Internship development.

Having to work at home today due to a sick daughter.
Trying to recap html, as I have said before - moving onto html5, why go back? Have started with w3 documentation - most comprehensive place to start.
Goals for todays work and later on tonight -
1-get an html5 page uploaded with a coveritlive feed incorporated
2-work some on the drop.dk website (will write more about this in a different post)
3-aftereffect tutorial - since I may want to put some moving graphics into the html5 pages in the coming future.

So then, get to it.

Oh, and 4- put up a video blog of how I think it is going with the internship in general.

what is happening right now

sine this mornings post, i have been writing mails and getting in contact with folks to begin the collection of materials and evidence into what I have been up to for the past weeks during my internship - but what I want to do now is a short recap on iframes in a html5 context - and to start playing with the visuals for a mock up of what could be a big screen set up for a conference - this would include the real time element of a twitter and blogging feature. quick wireframe shown below.

there are implications of whether the live feed is set up alongside of a "movie" on the same screen when it comes to the setting up of the hardware - how many screens does it have to go through etc etc - when there are many elements that need to be projected and rendered at the same time, it is best to have a committed computer to the task - this type of committed computer is called a "media server". there are various types of media server, and the newest to be introduced to Comtech is called Hippotiser, a window based set-up from Green Hippo - and i have been told, but not able to check out for myself (everybody else wants to play with the new toy and I am at the back of the que, so it seems), that it can "hijack" the screen of another device and add this screen grab into whatever setup is being displayed in a certain position - but this is the only media server that can do this. Strange that none of the servers can import feeds like this directly.

progress in internship

another day at the office - and having to start to evaluate and collect work from over the past few weeks. Also, to recap upon the goals that I set myself for this learning process and whether those are being fulfilled.
In brief, there were three goals (set out in the learning goals document);
1, twitter wall
2, big screen projection
3, sms to screen projection

These three projects, at the beginning of my internship, were all possible to some degree - with scope inside of each project varying in complexity and interest.
Unfortunately, as the internship progressed, one of the propositions, sms to screen projection, fell by the wayside due to a restructuring of the company, meaning that the expertise that was within the company within this field, left. I could have proceeded an investigation of this area, but since it wasn't necessarily my first interest (the backend workings would have interested me, and there may still be time to have a look at this, but the graphical and visual reach would have been limited - again, something I may still get time to look into) i decided to pursue the other two options.
The big screen projection idea, being visually and graphically the most intensive, would have been the most interesting project to me. But after asking different project leaders about the cost and implication of such a project, it soon turned out that it was not feasible. Not to go into the figures, the hiring of four Barco projectors over the proposed time was way over any plausible budget - and this was excluding, manhours, insurance etc etc.
What i did do in this area was to investigate how such a project could be implemented from a designers POV. This is something I am working on at present and will have results for as the internship draws to a close.
The Twitter wall idea has become the compromise project of this internship - as shown in some of the posts below, I have been practicing getting iframes to work (brushing up on my HTML, looking to move to HTML5) and am now in the process of transposing this onto big screens. More to come about this.

unfortunately, i am not able to make a video blog of this at present since I am in the office - but here is a photobooth image to illustrate it. Hope to get a video post up tonight.

test fail

Ok, so for some reason the test below did not turn out like I thought it would - i loaded up some test logos and they didn't appear and I forgot to optimize the width of the view window so that it fits into the blog window - my fault.

Will try again but perhaps put it onto my own space so that I can play more with the fullscreen settings - if they exist.

have tried and they do not exist for FF. But am now downloading FF4 to see if it supports full screen. and need plugin for safari. But have tried in chrome and it does support full screen. I don't have chrome on my macbook cause only running OSx.4 when chrome needs at least x.5, so will experiment with that when i get home to the imac.

test for safari - coveritlive

and here is the code - going to try this and then open in safari to see if the full screen option there is any better than firefox.

more plays

just getting back used to this doing stuff mode and here is some "stuff".

And I am still wanting to take some of these images and put them into aftereffects and play there - I think that some very interesting things could be done, especially if the results were to put up on a big screen. Animating the colour/opacity/contrast etc. Some of the images that i have posted before - the bastardizations, as I call them (since they are paintings of mine, scanned and then photoshoped) would also do well in these experimentations, but this 4xpanel image may be a good start just to get to grips with the software.

spo3podcast20

was listening to bbc 6music and Gideon Coe was coming on the waves. When I saw he had concert tracks from Franz Ferdinand, I had to turn off. The more I hear that band, and don't get me wrong, they fooled me for a while and a few tracks, the more I want to become a police commissionaire and ban art schools. Or is that just me?

Anyway, here is the playlist for this new podcast - I am not sure whether it is in the right order since I made this a few weeks ago - on Garageband, of all things (who needs Adobe these days) and I cant remember if I changed the running order while making the file - but anyway, it shouldn't be too far from the mark.

Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake - Art Brut
Treat me like a dog - King Khan and BBQ Show
Diving - 50ft Wave
So Divided - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Burn My Shadow - UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury
Une Par Une - Vive le Fete
Waving my arms - The Birthday Party
Photoshop Handsome - Everything Everything
Every Little Girl - Maria Timm
Money(That's what I want) - Barret Strong
Glamorous - The Jesus Lizard
Anarchistic Bolshevistic Cowboy Bundle - Giant Sand
One of the Survivors - The Kinks
Stephanie Says - Lee Ronaldo
Occurance On The Border (Hopping On A Pogo-Gypsy Stick) - Gogol Bordello
Billy Hunt - The Jam
At Home he's a Tourist - Gang of Four
The Beat that my heart skipped - Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip

So then, get it here, spread the word and keep listening.

Injoi!

PS, have checked the running order and all in order! And bollocks, the last track cuts off... ahhh garageband, eh?