

More on using Dreamweaver to manage websites

Testimonials from Graphics firms on what they are looking for in design students new to the industry.

Workflow strategies and how these relate to different publishing contexts.

Using iMovie to edit mp4 files from http://www.archive.org for use in "Odd Number" assignments.

How models from videogame and movie industry can find expression in web development.

CSS continued

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Email me at this dedicated class email address!

Class - please use this email to email me your blogs and any other assignment-related emails for DAI527

dcoxdai527@gmail.com

Thanks!

Ted Nelson 90 minute lecture on "Intertwingularity"


http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/podcasts/video.php?id=76

Internet pioneer Professor Ted Nelson lectures on some of the ideas that have meant most to him over his research career.
90:00 minute


WIKIPEDIA entry on Ted Nelson

Today's class - WED FEB 3rd 2010




Documentary - "THE VIRTUAL REVOLUTION" - EPISODE 1: THE GREAT LEVELING (60 mins)

Class review/crits of EVEN NUMBERS assignments

EVEN NUMBERS ASSIGNMENT DUE at 9pm Tonight





* Dreamweaver CS4 (hitherto "DW")

* html pages (continued)

* cascading style sheets

* embedding simple images (continued)

* linking pictures & text (continued)

* site management (continued)




Monday, February 1, 2010

Zygosis: John Heartfield and the Political Image



Wikipedia page
on Dada photomontage artist John Heartfeild

Part 1 of 3

Part 2 of 3

Part 3 of 3

Hyperland

Early 1990s documentary about Hypermedia - part 3 and part 4 of 5 by Douglas Adams, narrated by Tom (Dr Who) Baker

Monday February 1st, 2010 - tonight's class

Tonight's Class

* FTP Clients like Fetch & Fugu.

* What is the nature of the client-server relationship?

* Navigation (linear, non-linear models & intuitive interfaces etc.)

* The use of plug-gins for shockwave (director), Flash and Quicktime. + Web tour of interesting sites using /or about these various types of rich media.

* Creating links to other pages calling images into a browser page file Transfer Protocol – using FTP clients, web accounts, remote servers and shell accounts

Self-Portrait Exercise introduction.

Photomontage – history - CUT & PASTE website

Discussion of Liquid Identity project

Audio Editing using Audacity Software – saving files for use online

Reading: WEB REDESIGN 2.0 – WORKFLOW THAT MATTERS
Chapter 2 Core Process Overview

READING: VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE HTML XHTML & CSS
Chapter 5: Images, Chapter 6: Links

Continue working on "EVEN NUMBER" WEBSITE PROJECT

Cut & Paste - Photomontage History


Click here to see "Cut & Paste - Photomontage History"