Senior Year... YO!

um right

2009-04-29T20:12:00.000-07:00

The following to do fix to the project:

Drop the labeling for the linear subsection(done)
Fix positioning of arrows(done)
Add multiple links for other sections(done)
Add about page
COMPLETE NON_LINEAR SECTION!!!
Fix positioning on pages

Updates

2009-04-23T04:04:00.000-07:00

So apparently the linear side of the project is done(for now). I ended up changing the font and some of the positioning of the pages. But it's coming along. The non linear side is a bigger challenged. Difficult siutations came up and it slowed down the process so, it's going to be an interesting fight to get all of this stuff done before the show. At least 60% of it is "done"

Audio Scrapped

2009-04-23T04:01:00.000-07:00

So, I am officially scrapping the audio for my project due to time restraints. Who knows, I may try againin the future.

imaginativeverses.com officially bought!

2009-04-15T07:16:00.001-07:00

Just saying...

arrow ideas

2009-04-09T16:12:00.000-07:00

http://talkthetype.com/working/
http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

potential names for linear and non-linear

2009-04-09T16:02:00.000-07:00

undisguised
deviating
indirect,
intermittent
un-scramble
go beyond
stretch the imagination
free your mind

Solutions to interaction with the linear part of the website

2009-04-02T10:45:00.000-07:00

A different direction...

2009-04-01T12:48:00.001-07:00

Take a look:

http://porterspace.com/prototype1.html

http://porterspace.com/prototypelinear2.html

Ideas for the linear section...

2009-03-30T08:34:00.001-07:00

Possibilities for interface with linear:

Having individual sections for all 5 poems for users to choose

Having user navigate the linear

Have the user navigate the site through the verses.

Have a drop down menu of the site saying next verse

Have number or shape that will stand out in order to go the next section

Possibilities for interface between sections:

Transitions with different pictures of the website leading up to the collage

Numbering section to send

Final Homepage Design...

2009-03-26T11:02:00.000-07:00

Update on the site...

2009-03-22T16:38:00.000-07:00

I fixed the lettering on the site and it's more readable. Next thing to do this week is add more verses to the peace, fear and destiny sections.

Things left to do...

2009-03-19T09:09:00.002-07:00

Draft of the site number 2

Homepage creation (That will be done this weekend)

Audio

Buy domain

THE END???

The REAL CLICK THRU

2009-03-19T09:09:00.001-07:00

porterspace.com/prototype.html

Imaginative Verses: REAL TITLE

2009-03-05T14:20:00.000-08:00

Yeah, here ya go!

my own cut up method...

2009-03-03T16:57:00.001-08:00

1 Alive and Well
2 Dead leaves fractured
3 It orders me to run
4 On My Knees
5 Dark Settings Resembles Evil
6 My Anger
7 Steaming within
8 I kneeled
9 I’m not finish
10 The Sun Sets
11 The sun signals
12 The sun shines
13 A furious bark
14 Slowly Killing Me
15 A fruit
16 Peace of Mind
17 Tossing
18 A Bountiful Landscape
19 Perfect Blue
20 The day is a crisp dream
21 Golden brown
22 Orange and green
23 Looking at the ceiling
24 A simple symbol /“This needs to be released”
25 Nothing will stand in the way
26 Becomes part of me
27 I continue lulling
28 A new tomorrow
29 A shadow
30 Peace is here
31 A new beginning
32 Frozen
33 There’s a darkness
34 Peace Calls me
35 A bountiful landscape
36 Peace is here/ opportunities chances
37 These woods are alive
38 The sun starts
39 My inner sanctuary
40 Tossing
41 All of nature is upon me
42 Steaming within
43 I leave for a walk
44 I take a walk
45 Turning
46 I am one
47 I continues lulling
48 Sunrise I’m ready
49 A fruit
50 Outside Its Dusk
51 There is darkness
52 I am one with fear
53 Rage seething
54 It becomes my companion
55 Put on the television
56 To dear life
57 This Inner Beauty
58 If this will every be done
59 I’ve arrived
60 “This is where is gets ugly”
61 My inner sanctuary

Pattern 1:

22/19/21/
4/17//45/44
37/2/1
16/6/30/53
2/56
57/60
50/33
38/48/12/10/47/11
16/15/39/26/24/40
52/54/42/5

Pattern 2:
47/33/29
2/42/52
13/15
59/43

Pattern 3:

10 33 44 7 35 26 35 11 16
12 59 24 42 19 53 56
50 41 14 43 45 60 15 1
47 5 40 57 3 39 49 21
5 4 29 17 36 32 20 59
38 25 8 23 28 27 18 2 58 48 13 46 31 9 52
55 30 22 48

Linear version...

2009-03-03T08:08:00.001-08:00

"http://porterspace.com/pilgrimage.html"

Linear version...

2009-03-03T08:08:00.000-08:00

The process so far.

2009-02-25T16:02:00.000-08:00

So recently I met with TA Tom about how all of these verses would go together in a non linear format. We broke down the verses into different setting involving metaphors, objects, emotions and movement. The next thing we did is see which ones are opposites(example:dead to alive,peace to angry). Then the next thing I did was to see which verse from different themes make a story. Now the next thing I want the user to do when using the website is to select the verse and different options will appear to take the use from one setting to another.

Pilgrimage is THE OFFICIAL TITLE!!!

2009-02-24T16:34:00.000-08:00

pil⋅grim⋅age [pil-gruh-mij] Show IPA noun, verb, -aged, -ag⋅ing.
–noun
1. a journey, esp. a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
2. Islam.
a. the Pilgrimage, hajj.
b. ʿumrah.
3. any long journey, esp. one undertaken as a quest or for a votive purpose, as to pay homage: a pilgrimage to the grave of Shakespeare.
–verb (used without object)
4. to make a pilgrimage.

