If you want to have your own website, you need to purchase a domain name, (i.e. www.yourname.com) and sign up for a hosting service. When you first sign up with a hosting service they often give you a free domain name, so I would recommend choosing the host first and then see what deals they offer on domain names.
Here are some popular hosting services:
http://www.hostgator.com
http://www.godaddy.com
http://www.bluehost.com/
http://www.greengeeks.com/
There are many others available and it is good to do some research. Once you sign up with a company, they should send you the information to plug into the "Manage Sites" window in DreamWeaver. Remember your homepage needs to be called index.html and should be saved in your root folder. Then you upload your files just as we have been doing this semester.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Another Tutorial Page
http://flash-effects.com/
In searching for tutorials and such to find ideas for the final project, came across this site. There are a few cool ones I saw, but in case anybody needed anymore ideas, here you go!
-Derek Applegate
In searching for tutorials and such to find ideas for the final project, came across this site. There are a few cool ones I saw, but in case anybody needed anymore ideas, here you go!
-Derek Applegate
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Locative Media
Locative Media -- How have new technologies changed our sense of space (personal and private), location and community?
New technologies are a commodity that we might take for granted, but at the same time it has changed our sense of space. Since the creation of smart phones with GPS chips in them, personally I feel the world has become a smaller place. The advantage of course is that we may get to learn about places we'd never be able to go, however with technologies like GPS, digital photography, etc., these places seem too familiar. For example, I've always wanted to see the Northern Lights in person, but it has become so easy with technology to be able to witness the crazy sight on a computer with live streaming or pictures, which I feel can sometimes take away from uniqueness. As far as personal space, it has become too easy for others to be able to follow you, especially when involved in talks about big brother/always being watched.
If I were at a bar one night and introduced myself to somebody as Derek, a Temple student, it has become to easy for that person to be able to find me on sites like Facebook, and eventually find out all this other information about me. The scariest part becomes when people use the GPS chips in their phone to "check-in" at locations. For an odd reason, these sorts of technologies have become like a friend us, in which we (now subconsciously?) share information with, sometimes not thinking of exactly how many people might be able to see that "Derek has checked in at home"... with my complete address and conveniently a little map showing exactly where that is.
New technologies have made personal and private space more scarce, of course for those who want it. For others, it can be a way to get attention. A friend I used to work with constantly fills up my Facebook newsfeed whenever I log on, checking it at every single location she goes to, and even though people will comment and ask her nicely to stop, she takes advantage of it as a way to meet new people or get attention from those able to see the information. Needless to say, not only Facebook and GPS chips are to blame for this, as any new technology always seems to change communities, more specifically the ways people communicate, or watch, with one-another.
Derek Applegate
Blog # 3 -- Kathleen Welter
Locative Media -- How have new technologies changed our sense of space (personal and private), location and community?
Locative media describes a set of locations based on different types of technology. This would include wireless networks, surveillance, tracking and positioning tools. All those have allowed information to be tied to some sort of geographical space. Although today, that space is no longer personal or private because everyone and anyone could find someone’s location. For instance, there is now a “check in” tool on Facebook which allows all of your friends to be able to see what you’re doing and where you’re doing it. There is no sense of privacy anymore due to these tools.
However, these new technologies haven given some people some good advantages. Some tools such as Google maps or Google earth have allowed some people to discover new places visually. Although, it might be hard to differentiate between online visuals and reality, but that depends on the person using the tools. During the This American Life podcast describing mapping gave viewers a new sense of community. Actually it seemed to bring communities together. The mapping done in some communities had tracked specific events such as the pumpkins distributed in some homes or tracking leaves which gave each community something unique to share with one another therefore bringing everyone closer together.
Locative media describes a set of locations based on different types of technology. This would include wireless networks, surveillance, tracking and positioning tools. All those have allowed information to be tied to some sort of geographical space. Although today, that space is no longer personal or private because everyone and anyone could find someone’s location. For instance, there is now a “check in” tool on Facebook which allows all of your friends to be able to see what you’re doing and where you’re doing it. There is no sense of privacy anymore due to these tools.
However, these new technologies haven given some people some good advantages. Some tools such as Google maps or Google earth have allowed some people to discover new places visually. Although, it might be hard to differentiate between online visuals and reality, but that depends on the person using the tools. During the This American Life podcast describing mapping gave viewers a new sense of community. Actually it seemed to bring communities together. The mapping done in some communities had tracked specific events such as the pumpkins distributed in some homes or tracking leaves which gave each community something unique to share with one another therefore bringing everyone closer together.
Locative Media
Question #3 – Locative Media – how have new technologies changed our sense of space (personal and private), location and community?
