I like to think of art as existing with in a certain sphere of difficulty. Whatching something in film will always impress me more then watching the same outcome in digital. I enjoy seeing something amazing coming out of something basic. The same with music too, I would rather hear chopsticks made from pine-cones then listen most pop(not picking on anyone, pop just uses the most easily created “computer music”). It would be interesting just to wonder how they did it. Here is an example
http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#Battles%20Atlas
(I don’t know how to embed audio off project playlist, I might fix it later)
As I understand, this was created with only a conventional band and no digitial distortion.
So I can remember this later.
http://mugshots.tampabay.com/
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I chose to chart the website skateboard.com.au because it is a website I use occasionally and I know that it has all the elements of interactive websites with forums, shop and photo sharing devices. It is also a small community website without a large number of members. Most people know a good percent the users in person, epically the big contributors.
I construed a flow chart in that I thought best suited the websites layout. This meant I had to separate a lot of the attributes from the actual pages, because although the pages might change they will retain some of the items/attributes from the last page. This is best shown in the header which links to the six different areas of the website (Home, forum, photos, interview, parks and shop). A header makes the site a lot easier to navigate, instead of having to go back to home every time you’d like to access another area of the site. A website with less different elements in a single website might not find this as useful.
I highlighted the six different areas of the chart to show how they are mostly self-contained. I used two types of lines to connect the parts of the site. And arrow indicates a link that goes from the end without an arrow; no arrow indicates that the qualities or possible actions are located on the page or pages that the line links to.
An interesting quality of the site is the restrictiveness of becoming a member. You must be a member to add content. To become a member you must be verified by an existing member. This proved more difficult then I would have thought. Although I know a large amount of people in the skateboarding community none of them are members on skateboard.com.au. This meant I couldn’t become a member and much of the site was off limits to me. However it is a great quality filter and stops “losers” as they put it from ruining the website, although it made it impossible for me to be able to track content adding in the website.
It was also impossible to track the varying links that the news and events sections of the homepage get. So I used a generic “news link” “event link” icon. Another item of interest to note was there payment methods which did not restrict the buyer to using a credit card or even having a bank account. This is because a large part of there market would be under 18 or wouldn’t be able to get a credit card.
I am without a tutor whom I wanted to ask many many questions and am afraid I might have missed my last chance. Anyway, flowcharting a site now, doesn’t seem that hard…yet. So I think I will do work that I couldn’t just do at home *goes to library*
The whole of the internet seems to have been taken over by the idea of pipes, feeds, APIs etc… It seems like there are more sites to link to other site that link to other sites which eventually might lead to something good, but who knows, it never stops linking. In many ways it makes things on the net more accessable, although I don’t like the side effects.
We have internet networking, you can show all sorts of people things you had nothing to do with creating and take some credit for it’s creation. You can have the most popular blog full of links of other peoples sites (delicious). I would rather actually create something, even if there was no possible way for my creations to be seen online, at least I would have made something.
Instead we make everything convient to the enth degree. Like having all news feeds sent to your iPhone via Yahoo pipes and RSS feeds and see all the comments on your twitter before you get out of bed is actually a good thing, like we don’t have enough convience in our life. These days convience seems like more of a curse
As micheal pointed out, you could find out if your friend/partner is having an affair with another person, not sure how you could do it but I beleive him. I may be a little paranoid but I can see this becoming a very slippery slope. The combination of internet censorship, the apparent openness of the internet and the convience all come together to make me think of something rather orwellien. All I can say for sure is that advancement in technology does not equal progress.
This post was going to be short but I got a bit carried away… sorry.
Just a few amuzing games to play in regular convosation.
#1
Aaron: Hey whatsup
Random: Yeh nothing much how about chu.
Aaron: Crack to the fair the other day. <Inserts crack into sentence
Random: wait…. crack?
Aaron(in manic voice): wait do you have any crack?!?
Random shits all in his panteees. (probably best to tell them that your arn’t actually on crack)
#2
Aaron: Man whats up with you and your girl?
Random: Ah it’s all messed up… yeh, but, fucking-
Aaron: -wait did you just say but-fucking?
Gotta be alert for this one, but people say it all the time.