Final(Hopefully) Homepage Layout

2009-02-22T13:18:00.001-08:00

Latest Site Map

2009-02-22T13:11:00.001-08:00

The idea NOW is to have both the site in a linear and non-linear approach.

New Method

2009-02-18T15:38:00.000-08:00

With talking to Katherine recently, It is best for me to use BOTH Linear and Non-Linear formats for the poetry site since it's best to have the user experience the site in different ways. I also feel that having different objects and images and colors can lead the user to a different poem(alka non-linear experience).

click thru...

2009-02-18T15:36:00.000-08:00

porterspace.com/clickthru12.html

As far as the title is concern...

2009-02-15T12:21:00.000-08:00

Since I had to change my title, I think it is best to go back to the original working title "Poeticjourney" because with some interesting feedback from Jaco and Marquis about the title. They both believe that since the work is nonlinear, it gives the user a chance to go on an unique journey so to speak involving emotions with poems. After thinking about it, Complex is considered to be a negative and I want a person to enjoy the positive aspects of the project. So poeticjourney.com is official!

(Update. Researching new title :/ Hopefully it will be finalized real soon since the ideas that I've been coming up are either lame or just it didn't make sense)

Brainstorming the project

2009-02-09T04:45:00.000-08:00

The other night I met up with the TA of the class and we were trying to make a narrative out of all of these poems based on themes, metaphors,etc by creating a word map, in which I will revised in a site map soon. We even talked about the cut up method William Burroughs used in his book "Naked Lunch" in which I'll read a couple of chapters of it really soon. Also, I am coding the sections right now to see what will happen and it's frustrating to see if I get this right.

Different poetic settings designs

2009-02-08T12:30:00.001-08:00

Poems for project

2009-02-05T13:47:00.000-08:00

Fatigue

By j. saca

trees wasted on
restlessness

I go back, put on the
television, staring

at programs,
commercials, again

I leave for a walk

the neighborhood lights
are on. Back at home,

Looking at the
ceiling

Tossing
Turning

the bed sheets waiting

for peace.

Inner Peace

By j. saca

The sun shines and it’s a new day
I’ve forgotten yesterday. An orange

glow massages a bountiful landscape

the sky is a perfect blue
the day is a crisp dream

out of this bliss there is
a tree. A simple symbol
of life,
bearing fruit, teaching me
the meaning of these new
feelings, this new appreciation

I have towards life, peace
Is here. By the tree,

A fruit hangs on a branch and clings
To dear life.

Peace calls me
I hear its voice echo and reel me
in towards a vast, open field,

where grasses, orange and green
Golden
Brown.

Welcome me to my inner
sanctuary. a place I can
call home.

Nothing will stand in the way
of my peace of mind. I see

another tree
It beckons me to lie beside it and read
A book nearby, I open its pages and
Let myself go

A breeze blows each page
I finish. I continue lulling
Myself into this ultimate
Experience

The wind blowing through the grass
Fuses with my inner sanctuary. It has
Become part of me, part of
The trees. Grass, sunlight,

All of nature is upon me,
I am a product of this
inner beauty.

Sitting under the tree
Finished pages turning

I’ve arrived

Destiny

By j. saca

Outside it’s dusk
the sun sets from

home, the place
that keeps me

from harm’s way.
The day transitions

an end is here, the
sun signals a new

beginning, seeing
from my window

leaving the house
the sun starts its

ascension; I start
thinking about

opportunities
chances, risks

I’ve taken. I’m
not finished

life calls, I’m
still young,

alive and well,
the sun rises,

new ideas
new chances

flowing
I see them

flashing in
my head,

images of a
new tomorrow

Sunrise
I’m ready

for my new beginning

Fear

by j. saca

i walk alone crumpling
dead leaves fractured

bones contemplating
desolate

fate, legs shaking

like twigs
spasms,

fingers

frozen ;
it’s here.

A shadow with a face spews
obscenities,
threats, a furious bark

It orders me to
run off; I do as I’m told. Running

away,

The body shakes soaked
In sweat, the heart beats

Breathless and on my knees
I turn and it waits

Dentures made out of ancient
Bark, these woods are alive as

It smiles and puts out its
hand. It becomes my
companion; I am one
with fear.

Anger

by j. saca

This is where it gets ugly

Dark settings resembles
evil

I kneeled
talking to the devil
inside.

“This needs to be released,”

I take a walk and wonder
if this’ll ever be gone.

rage seething
slowly killing me

steaming within
hatred bounces

in my ears
irritation buzzes

in my mind
there’s a darkness

my anger
madness short-lived

A wild bull

I cannot control.

Current Version for home page

2009-02-01T11:26:00.000-08:00

First version

2009-01-31T12:38:00.001-08:00

Comp Design for homepage

2009-01-31T10:16:00.000-08:00

The Schedule for the spring(Subject to change overtime)

2009-01-25T11:26:00.000-08:00

January

Design home page comps first iteration

Design subsection comp first iteration

Talk to a graphic designer about font design.

February

Build first site iteration.

Design home page comps second iteration

Design subsection comp second iteration

Finalize site name.

March

Build second site iteration.

User testing

April

Build third site iteration.

User testing.

May
Graduate hopefully.

Idea for senior project...

2009-01-25T11:00:00.001-08:00

Since my senior project involved a nonlinear form of storytelling in poetry, I figure based on suggestions from Katherine, I have to make the execution of the website clear for the average user to use and most importantly, to understand. So there are some possible ways of execution for the project. The first idea is to have the user click on one of the sections on the home page and it will take that person to the beginning of that poem. Now, when the user clicks on a verse, it will change to a different verse of another poem and the user will click on it. That will take the user to a different setting involving some kind of animation being displayed with another link being showed. The same thing will repeat through all the themes to a certain point of conclusion.