New technologies have changed our sense of personal and private space in many ways. One way is by allowing us to engage in some sort of communication from far and short distances. An example would be the telephone; the phone allows us to talk with computers and with each other at our own convenience. Today programs like SKYPE, and many of our hand held wireless phones are used in the same way as a land line phone but with more functions. One function is Goble Positioning System with GPS your location is tracked and recorded for various reasons. A good example would be the North Star System for GPS travel in cars; this system will call for help if needed automatically in an event of an accident. The military uses it to navigate and locate vital object while in and out theater. Consumers today use it as entertainment by redirecting their intended uses into either art of studies for new media. While using locative media in so many different ways a map has been made and the space around us becomes more familiar or realized to be in existents, therefore the way communication takes place and why is changing.
Montes Carrasquillo
New technologies have changed our sense of personal and private space in many ways. One way is by allowing us to engage in some sort of communication from far and short distances. An example would be the telephone; the phone allows us to talk with computers and with each other at our own convenience. Today programs like SKYPE, and many of our hand held wireless phones are used in the same way as a land line phone but with more functions. One function is Goble Positioning System with GPS your location is tracked and recorded for various reasons. A good example would be the North Star System for GPS travel in cars; this system will call for help if needed automatically in an event of an accident. The military uses it to navigate and locate vital object while in and out theater. Consumers today use it as entertainment by redirecting their intended uses into either art of studies for new media. While using locative media in so many different ways a map has been made and the space around us becomes more familiar or realized to be in existents, therefore the way communication takes place and why is changing.
Montes Carrasquillo
Blog Post 3: The Internet and Personal Space
I think it is wonderful that people from all over the world, given a common language, can come together and talk. Of course, there are geographical constraints, like time zones. But it is easy enough to find an insomniac in Asia to talk to or to be an insomniac who ends up talking to someone just waking up in England. So, to me, language barriers plus the inequality in socioeconomic classes (who owns a computer; who doesn't?) end up being a greater obstacle than physical space.
Of course, sometimes, there's a dark side to this ease of access: Is this person really who they claim to be? This can lead to many problems.
In that vein, it's really interesting for me to see how people have shifted from being anonymous at all times to swapping Facebook pages tied to their real names. In the past, the Internet was the scary place where a pedophile, known only by his AIM screen name, would try to hit on your 10 year old daughter. You never gave out your real name - at most, you would only give out your first name, but people usually went by aliases. Today, the Internet is a place where respectable businessmen engage in social networking using their full names. People post their cell phone numbers online, which was once unthinkable and very taboo.
I do, however, feel that some newcomers forget that the Internet is a public space. For example, on Facebook, one of my friends asked me a question about substance use using the new Questions feature. This was inappropriate because any number of my Facebook contacts could have seen the exchange occurring. This also happens when people do things like post pictures of themselves doing keg stands online. When posting things on the Internet, I try to remember that everybody in the world could potentially see it.
Also, personally, the Internet has been great for connecting with other Deaf people. The Deaf community used to be a lot more tied to geography. I knew zero people who were Deaf when I was growing up; I still don't know a lot. Today, however, I can join Youtube and vlog in ASL to communicate with other ASL speakers. There are even Deaf messageboards that are based entirely upon video: A person posts something, then a person films a video response using a webcam, and so forth. This is just amazing and makes me feel as if we are moving out of a dark age of communication and into a new era of interacting with each other.
-DJ Crosby
Of course, sometimes, there's a dark side to this ease of access: Is this person really who they claim to be? This can lead to many problems.
In that vein, it's really interesting for me to see how people have shifted from being anonymous at all times to swapping Facebook pages tied to their real names. In the past, the Internet was the scary place where a pedophile, known only by his AIM screen name, would try to hit on your 10 year old daughter. You never gave out your real name - at most, you would only give out your first name, but people usually went by aliases. Today, the Internet is a place where respectable businessmen engage in social networking using their full names. People post their cell phone numbers online, which was once unthinkable and very taboo.
I do, however, feel that some newcomers forget that the Internet is a public space. For example, on Facebook, one of my friends asked me a question about substance use using the new Questions feature. This was inappropriate because any number of my Facebook contacts could have seen the exchange occurring. This also happens when people do things like post pictures of themselves doing keg stands online. When posting things on the Internet, I try to remember that everybody in the world could potentially see it.
Also, personally, the Internet has been great for connecting with other Deaf people. The Deaf community used to be a lot more tied to geography. I knew zero people who were Deaf when I was growing up; I still don't know a lot. Today, however, I can join Youtube and vlog in ASL to communicate with other ASL speakers. There are even Deaf messageboards that are based entirely upon video: A person posts something, then a person films a video response using a webcam, and so forth. This is just amazing and makes me feel as if we are moving out of a dark age of communication and into a new era of interacting with each other.
