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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Processing #4 post

This has a hot pink background and 2 stationary squares, one blue square in the upper left corner, and a slightly smaller black square, overlapping the blue square.
void setup() {
size(400, 400);
background(197,22,187);
}
void draw() {
background(197,22,187);
float m = millis();
fill(m % 194,46,182);
rect(mouseX, mouseY, 50, 50);
float n = millis();
fill(n % 238,231,41);
rect(30, 30, mouseX, mouseY);
float o = millis();
fill(o % 0);
rect(30, 30, 30, 30);
PFont fontA = loadFont("Ziggurat-HTF-Black-32.vlw");
textFont(fontA, 30);
int x = second();
fill(187,193,236);
text("Dawn", x, 60);
fill(230,203,25);
text("Morning", x, 95);
fill(244,113,8);
text("Afternoon", x, 130);
fill(112,19,228);
text("Dusk", x, 165);
fill(4,16,110);
text("Evening", x, 200);}
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This is a small white rectangle with a thin black stroke in the center of the page.
void setup() {
String bodyCountText[] = loadStrings("http://www.iraqbodycount.org/counters/min.txt");
println(bodyCountText[0]);
int s=int(bodyCountText[0]);
s=s / 10000 ;
println(s) ;
rect(20,20,40,s);
//the 20,20 are integers}
void draw() {}
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ELSE STATEMENTS
This is just an example of a if /else statement:

void draw(){
if (second() <30){
println("hi");
}else{
println("bye");}}
//instead of printline you will us text and fill..etc
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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Processing #3 post

Here is what you need to type in and some comments explaining what they are.
// will comment out a single line of code
/* will comment out a whole paragraph of code*/
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This is a red background with white line that you control and pull with mouse.
void setup() {
// comment: this stuff only runs one time
size(200, 200); // the size of the applet
smooth(); // make it anti-aliased
background(255, 0, 0); // make the background red color
stroke(255); // set the fill color to white
}
void draw() {
// this is stuff you want to loop all the time
background(255, 0, 0);
// make the background red color - what if I take this out?
line(0,0,mouseX,mouseY);
}
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Variables
- mouseX and mouseY are a sort of a variable....
- You can make line art, word art, shape art.
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This is a white square that starts in the upper left corner and moves diagonally to the bottom right corner; as it travels it leaves a black trail. Does not repeat.
int myint = 0 ;
void setup() {
size (400,400) ;}
void draw() {
rect(myint,myint,50,50);
myint = myint + 1;}
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This is a black line that starts in the upper left corner and moves diagonally to the bottom right corner; If you move the mouse onto the line a white square will form and reshape itself as you move the mouse around. As it travels it leaves a black trail. Does not repeat.
int myint = 0 ;
void setup() {
size (400,400) ;
}
void draw() {
rect(myint,myint,mouseX,mouseY);
myint = myint + 1;
}
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This has a black background in the middle at the top, a white square drops down to the bottom of the page and disappears again. Does not repeat.
int myint = 0 ;
void setup() {
size (400,400) ; }
void draw() {
background(0,0,0);
rect(100,myint,50,50);
myint = myint + 2;
println(myint); }
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This is a white square that starts in the upper left corner and moves diagonally to the bottom right corner; as it travels it leaves a black trail. It moves to Seconds and after a minute it repeats.
//time process: clock
void setup() {
size (200,200) ; }
void draw() {
rect(second(), second(), 20,20);
}
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Processing #2 post

//copy and paste into Processing and run it.
//This code is a time process (Clock)

void setup() {
size (200,200) ; }
void draw()

{
rect(mouseX, mouseY, second(), second() );

background(0,0,0);
int s = second(); // Values from 0 - 59
int m = minute(); // Values from 0 - 59
int h = hour(); // Values from 0 - 23
ellipse(s, 60, s, 60);
rect(m, 10, m,60);
rect(h, 60, h, 100);
}

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Processing #1 post

Processing

-You use a program called "Processing," which is easily downloadable from the website.
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Lets play with the program...
go to: Open, Basics, Form, ShapePrimitives

You can change the color of the Background and Fill by inserting the proper color values
-you can open photoshop and find the RGB color values you need!

RGB!

-You can make each shape different color by adding Fill a few more times.

Save it in a Processing folder.

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There is a Reference Page that can help you on the website.
In Processing if you highlight a word like 'line' or 'rect' and right click it with the mouse and go to "find reference" it will take you to the website.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Event Score

Shopping Break

Go to a local shopping center.
Find an empty shopping cart and take it to the lingerie department.
Once you have placed the shopping cart on an aisle in the lingerie department,
climb inside the shopping cart.
While sitting inside the shopping cart,
read a newspaper.

Documentation of Event




















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Credits:
I give thanks to my friend Sara for helping me out with my "event". She sat in that cart for a whole hour and read that newspaper cover to cover.
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Monday, March 10, 2008

My Pseudocode

Pseudo Code


Procedure:Feeding_Rat


Start

Go to bedroom
Go to rat cage
Sit in front of rat cage
Unlock rat cage

Insert hand into rat cage
Pet rat

Continue petting of rat for 2 minutes
Remove hand from rat cage

If food bowl is empty
Then feed rat

Open rat food bag
Insert 10 pellets into food bowl
Close rat cage
Close rat food bag

Unhook water dispenser attached to rat cage
Stand up
Go to Kitchen
Unscrew water dispenser nozzle
Remove old water
Refill with fresh water
Screw on water dispenser nozzle

Go to bedroom
Go to rat cage
Sit in front of rat cage
Attach water dispenser to rat cage

Stand up
Exit bedroom


End

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Pseudocode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode

Pseudocode is writing code in English so you can understand it. Then it makes writing it in code easier later.


EX:
if credit card number is valid
execute transaction based on number and order
else
show a generic failure message
end if



Assignment
1. Create pseudocode for an everyday action. Write on paper and hand in on PAPER.
-Break down a task ( anything you want)
-Make it half a page or more, single spaced
-Write it down on a piece of paper and turn it in.

-Think of something you do in your everyday life
(wash your face, brush teeth, take 15 steps to the bathroom,
bend down and pick up towel from floor, etc...)
-Do  by yourself!
2. Create and DOCUMENT an event-score (you may work with a partner) which elevates the mundane. Concentrate on simplicity over complexity.
Next:  Create an event score
http://transition.turbulence.org//uapd/?p=26

-Elevation of the mundane
Ex: Select a subject and then write 5 million pages about it


-you can make an event score and make someone else do it
-think of something wacky!!
-think positively
-don't' hurt yourself or others

-You can have a partner
-You must document it somehow ---videotape?

--the 2 projects do not have to relate to one another.

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-Fluxus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
http://fluxus.org/

-Fluxus is a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network
of artists,composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and
disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in visual art and music
as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design.
Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist
Dick Higgins in a famous 1966 essay.

--Intermedia---fluxus---arts technology---


Important Fluxus artists:
-John Cage
-Nam June Paik
-Yoko Ono


"One line of a program doesn't do anything, but a full program can blow up a building."


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example code

-if/then

-do while
Do -scrub you body- while -the water is running-

-logical and
-logical or
-AND
-OR
-NOT
-FOR
-Loop

-Case  (case statement --situation)
Monday
Tuesday-388 course
Wednesday
Thursday-388 course
Friday

-Switch
-Select
-If
-Then
-Else

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http://www.seattlecentral.edu/~ymoh/mic110vb/pseudocode.htm

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Illinois State 2008 Vagina Monologues

It was a great performance!  Kudos to Brandy Peak!

F.L.A.M.E. raised over $4,000 in the two nights the production ran. All of the money raised was donated to Neville House, YWCA Stepping Stones, Bloomington Planned Parenthood, and ISU Sexual Assault Prevention and Survivor Services.

The spotlight for this year’s production was on women of New Oreleans and the Gulf South. All of the money that V-Day raises will go towards helping women in these areas.

Human For Sale

Human For Sale

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Coded Human

-Bar Codes
-print/paint a barcode onto my body and get scanned and printed (receipt)
http://www.barcodeart.com/art/yourself/yourself.html

The barcode value for a 23 year old female, that lives in the United States, is 64 inches high, and weighs 136 pounds is: $6.83

My barcode is: 0 23002 64136 1

Every Body has a story, what is yours?

By scanning your barcode, we can tell who you are, were you have been, What you are made up of

:)

Monday, January 21, 2008

The Continuum

-Killing the president
-Peeing in public
-Public indecency
-Showing a picture of the word naked and hanging it in a window in Singapore

Music riots - Handel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_riot

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Making a website ---Research

look up content and layouts:
http://www.glish.com/css/home.asp#techniques


Career Center Website:
http://www.careercenter.ilstu.edu/students/marketing-yourself/Effective_Resume.shtml


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Portfolio websites
http://www.orangevector.com/
--good

http://www.ishankhosla.com/
--good

http://www.ibiblio.org/pbadani/
--good, a lot to take in

http://www.jkhudson.com/resume.html---bad

www.geckowebfolio.com

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PowWeb $5.77

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CODE

Art, anthropology, agency, code.

