Smashing Mag Article [Contino]

Smashing Magazine came out with an article entitled "10 Steps to Make the Perfect Portfolio Website". This article has some useful tips on making your portfolio website. I have read it and have used some of the suggestions they have made. For instance, I used the suggestion of typing up the way to how pronounce my name under my profile picture on my website. I just figured that since the majority of the class is making portfolio websites, that this article could be very useful.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/26/10-steps-to-the-perfect-portfolio-website/

~Nicholas J. Contino

Google.com/addurl [Contino]

For those who are buying a URL and making a website, there is a way to get your website visited. If you go to google.com/addurl/, you can let Google know of your site so it will pop-up in a web search. To improve your chances of being found, go to google.com/, to find Google's Webmaster Guidelines. I found all of this using Lynda.com, which I'll again suggest you should use.

~Nicholas J. Contino

Zack Silver: favorite web site

Since this is a webart class, I felt I should not focus all of my blog entries on movies, but maybe talk a little about my favorite website- it just happens to be a movie blog site. Joblo.com is where I go to get all my up to date movie info, with the latest news, trailers, and pictures being updated daily. I check this site at least 3 times a day. I love hearing the latest news in some of my most anticipated films, even ones that don’t come out for a few years. They almost always have accurate information, as they get them from real sources in the industry.

I also love the layout of this site. On the left are all the headlines for movie news, with each story on it’s own page in a very similar layout. There are tabs up top for the different categories on the site, including news, trailers, reviews etc. In my opinion this is a very top notch blog. Very easy to navigate and use, and has great information. I definitely recommend it to all hardcore movie fans.

Zack Silver: Trekkies research assignment

This semester I am taking a Youth Cultures class, where our final “research project” requires us to research a certain subculture and do a presentation on it. After having a list of around 30 subcultures, I choose Trekkies, the hardcore fans of the Star Trek series. One of the reasons being I was a HUGE fan of the last film that came out last year, as it instantly became one of my favorite films. I also have seen numerous of the older movies and TV shows, as I used to watch them with my dad. I was a moderate fan of this series, but wanted to dive deeper into how other people feel about it.

I choose to composite a video documentary of my findings. I composited multiple clips from the various shows, movies, and spoofs, as well as some from local Star Trek conventions. Then I interviewed multiple subjects. My grandparents were huge fans of the series from the start, and loved the new film. At my movie theater at home in Baltimore, one of my managers named John was a huge fan of the new movie, as he is a die-hard fan of the director J. J. Abrams and his previous work. I also interviewed and recorded one of my good friends, who never liked the series and didn’t bother to see the new movie. We sat down and watched the new film, and I got his reactions before and after: he liked it.

I am in the process now of editing all of this together. So far it has been going pretty well, but I am having some trouble trying to give it focus. I choose to use a narration to give the film a voice, as it was hard to tie some of the segments together. Overall I feel by putting the clips of the shows and movies, and the reactions I received in the interviews, I am able to capture the essence of this series, and what drove the fans to call themselves Trekkies. I hope to have this done and up on the web soon, and will put the link to it here.

Zack Silver: Remix assignment

For my remix assignment, I choose to focus on one of my hobbies: collecting movie posters. I love movie posters mainly with the idea that they are an image, either simple or very detailed, that can sum up a 90-minute movie. Some can be the simplest still from the film, or others can be an extensive 27 by 40 inch picture of all the characters, action scenes and special effects in a film. Ever since I started working at a movie theater over 2 years ago, I have collected real size movie posters for films that have recently come up. Most of the blockbusters, Oscar contenders and more I have in a big box in my basement at home. Not sure what I will do with all them one day, but I right now love the idea of having over 200 posters in my possession.

For my assignment, I choose to “remix” the movie poster for the film Up. The original poster is a simple image of a balloon floating in the sky, but symbolizes many themes in the film. I composited 2 remixes of this poster. One turns the balloons upside down, going against the film title Up. When initially looking at this image, you get a negative feeling, thinking the balloon is going to crash. You might think this was a negative film, while in fact it is a very positive one. For the second remix poster I copied the balloon image, and pasted it on a completely different picture of a volcano with lava I got from creative commons. This also is a very negative image, not the happy Disney film one things they are seeing. It also lies as that scenery is never actually in the film. Both of these posters create a sense of “false advertising”, if Disney were to publish them and put them in the movie theaters. I wanted to express in this project how changing a few little things on a poster, can in turn completely change the meaning of the film and what you want the viewer to think before they see it.

Zack Silver: Toy Story 3 promotion

This spring my internship did a big promotion with the upcoming Toy Story 3 at major colleges throughout the country. The idea behind it was that students in college now were big fans of the Toy Story films when they were younger, and have strong interest in seeing the new film. Last year’s Up was a big hit in general, but also with the college audience. Disney wanted to do a screening of Toy Story 3 with college students across the country, with the hopes that they would spring the word to those who haven’t seen it on how great it was.

We had to hang flyers across the campus advertising “characters” in the film. One of them was about the toy dinosaur, and advertised an archeology club that would discuss him. Students could pull of a tag at the bottom of the flyer, and go onto a website to get a free ticket for the screening. I attached the pictures of the flyers for you to see. While this was a good idea, and it did get a lot of attention, there was one big problem with the promotion.

The screening was only going to be the first 65 minutes of the movie, a movie that would in total only be 90 minutes. They main reason being the film wasn’t done yet, and they wanted to get this screening out before college kids went home for the summer. However most people, myself included, didn’t want to see only 65 minutes of a movie. So interest dramatically dropped, all across the country. The screenings for these “cliffhanger screenings” (the 65 minutes ended with a cliffhanger), did very poorly in almost every college across the country. Temple only had 75 students out of a 250 seat theater, a number very low in industry standards. All the reps that worked on this promotion sited the reason as no one wanted to see only part of the movie. If it was the whole film, this screening would have sold out quicker than anything. However Disney decided to not rush the film, and showed only what they had done. They consider this promotion a failure, and hope change the strategy if they every do this again. I for one believe that it would have completely sold out if it was the full movie, and hope they can have it done in time for college students if they plan on doing this again.

Zack Silver: Kick-Ass promotion

This semester I am interning at a marketing firm named Allied, that does local screenings and promotions for movies from most of the big movie studios (everything except Warner Bros. and Paramount). So for the past 2 months, I have been in charge of the promotion for the film Kick-Ass. It’s a super hero movie, based off a graphic novel about people who are trying to become superheroes without any real powers. I chose to do my Locative Media project on this promotion, highlighting the different events and locations where we have held.

Now that the film is released, most of my work promoting the film is over. It has been a great experience and I’m a little saddened that my work is finished. Because of this promotion I was able to see the film over a month and a half before it came out, and I loved it. It was so much fun to watch, with a great story, tons of action and humor, and some great cinematography. This made promoting the film even more fun. Knowing how “awesome” the movie was, I was able to spread the word, and actually mean what I said. Getting people pumped about the movie, only made me more pumped to see it. I have seen it 3 times and counting, and plan on going again next week.

A movie like is one of the reasons I want to get into the industry. Not only is it an awesome movie, but the way it was produced inspired me. The author of the graphic novel, as well as the director, pitched it to multiple studios to get funding. They all suggested editing the graphic content in the comic, in order for the studio to back it. The producers and director decided to break free from studio involvement, and produce it themselves. I thought this was a great idea, as they were now allowed to truly be faithful to the comic, and create it in the best way. They eventually got a distribution deal through Lionsgate, which was a great move on their part. The film opened in #1 last weekend, and I only hope their success continues, as it’s a film that truly deserves it. GO SEE IT!

John Curall-Putting More Than One Video Player On A Page

Hello All, For those of you using the JW Player Lisa demoed for video on your web page, I came across and adjustment that needs to be made if you plan on using more than one video on a page. I thought it might be helpful to some of you. I tried to just repeat the steps Lisa showed us for each new video I was putting on the page. However, all it did was play the third video in the first videos place and display "this text will be replaced" in the other two slots. I did some research and I found out that if you don't give them each a different placeholder on the page it will just lay one on top of the other. The placeholder in the code that Lisa gave us was the name given to the div id. This can be changed to whatever you want as long as you also change it at the end of the code in the so.write section. I just changed the names to player 1, player 2, and player 3 respectively. For each video, I just replaced the two incidents of the name (I think Lisa's was"mediasource"? I don't have that page anymore) with "player1", "player2" and "player3" respectively. That worked like a charm and I was able to have 3 videos on one page. Here is the link to the page where I found this information so that you can see it for yourself: http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/setup-issues-and-embedding/7989/how-to-put-more-than-one-video-on-single-page. I tried to paste my code into this post to show you what I did, but blogger saw it as actual html code and not text that I was trying to publish.

Good Luck!

-John

Another flash website that lets your create cool media galleries

Here is a link to the website I'm using for my final website. Since I deal with a lot of media, this is an easy way to spice it up.

Click HERE

Flash Componets

Here is a great reference if your trying to do Flash integrated websites. Its a real good way to make your website look fancy.

HERE

How to Choose a Web Hosting Service?

If you are interested in having your own website you will need to purchase
a domain name and server space through a web hosting service.  There are
many companies to choose from and all of them offer different services.

The main thing is to know what you want and do some research to find
the right match.  Here are some popular web hosting providers:

inmotion hosting - http://www.inmotionhosting.com/
ipage - http://www.ipage.com/ipage/index.bml
fatcow - http://www.fatcow.com/fatcow/special-promo.bml
bluehost - http://www.bluehost.com/
godaddy - http://www.godaddy.com

There are many others out there and I am not recommending these over others.
This list is just to serve as a starting point and are the companies I have seen
most frequently. 

Lisa Marie

For people that like to learn things on their own time, there is a great website called tutvid.com. It give video tutorials in just about every Adobe Design Program. Underneath I've included three links to Flash, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop tutorials.

Flash

Dreamweaver

Photoshop

Evan Kaucher- Book Reference

For all those who might of taken intro to media tech, or someone who might need a reference, the Book "Web Design: Portfolios" by Julius Wiedemann is a great place to get some ideas for your own website.


Web Design: Portfolios

John Curall-Class guest speakers

Hell Everyone,

I thought I already made this post, but apparently I forgot. I'm not really much of a blogger! Anyway, I have really enjoyed the guest speakers we have had for our class this semester. They have given us some interesting perspectives! I especially like the presentation from harvestworks. I find the work their doing very interesting as it relates to one of my focus areas projection and video design for live performance. I wish I could afford to take one of their classes as they seemed like they would be really helpful and informative. I wish we had had more time for the flash training guest speaker as that really wasn't enough time for him to get very far. I really wish the department would offer a Webart II class that would give more in depth flash training. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen before I graduate. I really liked the idea of what the other guest speaker was doing with the video workshops for school children. She makes me feel guilty for not giving back more! That's a pretty cool thing she's doing there! Anyway, I just wanted to share my insights on these speakers. I think this was a rare opportunity we had here that I wished the department did more of. The program is definitely more focused on filmmaking rather new media and experimental video stuff, so I think we really don't see a lot of this.

-John

John Curall-Dreamweaver Youtube Tutorials

Hello All,

For anyone that's interested I just discovered that youtube has tutorial videos for Dreamweaver.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dreamweaver+cs4+&aq=f

I had been specifically looking for a tutorial on creating a contact form on my portfolio site. There are a bunch of tutorials on there for that. I ended up just finding a way to re-use an old contact form for now, but I figured I'd share what I found with the rest of you. I hope all is going well with everyone's final projects!