New Semester Same Project

2009-01-22T15:39:00.000-08:00

Yup! Main goal. Build project and graduated. Nuff said.

Main Inspiration

2009-01-13T10:30:00.000-08:00

Thomas Swiss is a English professor and poet who began using his writings with multimedia in recent years. I found his work to be inspiring for the project that I am going to build. But I am going to take it a step further.

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/swiss/problem/#
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/swiss/cob/index.html#
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/swiss/narrative/

Cyberpoetics link

2008-12-21T14:15:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting link giving to me by Jaymie dealing with typography with cyber poetry. I thought this was an interesting read because it gave me some interesting pointers on how to approach type with the World Wide Web. Also, some typography links in the article too.

http://jacketmagazine.com/01/cyberpoetics.html

Complexpoetry.com abstract...

2008-12-21T14:09:00.001-08:00

This the official abstract for the senior project:

“ComplexPoetry.com” is an exploratory website that displays different emotional themes in a non-linear form of narrative poetry. By navigating through verses, the user can explore different poetic settings.

Revised Deliverables

2008-12-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

Working click through of the project.
A. A working web prototype displaying the poetic themes and their settings.
B. 10 photos displaying the interaction of the site through clicking on the phrases.
C. Each theme will display different colors in order to match the respective tone.

Refined poems via hard copy.
A.) Polished poems to display the complexity of the themes.

Thumbnail sketches.
A.) A series of photo shopped storyboards displaying the step-by-step process of each poetic theme on the website.

Photos.
A.) Altered photos in order to match the respective poetic themes.

Site Map.
A.) Displaying where would the user navigate the user.

Wireframes
A.) Displaying mockups of the site and its respective areas.

Word Map.
A.) Displaying

Feedback fro 2nd Presentation

2008-12-03T17:40:00.001-08:00

Feedback:
⁃ I'm kind of lost about how you're presenting the content for this. Tim had a wireframe for how he's presenting. How will this look like on the site once this is finished. From the layout from the storyboards, I can't see what the direction of the narrative is.
⁃ When you say storyboards, you mean comps. It looks like comps, as storyboards show motion and narrative from one point to another. As far as the mapping, is that relative to the mapping or the poems? Navigating to the website will be really big. This really bombarded me with poems that I don't know works to your advantage.
⁃ I don't see the mapping for how we interact with the website. This is what I'm confused about.
⁃ I don't know what direction to go into for the website. I'm still trying to figure this out. Should users mix up the poems?
⁃ I wouldn't get that complicated yet. I would first get a map out. Even if it is an index. Iterate that map once you have it. Also, see first how the information flows.
⁃ Focusing more on the neat, I would consult with a graphic designer. I didn't understand the symbolism of the pictures. Type very much matters. You will be ankle deep in serifs or sans-serifs. All the poems save one seem to have a negative connotation.
⁃ The destiny one seemed to be more of a positive.
⁃ Have you looked at E. E. Cummings? He messed around with how the poem structure looked like. Look at "Grasshopper". The typography moves like how a grasshopper would jump.
⁃ Destiny looked dark and scary.
⁃ Work on how you need to structure this. You will have to make some concrete decisions quickly. Make the decisions but keep going. People are going to fight you, but keep moving.
⁃ I like them as a collage, rather than just a single picture. I like the aesthetic of this.
⁃ Do you have a general idea of how many poems you will have?
⁃ 5 poems
⁃ The William Burroughs idea is neat, but I'm not sure how this would work on the internet, just because it would be difficult to read. Maybe if you click on a line, it straightens and becomes easier to read. So maybe from chaos, order emerges.
⁃ Maybe multiple shots from the comps will show someone how this would flow. This would give us time to ruminate, move around this.
⁃ By providing a lot of imagery with the poems, maybe this is anti-poetic, since the words seem to need to speak for themselves. The imagery draws away from the words. You might want to think about why you are doing this and why you are providing all the imagery with the poems.
⁃ If you want any help from myself or anyone else regarding structuring and layout, we're here (Tim).

Collage Sites inspiration

2008-12-03T17:28:00.000-08:00

http://www.theresourced.com/web-design-styles/collages-without-the-scissors-glue/

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/2007/11/16/where-we-live-5/

I caved...

2008-11-26T16:09:00.000-08:00

So after speaking to Jeremy, I think that he was right about the current anger poem that I written. It didn't have the flow that the collaborator established with the other poetic themes. So, I have done is combine the two anger drafts that the writer written into this:

This is where it gets ugly

Dark settings
resembles evil

I knelled.
Talking to the devil
Inside

“This needs to be released,”

I take a walk and wonder
If this’ll ever be gone.

Rage seething
Slowly killing me

Steaming within
Hatred bounces

In my ears
Irritation buzzes

In my mind
There’s darkness

My anger
Madness short-lived

A wild bull

I cannot control.

Anger Version 2

2008-11-24T10:21:00.000-08:00

Roaming theses streets,
This dark cold night
Brought out unusual feelings
That was never felt before:

Conflicting.
Confusing.
Rage.
Pity.

These attributes have me standing
In this particular spot
Looking at the sky
Seeing the transition from
Black to red.

The moment that happened
I screamed these words
“Why! Why! Why me Goddamn It!”
This monster from within is indeed in control
Of everything that is around me.

I yield to the ground
Praying to the lord that
The negative feelings will cease.
The recklessness from within will go away,
But my instincts tell me that it will never be ceased.
Fate has indeed fallen.

As I rise and begin walking
I begin seeing everything around
That is black and white
Representing the world.

Suddenly these colors
Have merged to shades of gray,
I, and the rest of the world,
Is meant to be in all along.

