Archive for the ‘New Media Writing and Technology Diary’ Category

Brief Interlude to Learn Processing and some other things

I have been away again for a while. The main reason is that I am learning some new software and a new graphic/interactive programming language, Processing, in order to better facilitate this new media blog. It is becoming frustrating that I build my interactive animations in commercial software which has a tendency to out of [...]

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November 6, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary  No Comments

The Genius who lived to merge technology and art and people – you will be missed

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]

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October 6, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

art + science Guest Riff 01

Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer [...]

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September 30, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

A night of Latin Jazz, Flamenco, Bossa Nova and my Red Dress song

If my Other Mother, Esther, had not passed away two days before this concert, I would have recorded some of it for you. As it was, it was the best I could do to give a good performance. (I will post some music at a later date.) It helped that I had three awesome musicians [...]

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June 18, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels  No Comments

P.S. re: my last post about rock

I discovered that my rock animation was too big (used too much memory) to run on my Android phone. So, I had to spend today reducing the size of it (see animation below in last post) so anyone with a Flash enabled phone, tablet or browser can see it. But it is actually BIGGER than [...]

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April 10, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

Art Is Science!

Art is difficult. Whether the art is for “commercial purposes” – as in the litigation support interactive project I created for Texaco in 1997 (shown in the demo animation above) – or art that is considered “fine art” – art that may be bought and sold, but is created by an artist for non commercial [...]

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February 25, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

Have we side-tracked from the goal of everyman/woman computing?

Note: I have never done this before, but this is a shared post with my amybeachandme.com/blog as it covers information apropos of both blogs. I have edited it a bit for this blog. Studio back together – ready to start creating again! One of the down sides of working with art and technology is that [...]

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January 30, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

My TEDx Interlude

I mentioned I would be attending a conference this week. It was the TEDx conference at Pasadena’s Caltech. The animation above explains, kind of, why I don’t have a bunch of photos. I could leave it at that, but it is not really true. The fact is that in my haste to get ready for [...]

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January 15, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels  No Comments

Los Angeles with and without my brain (see previous post if you don’t know what this means)

okay, I had to do a new media piece as I ponder the world of color and sound we create in our brains only (see previous post). You must have Flash capability to see it – so your iPads and iPhones may have a hole where my animation is up [...]

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October 31, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary  No Comments

Part 5: . . . and the Flash, iPad and mobile device saga continues: 1 step forward, 2 steps back

In her Insider Comment column in WEB Designer, Issue 173, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis states: “Long, Long Ago (in web years that is) we built our code to work in the browser that was currently the leader . . . . Life was tough. It was nearly impossible to make everyone happy.” She then refers to [...]

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October 10, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary  No Comments

Part 4: . . . and the Flash, iPad and mobile device saga continues

The WEB is Dead Wired article I mentioned in my prior post reminds readers of the distinction between the Internet and the WEB. An important distinction as we try to grasp our new media roles and the future of all. The Internet is best thought of as a delivery medium – it delivers the WEB [...]

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October 3, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary  No Comments

Part 3. . . and the Flash, iPad and mobile device saga continues

Authors who want to turn their books into basic text (and a couple of pictures) ePub eBook or iBook, electronic device deliverable formats don’t need to be concerned about all the browser and device content delivery wars currently taking place. But those of us writing on the cutting edge of new media must pay attention [...]

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September 25, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary  No Comments