Class #12

Dumpster.gif from: http://meineigenheim.org/dumpster/

Possibly the best thing on the planet this month: http://www.flickr.com/explore/panda via http://www.artfagcity.com/

A few links from John Michael Boling posting on Rhizome:

http://ramsaystirling.com/Root/Work,
http://youfellasleepwatchingadvd.com/

http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/index.html (are you all so young that I have to explain how cheesy this is?)

http://www.epiclylaterd.com/contents.html (simple, and the photos are great, i don't know why this works so well, but it does)

http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/film/

http://parisfacial.ytmnd.com/

http://www.livegif.ru/archive/dance/15_3.html (the awesome Olia Lialina again)

http://hippygifteconomy.blogspot.com/

A feast of GIFS: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=60&threadid=2955

-I think by now you've all twigged to the idea that different tools and different enviroments will change the form your art will take.

-you are learning multiple tools because otherwise every large software developer wants you to just learn their line of programs.
-and buy the upgrades. (I am currently in upgrade hell for my programming work) We are in a bit of a quandary here as some tools really do become obsolete, meaning they don't run properly on newer platforms.
- or the delivery medium becomes irrellevent to a large number of people (when was the last time you looked at art on a CD-Rom? If you ever exhibit in a public gallery and they offer to make you an interactive CD (woot woot booya) instead of a printed catalogue, tell them to piss off, no one will look at it. They're just trying to save money.)
-even the big fat expensive packages have major flaws for a variety of interesting reasons (market competition, customer feedback, management, planning,)
b/t/w expert systems don't replace experts, they just demand a different sort of expertise. (back in '95, my programming guru wondered if programmers were in the same position as mechanics at the turn of the 20th century)

YouTube has added some custom features in their embed code, only 6 colour choices but we know how to get more: http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex6.html

So just append to the end of the URL string in the embed code: rel=0&color1=3F1452&color2=4D1938&border=1

A short Flash lesson, in colour mixing because I am tired of seeing those damn default gradients. (make your own rainbows worthy of the awesome image barfing flickr Panda that I linked to at the top).

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