Breathe it
Enjoy it
Experience it.

The anger has influx into that surrounding.

Senior Project Deliverable

2008-11-23T12:18:00.000-08:00

1.) Working click through of the project.
A. A working web prototype displaying the poetic themes and their settings.
B. A temporary menu that will display the themes
C. Each theme will display 10 photos of 2 pages per theme
D. Each theme will display different colors in order to match the respective tone.

2.) Refined poems via hard copy.
A.) Polished poems to display the complexity of the themes.

3.) Thumbnail sketches.
A.) A series of photo shopped storyboards displaying the step-by-step process of each poetic theme on the website.
4.) Photos.
A.) Altered photos in order to match the respective poetic themes

Exitensalism Emotions research

2008-11-17T19:50:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting book from Paul Elman and Richard K. Davidson focusing on the use of emotions through different theories.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hHSAKTRDpccC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=existential+emotions&source=web&ots=cHPPIvbfyF&sig=c_L6fT3iz0hTQILdexeil5FO7pk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA480,M1

This book from Robert J. Yanal called Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction describe the use of emotion in different formats of fiction.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Pgic3wBO9n8C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=existential+emotions&source=web&ots=uX7U27-Dil&sig=PDSDsY0TdXUNgmI0mmSt_9q7plQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA13,M1

his is an interesting book from Jean Paul Satire
http://books.google.com/books?id=uy8j8E6NLeIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Existentialism+emotions&lr=

Mapping

2008-11-15T09:10:00.000-08:00

So for the mapping phase, I went beyond the typical mapping for a website. I decided to make it like a collage, but also include the cutting method from William Burroughs because it gave me a chance to try some a unique form of storytelling, but for the web.

Updated Schedule

2008-11-09T21:23:00.000-08:00

September

Week 1: Present Idea to class/Do more research to project by viewing multiple digital poetry websites/Set up blog.

Week 2: Get in touch with writer to talk about the writings/Begin taking pictures for site around certain areas; Think of poem themes.

Week 3: Began taking photos.

Week 4: Continue taking pictures/ begin outline for writer/ First set of writings are due/ Finish taking photos;

October

Week 5: Begin visual research/Communicate with writer about progress and revisions/Talk to psych professors at schools at themes /Bibliography due.

Week 6: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions/Began building composition collages surrounding themes/Presentation

Week 7: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions/Continue composition collages surrounding themes

Week 8: Continue composition collages surrounding themes/ Began site development/Mapping

November

Week 9: Continue site development/ Mapping

Week 10: Continue site development/Mapping

Week 11: Continue site development/Rough Draft

Week 12: Continue site development/Revision on Rough Draft /Presentation

December

Week 13: Continue site development/Revision on Rough Draft/ Finalize binder/ Get domain name.

Week 14: Binder due

Good reminder for fonts

2008-11-09T20:58:00.000-08:00

Currently I am doing the mapping phase of my project and it's starting to come along real well, I think. I was told to by Tom and Jeremy to begin looking at different fonts in order to go with the themes of my project. So I stumble upon this website and it gave me a reminder on what should I look for when choosing a font.

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/typotips.html

Good help though.

1. Because it works.
Some typefaces are just perfect for certain things. I've specified exotic fonts for identity programs that work beautifully in headlines and even in text, but sooner or later you have to set that really tiny type at the bottom of the business reply card. This is what Franklin Gothic is for. Careful, though: some typefaces work too well. Frutiger has been used so much for signage programs in hospitals and airports that seeing it now makes me feel that I'm about to get diagnosed with a brain tumor or miss the 7:00 to O'Hare.

2. Because you like its history.
I've heard of several projects where the designer found a font that was created the same year the client's organization was founded. This must give the recommendation an aura of manifest destiny that is positively irresistible. I haven't had that luck yet, but still try to find the same kind of evocative alignment. For instance, I was never a fan of Aldo Novarese's Eurostyle, but I came to love it while working on a monograph on Eero Saarinen: they both share an expressiveness peculiar to the postwar optimism of the 1950's.

3. Because you like its name.
Once I saw a project in a student portfolio that undertook the dubious challenge of redesigning the Tiffany's identity. I particularly disliked the font that was used, and I politely asked what it was. "Oh," came the enthusiastic response, "that's the best part! It's called Tiffany!" On the other hand, Bruce Mau designed Spectacle, the book he created with David Rockwell, using the typeface Rockwell. I thought this was funny.

4. Because of who designed it.
Once I was working on a project where the client group included some very strong-minded architects. I picked Cheltenham, an idiosyncratic typeface that was not only well-suited to the project's requirements, but was one of the few I know that was designed by an architect, Bertram Goodhue. Recently, I designed a publications program for a girls' school. I used a typeface that was designed by a woman and named after another, Zuzana Licko's Mrs. Eaves. In both cases, my clients knew that the public would be completely unaware of the story behind the font selection, but took some comfort in it nonetheless. I did too.

5. Because it was there.
Sometimes a typeface is already living on the premises when you show up, and it just seems mean to evict it. "We use Baskerville and Univers 65 on all our materials, but feel free to make an alternate suggestion." Really? Why bother? It's like one of those shows where the amateur chef is given a turnip, a bag of flour, a leg of lamb and some maple syrup and told to make a dish out of it. Sometimes it's something you've never used before, which makes it even more fun.

6. Because they made you.
And sometimes it's something you've never used before, for good reason. "We use ITC Eras on all our materials." "Can I make an alternate suggestion?" "No." This is when blind embossing comes in handy.

7. Because it reminds you of something.
Whenever I want to make words look straightforward, conversational, and smart, I frequently consider Futura, upper and lower case. Why? Not because Paul Renner was straightforward, conversational, and smart, although he might have been. No, it's because 45 years ago, Helmut Krone decided to use Futura in Doyle Dane Bernbach's advertising for Volkswagen, and they still use it today. One warning, however: what reminds you of something may remind someone else of something else.

