kingcosmonaut.v2 Sebastian Schmieg, student from Germany: Design | Code | txt | Stuff
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What you see above is my prediploma (I’ve now completed 4 of 8 semster) at Merz Akademie. It is called Roy Block, and Roy has a website (there’s also a another version of the video with better quality). The website isn’t completetly finished yet, photos are missing and I haven’t tested in Internet Explorer 6 yet, but there’s some text to read if you find the project interesting.
Roy Block migh be called my first attempt at creating something unrelated to the web and something off the (personal) computer screen.
Completely unrelated: I’m currently working as an intern at Art+Com in Berlin. That is how I will spent my 5th semester.
My brother Benjamin (nicknamed “Bene”) loves travelling. And he travels a lot – from Alaska to New Zealand. On his journeys he’s taken a bunch of exciting photos that are just too interesting to get dusty in his private photo album.
For sure he’s an amateur but I think professionalism isn’t the point of travel photos anyway. When you look through all the photos then you can somehow re-experience his adventures, see why he’s so fascinated by nature and travelling – combined.
For now I’m just glad this site is live. I started working on it a long time ago but fortunately there was no pressure to finish it off as it was and is just a fun project.
Regarding Flash/ActionScript: there isn’t much to discuss. There are a lot of things that can be improved (back button…), that could have been avoided (scroll bars in Flash) but there isn’t much that could have given me a better way of getting to know ActionScript than this project.
Tired of comment spam? What’s that damn spam good for anyway? Well, probably it isn’t good for anything at all but at least I’ve found a way to turn it into something that is worthwhile to be looked at: SpamPaint.
SpamPaint is a script written in php that turns comment spam into interesting and refreshing graphics. Here you can read more about it.
Funny thing is, when I developed this last semester (2005/06) I didn’t receive any comment spam at all and I had to go and tap other blogs to get hold of it. But you can read everything about the technical stuff on the about page.
Chris Applegate wrote something about SpamPaint that made me giggle:
A nice idea, totally let down by a shittily-designed website showcasing it.
Shittily for sure. Probably he meant me having done a bad job but as I see this I did a pretty good job in provocing this reaction. The interface is refelcting my interpretation of spam: noise and distortion.
