I finally got around to uploading the Processing project I completed a while ago in my Workshop class. My project goal was to create a navigable landscape, randomizing as many parameters as possible. You can play with the interactive version here.
[another cross-post from the NML blog]
At Project New Media Literacies, we’re collaborating with Harvard’s GoodPlay Project on an ethics casebook to address the special ethical issues that arise in the online world. GoodPlay has identified five different ethical areas, but at the moment, we are working on activities that explore credibility and how it is assessed and developed online.
One of the courses we are required to take in my grad program is a Workshop, where we learn a basic variety of media production skills to supplement all our book-learnin’.
So far, we’ve done some work in Processing, creating computational art (which I will put up here once I get it working on my new computer), made a personal page in html (you’re on it), and for our most recent project, we worked as a class to make an online version of a book.
The book chosen for us was Des Imagistes, a collection of imagist poems edited by Ezra Pound that rarely circulates, and wasn’t online! We made a pretty neat online version that just we just finished up this morning. So check it out, and read some poems!
(My favorites are the short images from Allen Upward.)
I’ve been listening to a bunch of Philip Glass while working on papers and revisited his opera about the life of Gandhi, Satyagraha.
Glass has a reputation for sort-of cheesy, new-agey stuff, so focusing on Gandhi as a topic doesn’t do much to reduce the overall corniness of his oeuvre. My cynicism requires me to ignore the silliness of the “message” and the overarching themes Glass tries so earnestly to get to by focusing each act on Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Martin Luther King, major literary figures with ties to Gandhi’s life. Luckily, the best part of the opera is not the story. (If you could even say it has a “story.”)
I finished this a while ago, but wanted to make it perfect before I put it up as my real front page. Since it will never be perfect, and it basically works now, I figured I’d just put it up and get it over with.
It’s an egotist/javascript dream, and pulls stuff from all the online places I regularly put content, including my tumblr, twitter, delicious, and blog feeds. Everything should work, with the exception of the “Other Work” link up at the top, which has no page to link to yet. Everything will probably break as soon as one of these javascripts stops working. Expect incessant tweaking (If you, for some reason, were compelled to look at my personal site more than once).
In terms of real blog stuff, I do actually have some things to write about, and I am going to work on writing stuff here on a regular basis. That is, as soon as I’m done with the current crunch time of schoolwork.
So yeah, enjoy, if you needed to know everything I was doing on the internet at the same time, now you can.
