Friday, September 25, 2009

One Man's Trash

http://iasaweb.korora.net/uploads/0773df9c4bfb8b40b6dfa31d3d810a0a/RIAS_2_3.pdf

If you’re familiar with my old Flickr account, you might find the cover image familiar. Whether or not you do, check out the bottom of page 2, and all will be clear.

The editors of the IASA online journal seem to have a habit of using material under appropriate Creative Commons licenses for their covers, so it’s not like I’m pointing out an anomaly in their publishing. I guess it’s just neat to see something that I deemed a throwaway shot — useful for nothing else beyond posting to a photo bit-bucket — actually be useful for someone else. And now I sort of regret deleting my Flickr account. Oh well.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

AWA 15 Photos Up

A selection of my AWA 15 photos: http://photon.ninjawedding.org/awa15

I’m trying a presentation format akin to the grids I used in Brad & Liz’s wedding book. Let me know what you think.

When viewing the gallery, you can pull up the full size of any picture by clicking on it. I’m toying around with the idea of adding comments via Disqus or some such.

For web types, you can check out the Javascript and CSS that drives the thing by viewing the source. (The Javascript is horrendous.) Also feel free to check out the Haml and Sass from which the gallery was generated. Both are quick hacks and are very messy, but should get the basic ideas across. If I end up liking this format I’ll be cleaning it up for incorporation into a gallery generator.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Things

Guess I’m going to AWA after all. I arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson on Thursday at around 4PM (assuming O’Hare doesn’t botch things, ha ha). See you there.


code : computer-based artwork :: light : photography. I’ll expand on that in a later post; just wanted to jot the idea down. Also, I hate how simultaneously verbose and ambiguous “computer-based artwork” is. (The act of coding is a computer-based art, but it’s not what I’m going after.) There must be a better way to describe “a visual or aural artist whose medium is that of the computer”.


My Macbook Pro’s keyboard has become useless: the H, J, and Y keys no longer respond. The machine is also out of its AppleCare period, which expired sometime back in May of this year, and I doubt the price to fix that problem will be worth it. Time for a new laptop.


For future short blurbs, you may want to subscribe to @scatterbrained. (No, not Twitter. Twitter isn’t a free network service.)

I’ve become convinced that microblogging does have some redeeming traits, such as being able to throw out half-baked ideas for further refinement into code/prose/visuals/whatever, or mindless link propagation which might be helpful to someone else. (That’s happened a few times to me already.) I’ve found it to be damn hard to squeeze substantial ideas into 140 characters, too, so maybe this will be a good exercise in concision. Obviously, you won’t see me echoing dents here.

Yes, I am aware of the irony present in the fact that this paragraph is the longest paragraph of this post.