See you in class!

-John

Cross Browser Compatibility

The more you design websites the more you will need to know about
cross browser compatibility.  If you open your site in Firefox and then
Internet Explorer, chances are it will look different in each browser.
This is because of how the different browsers render different layouts.

There are several good sites for getting a handle on how to deal with this.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024%28VS.85%29.aspx

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/index.html

One common issue is with centering

tags.  For all browsers exceptInternet Explorer, setting the margins of the main

tag at auto will centereverything.  IE does not recognize the auto formatting so we have to add
extra code to account for this.  Here is the code you will need to add to your
CSS to center your page for IE and not have all of your text centered at the
same time:

body {

text-align: center; /* for IE */
 }

#container {
  margin: 0 auto;   /* align for good browsers */
  text-align: left; /* counter the body center */
 }

Let me know if you have any questions!

~Lisa Marie

Alex Coyle: CSS tricks. Get organized

Click Here for some great CSS tips on how to keep your CSS style clean and sharp.

Flash gig in Philly. I bet they pay great $$$$

Urban Outfitters needs a flash developer for basic work on their site
Click here to check the job description. Most successful retailers pay well.

Stream Myspace Music to Your Website

Hey guys,

I found this website that streams the Flash Media player from Myspace into your website. It works best with more known bands.

Click here to check it out

Here's a more direct approach


--Chelsea Lynch

Interact 8 - Tonight at Tyler School of Art!

Start Date: 4/21/2010 Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Date: 4/21/2010 End Time: 8:00 PM

Event Description
Interact 8 is the annual juried show of the best student interactive design and animation by Tyler School of Art design students. All are welcome to this free event.

Location Information:
Main Campus - Tyler School of Art
Room: B04

CJ Johnson

Found some cool portfolio pages in my searches, some are made with flash and some lightbox, others use neither... They helped me to get a better idea of what I might do for my final project, hopefully they might serve as inspiration to you as well....

http://www.reyniermolenaar.com/

http://www.narrowdesign.com/

http://www.pauldipalma.com/

http://www.dancsopeter.exofire.net/


-CJ

Congress to archive every tweet ever posted publicly

The Library of Congress is to archive every single public tweet ever made

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8621297.stm

Jason Pearlman - Cool Font

Sometimes I like to just walk around the library and see what kind of books I can find, and I recently stumbled across this one. Not really an interesting read, but I really enjoy the font of the title - so much that I thought I'd share. Anyone have any idea what it is?

-Jason Pearlman

"ecard......people pay for this stuff?"-by Emily Kight

So, my surrogate Japanese grandmother keeps sending me ecards. I, for one, don't understand the appeal of ecards but it is evident that there is flash animation and web art design in these silly things. I think the most surprising thing is that she pays to send them....that means folks out there make money doing these ecard designs. Here is the latest one I got; http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2304467241640&source=jl999

and this one is my favorite; http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2257913741640&source=jl999

I wonder if there are special programs they use to make ecards. If anyone knows, lemme know. I would like to try my hand at it sometime so I could send one back to my grandma. They look like they might be fun to do.

-Emily Kight

Fodey.com [Contino]

For the Remix project, I needed newspaper clippings for my background image on the website. After clipping pieces of Creative Commons jpegs, I found a website that will produce a newspaper image with what you want on it. This becomes helpful when a certain image is needed.

http://www.fodey.com

~Nicholas J. Contino

SmallBluePrinter.com [Contino]

For my Mapping project, I needed a blue print of my house. My parents did not have one, so I went to this website and created my own. The website is very simple. You drag and click walls, windows, and doors to create your blueprint. There is also a 3-D model of the blueprint, that you can "walk" around in. The only problem with the website is that it is Flash. So, you can not save a picture without printing than scanning it.

http://www.smallblueprinter.com

~Nicholas J. Contino

Lynda.com [Contino]

I was first introduced to this website by Lisa Patzer. Then for another class, I had to sign up. It is filled with tutorials and helpful links that will step-by-step lead you through any web design process. There's videos that teach you web design fundamentals to how to make an I-phone application. There's a small fee, but for classes, students receive a discount.

http://www.lynda.com

~Nicholas J. Contino

Light Box 2.0 for Dreamweaver

Here is an instructional video and content to create a pop out photo in dreamweaver using javascript. I thought it might be useful for the up coming project.