8. Because it's beautiful.
Cyrus Highsmith's Novia is now commercially available. He originally designed it for the headlines in Martha Stewart Weddings. Resistance is futile, at least mine is.

9. Because it's ugly.
About 10 years ago, I was asked to redesign the logo for New York magazine. Milton Glaser had based the logo on Bookman Swash Italic, a typeface I found unimaginably dated and ugly. But Glaser's logo had replaced an earlier one by Peter Palazzo that was based on Caslon Italic. I proposed we return to Caslon, and distinctly remember saying, "Bookman Swash Italic is always going to look ugly." The other day, I saw something in the office that really caught my eye. It was set in Bookman Swash Italic, and it looked great. Ugly, but great.

10. Because it's boring.
Tibor Kalman was fascinated with boring typefaces. "No, this one is too clever, this one is too interesting," he kept saying when showed him the fonts I was proposing for his monograph. Anything but a boring typeface, he felt, got in the way of the ideas. We settled on Trade Gothic.

11. Because it's special.
In design as in fashion, nothing beats bespoke tailoring. I've commissioned custom typefaces from Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones and Joe Finocchiaro, and we're currently working with Matthew Carter and Chester. It is the ultimate indulgence, but well worth the extra effort. Is this proliferation? I say bring it on.

12. Because you believe in it.
Sometimes I think that Massimo Vignelli may be using too many typefaces, not too few. A true fundamentalist requires a monotheistic worldview: one world, one typeface. The designers at Experimental Jetset have made the case for Helvetica. My partner Abbott Miller had a period of life he calls "The Scala Years" when he used that typeface almost exclusively. When the time is right, I might make that kind of commitment myself.

13. Because you can't not.
Princeton Architectural Press is about to publish a collection of essays I've written, many of which first appeared here on Design Observer. I wanted it to feel like a real book for readers — it has no pictures — so I asked Abbott to design it. He suggested we set each one of the 79 pieces in a different typeface. I loved this idea, but wasn't sure how far he'd want to go with it. "What about the one called 'I Hate ITC Garamond?'" I asked him. "Would we set it in ITC Garamond?" He looked at me as if I was crazy. "Of course," he said.

Updates yet again

2008-11-03T17:58:00.000-08:00

So I achieve in doing my first draft of mapping this week and I feel another iteration is necessary in order to have a successful. The problem was for me doing this mapping was my schedule got thrown off with the Phillies parade canceling school and I was out of town from Friday night to Sunday morning. So I did 8 hours of works in two days of mapping and new comps for the other themes at school since I do not have the software. But it's worth it.

Research: Williams Burroughs

2008-11-03T05:06:00.000-08:00

To try to my project more interesting, I recently looked at a chapter in "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality" on William Burroughs. He mixed up text in order to explore a different kind of nonlinear storytelling perception. Burroughs influence was a painter name Brion Gysin and he developed the method within his paintings by using text in order to create a collage of storytelling telling. I always wanted to do a collage of some sort for this project, but I think the cut up method is an interesting technique to incorporate into the project by experimenting with the mapping.

I wrote this, nuff said

2008-10-26T20:06:00.000-07:00

So my collaborator wrote a weak draft to my "Anger" theme. And I decided to put my advanced poetry writing skills to use by using one of the styles that I learned recently. It's worth a shot!

My anger is my curse when walking the streets at night
My anger outlives my guilt when thinking about my future by looking at the red sky.
My anger clouds my judgment when seeing the dark alleys
My anger is uncontrollable when I see people being happy
My anger is my disease for the stress that I cannot control when sitting alone in a park

Thinking

Waiting

Screaming

Dreaming

My Anger

Comps

2008-10-25T14:28:00.001-07:00

The rest will be at this link:

http://s375.photobucket.com/albums/oo198/xtremeskyfire/Comps/

My photo space

2008-10-22T11:40:00.001-07:00

http://s375.photobucket.com/albums/oo198/xtremeskyfire/

Psychologist Update

2008-10-21T05:35:00.000-07:00

Last week I was supposed to meet with Fabian, Ultiliz, a psychology teacher at school about some information I could use for this project. However, he wasn't there and emailed me saying that he changed his hours recently so I am going to see him today at 3pm.

My presentation sucked

2008-10-19T16:29:00.000-07:00

Next time; I am practice with someone before the next crit and more information will be added.

Hi-Res Sites for research

2008-10-19T16:18:00.000-07:00

I took a look at some Hi-Res websites for some kind of inspiration for my project over the past couple of days and I thought the visual style was amazing. I was already familiar with The Fountain website an the Saw I website, but I found The Fountain's to be the strongest of all because it was a story in different time periods even if it's brief on setting up viewers to go and watch the film. I think I should go this route for the intro because from what I was told at my crit I need to have a strong opening. The saw website also gave me an Idea on what I should do with the the text since I am building the comps as of right now.

http://archive.hi-res.net/saw/
http://archive.hi-res.net/thefountain/

"Pre Vis 2"

2008-10-14T05:28:00.000-07:00

"Pre Vis"

2008-10-14T05:26:00.000-07:00

Updates galore

2008-10-12T20:27:00.000-07:00

Well, I am awaiting a rewrite from my collaborator on the anger poem. As a matter of fact, I feel that for the poems, each theme needs a transition from one theme to another because it's an exploratory project by the way.

Also, I was suggested to speak with one of the psychology professors at school to seems if there is books I can look at in order to add some kind of emotional connection to the web project. But I have a meeting on tuesday with one of them at 2pm in order to get some advice in order to expand on the next draft of poems.

