Final Post for the Fall Semestr 2K6

What did you find to be the most valuable things you learned in this class?
HTML.

Which assignment(s) did you find to be the most valuable?
Javascript

Would you eliminate or replace an exercise or assignment?
Assignment: Javascript

Which one and why? Other comments:
It doesn't advnace a student's artistic ability. It only helped to test students ability to program.

State-of-the-art Interactivity Comments and Josual Davis Comments.

Jeffery Veen: "State-of-the-Art-Interactivity"

1. Congratulations! You’re a judge for agency/film flash sites, but you do need to judge how you advertise your own flash ideas. You’re entire article is all about how artists present their flash sites in order to convey an idea (or advertisement) and what you thought was poor about them (as a whole). The real way to critique these words would be to convey your problem with the flash and then GIVE EXAMPLES FOR PROPER (or what you think is proper) INSIGHT for getting the job done right. Through your entire article you rant and rave about what interactivity was back in the day. Step up to the plate and show us (your audience) what your years (I had to seek out your background off a different site which you linked to) of knowledge and experience has taught you.
I did see that you are a deeply sought after speaker, so I KNOW you know how to present ideas…you just need to incorporate that into your website instead of just your job (as a speaker).
As it was mentioned in some of the comments to your article, a lot of these flash site are targeted to the majority of the money shoveling drones of society. Three colorful flashes of light have them giggling like school girls and wanting more giggly fun. To these people loud noises and movable icons are the highlights of their hours of surfing. I, personally, LOVE Choose your adventure web pieces it brings the childhood pastime back into the modern adult life. Call me simple, hell call me easily amused, I just write this to represent the simpletons out in the world. That’s all.

Load screens: Yeah, I can’t really knock you on that. I’ve seen some load screens that I just left the site before 10%. But I suppose as a judge leaving the site isn’t an option.

User-centered design vs. marketing and image. THAT statement isn’t written write at all. It should be User-centered design =marketing and image because THAT’S why they were designed FOR the USER to BOLSTER marketing and the image of a company.

Josual Davis
I…I don’t even know what he does! I open the page and see tones of gray everywhere. My first thoughts were, “Oh neat it’s a click-happy site.” Soooo…I click a city. Nothing happened. I click another…and nothing. I then click on some link in the side bar and learn that the map is a TRACKING map. You can track where he is. “HA HA! COOL! He’s a…” I still can’t figure what he does! He travels apparently. I then spot Workshopsand the word …course. Thus I conclude he is a teacher…I think. Actually I’m sure of that…now.
I don’t think the site represents what he DOES and it sure doesn’t YELL flash or anything (not that flash sites SHOULD yell that). Interactivity=good. It’s pretty interactive for a website but flash can do MORE that just what’s on this site. Flash MOVES things. It fades things in and out. It scales, rotates, loads graphics (purely off data alone).
All that has been stated were my thought before scrolling WAY down. This doesn’t CHANGE my statements; in fact I have more to say. The MAJOR flash portion of this site is tucked away TIGHTLY and neatly where the user has no CLUE it exists. I only found the links when I squinted and noticed the stereotypical scroll symbols on the scroll bar. I had to squint because all the tones of gray blur together (and I need glasses anyway). Clicking ON the flash links brings up this abstract, pseudo standard-windows-screensaver art. Again I say….flash can do MORE than just swirl images about to tessellate art.

My part words (lines):
1. WORK FLASH! If you work it…it works for you!
2. BORDERS!!! Everything fills the window top to bottom and I keep wanting to scroll up so see some evidence of containment.

+1 point for Asian studies. LEVEL UP *FF7 Victory song*

Their greatest source of unease was the fact of never having actually seen the creature they call “a woman”- some sort of human being that lived in the outside world and was held to be the source of almost all calamity.

~Tanizaki Jun'Ichirou "Futari no Chigo"~

Oh how this can be TOO TOO true....yet us guys still drool for them *shrug*

The Poetics of Interactivity

When I first began reading the article I came across the words “media saturated” and “computerized contemporary world.” My first question to this is, “What is the “media” that is saturating interactivity?” Can it be...the media of people? How about the media of advertising? Or is it the media like new reporters reporting one sided views point. I’m taking liberties and saying it’s the media of digital languages like, hypertext application or programming languages.

Side note: Are closed circuit and recorded video forms of media saturation?

Next phrase that spark internal controversy was “computerized contemporary worlds.” Not one page later does the author talk about interactive art taking us to fantasy worlds. Again, I’m going out on a limb with: Worlds that aren’t tangible and are someone else’s making can be a fantasy world. An example of this would be the handheld globe eye piece. But, that is FAR from a contemporary world. It’s safe to say that the opening lines of this article ring far from true or engrossing.

Side note: “This was a period of struggle by woman and minorities…” Humph...this doesn’t fit into this article.

Page 2 (page 2 because I printed it):
“…interface. The communication links between hardware and software and between the user and the computer compose a layered, complex site of exchange that is virtual as well as physical in multiple dimensions. The symbols to be manipulated may be text, graphics, images, and audio.”

Due to some reason, the commonly known and accepted meaning to interactivity has arrived. To this I say, “The real world de yookoso.” (Japanese for “Glad you made it.”). Here’s where my opinion leaves and I just sit back nodding. “…fully immersive virtual reality…”, “…computer controlled objects in physical space.” This is what interactivity is all about. It’s about abandoning your world and mind to enter into something different, maybe…even radical *GASP*!!!

Sites to See of the Internet

Ome wa ore no tomodachi dakara, omae wa kaette iru

Artist's Portfolio
Artist: Danial Simmon
Website: Daniel Simon Studio

Experimental
Artist: Unreadable
Website: Meow! All about cats (Russian)

Company
Artist:Lik Sang: Import Games
Website:Lik-Sang

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Day 1- Ikkai

Hajimeruzo Minna,

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