Site Design

I have already begun the collection of previous works to include in my e-Portfolio, some examples are located below. I have decided to keep the banner I created last year for a flash based website. This was drawn during NMD201 Semester 1 and it includes a selection of sketches and ideas from some of my journals.

I have done two versions. Below is the original black on white and an inversed white on black. I still have not decided what background to go with.

I am still deciding between a white background of a dark grey. I like the idea of keeping website color to a minimum, possibly absent. Any color will come from the images of my work, allowing the work to stand out from the website. The aim of my e-Portfolio will be to show off my artistic skills although I will be showing off some website designs with hyperlinks to other sites I have made.

"Summer Shade", Acrylic on canvas (3'x9') 1998.

This is a painting I had done while while studying at North Adelaide School of Art (Advanced Diploma in Applied and Visual Arts).

Tables

Week 10 class work includes creating tables.

Here are 12 of my favorite things.

Dream Weaver

We have been introduced to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.

A very useful program.

The ability to edit a website as it looks is much easier and faster than typing out the HTML code, although typing the code is still fun and rewarding.

To the right are some examples of what I have done. Visually not what I want my final website to look like but it

is giving me the opportunity to test out page layouts.

I would like a page of galleries that allows a visitor to quickly navigate with ease to their desired destination.

Im thinking a single image depicting the work arranged in a column with brief details to its right. From here you can enter a page dedicated to the work with additional images and information.

Interactive Web-based Product

Our next assignment is to create a portfolio in the form of an interactive web site.

This assignment will give me the opportunity to showcase my work, providing me with a convenient tool to show potential employees.

During class in week 7 we played around with coding in raw HTML. This is something I had done last year, although back then we were using CSS for web design instead of just working with HTML.

To the right is what I put together for the class task. I didn't put too much e

ffort into it, just played around with some of the HTML tags. It links to another page I made as well as several other sites and my e-mail. The image is what a candle flame looks like in no gravity.

What I have been doing though is creating simple sites like the one to the left. They only contain other sites that I visit the most, making it easier and faster to get to these sites. I have made

others, specifically for other classes.

Final project

This is the final short film. A larger copy can be found on my Vimeo account . I have called it "Alone".

The concept is that of an astronaut manning a space station on his own. With no company he gradually becomes insane.

All of the film I used comes from www.archive.org, most of it a combination of old black and white film and NASA documentaries, along with a short film called Gary Rising (1998), directed and produced by Jesus Rivera.

The voice comes from a show called "Telephone Time, The Stories of John Nesbit" the episode was "I am not alone". The story was about a polish resistance fighter taken captive and held prisoner by the Russians. there was a part in the centre of the film where the voice of the captive fit in nicely with my film.