Began doing comps/ pre visual based off the writers poems that we've been collaborating on. Coming out fine, even if they are very rough.

Now currently I am thinking of different web mediums for the project since I need to make it interesting. Based off the conversation with Jeremy, maybe for each section, I will have a different kind of web medium(flash, HTML, motion graphics, video, audio). Since my animation/video skills are int he level of "OK" compare to HTML and audio, I may want to recruit a couple of multimedia juniors for this.

Bibilography

2008-10-10T11:05:00.000-07:00

Initial Bibliography

Andrews, Jim. 1996. 15 September 2008

Jim Andrews, an accomplished poet and media programmer from Canada, created vispo.com in 1996. Andrews introduced poetry into multiple new media formats in sound, visual animation, gaming and hypertext in the past twelve years. As the site continues to grow and evolve, Andrews continues to incorporate poetry with multimedia and attempt to expand different forms of communication between the viewer and the work that is presented. For my senior studio project research, I viewed the website to see what kinds of multimedia techniques that would inspire my project.

24, April 2008.

Epimore.net was created to show poetry in new digital formats on the World Wide Web from different writers from different countries in different languages. The website features poetry writings in the forms of sound, visual animation, gaming and hypertext. Even though the site is full of avant-garde pieces of digital poetry, the main goal of this website is to express the interest of anyone who is into either digital work or poetry. I enjoyed the ability of these digital artists to use sound and photography in their pieces in order to make the poetry experience more enjoyable in a digital standpoint.

July, Miranda. 2006. April 2008.

In 2006, Miranda July wrote a 200 plus page book of the same name of the website: no one belongs here more than you. The purpose of this website is to show storytelling through images being on the screen. Even though this website did not involve the use of poetry, but the approach of telling a story through photography and actual handwriting text is effective to what I want to approach. The format was interesting on how it dealt with different objects moving at certain points of the web story in order to bring a unique quality to the piece.

Pitt, Todd. 2000. 15 September 2008.

Todd Pitt works with the internet in a social media environment, usually involving web 2.0. Pitt did was to uses actual still photography and images in order to create meaningful poetry. Pitt also expresses poetry through collages and different kinds of codex. For my senior project, I would like to do different kinds of design for my poetic writings in order to make the site more unique.

Lialina, Olina. 1996. April 2008. < http://www.teleportacia.org/war/war.html>

I was introduced to website originally in Web Design Studio in spring 2008. The purpose of this website to explore a person’s identity within a complex layered story called “My boyfriend came home from the war”. As I was doing research, one of the main points that came to mind was how a poem on the website look and feel different. The best part of this website was the use of simple images and text in order for the user to create his or her own story base off the information that is presented.

“Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight” July 2008. 25 September 2008.

This documentary premiered over the summer on The History Channel studies the Batman character from the comic books and the new “Batman” films in recent years: “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight”. The first part of the documentary explores the psychology of fear and anger in Bruce Wayne/Batman. Part of the documentary deals with a scene from Batman Begins involving Wayne exposing himself to his fear of bats before becoming Batman. One psychologist in the documentary analyzes that “exposure”. I am going to create a poetic theme involving fear and dealing with exposure because I feel that showing a person confronting fear can he or she grow as a person.

“Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed”. June 2007. 3 October 2008.
This documentary premiered in June 2007 on The History Channel studying all of the live action Star Wars films connecting certain themes of the series to mythology, literature and history with insight from filmmakers, college professors, film critics and politicians. As I was doing research for the themes destiny and fear for my project, this documentary expresses these themes in an intellectual matter. The destiny theme that I came up with is based off Joseph Campbell’s The Heroes Journey because it surrounds a hero going off to fulfill his or her destiny and that connects the heroes of Anakin and Luke Skywalker. When doing research on fear, there was a part of the documentary deals with Anakin Skywalker’s fall into the dark side was compared to Homer’s The Illard, in which Achilles used his fear and anger to win wars for Greece. These themes did was to reassure me that with stories surrounding main characters have the same human flaws as everyone in this world.

Flaherty, Brian. 2007. 15 September 2008

While doing independent research for the senior studio project, I discovered the work of Brian Flaherty, a co-editor of The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc). The purpose of this website is to extend and document poetry in a digital environment. Even though my project will not include any kinds of Flash animation, I find the site very useful to research what kind of hypermedia materials would go into the poetic pieces because it was necessary to explore and research these formats. The site’s research documents the use of the hypermedia materials.

23 September 2008.

This website deals with visual poetry in a very avant-garde style called fluxus. Fluxus is a simple form of design using text and are designed to keep the art, text and performances of the platform short, brief, and simple in order to get to get the message across while having fun with the creation of the artwork. The most unique part of this website is that all the pieces is full is text heavy and the type is very strong. What this website did was to enforce the ideas of trying to come up with unique and innovate forms of designs in order to add characters.

Sword, Helen. 2007. 3 September 2008. http://www.helensword.ac.nz/index.htm

Helen Sword is a digital poetry artist that includes poetry with different photography and paintings. Unlike the Miranda July website, noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com, this website deals with poetry in the photography and paintings in order to reflect on what is going in the piece. Even though this website is pretty straight forward and I cannot use anything that is too simplistic for this project, it gave me an opportunity to see if are any websites that contains that kind of digital poetry that I am researching.

updates updates...

2008-10-05T18:25:00.000-07:00

So Jeremy suggested that I get in contact with a couple of liberal arts teachers at school who teaches philosophy in order to see what information I can look at for some of the themes that I have developed for the poetry writings in order to go in the website designing process. However, getting contatc info from the liberal arts office is not working. If I don't hear anything back from the office by tomorrow , I might as well go into the office for contact info myself and get it.