-DJ Crosby
Blog Post 3
The idea behind space, personal and private is something that is in a state of flux at this present time. The boundaries between what is considered private and personal information have just about faded away in our hyper connect online culture. With the aid of the Internet and “smart” phones, the line between spaces, both personal and private becomes blurred. The distortion of space is what is breaking down geophysical limitations.
As individuals share more information about themselves and their everyday lives, they aid in breaking down the space that they inhabit into a shared environment. With the technologies present today, people are able to “tap” into this information with ease. A person in Japan can share a picture of an event accruing right this moment and have them geo tagged and uploading to Flickr.com. Another person in Canada can view them seconds after they are taken, and see exactly where the event took place what time it happened at and with the use of Google earth, can view the surrounding environment where the photo accrued all while they sit at their desk.
The information captured in just one photo is enough to break down the idea behind space. Online environments, especially MMO games are just another step in completely removing the tangible world from this idea. The Internet can be used as a “global” space, were there are no defined walls. As the walls break down so does the idea of space.
Locative Media
Technologies have done a few things in relation to space and the community that have changed culture and accessibility. For starters the internet allows people to travel virtually to anywhere on the entire planet. I personally feel that this is both good and bad. For exploratory and curiousity reasons its a good thing. It allows people to learn more about the world around them. Although its benificiall to be able to explore space in such a fashion I think that its also a bad thing. Rather than going out and seeing the world for ones self I feel that most people are satisfied enough with just looking at it from a pc monitor which is kind of sad. When talking about community similar ideas apply. Yes the internet is a great tool for quickly bringing people together to share things and to be in communication with each other, but I feel we are to dependent of it. Am I saying we should all start mailing each other the old fashion way, no of course not; but the fact that we have job interviews and business meetings over the internet is just plain silly to me. Humans loose that level of interpersonal communication when they do everything over the internet. So the question is then; where is the happy balance in technologies where it remains healthy for the users? I'm not quite sure. -Mike Markloff
Monday, April 11, 2011
Andrew Valentino - Locative Media
The entire concept of space, as perceived in a geometric sense, is completely altered to the point of being moot with locative media and other forms of internet communication. Largely because you can contact anyone else in the world who has an internet connection, community becomes less about the people who are physically around us and more about the people with whom we choose to associate. Also, distance is not much of an issue because someone can immediately go from Reading, Pennsylvania to Chonhyizhen in China within a matter of second with locative tools such as Google Earth. Rather, the sense of place is more about the visual characteristics than anything else in most cases, and as a result a lot of the character of the location is lost (even the visuals are limited by the edges of the image.) Though locative media can help you get to know a place better from a visual standpoint, and to a certain extent, a spatial standpoint, there really is no substitute for being there and simply experiencing the place. On the other hand, locative media works well as a tool for augmenting information in relation to spatial characteristics, or even in creating new fictional locations.
-Andrew Valentino
-Andrew Valentino
Locative Media in Minecraft - Josh Ferrell
I thought I would share this with you all as it applies with the subject of the blogs due tomorow.
If you have any love for the internet gaming community, chances are you've heard of Minecraft, a online multiplayer space to mine for materials and then build with them. Some communities have taken to using this space to their advantage. One community in particular, Video Game Awesome, have weekly build challenges to see what their community can do in a short space of time.
Here are the results:
- The Yetti
Josh Ferrell Blog 3
As we a saw in the Second Life presentation the creation of new technologies has created a yearning for a different kind of space. No longer the space of objective static existence but a space in which the brush of individuality of each person can change the scenery for passing eyes. In these spaces the Theory of Dérive is fully in effect, people’s movements through this cyber space have no destinational purpose but rather a way of shaping a previously unshaped world. As such the idea of community as it is defined must changed with the space. Along with the space, Identity has entered a space where it can be as transformative as the space around them. People can indulge in curiosities and on a whim indulge their innermost desires. However the community aspect of this space suffers somewhat under the throws of transformative identity. While each individual can actualize his innermost desires, this means that the rest of the world can as well and thus the feeling of familiarity that one should feel in a community is shaken. However I have seen countless examples of people pulling together to create amazing works of art. Essentially in order for the Idea of community in this space to work the idea of concrete Identity must be suspended, and when it is amazing things occur.
Locative Media
Technology has changed everything – the way we communicate, the way we acquire knowledge, the way we express ourselves, and the way we locate people, places and things. As Ben Russell states, “As cell phones become internet-enabled and location aware, everything in the real world gets tracked, tagged, barcoded and mapped.” This new technology allows us the ability to reorganize and reshape the world around us. We can view a location in terms of the number of gas stations within a particular set of boundaries or in regards to its distance from a particular point of destination. We can allow others to know our location and enter our private space, by using apps such as Four Square and “checking in.”
