For my final Artist Response I want to return to discussing websites made in flash. I am drawn to creating websites in Flash over CSS style sheets because it brings a life to the website that is harder to achieve in the later. If one website can show how flashy flash can make a website. Air Atlantis's Splash page is one of the best I have seen and it is effective in describing what the website is about. Some splash pages only serve as decoration and do not have any function whatsoever. The website loads very fast and the pages are also interactive. Each web page is on the level of some sites splash paintings. They are dripping with detail and creativity and show the staff's advance knowledge of graphic design.
Websites are art that even anyone can see and admire. It's open to anyone as long as they have a computer and interenet connection. I dream that I will be able to achieve the level that these creators have. The examples of their works in the site is also very creative, beautiful and illustrational.
http://www.air-atlantis.com/
Friday, May 8, 2009
Art Response 11
Tivon Rice is a new media artist who works mainly on video installations. One such work is called "Between Here and a Kind of Fleshness." Three projected displays show images of a dog's bare teeth. The three images change throughout the progression of the piece. Besides the images of the moving mouth, there is also a serene capture of water moving in the darkness. Alongside these images are white subtitles. The substitles do not necessarily have anything to do with the images displayed. The image are also accompanied by sound of the dog's growls. The artist's site provides images and videos of the instillation but there is still a desire to see it in person. A projected instillation loses it's power when seeing it over the internet. This instillation reminds me of the installation projects that I worked on earlier in the semester. I believe that installation is now become a bigger part of the gallery space and gallery exhibition. It can be just as artistic as non new media works. This work was inspired by Eliot’s The Dry Salvages. It was created in 2009.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Artist Response 10
I wanted to talk about another website for my Artist Response that was also made in flash. This site is made to advertise for the Zune Media player. After the loading screen the viewer is greeting with soft sounding music and a vector graphic of the Zune media player radiating from a black background. The site gives the option to click 6 sections: music, pictures, radio, videos, social and podcast. Each link brings the user to a colorful world fill with animation unique to its designated section. The website shifts through different songs as one song ends then another begins. It creates a world the user can travel in while listening to varying genres of music.
The clickable arrow acts like a ship sailing across different worlds.This site is similar to Madeforeachother.com because they share the similarities of multiple characters in an imaginary world. However the viewer traveled throughs the worlds in madeforeach other by scrolling up and down. The zune site goes through the different pages in a format reminiscent to a vortex. All the characters are made out of animated vector graphics. As the viewer moves through space, the characters in the space adjust to the viewer's vantage point while continuing their animation.
Unfortunately, the internet connection and the processing power of the computer can hinder the site's perfomance if it cannot handle all the graphics on the page. There are a lot of things on screen. It is hard to focus on each page because there is so much on screen. Traveling through the site can also be naseating because of it's format and the constant shift in perspective and vantage point.
Overall, it's a cool site with an interesting interface but I believe the site concetrates more on being flashy than informative.
The clickable arrow acts like a ship sailing across different worlds.This site is similar to Madeforeachother.com because they share the similarities of multiple characters in an imaginary world. However the viewer traveled throughs the worlds in madeforeach other by scrolling up and down. The zune site goes through the different pages in a format reminiscent to a vortex. All the characters are made out of animated vector graphics. As the viewer moves through space, the characters in the space adjust to the viewer's vantage point while continuing their animation.
Unfortunately, the internet connection and the processing power of the computer can hinder the site's perfomance if it cannot handle all the graphics on the page. There are a lot of things on screen. It is hard to focus on each page because there is so much on screen. Traveling through the site can also be naseating because of it's format and the constant shift in perspective and vantage point.
Overall, it's a cool site with an interesting interface but I believe the site concetrates more on being flashy than informative.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Artist Response 9
The art group Ztohoven specializes in manipulating and reconstructing different digital mediums that people interact with in day to day life. One project they implement was changing symbols and characters of traffic lights in Prague. Instead of having a man walking for the "Walk" instructions, ztohoven will replace it with a guy laying down. This instillation is amusing but it is nowhere near as controversial as their piece, "Media Reality." The group hacked a weather broadcast and digitally inserted an atomic bomb explosion. During the broadcast the camera pans throughout a scenic landscape. Nothing is out of the ordinary until the camera goes through a patch of fog. Then, in the far distance, a bright mushroom cloud spurts out of nowhere. The camera quickly pans back to focus on it and subsequently the reception becomes worse and worse till it's replace with nothing but white noise. Considering the subject matter in the clip, this alteration did not cause widespread panic. The artist were convicted for distorting truthful information but the charges were then dropped.
Many people take news for granted so a project such as this would keep viewers on their toes. I believe that this project would have not been successful in America and would have put the artists in even more trouble than they would have in their country. This country would also take swifter action as well. One thing about digital artist that makes them so powerful is, they are working in a medium in which they could easily distort reality if they wanted to.
Many people take news for granted so a project such as this would keep viewers on their toes. I believe that this project would have not been successful in America and would have put the artists in even more trouble than they would have in their country. This country would also take swifter action as well. One thing about digital artist that makes them so powerful is, they are working in a medium in which they could easily distort reality if they wanted to.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Artist Response 8
In my first artist response for this class, I discussed the quirky website www.mouchette.org. The site at first glanced appeared to be a simple page created by a 13 year old name Mouchette but as the viewer progressed through the pages, this identity crumbles and the visitor wonders who is the true author of the page.
The site "Black People Love Us" works in a similar manner. It includes pictures and text that confuse the viewer on the true identity of the site creator and even the site's purpose. "Black People Love Us" (which will now be referred in the rest of this article as BPLU) is humorous and completely politically incorrect. The site is divided in 7 parts. In each part you explore the lives of Sally and Johnny and their Black friends. The site gives different testimonials on why Sally and Johnny are their friends and how these two understand certain aspects of their lives. The pictures can seem awkward at times but nonetheless entertaining.
