Aggregate!

So here's the plan. I'm going to figure out how to pull updates from my flickr, twitter, miscellaneous blogs, youtube account, and so forth and have them all show up on MyrthCo's front page when I update. It'll be like Facebook's newsfeed, only all about me and my internet addiction.

It's going to be off the chain. As soon as I work out the details. I hope I can work out the details.

Let me show you what I'm working with

The past few weeks have seen me working on a few different web projects. I am putting the final touches on an artist portfolio site for my old painter professor Jen Dietrich. She does really amazing, textural paintings dealing with the themes of Americana seen through the lens of barns, baseball, and Kennedy. Her "Earthly Flesh" series is especially inspiring to me.

When not painting or teaching, Jen is also a filmmaker. I've been helping do a special site/blog for her documentary on Philip Pearlstein, entitled Not Made in Heaven, which is a reference to an article Philip wrote for ArtNews on figure painting in the age of Abstract Expressionism. I really like the simplicity of the film site I'm doing for them. The content is still being shuffled around somewhat.

The joy of social networking

After reading the New York Times's article Job Hunting Is, and Isn’t, What It Used to Be last week, I first felt extremely discouraged that a majority of my job hunting has been done through Careerbuilder and Craigslist, which due to the high volume of unqualified applicants, are mostly useless. Then I decided it was time to plunge into the world of adult social networking (no, I don't mean xtube). So... yes. I am now hoping to become linked in. On LinkedIn. Here's to another great social experiment.

A newfound love of gifs

Would it be amiss for me to say I miss animated gifs? The internet of my youth was littered with them. I suppose I should be looking in the darker halls of MySpace to find them again. Our dear once-clean Facebook won't animate them.

The reason I bring this up is that I was without internet at the laundromat yesterday and decided to investigate whether Photoshop could make gifs. I was pleased to learn it can.

Naturally, this lead to a few quick experiments.






The first two feature my sister and the last two are from childhood home movies. The last one is my father in boxers and monster mask. More on those home movies in the future.

In order to feed my new old obsession, I stumbled across Loopable, which is a blog devoted to gifs. Sadly it hasn't updated since July.

The archives, however, yield amazing results: