2008-03-03
Dear Arie:
1. After our first class and after you gave us our first assignement, I started immediately wondering which assigment I should choose for myself. There was an obvious solution. I have kept a personnal site for a few years. This site is mainly a portfolio of most cultural and artistic projects, I have been involved in. Mostly photography and writting, but other kind of projects as well. It still keeps the very simple and raw design, using basically html, which I decided to use when I started it. In paralel with the site I keep a kind of blog as well, where text, in many cases poetry, is always "suggested" by my photos. The personal site contains now a lot of information, colected for years, and perhaps the most obvious challenge which I could put myself in these classes, could be to design a new and appealing web site, using Flash, .But I wonder if this could be a too great a job for the time frame of the semester, where I'll have at least four more subjects with a lot of other assignments, presentations and exams. And I cannot forget my personnal life and all the assigments I'll not put away, for attendind this Master.Therefore I though of a simpler challenge. I am to publish a new book in April/May. The book is called "Cemitery of moonlight" and it is based on photographs I took in Norway at midnight, in summer 2006. The photographs are mine and the poems were written for the images by one of the best known portuguese contemporary poets. What I am thinking of challenging myself could be designing a site for this book and think already of it as a future element to include in my future personal site. The main advantage of this approach is that I'll be working at something which I really need and which will prepare me to make a similar exercise with the whole site.First Question: What do you think of this approach?
2. As far as I can remember you stated that you would envalue not only the final result but the process and that you would like to see some registers, showing that process. I thought of using some web tool, like a blog or a wiki as a way to make that process visible. Like this I'll make it a live document, which you or my collegues can visit and comment. Second question: What do you think of this second approach?
2008-03-06
Hi Renato,
I took a look at your content. You have some very impressive works. I like the approach you are taking for promoting your book. If you keep it simple, then your site will be a success.You should consider very carefully how you want your users to traverse the content of your site so that it is in tone with your content. Consider the feelings and space you get when you actually capture the photographs, perhaps the user travels with you as a photographer, rather than in a linear fashion (similar to how a book is structured).
By all means, show your process. I will be sending out an email about logging into the course’s site tomorrow.
Thank you for your patience, and I look forward to seeing the work you showcase in your site.
Best,
Arie
2008-03-06
Thanks Arie
As I said the most obvious choice would be to define the whole site as the object of my proposal, but as I stated I felt it might be too much because
- There is a lot of content in the site
- I have no experience with Flash
- I have to finish this before te end of semester
I have many other assignmemts in paralel. Therefore, if you agree with my approach, I'll define my book and the photogrraphic project behind it, called 12pm, as my target. I have already a few ideas on how to materialize the contact of visitors with the 12pm project, based on some of the main concepts behind the project. I'll develop them in the blog, which I'll setup for this project.
Thanks again
2008-03-06
Selecting only your best work to show is a tough process, but to make the assignment manageable, please show an absolute minimum you are willing to show the world. I will do my best to give you, and all the students, the appropriate Flash skills to get the project done.
--Arie
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