After having a think about where my work will be heading after this degree is finished I decided that this old blogger just isn’t cutting it anymore. I will be adding examples of my work to my online portfolio and needed a better system to document my thoughts. The new portfolio is a tad ‘minimal’ at the moment but it will be full of information and examples very soon. My new blog can be found at semai.wordpress.com.
Enjoy!
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Mini Makeover
The FireBox website has had a mini makeover this weekend with slicker page views and online videos. I'm trying to monitor how quickly the videos are streaming on different browsers and connections so please let me know what you think of the waiting time. The videos will open up in a new page so feel free to browse through the rest of the site while you're waiting.
FireBox website
FireBox website
Monday, 18 February 2008
Dance-Tech.net
I discovered this networking site a few days ago although I had already been receiving emails from them via another site which I can't remember right now. It's similar to bebo, MySpace or Facebook in that people create profiles, add photos, videos, blogs then chat with friends on the site. The main difference being that everyone on the site has an interest in dance technology whether it's screendance, installations or new media work. I'm already slightly addicted to the site and am frantically adding friends... join up and add me now.
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Online and On Time
After designing, re-designing and re-re-designing the new FireBox Dance Theatre website with my new found Dreamweaver skills it finally online today just making my self-imposed deadline of 'the end of January'. I work best when I have deadlines.
The design was inspired by the photo shoot we had at The Arches with Derrick (Linton) at the start of December as well as the new logo, which incidentally inspired the coloured stripes across our faces in the 'naked warpaint' shots, but I was having problems finding a colour for text that would work well on both the red and the grey part of the brick background. The solution was to add a plain panel that would contain all the text, with a few exceptions just for variation, but this seemed very sterile and precise against the background. So I searched around and found a black panel with a grunge border that gave the impression that the black strip had been painted onto the wall. With this in place, everything else seemed to work together and, personally, I feel the website is a real indication of the style of the company and our dancers.
Here it is, let me know what you think.
The design was inspired by the photo shoot we had at The Arches with Derrick (Linton) at the start of December as well as the new logo, which incidentally inspired the coloured stripes across our faces in the 'naked warpaint' shots, but I was having problems finding a colour for text that would work well on both the red and the grey part of the brick background. The solution was to add a plain panel that would contain all the text, with a few exceptions just for variation, but this seemed very sterile and precise against the background. So I searched around and found a black panel with a grunge border that gave the impression that the black strip had been painted onto the wall. With this in place, everything else seemed to work together and, personally, I feel the website is a real indication of the style of the company and our dancers.
Here it is, let me know what you think.
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Painting by Keywords
I was pointed in the direction of net.art generator by Dan and spent ages on it last night creating images from keywords. The idea is that you stipulate keywords, net.art generator searches google images for matches and collages those images into a new image.
I restricted myself to 'firebox', 'dance' and 'theatre' and was quite pleased that the majority of images included were my own (my meta tagging must be pretty accurate). Some of them are really interesting and some are awful but that's part of the fun. It seemed to me like painting by numbers but with even less skill involved but I'm sure it won't be long before someone convinces a gallery to exhibit this as their work.
I restricted myself to 'firebox', 'dance' and 'theatre' and was quite pleased that the majority of images included were my own (my meta tagging must be pretty accurate). Some of them are really interesting and some are awful but that's part of the fun. It seemed to me like painting by numbers but with even less skill involved but I'm sure it won't be long before someone convinces a gallery to exhibit this as their work.
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