Everything gets mapped – even things we wouldn’t otherwise think to map or expect to see mapped. This is shown in the This American Life podcast. We can map things that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, and even smelled. For instance, the number of pumpkins set out for Halloween or the ambient sound in an office can be mapped. Locative media allows us to step outside the box of traditional cartographic mapping and map those things in space that we consider “unmappable.” Community can be viewed differently depending on what it is we are mapping. We may map the houses with children living in them and find a community of parents. We could also map the same neighborhood and determine the community in terms of socioeconomic status. As technology advances, so will our ability to map and change the way we experience place.
-Tracy Galloway
Blog 3 - Locative Technologies
In recent years, technology has given us the power to relay our space and location to whomever we desire. Mobile devices and the Internet have taken this phenomenon to a whole new level. It is now possible to publicize your every location, if you do so wish. Facebook recently created this new “check-ins” feature that allows people to say where they are. People mostly use the cell phones to take advantage of this feature. People also use their phones to take photos or videos of where they are or what they are doing, and send these files to their friends and families. The main reason that these technologies are being used is to stay in touch with your loved ones. If someone is traveling, and they want to keep their friends up to date on their travels, it is now possible to do. Facebook has really captured the essence of what people want to do: uploading pictures of vacations, “checking in” to places, and there is even an application that tells people every country you have ever been to. I look for in the future, for technology to do things that are beyond our most creative thoughts. Given that I’m a Computer Science major, I’m very excited for the impact that technology will have on our sense of space and location in the future.
--Jesse Steinberg--
Blog #3: Locative Media:
New technologies have changed our sense of space, location, and community because its so easy to now know who is where. It's kind of creepy how the information is out there for anyone to see. The information is too public. With programs like Foursquare and being able to "check-in" to different locations on it and on Facebook, people are more willing to expose their location. Giving out this information gives a sense of community because you're willing to let people know where they are and what they’re doing, sort of telling people to join them. Not all locative media is necessarily creepy. Having all this information in the palm of your hand has changed our sense of location because we have apps that allow us to access a map any where we are. Finding directions or finding a place to go for dinner can be done in a matter of seconds. Our sense of location is now limitless because we can easily find out how to get from one place to the next. The Bike Box Locative project, I mentioned on the blog previously, and the projects that were highlighted in class have also changed our sense of community because it makes us aware of the people around us and how the space we are in gives people different experiences. I enjoy those kinds of locative media projects because they are educational and community driven, but those projects like Foursquare, although beneficial to the locations where people “check-in”, become somewhat of an evasion of privacy which I do not think is a good idea.
~Karina Avellaneda~
Brian Chirls, Ok Go and HTML5
Brian Chirls is a filmmaker, technologist and founder of Three Eyed Labs, a research and development lab based in New York. He has created several web based art projects to demonstrate new web technologies.
Here’s a demo using HTML5 video with a pair of videos by the band Ok Go.
The new-ish video features of HTML5 allow Javascript code enough control over embedded videos to get two of them playing in sync. Otherwise, they work just like images, so it’s easy enough to stretch and move them around.
http://code.chirls.com/whiteknuckles/
How it works:
http://chirls.com/2011/01/13/what-im-working-on-synchronized-videos-in-html5-featuring-ok-go/
Here’s a demo using HTML5 video with a pair of videos by the band Ok Go.
The new-ish video features of HTML5 allow Javascript code enough control over embedded videos to get two of them playing in sync. Otherwise, they work just like images, so it’s easy enough to stretch and move them around.
http://code.chirls.com/whiteknuckles/
How it works:
http://chirls.com/2011/01/13/what-im-working-on-synchronized-videos-in-html5-featuring-ok-go/
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
SubMap 2.0: ebullition
SubMap 2.0: ebullition from Kitchen Budapest on Vimeo.
Ebullition visualises and sonificates data pulled from one of the biggest news sites of Hungary, origo.hu. The work is part of the project SubMap, which deals with subjective mapping of cities and countries.
One frame is one day, and on one day many things can happen. Depending on how many times a day the name of a city or a village is mentioned on the site, the map of Hungary dynamically distorts according to that number. The sound follows and sonfies that visual outcome, creating a generative ever changing drone.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Locative Media
This project is called "fortysomething", and is an audio project. It involves someone walking around Graz, which is a city in Austria, and going to different places. They carry a bag that has a GPS and PDA. Depending on where the participant goes, they will hear different stories on the site they are currently at. This may be a store, an art exhibit, mural, etc. It is called "fortysomething", because they are celebrating the forty-year anniversary of Steirischer Herbst and they interviewed more around people for the audio version of the project. I thought it sounded pretty cool, given the technology used. You can find more information on it here:
Fortysomething
--Jesse Steinberg--
Fortysomething
--Jesse Steinberg--
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