interactive art idea

More examples of interactive art:
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art
http://www.ferryhalim.com/



One idea that I had that might be a little more difficult and time consuming, is having a layout of of a house with movable furniture in it. The interactive part would be for the user to be able to reorganize each room of a house however they wish to.

Another idea is to have images of things like flowers, trees, houses, etc. with little boxes making up the big image. Each time a box is clicked on, the box changes to the same image but a different season. For example, the starting image could be a tree full of green leaves in the summer. Then eventually when all the boxes are clicked on the image would be the same tree, either in the same spot or not, but with leaves that are red, yellow, and orange. In the winter the tree would have no leaves at all, and in the spring they would have pink buds on them. There could be a series of these pictures.

profile outline

I. About Me
A. where I go to school
B. what year I am in
C. what I intend to do in the future
II. 2-D
A. Photoshop
1. Collages
a.freshman year
b. greg's class soph. year
B. Calligraphy
1. portfolio pieces
2. "dirty" project
C. Photography
1. black and white
2. color
D. Animation
1. phone ?
2. sun/moon animatic
E. Interaction
1. interactive artpiece
2. flash animation
3. action script
III. 3-D
A. Stained Glass
1. tornato
2. hurricane
3. lightening
B. Maya
1. 3-D sculptures
2. hotel modeling
3. character images
4. environment images
5. animations
a. ball rolling
b. balls with sound
c. waiting
d. jumping
e. lifting
f. walking
IV. Contact
A. email

blog on portfolio websites

The 3am Design site is very usuable. Everything is very organized so that you can easily find what you are looking for. They give great detail under their company link and give enough information to contact them. If I could change anything about this website it would probably be thier colors. It doesn't really draw you in, or keep you interested for very long.

Adenek is sort of confusing. The links are somewhat hard to read in the sense of where to click on them. The catagories under them are weird as well. This is also a website in a different language. If there was an option on which language you could read it in, it might make a little more sense. The background is somewhat interesting though.

I enjoy the Boogie website. The first picture that comes up makes you want to see more. I like how there is a preview of the image up top before you click on them. Any contact information is a little unclear to know exactly wehere it is right away.
Other than that, this website is very easy to get around and explore.

My favorite one is the the website with the various color of bars and each one has a different picutre to it. The website is based off the idea of a timeline. I think the idea is very creative and logical. It is easy to understand and is fun to look and interact with.

Rough Draft of Script

This is a rough draft with a lot of missing pieces but I wanted to get a quick outline out....


Fade In:
Ext. Outer Space

STAR (an active little star that bounces around. Star is very motherly and has a need to take care of people and make them happy) is bouncing around one day and noices that SUN (a usually cheery character but is feeling lonely and needs some romance in her life) is very upset. [A thought bubble with a boy in it comes up]. Star decides to figure out what kind of guy will make Sun happy. Star decides she will start out on Pluto and take on it's Greek Mythology roles.

Ext. Outer Space -- Pluto
[need to fill in what happens here still]


Star continues to bounce around. Next stop is Saturn

Ext. Outer Space -- Saturn
[need to fill in what happens here still]

Star bounces off to Earth

Ext. Outer Space -- Earth
[need to fill in what happens here still]

Star sits to think what else he can do. After awhile he looks over at Earth and notices a moon revolving around it. MOON (very attractive and very romantic) looks sad as well. Star bounces over to him to talk. A minute later Star brings Moon to Sun and as they match up a solar eclipse occurs.

Fade Out

New Story Idea

Characters:
Sun - unknown name as of now (female)
Star - unknown name as of now (unknown)
Moon - unknown name as of now (male)

Setting:
Outer Space

Sun is depressed and wants a boyfriend. Star, being Sun's best friend, is trying to figure out what kind of guy would make Sun happy. Star goes from planet to planet trying to "impress" her with whatever the planet is most known for (Roman and Greek Mythology). Star first starts out on pluto. Pluto is most known for being the king of the underworld but also is very cold. Knowing that Sun is very hot, Star tries to cool her off by pushing Pluto closer. Sun only ends up melting it.
Star moved on to Neptune, god of earthquakes. Star acts like he is really strong and tries to lift Neptune up. As soon as it is over his head he drops it and bounces off rattling about.
Star moves on to Uranus, a musician. Star starts using Uranus as an instrument (not sure which one yet) and plays her a song, but Sun is not impressed because she can play better.
Star shoots over to Saturn, god of time. Star squishes Saturn down into a watch, using the rings as the wrist strap, and gives it to her. Sun's heat is too strong and breaks the watch.
So Star keeps moving on and next up is Jupiter, god of rain. Jupiter starts to make rain and while Sun is watching it rain, the reflection hits the water and creates a rainbow. The star slides down the rainbow and it fades away. Sun gets upset again.
Star shoots over to Mars, god of war. He goes off screen and comes back with a canon and stuffs Mars inside. He shoots him off and hits a passing comet. The explosion makes fireworks that are in a shape of a heart, showing a romatic side. Sun smiles until it disappears.
Star continues his journey onto Earth. When he reaches Earth, he notices all of it's nature. He reaches inside and pulls out some flowers. Sun only makes them wilt because again her heat is too strong.
Star's next stop is Venus, goddess of beauty and love. The goddess has a "perfect figure" and is always seen smiling. Sun likes how buff this guy could be and notices such a bright smile. However she want's more than just good looks.
Star has one last stop, Mercury. Mercury is the god of wealth. Star reaches down inside adnd pulls out a $1,000,000 bill and gives it to Sun but it catches on fire. Sun is so disappointed and Star sits down to think.
Star sees Earth slowly pass by with a moon revolving around it. Star rushes over to Moon and takes it to Sun. Sun instantly fell in love. As they moved closer together the moon past right infron of the sun causing a "solar eclipse". (?Star shoots across them. The light from the eclipse slowly fades away. Credits begin?)

Jimmy's story in paragraph form

Jimmy, a 16 year old, is on the school's golf team and is preparing for the upcoming tournament. Little does he know, his secret crush Sally, is on the course too. Jimmy is so distracted by her good looks that he keeps loosing his focus on the game. Her being this close makes him nervous. He tries to be all manly by shoing off how well he can play. In doing this he accidently hits her with the "ball" (which is actually a commet). She became really mad and almost started to yell at him until she realized that he was kind of cute. Instead she decided to have a compition, so they shook on it and continued their practice. The next day at the tournament it came down to the last "hole". Jimmy teed off and landed on the rings of Jupiter. Sally was next to go and made a "hole in one", which won the match. Sally was all excited to not only win the match, but the bet as well. In good sportsmanship, Jimmy congratulated Sally who devoloped a crush on him as well.

My Seven Sentence Story #2

1. Jimmy is on the golf club at school and is trying to practice for the upcoming tournament
2. Sarah, Jimmy's crush at school but doesn't know he likes her, is on the golf course to play for fun but keeps distracting Jimmy because of her good looks.
3. Since Jimmy is so distracted by Sarah he either hits the ball too hard, or it bounces off of objects, or almost makes it in.
4. Jimmy accidently hits Sarah with the golf ball
5. Sarah gets angry and turns around to yell at Jimmy
6. Jimmy apoligizes to her and gets up the nerve to tell ask her to come to the tournament
7. The next day as Jimmy is playing he glances over to see Sarah watching him play