is wordpress killing web design?

just an interesting question?

video of a panel discussion at sxsw.

whaddya think?

Street with a View - a cute little thing

Here's a link to a site I came across that reflects some of the stuff we learned when doing the locative project. It's a nice little thing that a group of residents around Pittsburgh’s Northside did. They staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue,etc. but they did it when the Google Street View van was coming around. So the Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. They boast that it is the "first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View".

Ted Fields- Interactive Story Thread

Drew McElvain - Technical problem

There were two simple things I was ahving problems with but were driving me crazy.

I found this great quick resource for getting your page to stay centered on the screen here


Another problem I was having was with saving images with transparent backgrounds in Photoshop. I found out that images saved as jpegs would not have transparent background but gifs, tiffs and pngs do.

Jeremy Hill Technical Question

It would be nice to go over spry menus. I'm a little confused on what purpose they serve, and how to do them, but they sound useful. Also for any other technical question involving dreamweaver/photoshop/flash, go to youtube and you can probably fin help on the tutvid channel

Jeremy

I had a problem understanding divs in general, and how to modify its properties.This was a good site that i used. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/

For my Final project i wanted to see what can i use to pull data from Google in my own way, orhow to embed search boxes into a website. The bellow were excellent resources for this:

http://www.google.com/uds/samples/apidocs/helloworld.html
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/ (API Documentation)

Emmanuel Hernandez

Using Spry Menus

So I've been fiddling with spry menus for my page and found it difficult to customize. Only because I didn't know what I was doing. I immediately hit the endless fields of the internets.

So according to the adobe site, which was tedious to read but very helpful, it is important to organize your spryassets folder before doing anything. Check out this link to see what they say when preparing your site folders. You should have a spry ZIP file from the adobe labs site. Now to be honest, I didn't do this. But I feel like I ran into a lot of problems later because my folders were not organized in the way that they advised. It was even to the extent of modifying the widget and not even seeing a result so I'm sure this would be helpful.

My concern was with customizing the spry menu toolbars. Now when modifying the widget you need to know the CSS rules for whatever you are customizing and there is no way around that. Most of what we would be using are the basic spry menus so they might probably look like this SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css and SpryMenuBarVertical.css. Here's a good link that explains how to customize the widgets at a very general level - this is good for an intro. Once you're done with that, hit this up. This link will go into more depth in explaining how to customize the different parts of the widget.

I wish I had a way of showing you what I was going through in order to articulate what I really learned. But I still wanted to share the resources that I came across because I found them helpful.

Good luck to all with your projects.

- Jay Mohan

tech

I still was confused about div tags but I'm getting it.

Insert dv tag new CSS rule.

Selector type Tag (redefines an Htm element..) hit OK

The following have various options but here's the one's I do.

Select Box: W: auto

H: auto

Positioning-- Position: Absolute, fixed, relative, static. I choose Absolute so I can move my tag wherever. hit OK.

The Dv tag will have the blue outline on it with a little square in the top left corner for positioning (because I selected Absolute positioning). You have to use that square or the tag doesn't seem to move.

Then you can go to Insert---Image---select the image.

Or if you already have content.

Do Insert---dv tag. Wrap around content.

-D

Latest Post - Technical Concerns

My most pressing question right now would be how to convert a photoshop sliced document into a dreamweaver div tagged format. I have found some resources online referring to the topic and intend to apply them in the near future:

How to convert a photoshop table to a div tag?

http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/layout/tables_and_layers/tables_and_layers03.html

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/quickcssmockupswithphotoshop/

http://digg.com/software/The_RIGHT_way_to_convert_your_Photoshop_design_to_XHTML_and_CSS_Layout

Marcelo

Exploration Site

http://astro.temple.edu/~tuc24665//Exploration/Index.html

-Sam Lipman-Stern

Oakland Storytelling map

Now, Ive been to Oakland, I hopped off the train on my way to San Francisco, spent probably 5 minutes walking around the block, and got back to the train. Just didn’t find it that exciting. But this website shows that behind a city that might not be as instantly appealing as San Francisco, there are stories behind. The website has a map that contains different story points, and each story point links to a fun interesting story posted by someone one living there. It just teaches you that its also people that make out a map or a city, and are contributors of its own distinct soul.

--- Emmanuel

Oakland Tours are the Bombdizzle by Scott Faust

This is late. Yay. This is probably my favorite site I've checked out so far. It seems made for users, by users. It has multiple tours based on themes of all sorts of interests. It gives you the chance to map your own tour by giving a story, and everybody can check out your tours and comment.

'Scape the Hood - San Francisco

'Scape the Hood

'Scape the Hood is a locative storytelling project conceived for the 8th annual Digital Storytelling Festival. A group of storytellers, artists, and technologists put together a narrative archeology experiment, combining digital storytelling and emerging technology by overlaying a virtual landscape on the physical world. The audience walks the streets and listens to the neighborhood stories while experiencing sights and sounds from both the physical and the virtual world.

Project Artaud is a part of 'Scape the Hood, and is the first major GPS-enabled locative media project in San Francisco (Mission district). Artaud brings the stories of the artists and art organizations from inside the building and out onto the street to show what it is like to live and work within a concentrated community of artists.

- Pete Herron

css layout reaction

The CSS article helped me to better understand the reason for using CSS. The class lecture made CSS seem much more complicated than the tables we have become accustom to. However, after reading this article I have a better understanding of the purpose of CSS and the simplicity it will create when I have multiple pages. Ross Shannon explains what a div tag means and what it can do. I will be able to return to this article in the future and reference it for div tag codes.

Ashlie Iacocca

Oakland Storytelling Map

The organic city is a pretty cool site. It encourages people to find and tell stories about local places in the downtown Oakland area. People use this website to tell the stories and they form into mobile media that can be experienced while walking around downtown Oakland.

-Cole Price

Yellow Arrow

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/

Yellow Arrow is a cool interactive site that allows people from all over the world to create a worldwide mapping system. Users take pictures and videos of any location and text message them to the Yellow Arrow website where they are uploaded and mapped on the site. What the site has turned into is a complex map of thousands of locations submitted by users. These locations range from favorite restaurants in New York City to a specific graffiti piece on a street in Melbourne Australia. There are also more complex projects on the site, like a collection of short documentaries mapping Washington D.C.'s punk rock scene.

Check it out!

-Sam Lipman-Stern

On locative media, Cardiff, the parking lot...

Janet Cardiff's work seems to be so much about structure. It is really interesting, the way in which she talks about shifting structures, using and subverting them in different ways. I particularly enjoyed her audio tour involving sounds from a theater (Ghost Machine, 2005) previous and during a performance. I started mixing the excerpts at my own will and observing how she was creating a meta-performance from the one she attended. The structure involved in going to a theater is one that has become subconscious at this point, but it is a tradition that has its origin somewhere, like any other tradition. I suppose it is impossible for anyone to address all of these things in a work, every piece needs some structure to support itself. It seems a very interesting and complex problem to work through and has to do with the ways in which we as audience members remember what happened in the ephemeral moment of the performance and what happens with performance art; where does it go after it is done; does it go in the mind of the viewer, or does it dissappear? Or does it become just ghosts?

I also wanted to share pictures taken at the location I selected...the parking lot:

MArcelo

Edward Tufte is appointmented by Obama

Edward Tufte is the author of several books about information design. The first I remember with a visually/ graphically stunning cover was: Envisioning Information (1990). One of his newest books is Beautiful Evidence (2006).
He recently was appointed to the White House to a panel called Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. His expertise will be used to find and map/chart data on how stimulus money will be used.
I thought this related a bit to our discussion on mapping. And it's worth looking at Tufte's visual work.
Here's his website: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Rini Keagy

Locative Media

Ted Fields

LongIslandBirds.com

I have visited Long Island each summer for as I can remember. Bird-watching on the North Fork is a terrific experience and is always rewarding. As there will be many different habitats on the small strip of land there are many key locations to bird-watch, and this site does an excellent job portraying all the different sites have to offer.

Project2

http://astro.temple.edu/~tuc24665//Obama/Index.html

-Sam Lipman-Stern

Bone tool help from Alex

I just watched this youtube tutorial and it helped a lot with some issues I was having with the bone tool. Enjoy

Extra Credit - Viral Video

A thing I made on how I feel about Jay Dilla the late hip hop producer, MC and all around B-Boy. I saw a lot of these tributes arise since his death and I wanted to know if I had anything to contribute to this movement of posthumous appreciation. It's called 'Junk' (as in Beat Junkie...?).

RIP Jay Dilla (1974 - 2006)

- Jay Mohan

Auto Tune the News---

This is a really cool group that does just that. Auto tune the news. They have a couple of episodes. One of my favs below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI

---- E. Hernandez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRcj6CAhe7s&feature=related

I think this is a pretty decent example of a viral video. It remixes Jack Sparrow running around with a jar of dirt.

Remix video Christopher Fought

I love it when people will take something and change it completely and it will have a new meaning. For instance, when someone takes a movie trailer that is a Disney movie and is not a scary movie at all and they will change it and make it a horror film. This is what I am going to be focusing on for my project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Viral Remix

I'm not sure if this counts as a viral video, but it makes me laugh.

This video received 137 video responses. Seems it spread like a virus, even if it isn't necessarily considered a "viral video."

I liked the bible remix of it. The cower remix is also enjoyable, along with many others. The delivery of the original video is pretty adaptable and so as the remix shows, it can be used for a variety of topics. Thus creating a connective thread which runs through the remix responses. Humor allows people to connect to each other on a bundle of topics. I liked the simplicity of the video because it makes it accessible to everyone, not only to watch but to create their own remixes.

-Winslow

REMIX, Appropriation and Culture Jamming - A Great American Pastime

First off, Diddy did not invent the remix. Now that that's clear - we can move on with our lives.

- “Plagiarism is necessary… progress implies it” - Comte de Lautremont

- “It is obviously in the realm of cinema that detournement can attain its greatest efficacy… Most films only merit being cut up to compose other works” - Guy Debord

- Teddy Adorno thought of montage as inherently political and that it is art’s attempt to “confess its impotence through the late capitalist totality and inaugurate its abolition”

- Umberto Eco dreamt of “groups of communications guerrillas who could restore a critical dimension to passive reception” of mass media.

I made a remix project for a videography class [shoutout to Katya Gorker]. I really enjoyed the topic of making a remix project but one that is a self-portrait. It forces us to think of images and media that reflect our identity. I began to realize that what I'm really looking for are those images that shape my identity. C.H. Cooley says, 'I am not who I think I am, I'm not who you think I am, I am who I think you think I am'. Identity is largely constructed from interactions with others but also the effect of media images. So I tried coping with me anger and sensitivity with them, by reclaiming these images as my own. Compiled from clips taken from youtube. Oh, and it's called Sandnigger. It's dedicated to the redneck man who kicked the crap out of me when I was 11 for being Brown.

I also found this clip online that discusses remix media through remixing itself. It refers to a lot of important appropriation projects such as those of Criag Baldwin, Lewis Cohen and Stephen Marshall.

As for the definition on Culture Jamming, let's hear it from the man who coined the term - Mark Dery.

"Culture jamming," a term I have popularized by articles in The New York Times and Adbusters, might best be defined as media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one. Billboard bandits, pirate TV and radio broadcasters, media hoaxers, and other vernacular media wrenchers who intrude on the intruders, investing ads, newscasts, and other media artifacts with subversive meanings are all culture jammers.

If you wanna read this rest of this seminal essay peep that at his site.

- Jay Mohan

Remix site

This site: www.mypyramid.org is a parody of the US Dept of agriculture's webisite.

In the government's version, the USDA's food pyramid, which is their recommendation for daily nutrition. The parody, however,
depicts the US government's connection/dependance/support of corporate interests. It is a very subtle parady, but is identifiable
by the recommendation of high fructose corn syrup and the site's name : The US Department of Agribussiness. Wether one agrees with
the politics, its an effective site.

John Brennan

Why is the rum gone? :-O

So...

youtube remixes are always great and a pleasure. Some are just downright funny. Some take a moment of seriousness and turn it into something crazy like when Bill O'Reilly flipped. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE

it's this tone change that I will aspire to do in whatever I decide to remix. Also, the manipulation of words and sound is always fun so I'll probably do something involving the that. I just have one question...

why is the rum gone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8

-D. Williams

remix

This is a completely random remix I found of an old kung-fu film. I guess its kind of funny but not really what i plan on doing. I plan on just gathering archival footage from probably archive.org and remixing it to make it my own. http://vimeo.com/2213880 ... cole

Jeremy Hill Remix Post

The Remix i chose comes from Pixar's UP. An Australian DJ Pogo decided to take a series of short sound effects and soundtrack from the movie and created an all together different product. Instead of following the traditional story or cutting the footage to make a new one (lika a trailer re-edit) he creates a competely new entity free of narrative. The remix is mostly audio with corresponding video. This is similar to what i want to pursue in my remix project. I plan to use archival footage and youtube clips and combine them to make a completely different product that defies the previous uses.

Here is the Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yt1ooLQGo

Jeremy

Literary remixes...

While I have not read the respun version of Pride and Prejudice which involves zombies, apropriately titled: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, just looking at the first page gives you the drift. I want to point it out as a remix that has nothing to do with computers and while it's just one in the many zombie based books that publishers know will sell out of sheer novelty, it's choice of remixing a classic public domain Jane Austen novel seems more big leagues than setting "david at the dentist" to technobeats . While I'm not planning on rewriting a 400 page 18th century novel, I like the inventiveness.

Drew McElvain

"ThruYou" - Youtube Mixes

This is by far my favorite remix project:

THRUYOU

Musician Kutiman produced mixes of people playing various instruments in YouTube videos to create a series of collaborative songs. This is the type of project that I would love to create, but simply don't have the time it takes to do it at this point. I've always been excited by the idea of people collaborating on music and video projects from all around the world, so it's something that I would definitely like to be involved with in the future. Kutiman apparently stayed in his room for two months straight without any outside communication to work on this remix series. It's fun to watch, fun to listen to, and inspiring to know that it can be done.

- Pete Herron

Funny Jersey Shore Remix

Jersey Shore
This video is a funny remix of the original video which was used to show people how much work it takes to make the cover girls in the industry look the way they do on the magazines.

This video is a remix of the dove commercial

Ted Fields__Dr. Who meets Star Trek

Perfectly done..a classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzAdoTrxehk&feature=related
Ted Fields

Laino Remixes

Here are some remixes done by the organization "Los Hetores" who just fool around with tergiversation of Hollywood movies adding spanish-colombian slang and modisms in order to change the storylines completely.

They even have an annual award ceremony!

Here are two I like:

Grillantina


and

Poya



Enjoy,

Marcelo

i think this is a remix?

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?lang=uk

This is a site where you can take clips of old bollywood films and insert your own subtitles OR dialog - WITH SOUND! The dialog sounds like a computer, and its fidgity, but its fun. To do it you have to reload the page, click TEXT TO SPEECH first, then FILL IN every text line option. Play the video with or without original sound to whatever effect. So far that I've experienced, you have to reload the page EVERY time you want new SPEECH, even if it's just one line or one word. The subtitles can be fun especially when someone has a long line, and you put in a one word subtitle. Yea. Good times.

Scott Faust

best. evar. kind of.

This is easily my favorite viral video series ever. Ever.

G.I. Joe - I'm a Computer

There's a ton more of these. Just look up "GI JOE viral" or "GI JOE PSA"

Do it to it.

Scott Faust.

Obama McCain Dance Off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyT9-9lUyE

I saw this remix and viral video during the presidential campaign. The creator took video footage of the heads of Obama and McCain and put them on the bodies of break-dancers, creating an intense dance off between the two candidates. The creator also added convincingly similar voices for the candidates.

I'm pretty sure they did this in After Effects - if anybody knows the exact process please let me know!

-Sam Lipman-Stern

N.Contino- Viral Video Post

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

viral video link

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

Ashlie Iacocca

Funny Or Die

First of all, I apologize for the late post but I had a lot of problems logging in last week.

www.funnyordie.com

This website is great because it displays all of the videos in picture form and not text form. Keeping it simple, funnyordie.com also allows users to select whether they rate a video funny or not. As the viewers rate the videos the rating is permanent and if a video receives too many die votes it is removed. This is a great idea because this eliminates all the unfunny videos that anyone can upload. Other video sites leave everything uploaded and this clogs up the search engine when your trying to find something thats actually funny.

imdb

imdb.com
This is an awesome website! The website covers every aspect of the entertainment industry. There are many links to movies, actors, writers, and directors. Links to and from websites showing trailers and up to the minute updates of films in production. Hypertext runs across the top and down the left side to help find everything easily. Clicking on individual movies is just the start of information available to the viewer. This is the movie buffs mecca for online movie information.

Cool Website Design

http://www.designspongeonline.com/

This is a blog but I really found her page visually enticing and it made want to explore throughout her page. I would like to be able to create something like this from scratch with Adobe! *Natsai T.*

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a personalized link generator that uses its online community and social-networking to allow people to discover and rate websites, photos, videos, etc. You can download a toolbar for your internet browser and click "Stumble!" to display a random website based on your ratings of previous pages, ratings by your friends, and ratings by people with similar interests. StumbleUpon is essentially channel-surfing on the web. It's a very creative way of using and sharing links, and allows for discovery of all types of information.

Pete Herron
tua45536@temple.edu

Buy One Get One

Buy One Get One

So I came across a very confusing but interesting art piece online by mixed media artist Shu Lea Cheang (and many others). There is a lot to take in here on this site as the layout is very original and new to me. The site also mixes photos from all around the world and clips of various articles that appear to be from newspapers in Africa and South East Asia (mainly). The site deals juxtaposes geographical borders with internet borders as lines drawn by a governing political system. This is an attempt to combat that.

The site defines itself like this:
"BUY ONE GET ONE derives its name from happy hour at Sphinx in Soi Silom, Bangkok.
The project explores a digital (co)existence that is borne out of net technology.
While Southeast Asia builds Cyberjaya and Africa safaris on the net,
we travel to test the limits of national and electronic border patrols."

The home page collects a number of stories about borders. For example "Shanghai, November 17:"If you are Chinese, why do you have a U.S. passport?"
-- Immigration official, Shanghai International Airport". Several other posts are more personal responses that deal with the similar theme of being stuck at a border as a transition from one place [home] to another place [an entirely different world].

Upon arrival (i think there's a succinct pun there) a mini window pops up with numbers like a cell phone. a .gif image of an eye with legs lurking behind it flickers away to the right of this dial. There are two images of web cameras above them. I haven't done anything and I feel intruded upon. But I think that's the point.

I type in some random numbers (I chose 666 thinking it would be amusing for some reason) and get a collage of images. Clicking on them sends you to an entirely different page each time. But I found the collages to be incredibly appealing because they weren't random.

The imagery collects into a long network of hyperlinks that describe a variety of geo-political issues.

Jeremy Hill BLog 1

A site that creatively uses hyperlinks is http://www.slashfilm.com/. Slashfilm is a film blog that covers any and all news in the media business. Whenever the there is a post there are always hyperlinks dispersed into the text providing the reader with a plethora of material on a certain subject in a single article. I read this site multiple times a day and thought the rest of the class should know about it.

Jeremy Hill

Chroniclesofhern

A friend of mine showed me this site about a year ago and it seems to be getting better. Its a site by filmer Chris Mulhern. The main page really caught my eye with its interesting hyperlinks which lead you to either the promotional site for his new video, his blog, or his main site. The hyper links are neat. Check em out.http://chroniclesofhern.com/Main/Enter.html
-Cole Price tua82157@temple.edu

Powderhouse Productions

I guess it's a cheap shot to go to a web page of a production studio, but I really like the way this site is layed out. The main page for Powderhouse Productions is simple and small with a menu at the top that does a variety of things. Clicking the "reel" tab the company's reel is launched immediately in a ghost pane over the page. The "Genre" tab gives you a list of sub tabs to choose from instead of navigating you to a page that navigates you to aother page, and my favorite, the "about" tab reveals a mosaic of all the employees faces that when clicked launch a ghost pane with video (That has a really good hidden loop) of the employee standing and waiting while you read their bio. All in all, the website for Powderhouse Production gets across the fact that they are a studio that is very competent but at the same time has a light humorous touch which seems really enticing for clients.

Drew McElvain
tua20628@temple.edu

Anne Winslow

Oh Hello,

After digging through the never-ending abyss called "the web," I found Nick Jone's web-site. Maybe I'm a sucker for cheap tricks, but I liked how the hyperlinks scrolled in place and shifted to make a new frame when clicked. It felt organized and not visually smothering. So props to Mr. Jones.

Creative use of hyperlink

A website that creatively uses hyperlinks would be gamespot.com. It's the homepage on my computer so I decided to post about it.. It took awhile to find a site that used hyperlinks in a cool way. What gamespot does is, use vertical thumbnail pictures as links (with the text beneath it). But also in the background is a larger picture of the game with more information (but this changes in a timed fashion to match the thumbnail). So basically, you get a mini preview of the game. They used to have movie video clips of the game instead of larger pictures, but now they don't. I like it better this way, the other way was too chAøtic.