Looking at some net.art for ideas in order to get into the project design, in which I am doing sketches right now.

Poem rewrites are looking good. nuff said

Revised Timeline

2008-10-02T20:47:00.000-07:00

Week 1: Present Idea to class/Do more research to project by viewing multiple digital poetry websites/Set up blog.

Week 2: Get in touch with writer to talk about the writings/Begin taking pictures for site around certain areas; Think of poem themes.

Week 3: Began taking photos.

Week 4: Revising Schematics/Mappings continue taking pictures/ begin outline for writer/ First set of writings are due/ Finish taking photos;

Week 5: Begin visual research/Communicate with writer about progress and revisions/Talk to psych professors at schools at themes /Bibliography due.

Week 6: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions/Began building composition collages surrounding themes/Presentation

Week 7: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions/Continue composition collages surrounding themes

Week 8: Continue composition collages surrounding themes/ Began site development

Week 9: Continue site development/ Continue composition collages surrounding themes

Week 10: Continue site development

Week 11: Continue site development/Revisions

Week 12: Continue site development/Revisions /Presentation

Week 13: Finalize binder

Week 14: Binder due.

Brainstorm for Visual Design

2008-09-30T09:19:00.000-07:00

Brainstorm Visual Material Maps:

Fear:
Black
Blue
Cold
Shaky
Death
Endanger
Anxiety
Trauma
Anger
Nightmare
Tragedy
Sadness
Intimidation
Darkness
Voices
Tears
Tension Rising
Screams
End!
Falling
Dark Area
Dark Skies
“Death”

Knowledge:
Brain
Computer
Pencil
Pens
Paper
Notebooks
Textbooks
Information
School
Skills
Learning
Power
Artificial Intelligence
Representation
Desk

Peace:
Bright
Peaceful Fields
Trees
Fruit
Doves
Peace Signs
Hand Shakes
People getting along
Sun
Blue Sky

Fatigue:
Lack of sleep
Person having insomnia
Bed
Blankets
Pillows
Sheets
Twisting/Turning
Television
Face looked tired
TV shows
Nighttime
Bedroom
Walls
Ceilings
Windows
Nighttime settings
Floor
Sickness
Coughs
Trouble eating and drinking

Destiny:
Outside suburban area
Inside home from bedroom window
The sun slowly setting
The slowly rising
Sky going to black
Sky going to blue
Sun shining fully

Treatment revised

2008-09-28T08:24:00.001-07:00

Treatment for poetry writings:

Tiredness:

This will surround poetry involving tiredness. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Troubling sleeping.
Going outside to stay at the nighttime scenery.
Involving when should I be able to get some rest.
The TV could not even put me to sleep.
Walking up the neighborhood in the dark.
Staring up at the bedroom ceiling.
Twisting and turning in with the blankets and sheets.

Inner peace of the self:
This section of poetry will involve inner peace. The themes of this piece will include the following:

A brand new day involving the sun shining real bright.
The sky pitch perfect blue.
Looking at a tree representing life.
The fruit can be a symbol of peace; a symbol of rebirth
Walking through a field give a chance to embrace peace
The wind blowing through the grass mentioning that nature has fused with my intentions.
Sitting under a tree realizing that peace has finally arrived.

Wisdom:
This section of poetry will involve wisdom. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Going inside a library
Involving a catalog
Walking through a library section of books
Looking at shelves; picked out different books involving Philosophy
Flipping through a different pair of pages of the books.
Go to a table and feeling ready to embrace the knowledge
Studying different books from time after time
The books brings a sense of evolution to a person’s education
Going through a notebook

Anger:
This section of poetry will involve anger. The themes of this piece will include the following:

In a alley in the city
Pacing around in anger
A person doesn’t know how to deal with it
Things get thrown around
A glass cup or bottle gets shattered
Representing how much anger can do
Realizing that anger can be haunting
Self-regulation must come into play
Or else a downfall will happen

Fear:
This section of poetry will involve fear. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Inside the woods on a dark night
Walking around all alone
Wondering why “this” has consumed me
Legs shakes over and over constantly
Even the hands began to shake
The dark had consumed judgment
Began to run from “it’
Kept running and running
The whole body began to shake
Suddenly realization came to mind.
I need to go back in there and embrace “it”

Destiny:
This section of poetry will involve fear. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Sun setting from home
Transition from end
Walking out of a home on a day when the sun starts to rise.
Staring at it makes me think
About to seeing opportunities
As it rise, new ideas of beginnings flowing
Sun rise

Batman documentary used for study for one of the themes.

2008-09-27T09:55:00.001-07:00

For the record, I am using 6 themes:
Fear
Anger
Inner Peace
Destiny
Tiredness
Knowledge.

As I was taking pictures and writing outlines, I needed to do a bit more research on the themes that I want to use in poem form. Over the summer, I watched a documentary on the History Channel called "Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight" and it involves psychologists discussing the Batman comics and the new Batman movies "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight". I thought I got better knowledge on the subject of fear and anger from the psychologists. One psychologist mention that with fear anyone can go on with their regular lives despite having it. For instance, in "Batman Begins", Bruce Wayne witness his parents murder and becomes paralyze with fear and doubt despite moving form the experience. Another fear Wayne develops was the fear of bats. Wayne wants to use his fear of bats as a symbol to fight crime. But first, he has to embrace it. One psychologist suggest that in order to overcome a certain fear, that person has to embrace it and not be afraid of it. That whole piece is what I am using for my poem on fear.

Writings Update

2008-09-25T09:08:00.000-07:00

So...
There is good news. The writer I am collaborating with has written three poems based off the outline. The bad news, he feels that his writings are a bit difficult and out there, along with his difficulty of not following a deadline. But I told him that I need to see them and make a decision about them . However, I'm keeping him and have myself co write and shooting the pictures because it's bad enough I had difficulty getting someone from the Creative Writing Minor to help me with this.

