Seminar II: New Media

Tricia Richardson Tricia's movie was wrought with nostalgia, obsession, and collection. I loved the way she used the hands to tell a 'memory' story about item collection, nostalgia, memory, and relationships. The lighting was great, the motions were lovely, and the pacing was appropriate and sweet. The song was great. I didn't mind the bittersweet lyrics, they added to the movie overall, giving it more of a sweet, slightly sad, mood. Pro's: simple, pleasing to the eyes well paced good music appropriate mood playful nostalgic Con's: ending credits too drawn out song lyrics a little too bitter, but still fit. transition from hands to fake hand people a little jarring.

Marissa Poole I was pleasantly surprised with how lovely Marissa's site is. I think I'm going to employ a similar type of layout for my own personal site. I hope she doesn't mind. :) The conception is clean and clear, and visually pleasing. Where her site is clean and professional, mine is punky and avante garde. I love how she has all her work just there. Right there to view. I need to stop thinking like a webdesigner and more like an artist. She uses space so amazingly well. The white site appears like a blank white canvas wherein her work is displayed so well. Pro's: clean, simple easy to update easy on the eyes modern looking good sense of space professional Con's: name isn't anywhere margins distract. add leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0 topmargin=0 bottommargin=0 to the body tag. the name of the site should just be your name. not 'revolution' not good for small monitors. will break the code. break code = ugly broken site the css/html markup isn't val...