Another thing I like about this website is the banner. To a degree, it blends in with the larger background picture behind it, but still somehow manages to be a banner on top of that picture. And there is no banner/picture lag as I scroll down the page, I hate lag. It's well executed.

D.

Jully Malloy ---- Interactive Poetry

Check out Jully Malloys website. It is an interesting play on words and thoughts. It almost seems like every page is a poem, or meditation on a subject. Within each poem, there are links that take you into other thoughts, or expansions on the original poem; as if you diverge from one work into multiple ones. I dont think all of it totally makes sense for me yet, but is interesting how you can interact with a piece of writing that way.

http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/roarofdestiny/alt.html

tub81449@temple.edu
Emmaunuel Hernandez-Febo

Scott Faust

scott faust tub79078@gmail.com

After searching for a while I couldn't really find anything that popped out at me. I like IGN.com's layout and the scrolling art at the top of the page with the image hyperlinks and joblo.com does something similar, so that's something I would easily consider trying to tackle. I'd have to say I like rollover hypertext links or the video that plays when you roll over. I can't say any specific instances I recall, but I'm a fan of rollovers that blow up in a major way. For example, you roll over a thumbnail and it blows up to something bigger and flashier.... Difficult to describe but if I happen across one I'll link it here. Anywho, not decided yet on what I'm gonna do for the first project given the limited knowledge I have on dreamweaver, but rest assured it will rock your face. Hopefully.
Crossing my fingers. All I have is an iphone to take pictures.

Yay.

www.sickanimation.com - Christopher Fought

I choose this website because I find that the links used in this website are very creative. The links at the home screen are animated and when you choose that link for instance "Cartoons" a new list of videos comes up on the right hand side and as you hover over each a brief clip of the cartoon is played next to it, so it gives you a small preview of what your about to see. This is smart because then you don't have to watch the whole cartoon before you find out its not the one you want.

Homestar Runner

Check out the Homestar Homepage (be sure to click "come on in")

Homestar Runner (its dot com!) has been a favorite of mine for years. The designers make excellent use of hyperlinks on their homepage and the links are very interactive. This extra attention to detail makes the site more enjoyable to visitors. When I was in middle school I would check back at least once a week to look out for content changes! Be sure to put your cursor over each hyperlink button on the left side of the page. Try changing the 'theme' of the homepage by clicking the hyperlink buttons (1-25) in the bottom left corner of the page. As the theme changes, so does the animation related to each hyperlink button. Besides on the homepage, many of the other pages such as "Toons" or "Characters" have hidden links with animations, quite an amusing site.

Posted by Ted Fields

A Hypervortex of Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI

I chose this .

Ezra Pound has so many allusions, hypertext is the perfect way to help understand the poetry. The site itself is rather plain, but I like that because it does not distract from the text with silly gimmicks.

The site expresses the utility and elegance of hypertext. It is easy to understand and use: simply click on the portion of text one wishes to understand. Poetry is a text medium. Its beauty is self contained. The words themselves are what is important. By not including other pictures or graphic design elements, the web designer has not succumbed to ego or the changing vagueries of trends. The web designer allows the words to be important.

This kind of document could only exist on the web. It is the perfect application of hypertext.

author:John Brennan

Adult Swim

www.adultswim.com
I like this website because it is incredibly interactive for the Adult Swim fan. The site uses flash animation and pictures that link to shows, video clips and hundreds of games. All the images and words are hyperlinks that lead you to different destinations. The website promotes Adult Swim and engages fans very well by allowing them to watch all Adult Swim shows on the website. It further engages viewers with hyperlinks that allow one to share content on social networking sites and blogs, discuss various topics on their forum, listen to albums and buy products.

-Sam Lipman-Stern

BTW Thanks for posting the infinite wheel site. Definitely cool!

INFINITEWHEEL

www.infinitewheel.com

I like this website because it uses rollovers and hyperlinks to create an interface where users can create music without having knowledge about music. The colors and animations are fun and visually engaging and the music is catchy. I think it is a successful website because it makes the user want to explore where else can one rollover or press in order to make things change. TRY IT!

Marcelo Rueda

awesome hypertext project

check out this........

_laura

Welcome

Welcome to the Web Art and Design Blog for Spring 2010 (sect 001).

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