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appointments with Nick to discuss your double projects (and other modules if you wish) are below

these are NOT optional – you will need to be ready to discuss your ideas and justify your projects – it is not an appointment to discuss technical issues, instead be prepared to answer the question what exactly is the point of you doing your project?

it will be a chance to get help tweaking the direction you are taking, and talk through how to carry out the written component of the DP, an awareness of others working with similar ideas and perhaps an understanding of places and ways in which you may ultimately display the piece

you will each get 30 minutes only and being late is not an option – I will be checking this – these appointments will feed directly into the assessment of the module and nick and I will be discussing and assessing as we go

you WILL need to prepare for these appointments – no big deal but just be ready to

wed 10th march
11.30 – basia
12.00 – richard

wed 17th march
11.30 – marc
12.00 – silas
12.30 – roshan
1.00 – caroline

wed 24th march
11.30 – tim
12.00 – chnoor

wed 31st march
11.30 – jon
12.00 – mark

creating a garbage matte to reduce amount of green screen keying video now available – folder 183

160 sine waves with hand drawn colour curves

those who were there know what this is

playing it back now I realise how good it was, hence posting it here

i have been talking with a few of you recently about what the long term need for content creators to actually get paid for their work

it’s here that devices like the iPad may be so important

it may just be that we are in a short period where (illegal) access to copyrighted material is free and easy and the clampdown is marching over the horizon toward us

this story is from the Metro so it is certainly going to prove to be untrue but as part of the slowly changing situation regarding software. movie , music piracy I suspect it represents the future

read the article here

metro5feb10.pdf

there are lots of gorillaz references available online – here’s the ones I put up today in the lesson

deadline for ass 1 is thursday 25th march at 12.30am

2d or murdoc would be my recommendation

gorillaz references

as comments as usual – post to your blog AND as text

200 words on where you would show the footage you have already shot (ie sainsburys etc) and why – think about the audience – who and why

same as usual – 100 words ish by next week in the comments

identify 3 significant inventions of the industrial revolution and describe how they affected the lives of those who used them

eg the railway, the telephone, the bicycle

great illustration by brad colbow of an issue that I think you should be aware of and could easily form part of the digital culture assignment

we are going to look at doing similar today

check the link to the full illustration here

also interesting in relation to the iPad

admittedly for XP – but that might be a lot you

from microsoft’s mouth

do not press the f1 key

its in Microsoft Security Advisory (981169) Vulnerability in VBScript Could Allow Remote Code Execution

in the workaround section
you have been warned!!!!!
FAIL

and you wonder why everyone resents them??

Panic – makers of the excellent coda and transmit really care about design and have fanatical attention to pixel perfect detail that is the perfect example of how to do it – they care and it shows

the icon for transmit is a classic (see above) so much of a classic in fact that cheapskate companies with little taste and understanding are always ripping them off and the truck in particular

they even have a hilarious page on their site shaming those idiots who think it’s ok to just rip them off

well the latest halfwits to rip them off are………..microsoft

above left is included in the new version of visio, as there is no mac version perhaps they thought noone would notice – idiots

but perhaps more likely they realised that PC users don’t really care about design

and they didn’t even do it very well – some incompetent trace of the original

check this page for more, then despite their size, resources and market share, marvel at what an amateurish company with so little care and attention to detail microsoft is

FAIL

I can’t embed it so you’ll just have to follow the link and watch it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs

all manner of awesomeness and ……………. bruce willis!!!!!!!!!

hsfebfhweB HBWEIH BFHRWEB WEUY

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I showed Perch to year 3 students a couple of weeks ago – it is a really cool bit of software

I’m just working on a personal site with it to really test it out but suffice to say it is REALLY clever

well via Twitter they have just announced a 20% discount with the the code MARCHHARE for (I assume) march only – this means £28 rather than £35 (+VAT) – I think it might be just the solution for lots of you

with a (little) bit of code you will be able to use it as a blog, a gallery, a website and more – it’s standards based, it’s from the UK, it has cool little animated birds, great video tutorials – what is there not to like?

go but it and use it for your PP module

if you haven’t seen it go have a look here and watch the video on the front page

http://grabaperch.com/

ps. check their forum – it is using bbPress, the forum counterpart to wordpress – you can integrate the two for single sign on as well