Max Beatty

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]