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Category: art

25 Sep

Artist books, here I come!

I finished the code work on the backend for the new “multi” page format. I also got the basics for the front end gallery view down, but they need much more work. As part of the “multi” view you can now embed flash movies. Yee haw! I dug up some code for one of those [...]

19 Sep

New Home Page!!!

I’m so excited! Figuring out this AMFPHP connection is opening up so many possibilities for dynamic information display! I just reworked the home page with a new dynamic flash clip. Check it out! I’ve embedded the flash movie to the left as well as an example. The flash template grabs the details for whatever the [...]

17 Sep

Weird Al does Dylan palindrome style

OK, so I figured out you can resize You Tube videos. There are a bunch of little functions you can use with their videos. This helps with my fuzzy resolution problems I was complaining about earlier. Like I said, it’s pretty convenient and useful, but something about it still rubs me the wrong way… I [...]

17 Sep

New Gallery Page

I finally got the new main gallery page up and running! Please check it out when you get a chance. Just click on the “Gallery” link above. The flash movie to the right is an example of the same thing. It basically loads all the thumbnail images for a particular gallery into a flash movie [...]

14 Sep

Anxiety Attack

I found this funny video a while ago. I had it saved in one of those folders I mentioned the other day. I was just rummaging through, looking at things I hadn’t used or looked at for like a year, and there it was. I thought it would be fun to post it here. OK, [...]

14 Sep

The Prosthetics

I managed to get up six tracks from our college band, The Prosthetics, last night. The recording quality is really terrible. We didn’t have any good recording equipment back then, so we just threw a boom box in the middle of the room and pressed the record button. That’s about as low tech as you [...]

12 Sep

useless stuff

I collect all kinds of things I come across on the net and save them in little folders all over my desktop. Pretty soon I’m putting folders into other folders and then I have this little chest of drawers filled with useless junk. It’s a strange compulsion. I guess it’s better than collecting real objects. [...]

10 Sep

movies

alt : The US vs. John Lennon Trailer I watched two documentaries recently, “The US vs. John Lennon” & “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film”. Both were decent films, however the Hunter S. Thompson film was a bit shaky and had some problems, in my opinion of course. Maybe that’s [...]

07 Sep

at home in the suburbs

Photograph taken off of Nancy’s parent’s backyard patio. Here is a quick photo I took the other night in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It was taken off of Nancy’s parent’s back patio. I shot the 12-24mm wide lens on a tripod with remote shutter release and exposure somewhere around 20-30 seconds. You can see the [...]

05 Sep

Here and There

A buttefly shot at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Black & white channel conversion with sepia toning in photoshop. It’s been a while since my last update. Things have been ok lately. Finished off the last of the TEFL requirements and the deep research and job hunting has started. It’s a bit overwhelming and mind numbing [...]