thursday, march 22, 2007
It’s OK enough to show the world
My final assignment for New Media class was to use Flash to create a “new media work” that “uses a diagram or map as its interface”. I know that the only good Flash movies are entertaining (see monkey pops, la historia del mamut, etc.), but of course I tried to make something informative and useful — while wondering why I was having such a hard time. This is the result:
It’s an eat-map (ha ha, like heat-map) of the Santa Barbara area: a bunch of mini-reviews of restaurants I’ve visited with Doug. Then I wrote five pages about the implications of this project:
…my eat-map displays narratives, facts, words, and images in order to both memorize and communicate…these mundane facts are collected and pored over as ways to more efficiently exchange money for satisfying experiences…by putting these experiences into information, I reveal the shapes and forms within them: a spatial memory of where restaurants are, shaped into a map; a knowledge of how often we go out to eat, reduced into the sizes of circles…blah blah blah.
If you don’t want to bother with new media, here is my list of good places in the Santa Barbara area, ordered by closing time:
- Andersen’s — 9 pm
- Fresco — 9 pm (Sun closed)
- Dish Cafe — 9 pm (Sun closed)
- Playa Azul Cafe — 9 pm (Fri-Sat 10 pm)
- Flavor of India — 10 pm (Fri-Sat 10:30 pm, Sun closed)
- Sojourner Cafe — 11 pm (Sun 10 pm)
- Paradise Cafe — 11 pm
- Blue Agave — 11:30 pm
- Woodstock’s — 12 am (Fri-Sat 1 am)
comments (2)
That's a really cool interface, nice work!
– Henry on 3/22/2007 19:26:41
That's a nice HTML list, but what if I want COOL ANIMATIONS and BLINKING and SOUND before I eat dinner? Thank goodness there's a flash version too!
– Travis on 3/27/2007 00:59:46
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