drag and drop
middle of night 130508
19/05/08 06:39 Filed in: Assignment 5
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assignment 5 ideas which I need to dictate in the middle of the night before I forget it seems to be about using the photographs from the upper fourth Holburne trip talking about crazy talk and stuff perhaps web based would be exciting talk about the bids the becta bid and the talk about all the bids the rtc bid the pervasive media bid talk about drag and drop my explorations with drag and drop and my explorations with website I had all this worked out in the middle of the night can't think any more clearly than that
assignment 5 ideas which I need to dictate in the middle of the night before I forget it seems to be about using the photographs from the upper fourth Holburne trip talking about crazy talk and stuff perhaps web based would be exciting talk about the bids the becta bid and the talk about all the bids the rtc bid the pervasive media bid talk about drag and drop my explorations with drag and drop and my explorations with website I had all this worked out in the middle of the night can't think any more clearly than that
Early Morning Dog Walk 14th April 2008
15/04/08 07:28 Filed in: Musings
Recording
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back to the question of what my research actually is or what my practice is more if my practice is as an art teacher specialising in digital looking at drag and drop and looking at website design then who are the practitioners are those my Apple and Adobe colleagues I can't really pick anyone out in particular who would be a role model for that an awful lot of the research that I do is serendipitous done on word of mouth finding things people sending me interesting things over the internet stumble upon that sort of stuff so there is no particular practitioner especially as it is sort of cutting edge and I don't really know who I could look at but i am going back to the practitioners who inform this practice which is why I have been looking at the collage artists rather than digital and maybe the dada as well to an extent and particularly film - looking at film. So that is what is happening there. And if the practice is my own practice that is something totally different and I am really in relation to this MA there is a little bit of a mixture of the two because I am wanting to be producing my own art work through it as well with my teaching has always been my artwork always been my creativity working through other working through my students so in terms of research I could put one or two artists in there who are actually working on web design now Hamilton I suppose would be one I can't think, Caplin I have already added to my list so if the criteria to do with new media it makes it makes it interesting how these artists relate to new media, the artists that I have chosen, where the root is, there is an awful lot more research in there that I need to be doing looking at these artists and how they relate, how the fit the criteria but new media is what I am doing that's my practice in relation to this MA so maybe I should add some graphic designers in there I have got Werkmann but there should perhaps be some others more traditional graphic designers in relation to the screen and what I was saying to Tim yesterday about what i am doing the screen is a two dimensional surface and to begin with computers were very flat just text on a screen and to begin with the graphics the operating systems were very very flat and they have gradually become more three dimensional or to represent the three dimensions through the metaphor of desktop and that sort of stuff so the metaphors are three dimensional if you like or real metaphorical real but so that's one dimension when you look into the screen but there is the other dimension that is the dimension of time if you are looking at media like film that operates over a time line and you have the possibility of combining the depth if you like the representation of the real with the representation of time that is not real time in that you can jump to any point in it so it is almost like it is a representation of time with a computer that you can include as well as looking at things in real time if you are using a computer to do things in real time like watching a film or watching telly it is not a different medium but if you are using it to create that or generate that time line like in a game and jump from one place to another put things together then it becomes a representation in a very similar way I think my thinking is a bit muddled around this I shall need some more clarity on it but certainly looking at the way it has evolved from a typewriter to a multi media machine and through lots of metaphorical stuff that goes on the screen the representation that is a place that I am particularly interested in researching which I guess is why I continue to look a the likes of Brenda Laurel and continuing my research from last term, it would be crazy to stop really because that is what it is that I am doing
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back to the question of what my research actually is or what my practice is more if my practice is as an art teacher specialising in digital looking at drag and drop and looking at website design then who are the practitioners are those my Apple and Adobe colleagues I can't really pick anyone out in particular who would be a role model for that an awful lot of the research that I do is serendipitous done on word of mouth finding things people sending me interesting things over the internet stumble upon that sort of stuff so there is no particular practitioner especially as it is sort of cutting edge and I don't really know who I could look at but i am going back to the practitioners who inform this practice which is why I have been looking at the collage artists rather than digital and maybe the dada as well to an extent and particularly film - looking at film. So that is what is happening there. And if the practice is my own practice that is something totally different and I am really in relation to this MA there is a little bit of a mixture of the two because I am wanting to be producing my own art work through it as well with my teaching has always been my artwork always been my creativity working through other working through my students so in terms of research I could put one or two artists in there who are actually working on web design now Hamilton I suppose would be one I can't think, Caplin I have already added to my list so if the criteria to do with new media it makes it makes it interesting how these artists relate to new media, the artists that I have chosen, where the root is, there is an awful lot more research in there that I need to be doing looking at these artists and how they relate, how the fit the criteria but new media is what I am doing that's my practice in relation to this MA so maybe I should add some graphic designers in there I have got Werkmann but there should perhaps be some others more traditional graphic designers in relation to the screen and what I was saying to Tim yesterday about what i am doing the screen is a two dimensional surface and to begin with computers were very flat just text on a screen and to begin with the graphics the operating systems were very very flat and they have gradually become more three dimensional or to represent the three dimensions through the metaphor of desktop and that sort of stuff so the metaphors are three dimensional if you like or real metaphorical real but so that's one dimension when you