Tutorial
http://tutvid.com/tutorials/dreamweaver/tutorials/lightBox2.php

Content
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

I Found a Video/Web Design Workshop page

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

It looks like it has tutorials for everything related to Adboe, even programs I've never heard of. It might be a pain in the neck though because right now I'm trying to play a video but it won't, hopefully it will for you it played last night... I hope this is useful.

Natsai T.

Funny, artistic and sorta gross web site by Emily Kight

A friend of a friend made this site and I think it shows some good examples of things we have learned in class. Here is the link; http://tommcguigan.com/litterbowl/

For example, the cat poops to make the 'i' in "litter" which was done in flash. It's a funny site about cats pooping in toilettes. I know its immature and stupid, BUT there are impressive qualities to this site. The sound, videos, animation, and funny quotes are really blended well together for a good laugh. The whole site is a joke and its really funny.

Jason Pearlman - A Very Late Viral Video

I was just shown this viral video the other day so I thought I'd share. It's actually pretty funny. Now if only my roommates would stop quoting it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrANMLzM6aY

Jason Pearlman

CJ johnson

I saw a really awesome new music video this week. Its called this too shall pass by ok go, and it was done in only two very long steadicam shots. They have a very in depth floor plan on the video's website, and its a very good example of locative media, and it maps out the two floor warehouse and giant machine that moves throughout it.

if anyone wants to check out the floor-plans the website is here

if you want to check out the video its here

John Curall- Photoshop Save for Web Issue

Hello All,

I encountered a problem that needed solving when I was doing my remix project. I thought maybe the problem and solution might be useful information for some of you. My project included some photos I found online that I had altered. I incorporated them into a Photoshop page layout along with a header I created, which I wanted to save as a sliced html page so that I could do rollovers. Once I got the page the way I wanted, I tried to save for web and devices, but it was grayed out and would not let me do it. I searched online and I found out that I needed to reduce the bits per channel to get this to "unlock". This is found under images then mode. My page was at 32 bits per channel so I reduced it to 16. This unlocked the save for web and devices and I was able to save it as I wanted. However, this severely degraded the quality of all of the elements on the page. In order to make the page look like the quality that I had it at initially I had to re-save for web and devices each of the individual elements on the page at the appropriate size and them replace them in Dreamweaver. This then allowed me to have the page at the quality I desired. I'm not sure if there was a way to avoid this problem in the first place. Maybe one of you knows Photoshop better and can post your thoughts. I thought maybe this could be helpful to others if they encounter this issue.

John Curall- a Photoshop tutorial site

Hey All,

I found this photoshop tutorial site that may be of interest to some of you.

Check out this site:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/

Scott Wiggins - Gorillaz Plastic Beach Map

Check out the animated band the Gorillaz website for their new album Plastic Beach. It has a flash map that allows you to travel through most of the main building. You can also go through and play mini games to open up new rooms. Rumor is that more of the island is supposed to open up in April.

http://gorillaz.com/plasticbeach

Jim Carey's web site is amazing! From Alex Coyle

After seeing this web site I have gained a new respect for web art design. Complex and inspiring.
Almost every image has an effect or navigation. Click here to be enlightened.

Our guest speaker, Laura Deutch, has a cool blog. From Alex Coyle

Laura Deutch's blog. Check out the organized rollover technique.

Found this kind of cool remix--Chelsea Lynch

So we're working on our remixes now and I want to do a remix type of thing for Party in the U.S.A. by Miley Cryus. While I was searching around for it I found this remix of it. It's amazing.