"What counts as art changes in different contexts" -Alfred Gell

Giant Campbell's Soup Can ------is this art---yes or no?

"To decide something is art, then analyze it as an art object is to forget how it became an art object."


Think of an art object as a person..... and apply anthropological theory to it.

Agency: it makes a difference between something that just controls something else
--the capacity to act
ex: hooters girls


Code can have a lot of agency!
ex: cell phone, elevators, voting booths, computers

How does code distribute agency?
-a virus slows down a computer
-a browser pops up windows all over the screen

Code is free speech!


Miranda July
http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Sound Mirror
http://www.soundmirrors.org/


Ray Kurzweil
(I attended this)
--
Sesquicentennial speaker at Illinois State's Braden Auditorium
http://www.ilstu.edu/home/anniversary/kurzweil.shtml

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

DeCSS

DeCSS is a computer program capable of decrypting content on a DVD-Video disc encrypted using the Content-Scrambling System (CSS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Illinois State 2006 Vagina Monologues

This was my first time attending a produciton of "The Vagina Monologues"

My roommate and best friend Sara participated and read in the 2006 Illinois State University Production of "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler.


The Vagina Monologues, Feb 17,18, 19th.  Performances begin at 7pm on Friday and Saturday; Sunday matinee begins at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased at the door: $7 general admission and $5 students/seniors. The location for all performances is the Prairie Room in the Bone Student Center. The Vagina Monologues is an annual performance hosted by the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at ISU. The Vagina Monologues are part of Eve Ensler’s VDAY campaign which promotes ending violence against women.  The proceeds from ticket sales will go to the VDAY foundation and local charities.


This was Sara's speaking part in the production:

"THE VAGINA WORKSHOP"
(Said with a slight English accent - Originally performed by Gillian Anderson as part of a fund-raiser for charities campaigning for an end to violence against women. The performance took place in London.)

"My vagina is a shell, a round pink tender shell, opening and closing, closing and opening. My vagina is a flower, an eccentric tulip, the center acute and deep, the scent delicate, the petals gentle but sturdy...."

Sara did such a great job as did the rest of the cast! 

Monday, November 14, 2005

Ring in Progress

Illinois State University Jewelry 1 course project:  RING PROGRESS
 
The silver cutout is overlying a duplicate cutout with two lightening bolt shapes cut into it. The next step is to acid dip it to blacken the insides of the lightening bolts. The rest of the ring will be polished. Then the bezel and stone will be soldered on.
 
 

Monday, October 17, 2005

Pumpkin Carving Contest - Winner

Illinois State University:
In my dormitory at Hamilton Hall, floor 7,
our R.A., Lyndy, held a pumpkin carving contest.
I won 1st place with "Wolf Howling at Moon"

Friday, May 7, 2004

Kiss A Pig

This was a fundraiser called "Kiss For A Cure" held by my Sorority: 
Pi Omega Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society 
at Danville Area Community College

"It was a gorgeous day.  Our contestants gathered on the quad, eagerly awaiting the results.  Dr. Jacobs reminisced that it had probably been  about seven years since her last pig kiss.  Hoagland and Potter seemed almost too at ease with swine handling.  Coach Hicks was glad the Lady Jags had finished a good season, so they might not be so eager to throw votes his way.  Lily Siu hoped the pig noticed the similarity with her name and his own, Sus domesticus, and would be kind.  Missi Gouty wondered if the little guy, a runt, would pity her.  Brad Weaver was glad to know that campus services does not include pig bathing (Hoagland handled that).  Janet Redenbaugh mistakenly thought that professional attire would get her off the hook.  Carla Boyd hid on the sidelines, Garrett behind a camera.  And Downing knew his fate when he agreed to participate.  The public had voted with their money throughout  the week and now the moment was at hand: Which of our contestants   had been selected for a swine smooch  with Barry the Barrow?"

Barry the Pig

Can you find me in some of these pics!!

I'm in 5 of them! 

Ah, good ol' times at D.A.C.C.

                                                                                      
                                                                         
                                                



Saturday, May 1, 2004

Blogging

I've decided to start my own blog.

Here I will write about creative projects that I am working on.
I will share life experiences, interesting links and creative web sites, coding, articles, videos, photos, artwork, and much more.