Updates

2008-09-23T06:12:00.000-07:00

I finally met with my collaborator writer and we went over the project and he seems cool with it. I wrote a treatment for him to start writing. Also, I began taking pictures for the themes that I have chosen. It's coming, but I may have to do some reshoots. Maybe with a different photographer.

Tentative Timeline

2008-09-21T18:16:00.001-07:00

9/10/08: Present Idea to class
9/12/08: Do more research to project by viewing multiple digital poetry websites
9/14/08: Get in touch with writer to talk about the writings
9/15/08: Begin taking pictures for site around certain areas; Start storyboarding/mapping web layout & sites
9/16/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
9/18/08: Schematics
9/19/08: Meet with writer about progress
9/20/08-9/22/08: Revising Schematics/Mappings continue taking pictures/ begin outline for writer
9/23/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
9/26/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
9/26/08-9/29/08: Revising Schematics/Mappings
9/30/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/3/08: Meet with writer about progress
10/4/08-10/6/08: Begin designing comps
10/7/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/10/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/10/08-10/13/08: Revising Comps
10/14/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/15/08: Presentation
10/17/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/16/08-10/20/08: Revamping
10/21/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/24/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/24/08-10/27/08: Continue to Revamp
10/28/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/31/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/31/08-11/3/08: Begin building prototype
11/04/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
11/07/08: Meet with writer yet again
11/06/08- 11/10/08: Continue building prototype
11/11/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
11/13/08- 11/17/08: Continue building prototype
11/13/08- 11/17/08: Continue building prototype/revamping
11/25/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
11/26/08: Presentation II
11/29/08-12/09/08; Revamp everything
12/12/08: Binder due.

Schmeatics

2008-09-21T10:56:00.001-07:00

Site Map

2008-09-21T10:47:00.001-07:00

More Research for the project

2008-09-15T14:07:00.001-07:00

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/- Critical writing mainly on USA digital poetry and electronic literature more broadly.

http://www.vispo.com/ - Langu(im)age: experimental visual poetry, literary programming, and essays on new media by the poet Jim Andrews.

http://collection.eliterature.org/1/- collection of poetry and writings in a multimedia formats

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/digital/flaherty/index.asp

http://www.toddpitt.com

Project Outline

2008-09-15T12:31:00.000-07:00

Working Title: poeticjourney.com

I. What is my idea for the senior studio project?
A. An exploratory hypermedia website focusing on several original personal poetry writings reflecting an emotional journey surrounding multiple themes such as fear, inner peace of the self, destiny, wisdom, anger, fearfulness and hate. The inclusion of photography, audio and scanned images will express the emotions of the piece through different types of photography and scanned compositions to make the settings and the theme appropriate.

B. The poetry and photography will focus on multiple poetic forms of a dramatic monologue, ballad, aphorism, and repetitive form as examples of the styles that will be included in the site.

II. Who is my targeted audience?
A. The primary audience will be those who have a strong interest in creative writing.

III. How is it going to be made?
A. Research on different poetic forms.
1.) Will research the poetic forms by taking the class of Advance Poetry Writing Workshop in order to refine the craft for the production phase.
2.) Independent research on the poetic forms by going through a number of books on the poetic forms at the UARTS library.(TBD)
3.) This website will incorporate the use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The website will incorporate photography, audio and scanned images.
4.) I will be working in a collaborate setting with a student writer in order to successfully creating strong poetry.
5.) A digital camera will be used for the photographical settings, along with Photoshop for the manipulation.

B. Research on Websites.
1.) The website, noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com, by Miranda July is a prime example of how web can involve storytelling. This proposal will include July’s style of incorporating text into different photographical settings by having each stanza of a poem in that setting.
2.) Epimore.net is a website that focuses on poems from writers from around the world. For this project, I will include a web interface that includes photos of the poetic pieces all lined up. The photographical pieces contain images and audio that deals with the poem. This potential project will include this format.

so...

2008-09-09T09:22:00.001-07:00

Senior year has started. Welcome to the challenge, eh!

Senior Year... YO!

um right

Updates

Audio Scrapped

imaginativeverses.com officially bought!

arrow ideas

potential names for linear and non-linear

Solutions to interaction with the linear part of the website

A different direction...

Ideas for the linear section...

Final Homepage Design...

Update on the site...

Things left to do...

The REAL CLICK THRU

Imaginative Verses: REAL TITLE

my own cut up method...

Linear version...

Linear version...

The process so far.

Pilgrimage is THE OFFICIAL TITLE!!!

Final(Hopefully) Homepage Layout

Latest Site Map

New Method

click thru...

As far as the title is concern...

Brainstorming the project

Different poetic settings designs

Poems for project

Current Version for home page

First version

Comp Design for homepage

The Schedule for the spring(Subject to change overtime)

Idea for senior project...

New Semester Same Project

Main Inspiration

Cyberpoetics link

Complexpoetry.com abstract...

Revised Deliverables

Feedback fro 2nd Presentation

Collage Sites inspiration

I caved...

Anger Version 2

Senior Project Deliverable

Exitensalism Emotions research

Mapping

Updated Schedule

Good reminder for fonts

Updates yet again

Research: Williams Burroughs

I wrote this, nuff said

Comps

My photo space

Psychologist Update

My presentation sucked

Hi-Res Sites for research

"Pre Vis 2"

"Pre Vis"

Updates galore

Bibilography

updates updates...

Revised Timeline

Brainstorm for Visual Design

Treatment revised

Batman documentary used for study for one of the themes.

Writings Update

More research links

Updates

Tentative Timeline

Schmeatics

Site Map

More Research for the project

Project Outline

so...