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Lesson # 3
This isn't a correspondence course, stay for the whole class unless I let you go early.
Put your name on top of your html pages with this line below it, the tape thing didn't work for me last class:
The code looks like this: <HR NOSHADE WIDTH="100%">
Play with its attributes, don't see any? Try some out from other tags. I will explain right now the difference between relative and absolute values.
-a few interesting things from last class, fuck ups as opportunities. All the experiments later I tried didn't work. (I wanted to make HTML plaid, maybe I can do it with CSS)
-pushing the medium to do surprising things
-learning to use these tricks in a way that has some organic relationship to the images
a lovely restrained use of gifs: http://www.petracortright.com/
(marquees!)
http://nastynets.com/?p=616
http://nastynets.com/?p=572
http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/100mmarquee.html
http://loshadka.org/billy/huge.html
http://nastynets.com/?p=542
http://nastynets.com/?p=603
http://nastynets.com/?p=1435
Instead of doing an important tutorial on tables the hard way, we will go to the best web based tools I have found for learning scripts on line:
First of all, a good list of tags and attributes for reference: http://www.html-reference.com/ Here you'll find atributes for a lot of tags
now to tucows.com for alleycode shareware: http://www.tucows.com/preview/315334, download the software to your machine.
Other tools:
The best HTML instruction ever: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp b/t/w the font tag is being depreciated so we have to experiment with css (cascading style sheets)
Experiment with placing images and /or text in remixes
some examples:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41322
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41297
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?40630
http://www.eyekhan.com/eyekhan/EYEKHANLABS-GIFS.html
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?39410
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?39293
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?37206
Read this post on GIFs: http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/08/05/img-mgmt-psychotronic-gifs/#comments
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/LMfoundGIFs/
Use picsee to look at the actual dimensions of the gifs I use: http://www.nastynets.com/picsee/
another great resource for animated gifs is: http://www.txt2pic.com/glitters/1.htm
(Some of the keeners can hack into these pages):
http://www.krazydad.com/makecolors.php
http://oliverlaric.com/displacement.htm
YouTube hacks:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2108/youtube_hack_automatically_start_loop_videos
More on hacking:
cover youtube in blood: http://nastynets.com/?p=923
http://nastynets.com/?p=412
http://www.brohans.com/2007/01/30/video-can-you-embed-two-youtube-videos-on-top-of-each-other-answer-yes
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2522/youtube_how_to_save_youtube_videos_pc_mpg_avi_format
More collections:
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=173
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=504#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=911
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=1307#comments
http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=1
http://nastynets.com/?p=470
http://nastynets.com/?p=566#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=53
Blingee: http://blingee.com/
Make a blingee today!
If you still have time read the two essays on Web vernacular:
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/
Next class:
- bring a digital image of yourself. One that you like.
- we download a simple gif animator
We have 20 days free of charge, so don't download it yet: http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/download.php
Then we'll move on to the tools in photoshop for animations.