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aDAMN on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

aDAMN — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:05:28 +0000

"the will must be stronger than the skill" - muhammed ali

might as well brand it on my back.

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:54:26 +0000

"WHEN THERE'S A TWIST IN A STORY, PEOPLE RE-EXPERIENCE THE WORLD THEY'RE IN." - KARIN FONG

mjohnson21 on "Flash Meetup Group"

mjohnson21 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:39:34 +0000

Hey folks,

Just wanted to make people aware of a Meetup group that's getting together tonight to discuss actionscript animation.

http://flash.meetup.com/118/calendar/6340083/?a=nr1c_grp

HANK on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

HANK — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:28:27 +0000

select qoutes from Riekki's Type and Image Syllabus:

"There has never been a more important time for in the history of mankind for you to use your powers for good."

"The world needs more designers who can think in a larger context."

"What is in your head requires deceptively simple depiction for others to know it exists, much less for them to value it properly"

"If you haven't yet learn how to learn."

"Your clients are more likely to see you as an expert if you never actually become one."

"Small, brilliant firms produce more of the mustard seed ideas that actually change large corporations"

"If you know you're priorities, work and life never need to be balanced."- Tod martin

HANK on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

HANK — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:42:59 +0000

"Look, I've never had a dream in my life
Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued
I knew what I wanted and did it till it was done
So i've been the dream that I wanted to be since day one!"
- Lucy (from an Aesop Rock song entitled No Regrets)

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:13:28 +0000

"I'm fascinated by Muriel's confidence in what she did not know," - Lisa Strausfeld

HANK on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

HANK — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:42:42 +0000

I'd kick your ass if I had to but I'd much rather love you.
-Pink

MrScott on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

MrScott — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:33:22 +0000

Very Interesting. I had never thought of the concept of "free" as a technology movement.

mjohnson21 on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

mjohnson21 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:45:39 +0000

Definitely inspiring stuff. Sometimes I feel a bit silly trying to project into the future when it comes to technology, especially some of the more fanciful things. But all too often it comes to pass.

Still waiting for my flying car though...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:23:18 +0000

'Free comes with digital.' - Chris Anderson, at TED.com

chesterfly on "Student Blogs"

chesterfly — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:25:16 +0000

Hey guys, here is a great example of a student blog. This guys started out small, interviewing who he could. Now his site is an industry standard with thousands of readers. Thought this might be some inspiration...

http://www.motionographer.com

He still does interviews:
http://motionographer.com/features/interview-72andsunny-and-fulltank/

cheers,
chesterfly

hmakilya on "User generated input???"

hmakilya — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:59:33 +0000

does anyone know anything about UGI's? is it the type of thing that wordpress can support or do i need a seperate website? oh, i need it so that people can upload jpegs, text, links, etc onto my typography blog.
thanks
-h

lynngalloway on "Google Video"

lynngalloway — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:21:11 +0000

ah ok, let me try that. thanks!

Mason on "Google Video"

Mason — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:34:57 +0000

your blog might not allow flash. So it might not be anything your doing wrong. If you do a write up what you can do is take a screen grab of a still and just create link out to the video page. does that help?

lynngalloway on "Google Video"

lynngalloway — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:11:07 +0000

Hey all, um especially Mason. I'm trying to put that "Century of Self" video on my blog and everytime I try to use that Embed code from Google, it doesn't work. In fact, when I save it, it just erases the code. Do you know what I could be doing wrong?

Lynn

mjohnson21 on "Zen Garden"

mjohnson21 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:19:07 +0000

Yep, that's exactly it.

CSS Zen Garden is a single HTML page that you apply a style sheet to. Do a view source of that page and copy paste into your own page. Attach a style sheet and you're ready to rock.

Frank on "Zen Garden"

Frank — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:31:18 +0000

Im trying to DL the files at Zen Garden to create a CSS page for practice but can't DL the files. Is there something specific I have to do? I have clicked on all the links that say to DL the files but it keeps refreshing the same page, http://www.csszengarden.com/zengarden-sample.html
Do I just copy and paste the source code from that page?
Any ideas?

Thanks
Frank

Mason on "Interactive Design Syllabus"

Mason — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:41:20 +0000

Here is the syllabus for Intro to interactive design.

Mason on "Media Arts Final Exam Questions"

Mason — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:10:22 +0000

Name:
Blog:
Flickr:

List 10 Quotes from the reading you found impactful and explain why.

From this list pick one quote that best represents your experience and create a desktop image/poster based on this idea.

What is free pizza?

Why is it important to be a purple cow?

What does it mean to twist the ones and zeros?

What are 5 major differences between print and interactive.

List 5 - 10 videos you feel students next quarter should watch.

From your blog and other student blogs list 5 articles you feel should be passed onto next quarter students. Describe why each is important.

From your blog and other student blogs list 5 sites you feel should be passed onto next quarter students. Describe why each is important.

After posting to a blog and flickr what is your perspective on digital publishing? Love it? Why? Hate it? Why?

What would be some ideas for theme weeks for the next quarter photo stream.

What are two projects would you suggest for next quarter?

What are the core tags used to create a web page?

What is the value of using CSS?

What questions should be asked for the next quarter students in the final exam? How would you answer it?

Mason on "Make. Do. (Interview Questions)"

Mason — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:59:33 +0000

Below are a few interview questions Tonya sent me about the Octane show. I have answered the best I can but I would be interested to know everyones thoughts on the matter.

The title of the show is "Make Do." What exactly does that mean? And, how
does the work chosen fit under that title?

Well... on the one hand we just needed to call the show something. The entire thing was organized in less than a month with the help of various people pitching in at various times. Kendra and I had been going back and forth in email and the title was the result of those conversations.

I'm proud of how the show came together, the event was great, the work looks amazing but looking back there is so much we need to improve upon. I kinda knew this would happen going in... yet I figured if we didn't do it now... it would never would have had happened.

The show title and the work is reflective of this kind of spirit; the idea that we don't always have what we need; we live in a world of limitations; be it from clients, timelines, resources, life or whatever... The process of design is working in limitations, of finding a way around obstacles in the hope of creating something that defies gravity.

More often than not we come up short -- or perhaps shorter of what we originally wanted. Yet great work happens when we shrug our shoulders, march on, and make do.

Was there any interesting cases of "Murphy's Law" while the show was
coming together?

Mmm... well lets see. There were lots. For one, the night of the show at it the sky opened up and pored down rain. This wasn't great for attendance. The student body was an hour late. I'm sure there are many more stories the students can tell about when they went around and invited all of the agencies. For example I think Jessica had a bird poop on her head.

"The one major benefit to this show is exposure for PC. Are there any other
benefits that you can think of for PC, Octane..."

The benefit to Octane is of course they get this amazing work on display but more importantly the work also it represents how Octane has established itself as this cultural hub; classes are often held at Octane, people study over there and they have been really great and supportive to many of our crazy ideas. If anything it's cool to see the work come full circle from connecting over a beer, working on it with the headphones on with a cup of coffee and then having it recognized in a public space.

One of the major benefits I can see for PC, besides of course great exposure and recognition, is it's a first step in publishing. From my experience of teaching a PC over the last year there are a few things we need to do better. One of which is we need to get better at publishing our work. We have all these great ideas and amazing projects with fantastic execution and no one ever hears about them. The most we do is these ideas get hung up around school, shown at critique, or end up in a mini book attached to a resume.

The work deserves more; getting the work out from the school and into the public was an effort to get people used to having these ideas out of the scactaty of school. You can't open a copy of Ad Age without reading how the industry is undergoing a fundamental shift; how everything is going digital bla bla bla... Well, one part of the shift that no one is talking about is that the Book, the Portfolio is undergoing a shift as well.

The digital shift kinda freaks people out. It's new, sounds kinda ominous, and generally complicated. The thing people forget about is the digital shift at it's core is mainly about a shift in how things are published. What is interesting is this digital shift started not within the last 5 years but within the last 20 with the advent of desktop publishing. What we are seeing more recently is the completion of this DIY ecosystem where a creator can potentally concept, execute and now deliver to a mass audience... all from the comfort of a laptop.

Most people are comfortable with the first part of the shift. The creation process. We all have these tools on our machines and learning them is more or less a matter of just sitting down and banging away at the buttons. The second part of the shift, the digital delivery and exposure is where we have to make the biggest leap and what requires the most thought. This is where we, metaphorically walk into the spotlight, and put our work into the public space.
When I look at the work of Larry and George of Epidemik Coalition or see the likes of Dave Wearner or Alissa Walker -- one of the key elements these people all have in common is a natural ability and drive to publish. Their work is all solid, they are all very talented but what makes the work great and ground braking is that it's out there... I can see it and read about it -- I can go to a a show opening or hop online and browse their ideas. As designers we often confuse good esthetics with a good story -- and really the work, our books our portfolios are just an excuse to get our foot in the door and hopefully have a more meaningful conversation to do bigger cooler stuff.

Their work is ground breaking because they have taken that extra step of getting their work out of the confines of the traditional book of of the hands of recruiters and into the broad hands of the digital space. One of the things I get frustrated with is we often confuse working in the digital space with tools and executions; flash is a tool, a web site is an execution. These are fundamental things we all need to know but knowing how to use a hammer to bang in nails and how to build a house (and why we would even want a house) are very different things. One absolutely needs to know how to use these tools to be effective and to know what is possible but we also need to look at how to work in the broader digital space -- in that it could be something as simple as having a show at Octane and then starting a blog to promote it (as we did in our class) or writing a children's book (i know we have a class called Children's Book) and then go onto a site like Lulu.com and publish and sell the book yourself. This is the shift. To quote Seth Godin, 'Small Is The New Big'... and you don't need a record label to get a record made, you don't need a publisher to publish your children's book, and you might not even need a resume to get your next job -- what you need is an idea and the skill to execute and bring that idea to market.

Mason on "Post Your Blog Designs"

Mason — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:08:18 +0000

Post your blog designs so I can provide feedback and see where everyone is.

Mason on "No Class Tonight (5/28)"

Mason — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:54:59 +0000

Enjoy the weekend.

Mason on "Free Beer"

Mason — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:02:12 +0000

just give me a call. I will be all moved out tomarrow.

mjohnson21 on "Free Beer"

mjohnson21 — Sun, 27 May 2007 21:13:50 +0000

What's the timeframe?

Mason on "Free Beer"

Mason — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:12:36 +0000

Well sorta... I'm moving and I need someone to pick up our Beer and Beer making stuff. (otherwise it will be locked in a POD until i find a house -- which could be months.)

Give me a call.

404.668.9438

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:06:30 +0000

"What We Find Changes Who We Become," subtitle of the book Ambient Findability, O'Reilly Press by Peter Morville

jackiehuck on "Yipes!"

jackiehuck — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:18:33 +0000

I didn't want there to be bad craft if I could steer clear of it...

Mason on "Yipes!"

Mason — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:17:23 +0000

email it to me. As for cutting it up... why not just slice it with a blade? Then glue it back together on another pice of paper? Photoshop would be another way to go. (flatten as bitmap)

jackiehuck on "Yipes!"

jackiehuck — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:09:36 +0000

MPoe, I need your help.
Ya know the poster/letter I want to send to Chris Helms, well I have 2 sides on 2 separate Ai files and now I need to slice each up and then stitch them together. Thing is, I live traced a sucker and it's bein' a real pain to cut using the scissor tool. Then I thought I'd throw it into Ps to do it, but the text goes crazy. Then I thought to put it into Id, but the graphics are completely ugly so I didn't even look to see if I could slice in long thin rectangles in that program... Then I gave up and am tryin' to see what you think I should do. Plus, I want you to look over it before I go through all this trouble.
Sweet.

mjohnson21 on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

mjohnson21 — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:44:05 +0000

"It is better to innovate and fail than immitate and succeed."

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:42:10 +0000

"Sometimes our ideas are bigger than our stomachs" -- Mason

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:40:11 +0000

“You must have:
1. Fire in the belly
2. Intellectual curiosity
3. Visual sensitivity
4. Guts of steel
5. Thick skin
6. Stamina
7. The ability to listen”
-Deborah Sussman

Mason on "Who Are We? What are we doing?"

Mason — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:25:00 +0000

“Be culturally literate because if you don’t have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you’re not going to be able to express anything to anybody else.” -Paula Scher

“Unless you have a huge flair for self-promotion, it’s going to be tough to get recognized. It’s hard for somebody who’s just getting started. I guess I would say that you should look at every possible magazine and book and European publication to try to see everything that’s being done, now and past.” -Rita Marshall

“Try and eke out some fun. This is supposed to be a creative job. If it ain’t then why the hell are you doing it.” -James Victore

“Look at everything for influence and inspiration; don’t limit yourself. It is also very important to have an understanding of the history of art and design. And it is very important not to let people discourage you.” -Kyle Cooper

(from Jamie)

mjohnson21 on "Brand Our Brew @ Iconologic Instead of Armchair"

mjohnson21 — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:12:25 +0000

Here's a Google Maps link to the place. For once, Google gets it pretty much right. It's just down Peachtree, take a left at W Peachtree just after Spring. It's a weird intersection. You turn left, and immediate make another hard left, go down the street and take a left. That street ends in a circle, so its hard to get lost.

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&q=iconologic&z=4&iwloc=A&om=1

Zap me if you have any questions. Bringing extra beer is extra credit.

Mason on "Brand Our Brew @ Iconologic Instead of Armchair"

Mason — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:04:11 +0000

I talked with Witt last night and it looks like tomarrow is not going to work to bring Beer to Armchair. Sooo.... Slight change of plans, looks like we will be bringing beer over to Iconologic @ 4:30. If you have questions fallow up with Mike J.