June 2009
3 posts
Project B Goes Public - And Im very happy :)
[UPDATE] 25 June 2009
Wow! My Map currently has 120 views! Im glad to see that it is proving so popular! Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to check it out and leave comments and ratings. I might even be inspired to do another :)
It was with great delight that I received an email from Mr Michael Salmon (The author of The Monster That Ate Canberra, which my project was based on)...
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
..and now Networked Media Production has come to an end. It’s been a really interesting unit, and while a lot of the concepts that we covered weren’t knew to me, I guess I never really sat down and thought about them to the extent that I have since our first lecture. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is something that still haunts, confuses and frightens me, but I have a much better...
The Monster that Ate Canberra - Now in stunning 3D
The Monster that Ate Canberra - Now in stunning 3D
Well, that’s not entirely true, and we may be jumping the gun a little here, so lets take a step back….to 1980!
Shaun didn’t really want to go to Canberra, but this is how it happened…
This is the year that I started school in Canberra after moving here from Sydney, and it was in the Page Primary School library...
May 2009
7 posts
Tumblr. You are falling behind....
Well, things ‘seem’ to be going well with my next project, but I am disappointed in Tumblrs inability to have certain tags in a post such as the iframe one that Google maps likes to use to post a map in a window. Sigh. As far as the map itself, well - its looking pretty good. Not long now - keep at it young man!
EXTREME Blog Makeover - Tumblr Edition
Oh Tumblr. When we first met I desired you for your simple design and basic layout, but as time goes by I cant help but let me eye wander. I see other blogs out there as I surf the grimy back alleys of the internet. They beckon me with their alluring colours and tasty widgets. Yet, each night I come home to be with my beloved Tumblr blog. Why? Because I love you.
I still find you so...
Data Visualisation
This weeks lecture was about Data Visualisation. Data Visualisation is a way to communicate ideas and data in a way that can often be much easier for a viewer to grasp. People (as opposed to computers) are not very good at numbers. To me the number 314159265358 is just a REALLY big number. From the size of it, I can tell that its more than the number of Weetbix that I had for Breafast, but I...
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You never never know....
Friday was a kind of weird day for me. I was thinking about our next project for Networked Media Productions and how I was going to get my hands on certain information and how that information could be used without breaking copyright and all that jazz, so I went out on a limb and started scouring the internet.
Very quickly I stumbled across the name I was looking for. This man is an author of a...
Multiplicity
Multiplicity is a cool way of saying “lots and lots and lots of things” As human beings, we just aren’t very good when it comes to dealing with large numbers. We all have the ability to look up in the night sky and say “Oh look, there’s the moon” or take a trip to the movies and say “there were probably ‘about’ 50 people in the line to see...
Web 2.0
“The cake is a lie!”
Web 2.0 is also a lie! Its not something you can buy from a store, you cant pirate it from a torrent site. Yes, you can go buy the shirt, (I don’t even know what the shirt is saying!) but at the end of the day, Web 2.0 is not something I can put my sweaty hands on . . or is it.
You see, Web 2.0 doesn’t actually exist in the way that Photoshop CS3 or...
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Me - on Twitter - true! →
Everything you didn’t want to know about me condensed to 140 characters to make it even more bland! (and they say I don’t know how to promote something -ppfffttt)
April 2009
3 posts
I am Blogman - Hear me Blog
um.. well, I guess you don’t actually HEAR this blog, but you are reading it, and that’s what matters.
BUT HANG ON…..
Why DO we blog? Who are we talking to? What are we trying to achieve? Is it our desire to show the world who we are, what we like, what we ate for dinner last night and what we are doing in out own personal lives? If that is the case … why?
If some...
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Production Project A
For our first project for Networked Media Production I have chosen to curate an online exhibition. The medium that most appealed to me was that of photography but the subjects that I had thought about covering were proving hard to come across under the Creative Commons Lisence.
During one of our tutorials, we discussed Machinima and it was this discussion that led me top thinking about a...
Look - its a new post
Wow. Ive been hard at work with our production project and forgot to post my blog :) Well, in regards to our current production project, Im learning a few things the hard way. I have chosen Wordpress to display my work with, and while it is better than Tumblr (Sorry Tumblr, i still love ya baby) in some respects, I am having problems with other things that I would like to do that just arent...
March 2009
5 posts
CSS Cheat Sheet
The website Added Bytes has a CSS Cheat Sheet available as a PDF! Why dont you go and grab it? Hmmmmm
APIs and 'Mashups"
API (or application programming interface ) is pretty darn cool. They are a way of getting access to, and sharing, certain data. Now, the ability to be able to do this is great, but what some people have acheived through doing this is awesome. One site that I think is well worth a visit is Neave.com .. The Interactive Playground of Paul Neave, especially the ‘television’ section.
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I once was blind, but now I see...
Hi, my name is Shaun Cahill. You might remember me from such Twitter posts as “CSS - I FRAKING HATE YOU! ” on Mar 4th or “I still hate CSS” :( on Mar 11th, but this weeks lecture / tutorial has shown me a side of CSS that I didn’t know before. With Michael’s help I was able to understand that CSS is like a cosmetic surgeon to the celebrity that is HTML.
Sites...
My God - It's Full Of Blogs...
Poster Idol Designs :
Well, that’s what it seems like anyway. It seems there are blogs for everything under the sun - no, wait - I mean EVERYTHING under the sun!!
And its not just Photoshop blogs, movie blogs, video game blogs and porn blogs that I’m talking about. Its normal everyday people blogging about their normal everyday lives. But guess what, it’s not just us...
February 2009
1 post
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...but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the...
My first blog for Networked Media Production. DING. Congratulations me :)
Anyway, Michael said something I found quite interesting in yesterdays lecture, about being reflective of our work and being able to leave little ‘notes’ to our future selves by way of these blogs. So, to Future Shaun I say;
“What the frak were you thinking!? You post THIS as your first blog? You should be ashamed,...