Biggie Smalls Party in the USA

Alex Coyle found a great site for sound bytes

Woof Oink Quack

The Philly Business Journal needs a graphic design intern from Alex Coyle

The intern will assist the Event Department in designing event related collateral. INFO:

• Assist in developing collateral theme/concept per event
• Design two to three treatments per project to determine campaign look
• Create event logo in JPEG, EPS and other formats needed
• Design web banners to promote call for nominations and events
• ASAP through August, with opportunity to extend through Fall
• Hours: 10 hours/2 days per week
• Must be available for onsite operation of Power Point at events
• Unpaid internship, school credit and portfolio builder

Please email resume and at least 2 – 4 work samples. Jennifer Wolf, Event Manager

Direct: 215-238-5106, Fax: 215-238-9489, Email: Jenniferwolf@bizjournals.com

Chester Johnson

For my viral video I am working on remixing some archival footage of an old public service announcement. I hope to try and mix different archival footage to change the meaning of the original PSA, and perhaps develop my own message about war and nuclear weapons.

If anyone has the need for archival footage, or possibly some inspiration for their viral video, I have noticed that the Prelinger Archives section of Archive.org is particularly useful. Also the moving images section offers a large selection of older television shows and propaganda if those would be of use to anyone

Also I was equally disappointed with the new Alice in Wonderland, very sad.

Font/Type face

Earlier this semester we learned about typefaces and font. Here are 2 links that are more about these subjects.
1) http://fuckyeahtypography.tumblr.com/ (please ignore the foul language in the domain name)

2) http://www.helveticafilm.com/

-Keiran McCann

REMIX of Alice in Wonderland

After the class discussion about the concept of "remix", I started thinking about what remixes out there I really liked. First I thought of the collages I did when I was ten years old of Leonardo DiCaprio. Then I remembered a video someone showed me that I think is a really great example of a remix. This 19 year old australian editing wiz kid took audio from Disney's Alice in Wonderland and made a song with the audio (90% of it). I assume he added the drum beat himself. I think the song is pretty catchy and dreamy. He also edited the footage from the movie nicely to correspond with his song.

Here is the link to the video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMurlKaAj_4

I would like to do something similiar without being too ambitious. I was thinking of doing a simple part from the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I was thinking of using Wizard of Oz footage. I don't think I would be able to do a whole song, but perhaps just a part of one wouldn't be too bad. I noticed in the kid's video he had a nice mix of layers. I wonder how long it took him to do it. Maybe I should stick with a Leo DiCaprio collage instead.....

I wonder if there are other songs I should try to remix and make my own also. There are quite a few Alice in Wonderland remixes on youtube. I can't wait for the Tim Burton remix!

(p.s. saw the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland and it was AWFUL. Total bummer. Why does he have to be so mainstream and cheesy?)

-Emily Kight

Oops...late viral video

This came out a few months ago, I really like remixed youtube viral videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI

-Kate Wurzbacher

CJ Johnson Viral Video Post

Better late than never I suppose...

This is a video i saw a few years ago, made by a couple of guys with a still camera, and aside from some animation at the beginning with the letters its all still photos. I have done some stop motion myself so i thought this was pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY

viral video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qYY06KD_Zg

Ashlie Iacocca

Scott Wiggins Viral Video Picks

Hey I dropped the ball on this, so heres my late entries for the viral video project. I don't do the whole youtube thing as much as others, but I do enjoy watching current T.V. so here are two of my favorite segments.

First, Target Women's Sarah Haskin's goes to a Twilight convention, in an effort to learn why girls just love vampires so much.

Next, being this project is about viral videos, heres a clip from the Viral Video Film School.

In another related topic, this episode is all about people being stupid in the snow!

Zack Silver- viral video post

I found this video in one of my classes last semester. I like it because of the way it incorporates the interesting facts, with cool visuals and a fast paced song.

