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Class #5 when we will finally destroy art once and for all.
After blithering on last class about how these seemingly cacophonous artists sites are really sophisticated design products. Not designed in the commercial sense, but designed in the sense that images are placed with intention, I have to swallow my words because of the best art site in universe: http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm (via artfagcity) especially since it's not an art site, it really is a bridal wear site. Perhaps proving that everyone can make something that looks like art at least once. Perhaps also showing how close web-based art can ride with everything else on-line.
- This institution has tech and IT staff protecting their systems, but you don't. We will discuss how to protect your own systems from a web-based part practise.
- don't download exe files you don't understand, Google to find out exactly what something is from one of hundreds of tech communities who see this sort of crap and warn each other about it all the time.
When the site is ready for The Royal Society of Intertubes, our Surf club that we are doing with Joe McKay's class in California, you will have to log in with your email address, get yourself a yahoo, gmail or hotmail account specifically for that (and for spam whenever you give it away for anything on-line).
Some of you took to blingee (http://blingee.com/) last class, here's some from Olia Lialina http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/blingee/ (don't forget to read her two essays, and way more on her later, she's amazing)
- good time to discuss what and why and how sites like this get made, why and how user interface decisions are made.
Some more links to collections of stuff, the bar gets raised even higher for this assignment:
http://www.typingservice.org/index.html
http://www.unbehagen.com/fascinum/
http://oliverlaric.com/b.htm
http://www.vvork.com/?p=6535#comments
LINK FOR PORN VIDEO: http://thankgodforconceptualart.com/index.php?/projects/me-and-my-girlfriend/ (of course you'll watch this)
Spirit Surfers have some great collectors:
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=258
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=229
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=241
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=575
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=187
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=477 (I'd count this one as a collection, how about a set of multiples. Never mind, it's nice)
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=169 (I have a large scale photo of a garbage dump by Warren Quigley hanging over my mantle at home)
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=133
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=38
And while we are at Spirit Surfers, check out this marquee animation, http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=427. they don't have to run at the speed of light to be interesting. The attributes for setting the speed are here: http://www.html-reference.com/MARQUEE.htm. I remind you of this since it appears that you will use that damn tag for everything until the day you die.
We are going to play with a screen capture tool today.
Now lets rip some youtubes, and later produce some of our own video clips.
Take 10 minutes to find a very short, preferably silent, youTube video that you want to download: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_6JvJTQoE
got to http://www.ripzor.com/youtuberipper.html and enter the URL of the video you selected.
What you have now is an FLV file, without an flv player you can't view it, and you probably won't be able to edit it in any of the video editors on your machine. So now go to http://www.ripzor.com/flvconverter.html to download an FLV converter. We want to change this youtube flash video to an .avi file that we can dick around with. If the original downloaded file does not have an extension .flv, add it.
Open the converter software, and select your file and select .avi in output options. Save the new file to your desktop. Now you should have an avi that you can open and edit in windows video editor or any editing software. I hope that you're happy now. we can easily make some GIFS from this by selecting frames saving them as bitmaps, converting the bitmaps to gif in an image editing software and importing them to a GIF editor or else Photoshop, but I don't want to start on an intense animation with Photoshop class until lesson 6. (when you'll also try to make digital pogs: http://mikesdigitalpogpage.com/)
Now for a screen capture utility, we're going to try out Camtasia. Also today, pass my video camera around, those with cell phones can try to download their videos or images with a firewire connection. Lots of problem solving for all of us.
More links for end of class if there is time:
http://www.loshadka.org:80/wp/?p=630 JavaScript, but think about how you now know how to do it with an animated GIF
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=148
http://nastynets.com/?p=1274
http://nastynets.com/?p=1236
http://www.newrafael.com/