Thursday 13 January 2011

home pages

Various home pages. Some give you less choice - and information - than others. 






Brown, B. [2011] Splash [Online] http://www.brenebrown.com/ [13/01/2011]
Gladwell, M. [2011] gladwell dot com [Online] http://gladwell.com/index.html [13/01/2011]
Kunst-Werke Berlin [2011] KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V. - INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART [Online] http://www.kw-berlin.de/ [13/01/2011]
Tan, S. [2011] home [Online] http://www.shauntan.net/ [13/01/2011]
Wenders, W. [2011] Welcom to the OFFICIAL SITE of WIM WENDERS [Online]

The following plug-in has crashed

I seem to get this message "the following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash" frequently on Google Chrome.

From wim-wenders.com

Wim-Wenders.com [2011] http://www.wim-wenders.com/ [12/01/2011]

a sitemap (partial)

From ArnoFischer.com

Fisher, A. [2011] http://www.arnofischer.com/ [12/01/2011]

web interfaces

One thing at a time. Small chunks of information.


Simplistic navigation, and a nice flow.

Cells: War on Weird and Four Derangements, web-comics by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, allow audience to interact with the comics. The entire comic is mapped out on Cells: War on Weird, which also works as a clear navigation where you can zoom in and out.


Drew Weing's "Pup" Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe, another web-comic, uses one giant page where visitors scroll instead. It feels more physical somehow.

Julia1926.net starts off with a short text and sound, and I'm left confused and curious to what happens next. Visual work and structure to highlight fluid memories and unreliable information to show what - I'm guessing - is like to have



            Alzheimer's disease. 


I wonder what it's like to lose your job, and all familiar things in life. They all become memories irrelevant to others.

And you feel foreign to the place which is your home.

In East Germany.

Goodbrey, D.M. [2011] Cells: War on Weird. [Online] http://e-merl.com/cells.htm
[12/01/2011]
Goodbrey, D.M. [2011] Four Derangements. [Online] http://e-merl.com/derange.htm
[12/01/2011]
Julia 1926 [2011] http://www.julia1926.net/ [12/01/2011]
Yuxiyou.net [2011] So You Still Think the Internet is Free. [Online]
http://yuxiyou.net/open/ [12/01/2011]
Weing, D. [2011] "Pup" Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe. [Online]

Wednesday 12 January 2011

Lichtgrenze / Border of Lights

Designed by WHITEvoid to mark the anniversaries of the Wall's opening. Each balloon contains an LED light. These balloons will be released after 28 minutes, 1 minute for each year that the Wall divided the city. The installation marks where the Wall once stood, and celebrates the joy of freedom by releasing the balloons.




Eva Meyer-Keller also used balloons in Volksballons und geklonte Krieger at Palast der Republik, an installation also connecting time and memory.

Eva Meyer-Keller: http://www.evamk.de/daten/volksde.php
WHITEvoid: http://www.whitevoid.com/
WHITEvoid's Photostream:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitevoid/