Website draft

website draft

A Sketch of my site map II

These sketches are roughly the ones that I would use for my website. The main colors are blue, pink, and maybe some bright green and yellow. I want this website to be light, cute, and funny. The sitemap is in the form of hub and spokes.

a sketch of my site map I

Collage for website

So I finally decided to make a website about Payap University.This collage is composed entirely of pictures that I dragged from Payap University's website. The reason I plan to make a website about Payap University is to inform Mary's students and staffs or any non Payap students on how Payap is really like. There may be a few funny and satirical topics, but mostly, it is going to be practical and informative. The words/phrases I would use to describe my website would be simple, realistic, practical, somewhat satirical, blue (since blue is Payap's main color, this is the color that will be seen throughout), and full of pictures.

Art Lecture by Fereshteh Toosi

Fereshteh's art was a lot of fun to look at. I found Saddam's birthday video, and the picture of a cat gaping at a computer very amusing and artistic at the same time. The nomadic genie bottle inlayed with vibrant blankets and carpets was simply gorgeous. In a way, it looked like a fancy tipi. The way that Fereshti presented her work was fun, educational, and casual.

Art Lecture by Chris Coleman

The very first project that Chris Coleman showed was a surround sound clip where one could see white smoke from the air being sucked into factory tubes. It seemed that no matter how much pollution went back into the factory tubes, their is still more smoke in the air. I felt a little uncomfortable with it, because I wanted the smoke to end, but it seems that their will never be an end to the pollution. This is the exact feeling that Chris wanted his viewers to feel, "never-ending deluge."
The next project that Chris shared was an endless wave of landscape that seemed to be coming closer to the screen. I liked this a lot, because to me, it felt free and relaxing.

Chris' other projects are graphics and three dimensional objects. I think they are interesting, but not really my type. From a mechanical engineer to an artisit, Chris said he enjoys being a geek and an artist at the same time. It is no wonder then, that his works incorporate precise sizes and numbers. It is a bit too rigid for me, but some of it could be really fun to look at too.

My first website

This is the link to my first website.

Websites

These are the following websites that I'm thinking about paroding.


http://www.payap.ac.th

http://www.wilder.org/index.html

http://www.alzmndak.org/

http://www.marylandnonprofits.org/

http://www.madsa.org/

Real Cost by Michael Mandiberg

How it uses the internet as an art medium? The internet in this role can be put to the discussion group that converted prices in US dollars into values in barrels of crude oil. People have the freedom to do this act and amuse themselves to the oil prices easily fluctuate.

Why it uses the internet to best advantage? Because the oil price fluctuates globally, this use of the internet opens doors to all people in any place to be able to join in the sarcastic amusement.

Why is it that the piece cannot be made in any other way? Because the oil price fluctuates all the time and the internet has the ability to change itself all the tim e while other medium cannot do that.

How does this work fit in the history of the internet that Sterling describes? The internet spread out widely to people in all places. It is not restricted to only certain groups such as the military, and the purpose of the internet did not remain only for military purposes, but included gossip, mail, and in this case probably discussion groups.

What are the features of this art work that reflect the time in which it was made (2006)? This art work reflect the oil price situation in 2006. The features that do that, are the constant update of oil price, and the free access to anyone who may want to download its program.

Actually, I'm a little confused about what is going on. The internet is something that I use all the time, but I don't really know how Michael Mandiberg's Real Cost is an art medium. To me, its just a conversion of US prices into barrels of oil. I cannot really relate this work to an art. I guess I simply do not understand how the use of the internet in this manner is art.