waitlist

waitlisted students–we will know more about your enrollment status tomorrow. Tamra needs some time to sort everything out.

Zephyr in particular, i can’t seem to read/type your e-mail address right, so this post is for you!

demo page

http://people.ucsc.edu/~lkelley/demo/

To view the HTML we collectively wrote, go to the “view” menu of your browser and “View Source,” “View Page Source,” etc.

Or, here it is: oops, the “pre” tag doesn’t work in wordpress! go to the url to view the source. feel free to copy/modify.

Wendy Brown at UCB teach in

Watch this for a clear, excellent analysis of what is at stake when we talk about privatizing the UC system:

Bill Viola in Berkeley: Tomorrow! Go!

Una’s Lecturer: Bill Viola, Artist

“The Movement in the Moving Image”

Follow-up panel discussion with Bill Viola
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
4:00 pm | Morrison Room, Doe Library

Over the past 35 years, Bill Viola’s pioneering work has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a form of contemporary art. Rooted in modern life yet often [...]

your ucsc web space

The language at the ITS help website might seem intimidating to you:

You must have a UCSC account and know your username and password.
You should be able to write your own web pages with html or using an html editor (ie. Dreamweaver, etc.).
You should have some familiarity with sftp (secure file transfer protocol).

Step one, [...]

resources for 20c projects

SFTP for mac: http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

Sam suggests FileZilla for Windows: http://its.ucsc.edu/software/sftp/

How to upload to your web space: http://its.ucsc.edu/services/web/personal_pages_tutorial.php

Editors: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/, http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ (available in computer labs or as 30 day dl), any text editor on your computer (text editor does not equal word–look for Textedit on Mac, Notepad on Windows)

Download processing: http://processing.org/

Get started at http://en.wikipedia.org/

Visit CHM: http://computerhistory.org/

never ever…

Please don’t try to switch sections via AIS. You’ll be dropped, and I’ll have to give you a permission code, and it’ll be annoying because I only have so many codes. Just stay in your current section, and we’ll switch you in class.

today

Thanks for coming to class today, everyone! It seemed like a full room. Waitlist is at about 30 people. If you’re not a video game design major or FDM major or minor, or pre-film, or involved inthe FDM major somehow, your chances of getting into this class are slim. It’s very full.

I am no longer [...]

tinysketch

http://www.rhizome.org/tinysketch/

Check out this processing contest sponsored by Rhizome. Join Rhizome to vote. Even if you don’t vote, you will probably learn a lot from looking at these sketches. They are short, and the contest specs limit them to core functions, 200 characters, and no fancy extras.

@ the LAB

I’m pretty sure I’m the only person reading this blog, but I’ll post this great event at the LAB anyway: http://www.thelab.org/events/381-arttech.html.