Website have finished

My website have finished......
The following is my link
http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/~will8475/index.html


I have used more then 40 hours to do it ... Hopefully it works perfect.

My website project

Basiclly my proposal of the wesite project is to make a portfolio website of mine. I have already bought a web hosting and a domain name"http://funkyelephantca.fatcow.com/". Then after i had finshed the website, i will post it to the web space what  i have bought.

My wesite will conside 6 pages:
1.Home page, it can also be named welcome page. The home page will include the logo, some graphic symbolic and a button navigate to the Main page. (as the following example)

2. Main page, it will have 4 buttons which realted to 4 subpages(photophy work, my profile, my website work, my video art work.), and when the mouse put on the navigate button will display a short description(as the following example)

      

3. My profile page, it will have my profile include my education and work experience and some personal information also with my picture.(as the following example)

4.My photography web page, it incluedes some photography art work of mine.
(as the following example)

5 My website art work page, it includes some website art work of mine ,(following the same layout of the My photography web page)

6 My video art work page ,it includes some video art work of mine. (it partialy following the layout of the My photography web page, but it has the lighting box fram when click the video.)

There will be some partial changes of the proposal when i bulid the wesite. But the original construct will be contain. 

Social network can not be as the trial court

After reading the both  the  Chapter 1 from "Clay Shirky's here come everybody" and Malcolm Gladwell's "Small Change". The two articles both discusses one story. "A men names Even use the social network help his friend Ivan to find the lost cellphone." The "Small Change"'s author think the story shows the power of the social network, and the weak-tie world is good at things like helping Evan get phones back from teen-age girls. But i am more in favor of "Clay Shirky's here come every body"'s point of view.  The social network (new media like facebooks ,twitter) help to creat groups, and also easily lead to group activity. This group activity are working without the managerial imperative and outside the previous strictures that bound their effectiveness. In this story Evan post all the girl's Sasha ' photos, personal informations, his boyfriend ,his brother's information and all the process of the incident. This mobilize the enthusiasm of the readers. Some of readers may also have lost their cellphone,wallet or something like. So the similar emotion make them to form a "group". Through this group, Sasha's privacy has exposed, and someone even advocated  physical confrontation.We could blame Evan for letting these kind racist and sexist conversations take place. Because the  cellphone is not so expensive to let Evan spend countless time on this incident. It's more about emotional than financial. And also Sasha pay much more than the cellphone's value.  In case of the network is not true life, people's moral values on the network easily be weakened. And social network are effective at increasing participation by lessening the level of motivation. So its easy to generate "Violence". Such violence may even be more significant and efficient than the impact of the traditional activism. The Social network is not the trail court. We can use it to help the people who need bone-marrow, but not to judge the people.

Intellectual property and Free culture

After I reading the chapter one(Creators) of the book free culture. I have a certain degree of understanding of copyright and free culture. We live in a world that celebrates “property.”  And the ideas , copyrights, arts work are also part of property, it calls “intellectual property”. A large, diverse, and modern society cannot flourish without intellectual property. But actually many great art works is precisely infringed the copyright of others. For example like Walter Disney, he took some old stories and retold them in a way that carried them into a new age like Snow White , Fantasia , Pinocchio, Dumbo. He animated the stories ,with both characters and light. But he Re-interpreting the dark part and make it funny. By today's point of view, his practice is a violation of  “intellectual property”. Another example is Doujinshi what is the comic manga in japan, it take a mainstream comic and develop it differently—with a different story line. Or the comic can keep the character in character but change its look slightly. Actually these works are also illegal. But no one will sue them, because there is plenty of value out there that “property” doesn’t capture. Actually the great “creativity” upon the old stories or original art artwork give people a new view and new exciting experience. Appropriate opening for the copyright will make the artists have more space to creat. Relate to today’s new meidia work like remix, collage, some installations, these art styles all have used the existence of copyright and creativity in varying degrees to a new art works.  Like the book said all culture are free to some degree, and the point is how free is the culture, free culture are cultures that leave a great deal open for others to build upon. However that does not mean we don’t need “property”,  re-creativity is not copy and we should find a balance between intellectual and free culture.  

The project "Crossing" in Nuit Blache

The project "Crossing" make the crowds drawn to Nuit Blanche will find their foot traffic oddly echoed by virtual figures projected onto the canted walls of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Crystal façade.The contours and planes of the architecture, activated by the animation, will set the boundaries and surfaces by which the clambering figures must find their way. Sometimes the figures will wrap around the bends in the faceted façade or find themselves mirrored, magnified or transformed on a nearby or distant facet. At other times the figures will seem to have penetrated the architecture and will be seen, x-ray-like, inside it. Occasionally a figure or two will ascend to the top as if climbing into the sky. I like this work most in Nuit Blache. It is a installation, combine the digital art(what I learn) and the architecture. It use the Special appearance of the building to make the figures in the video have different field and also different direction. And the figures action also changed by the appearance. The crystal material make the figure more like walking on the street.  

This project give me a inspiration that digital Arts did not just confined to screen, paper, these traditional materials. The work also can combine the with the environment and other art form like industrial Design, architecture, sculpture. And also the interaction with the audience will also be a future trend.

Assigment of Photo and Video Mixing

My work is done by the time ，me and my grilfrient is quarrel. It's in the studying week. And i need to do the homework. So i make the picture and video with the emotion of mine at that time. 

Description of Work:

I collage the original picture of my girlfriend with the empty space picture, and one more picture of the gift i used give to her. Performance my feeling using the comparing.

And also the video is what i took before , thats only for a funny shot. But now i remix it with a slow rhythm sad song and another sequence of the video.

All the source are done by my self.

My Idea of Remix Project.

Firstly I have checked the  definition of the word “Remix”. A remix is an alternative version of a song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song (films, literature etc.).   Actually the artist can use remix to change the style, form or content of the original art work. A jazz song remix with a rock N roll rhythm will give new power new life of the original smooth lyrics.  A war film fragment remix with comedy fragment and canned laugher may will make people feel funny. That’s  what the remix change the art work’s content or style. For example, the DJ Earworm remix all the popular songs  to one song,like a 
music collage, it changed all the seperate song's style and content and represented to a new meaning.

MY FIRST HOME WORK

MY FIRST HOME WORK