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    Archive for January, 2009

    Engineering an Infinite Runway

    I wish this week’s teleconference audio was clearer so I could have taken better notes on Don Brown’s presentation, but I had to concentrate so hard on what he was saying it didn’t leave much time to jot much down. Luckily, he’s very easy to find on Google:

    Article from BizVoice/Indiana Chamber (pdf)
    Forbes Profile (including salary [...]

    Old Digital Composites

    This week’s digital art blog assignment is to, “find an art piece which is related to digital composite, and talk about it.” I went to my doodle album on Facebook and pulled a few of my old composites I used to use on intro splash pages back when they were popular for websites.

    This first one [...]

    Feedback for i400 Beta

    I had some thoughts after the first couple of weeks using the i400 blog and the course in general. Hopefully they’ll continue to listen and improve the course. It’s been pretty good so far, but as you’ll read has some kinks to work out like any beta production.

    Digital Art: Project 1 Supporting Materials

    I’ve really been struggling for ideas for this first project that’s a composite image of “an imaginary event, place, person, thing, etc.” My original proposal was to do something with album art maybe scattered across a desk, but now that really doesn’t sound too interesting. I also had an idea of having someone walk down [...]

    Indiana University Needs to Teach Web Standards

    I love IU. I think it’s a great university with many talented faculty members and endless resources for students. I’ve never regretted my decision to come here and pursue my degree in informatics. Just last month, the university announced that they had struck a deal with Adobe to provide CS4 to everyone for free! This [...]

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