Like Mouchette, BPLU looks out of date but becomes timeless because of it's interactivity. Visitors can still post to the site expressing their opinions of the page. These posting vary from appraisal, condemnation, or absolute confusion. The site also provides a link to an email address. Whether or not the webmaster will email them back is unknown. Furthermore in the section, "stuff our friends care about" is a list of different site that include, the million man march, Nation of Islam, and the United Negro College Fund.
BPLU is a very unique site. It may seem out of date, and politically incorrect but that is what makes the site works. I would not want to change it any way.
The site "Black People Love Us" works in a similar manner. It includes pictures and text that confuse the viewer on the true identity of the site creator and even the site's purpose. "Black People Love Us" (which will now be referred in the rest of this article as BPLU) is humorous and completely politically incorrect. The site is divided in 7 parts. In each part you explore the lives of Sally and Johnny and their Black friends. The site gives different testimonials on why Sally and Johnny are their friends and how these two understand certain aspects of their lives. The pictures can seem awkward at times but nonetheless entertaining.
Like Mouchette, BPLU looks out of date but becomes timeless because of it's interactivity. Visitors can still post to the site expressing their opinions of the page. These posting vary from appraisal, condemnation, or absolute confusion. The site also provides a link to an email address. Whether or not the webmaster will email them back is unknown. Furthermore in the section, "stuff our friends care about" is a list of different site that include, the million man march, Nation of Islam, and the United Negro College Fund.
BPLU is a very unique site. It may seem out of date, and politically incorrect but that is what makes the site works. I would not want to change it any way.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Project Madrugada
Even though there is still sometime before the class gets to the final project, I have already decided that I would u se that time to focus on my art portfolio site. It will be called Project Madrugrada and I will use this entry to just collect my thoughts.
Madrugada
Opening animation
homepage
Description: Changes time of day from morning to night. Possibly flashes the words madrugada at the morning time. Or this will be the page for early morning.
About me/ background:
Description: Day, sun, clouds, light blue, birds chirping, light colors, sun rays.
Works:
Description: sunset, sun setting, translucent moon, warm colors, gradient, translucent stars Orange, reds blue, silhouette
Sub Categories: Games, Art, Design
Contact: Shooting stars, regular stars, full moon, cresent moon, moon cover in clouds, fireflies (lightning bugs) Light appear from the darkness
Description: Night
Ideas/References
www.madeforeachother.com
Kazuo Oga's work (ghibli)
Madrugada
Opening animation
homepage
Description: Changes time of day from morning to night. Possibly flashes the words madrugada at the morning time. Or this will be the page for early morning.
About me/ background:
Description: Day, sun, clouds, light blue, birds chirping, light colors, sun rays.
Works:
Description: sunset, sun setting, translucent moon, warm colors, gradient, translucent stars Orange, reds blue, silhouette
Sub Categories: Games, Art, Design
Contact: Shooting stars, regular stars, full moon, cresent moon, moon cover in clouds, fireflies (lightning bugs) Light appear from the darkness
Description: Night
Ideas/References
www.madeforeachother.com
Kazuo Oga's work (ghibli)
Art Response 7
Last class we saw a marketing tactic by GE of using art to convey an idea or product they are trying to sale. I am not saying that commercials can not be an art forms themselves, but in GE's example and the example I am about to give, these two companies push beyond the normal advertising of photographs or film and use less conventional methods.
Frito Lay's recent campaign features a series of animated shorts that end up conveying why it's brand of chips and dip are made for each other. The site, www.madeforeachother.com is completely interactive and immerses the viewer in a new and colorful world full of different characters. This strategy is successful in my opinion because it still sells the product but it makes the viewer less aware of it. They become interested in the actual artwork instead.
The site takes a while to load but it greets the viewer with an interesting loading screen in which the counting numbers greet each other then drift off to space. Depending on the speed of the computer and internet, the process can take several minutes or 30 seconds. These numbers count to 100. When that animation is finished it takes the viewer to the actual world of these characters.
The Frito Lay site really enforces the idea of "made for each other" by making the site into a game where the viewer unites the lost partners by clicking on the character and then its partner. An animations plays and then they return to their regular states most of the time. Inside of this game there are other games and even movies of the commercials often shown on TV.
It can be very hard sometimes to drag the screen but this could be mouse issues and not the fault of the website. Not all characters do what I expected them to do. I think some of them do not have partners, and if they do, it was hard to find them. Nevertheless I was entertained by this site.
This website, and the GE flash piece can show how powerful flash can be as a program.
Frito Lay's recent campaign features a series of animated shorts that end up conveying why it's brand of chips and dip are made for each other. The site, www.madeforeachother.com is completely interactive and immerses the viewer in a new and colorful world full of different characters. This strategy is successful in my opinion because it still sells the product but it makes the viewer less aware of it. They become interested in the actual artwork instead.
The site takes a while to load but it greets the viewer with an interesting loading screen in which the counting numbers greet each other then drift off to space. Depending on the speed of the computer and internet, the process can take several minutes or 30 seconds. These numbers count to 100. When that animation is finished it takes the viewer to the actual world of these characters.
The Frito Lay site really enforces the idea of "made for each other" by making the site into a game where the viewer unites the lost partners by clicking on the character and then its partner. An animations plays and then they return to their regular states most of the time. Inside of this game there are other games and even movies of the commercials often shown on TV.
It can be very hard sometimes to drag the screen but this could be mouse issues and not the fault of the website. Not all characters do what I expected them to do. I think some of them do not have partners, and if they do, it was hard to find them. Nevertheless I was entertained by this site.
This website, and the GE flash piece can show how powerful flash can be as a program.
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