Review of Gilliland’s site

What are your initial overall impressions of your colleague’s non-linear hypermedia dream trip? Overall this was a good overview of Erik’s life and what he finds important… sort of like a photo album with associated commentary and links that provide additional information. I felt like I got to know Erik a bit by delving into [...]

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Dearest Student Reviewer…

You may find my non-linear non-fiction (ah, the limits of words exposed) project here. I encourage you to simply click into it from the home page (you’ll enter randomly) and see if you can figure out the interface. I’m curious to hear how this experience works and doesn’t work. The two links below it you [...]

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sketchup… it’s like ketchup, but different

So i was encouraged (ok, it was an assignment) to try something new and follow a tutorial of some sort. Google Sketchup seemed like some fun that i hadn’t experienced yet, so i gave it a try. I just opened the help and followed the introduction, which was pretty helpful. Using my newfound sketchup skills, [...]

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More Google Earth

Here’s another .kmz file you can download and play with in google earth. It is ten places i would like to visit: the file

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Advertisments and interactivity

On Friday, Suzannah Moore acted as a stand-in professor and shared some ideas about print advertising. Some interesting ideas came up – that modern advertisement sells a lifestyle rather than a product, especially when the products are expensive – that much of the style and content of ads are interchangeable with other products – that [...]

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My techno-utopia

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple And primordial tasks – chopping wood, building A fire, drawing water from a spring… Edward Abbey My vision of techno-utopia is one that allows me to be alone in a cabin in the woods somewhere, away from the [...]

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technological determinism

Yesterday, with a light snow falling on the hills above Spring Creek, we snowshoed a few miles and found ourselves on a ridge with an open view. In the distance the dim bulk of a mountain showed itself, around to the right the ridges suggested a deep valley. I thought the far rise was the [...]

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Google Earth rocks

I’ve rediscovered Google Earth in the last week. They’ve added a lot of features, including 3d and the ability to pan both your direction and angle of view. Pretty amazing. As an exercise in how this can work, i’ve provided a link that allows you to download a file, which, when you have GE on [...]

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the rest

This is a continuation of the previous post, so you may want to read that first. This ended up taking a lot more words than i thought it would. I think it is a promising start, though, which might turn into something with some careful revision. Read it if you please, though you won’t hurt [...]

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And it begins…

This site originates as an assignment for a multimedia class at Eastern Oregon University. The assignment is to write about a journey of some sort. The number of words to be used was shortened after i began, so unfortunately(or fortunately…) for you this little story is not yet finished. Stay tuned for part 2 I’ve [...]

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