Viral Video Post [Contino]

Cool Court with Nachos the Cross-eyed Cat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcILt--p0U

'Because everyone should have the right to bare cool CD's.'

~Nicholas J. Contino

Josh Fleury's Viral Video Blog

So my post 24 hours ago didn't turn up, so Let's try again

Jones Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage

I've seen people post more than one video, not sure if were suppose to but here's another one.

Weezer's "Pork and Beans"

//Josh Fleury

Alex Coyle's viral videos

First video is a classic karaoke cover of Maria Carey's, "Touch My Body."

The second video is of a dog sleepwalking

Tracy's ideas for viral videos.

I am definately a self proclaimed dork/loser. It's ok though, I LOVE it.

1.) This one makes me laugh all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfSMLR-d8Iw&feature=related

2.) This one is my own dorky amusement.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mournfulbliss#p/a/f/0/1uM7sdWS0i4

3.) Finally, a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw

Viral Video-Kara Wexler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNYZH9kuaYM

Viral Video- Evan Kaucher

Being a person that view youtube, whether educational or just entertainment, I find myself on it quite regularly. For instance i need a couple viral videos below

Rick Rolled- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Grape lady Falls- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMS0O3kknvk

I'm on a Boat- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8F3UE9qFsg

etc etc etc you get the idea

John Curall-Viral Video

Hey Guys,

I don't really spend a lot of time on Youtube so this is all pretty new to me. Here are two videos I found that interested me and that seemed like that had a format that was exploitable for a project. The second video has some foul language in it. We are all adults here, but if that sort of thing offends you please do not watch. The first one seems to have various other permutations that might be interesting too.

Thanks and enjoy!

Possible video response candidate jawn

So, there are a lot of furby torture videos on youtube and this is one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PWk-CZaAU

A possible video response could be from the furby's perspective actually torturing people or somehow getting back at "us".

Viral Video-Keiran McCann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNWCniwgfo

Beyonce Clown

Viral Animation Video

A friend of mine goes to UArts and showed me this video a long time ago. It's a little different but the idea of graffiti art being animation is interesting.


Animation Video


Enjoy.
--Chelsea Lynch

"At Last, Artists Harness the Internet", by Alice Pfeiffer

The New York Times Article

Published September 12, 2009
Special Report on artists using the Internet as source material for their work.

Philagrafika 2010

http://www.philagrafika2010.org/

Philadelphia's international festival celebrating print in contemporary art 1.29.10 - 4.11.10

Temple Gallery at Tyler School of Art is one of the main venues for this year's festival.
The gallery is open:
Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, 11am - 6pm
Free and open to the public

For more information on the show at Tyler:
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions/index.html

Young-Hae Chang at Temple

http://yhchang.com/

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Tuesday, February 2, 6 pm
126 AUDITORIUM / Temple University Architecture building
1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Free and open to the public

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is a Seoul based web-art group formed in 1998. Its C.E.O., Young-hae Chang (Korea), and its C.I.O., Marc Voge (USA) will discuss their practice and their new piece MY PRETTY PEACENIK created in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art.

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is yhchang.com. YHCHI has made work in 16 languages and presented much of it at the following institutions: New Museum, New York; Tate, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Whitney Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Center, Los Angeles; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Venice Biennial; the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial; the São Paulo Biennial; the Kitakyushu Biennial; and the Istanbul Biennial. This program is supported in part by the Korea Foundation, Friends of Temple Gallery, the General Activities Fee, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Sol Lewitt - conceptual art

NPR report on Sol Lewitt

Welcome to Class

This is our first day.
temple.edu

Graphic Design The New Basics

Graphic design is an important component of creating content for the web. The book Graphic Design, The New Basics, by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips will be referred to in class and is recommended reading for the course. The book is available at Paley Library and can be viewed in part on Google books.

lynda.com

If you are interested in detailed on-line tutorials for PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Flash as well as many other software programs, lynda.com is a good resource. There are different levels of membership.