look into the screen but there is the other dimension that is the dimension of time if you are looking at media like film that operates over a time line and you have the possibility of combining the depth if you like the representation of the real with the representation of time that is not real time in that you can jump to any point in it so it is almost like it is a representation of time with a computer that you can include as well as looking at things in real time if you are using a computer to do things in real time like watching a film or watching telly it is not a different medium but if you are using it to create that or generate that time line like in a game and jump from one place to another put things together then it becomes a representation in a very similar way I think my thinking is a bit muddled around this I shall need some more clarity on it but certainly looking at the way it has evolved from a typewriter to a multi media machine and through lots of metaphorical stuff that goes on the screen the representation that is a place that I am particularly interested in researching which I guess is why I continue to look a the likes of Brenda Laurel and continuing my research from last term, it would be crazy to stop really because that is what it is that I am doing
Early Morning Dog Walk 4th April 2008
04/04/08 15:02 Filed in: Assignment 2
recording
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Walking up the hill again, early morning dog walk thoughts, lots of thinking this morning, firstly that playing around with drag and drop technology as in the website - Rapid Weaver, that's really quite a bit of my research, that is what it is that I am doing, trying to work on things that Kids can use very easily for blogs and and for creating their websites and galleries and so on, so that is my area of research, or an area of research. Another thought that sort of related to Duchamp was readymades, and my own artwork that is very much readymades, and clearing out the garage which is what I have just been doing looking at all the bits and pieces that I have collected for making readymades, that there is a sort of quirky humour to them that definitely taps in to the Wallace and Gromit feel, the cartoon feel as well as the readymade feel. That is sort of where I feel my art is which does all relate sort of to the animation and the fun and the spoons and the words and the language of it so that is really a part of my research as well and I was thinking of my collection my museum because that is a bit of artwork that I have done consistently for years and years and years and years my museum is just a collection of objects that I find when i am out walking a bit like the, walking like I am now and the way the thoughts pop into my head like the randomness of walking and clearing my head so that thoughts can pop in then now and again I find little treasures on the ground that other people have dropped, the detritus, but they become intimately precious in that I have picked them up and collected them which is in some ways, well it is not the same as Duchamp, it is very different, it certainly has a feel of the outsiders which is very definitely an area that interests me and influenced me when I was younger, maybe I should do a little more research on them. And then i plan to go and have a look at the Cranach exhibition at the Royal Academy tomorrow and possibly the Chinese Army as well and how that relates to Gormley who is another artist I really like and have been to see recently I love his steam room and I was particularly keen on his wire sculptures as well, that was on at the Haywood. So going back to my museum I could then maybe relate that back to the web would be in creating a web gallery, a web museum, that I tried doing a year or so ago but this would be more like the Steve Caplin website where you would open the draws you would actually sort of get the draw opening and inside would be the object, or maybe you would click on it like the flash gallery, you click on it and the object is there then you click on it and get the next one click on it and get the next one, and i could do that with the flash page turning thing initially, take all the photographs and turn it into a web gallery of the objects or I could try and do it like you are looking into a box with specimens and they are all catalogued and categorised, all my land-rovers and little people and al that sort of thing. Lots of close up photography, Mind you it would get the box dusted at the same time. Right, enough of this for now, lets switch off.
Setting up the site 2
15/03/08 19:47 Filed in: diary
In no way could I be said to be a web designer, but
in an effort to make a better job of this journal I
have been looking for 'drag and drop' software for
website design and ended up with Rapid Weaver, having
experimented with one or two others. It has taken me
an afternoon to set up this site so far - what a
brilliant piece of software!
Early Morning Dog Walk Thoughts 13th March 2008
11th March
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Early Morning Dog Walk Thoughts 13th March 2008
11th March
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Setting up the site
14/03/08 15:29 Filed in: journal
Early Morning Dog Walking Thoughts 11th March 2008
recording110308
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On my way up the hill again thinking about this journal, the new journal I have been playing around with Tinderbox and I just don't like the look of it so I am now thinking of actually building a complete website for this journal and that decision is based on the fact that I want to experiment and play with tromp l'oeil in relation to web stuff and I want the journal to look and feel and operate like a proper three dimensional object but be shareable over the web. I realise that my web building skills may not be up to this so I am going to pursue my other research topic as it were which is to try and work as much as I can with drag and drop and to that end I have bought a copy of Rapid Weaver and I am going to spend a bit of time trying to customise that to see if I can make it look how I want it to look and then I am going to have a web address so I will have to think into that one maybe I should set a site up with Cherry just to explore, I could talk to her tomorrow when I see her, or possibly it could be part of iWeb another section of that but we will see, I haven't got that far yet.
recording110308
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On my way up the hill again thinking about this journal, the new journal I have been playing around with Tinderbox and I just don't like the look of it so I am now thinking of actually building a complete website for this journal and that decision is based on the fact that I want to experiment and play with tromp l'oeil in relation to web stuff and I want the journal to look and feel and operate like a proper three dimensional object but be shareable over the web. I realise that my web building skills may not be up to this so I am going to pursue my other research topic as it were which is to try and work as much as I can with drag and drop and to that end I have bought a copy of Rapid Weaver and I am going to spend a bit of time trying to customise that to see if I can make it look how I want it to look and then I am going to have a web address so I will have to think into that one maybe I should set a site up with Cherry just to explore, I could talk to her tomorrow when I see her, or possibly it could be part of iWeb another section of that but we will see, I haven't got that far yet.