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1 de Enero, 2007
Do you see what I see?
Categorized under Blogando , Palabras , The CyberXicano | Tags: arte, personal
THE DRAG ABOUT WEB DESIGN, over all other forms of art (at least that I've personally experienced) is that on a canvas, I can spread a dollop of red paint just as I wish. I can mix that pigment to the tint I desire, and I can move my hand in a way that leaves the mark of my intention. Granted, light sources have to be accounted for, but other than that, what I have made is what you see. (Again, given any differences we can't account for in perception and symbol/color interpretation specific to any one human, and so on.) But in web design, there are so many variables in between what I make and what you see. This is very frustrating, and if you don't want to make testing and web knowledge half of your time, you really have to just let it go after a certain point. But I do want you, at least once, to see what I see.
Here is what my page looks like to me. If it matters to you, I have coded a few different fonts to get the titles to the posts (same font for those "titles" on the sidebar). So you would need either Engravers Old English, Old English Text, Castle, Lucida Blackletter, Blackmoor LET, Barron, Old English, Beckett, or CloisterBlack to get the post titles at least looking somewhat right. If you have none of those, you will see Courier New. Which is sad. But probably more important to me than many others.
The tiny blockish font in the sidebar is Copperplate Gothic. i've only coded for the copperplate gothics bold and such and regular, as well as bank gothic, or Tenacity Caps if nothing else. But I don't know what those look like.
I'm assuming you have Courier New! That is the body font. If not, I guess you will see whatever your default font is. I shudder to think of those who destroy all my effort with an opera browser or some other such plaintexty browser.
So. It occurred to me for a while that I don't know what it looks like to you. Another thing is that I have a widescreen at 1680 X 1050. (And I have a second monitor on that shows me 1024 X 768. I'm pretty spoiled with my two monitors. Once you get used to it, you get freaky claustrophobic on one monitor, moving junk all over to see what's going on.) If you have a monitor like the linux box downstairs, you're at 800 x 640 or whatever. I was shocked when I saw how huge my graphics were on that screen. It was actually scary.
Meanwhile, I've been really leaning into the article for the mag. I'm feeling good about it. I whip out a lot of junk here. But that's easy. For this article, I want it to really be solid. It is outlining, for the first time, the great Aztlán Reconquista plot. That's right. This ain't no joke, vato. We're talking a plan built on both Indian and Roman tactics, adjusted with some wisdom from the Nativist right. Don't even try imagining what's going down here. It will fry your tiny habanero circuits. Just make sure you get a subscription if you don't already, or at least buy the next issue! Don't be left in the dark when everyone from Big Daddy Lou to Texas Sue flips open those pages. El gran secreto, amigo.
So, yeh. There's been very little blog/news reading today. Just a lot of writing and researching. I'm pretty exhausted. Tiny swirly hands of sleep keep trying to sneak off my hat. I think I'm running out of fight.
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Comentarios (6)
luisa dijo:
wow, it doesn't look like that on my monitor at all!
it is all fuzzy with little scribbles of yellow, green and magenta and there is...umm...all of this porn in the sidebar--naked pictures of the minutemen and such... :)
yes, i see what you see.
Palabras por luisa spat forth on el 1 de Enero, 2007 at 08:33 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
yeah, but that sounds like a really rockin' design. maybe i'll go with that one in 2008.
for a second you scared me, you cruel, cruel mujer.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 1 de Enero, 2007 at 08:43 PM
Colorado Bob dijo:
Amen ....
My Mac "Egg" died last June and I went and got a OS-X / 17' screen, next time I went to CompUSA .... I stopped in front of the 24" screen, and said "Damn I shoulda gone for the 24"
Palabras por Colorado Bob spat forth on el 1 de Enero, 2007 at 08:48 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
there's always a bigger one!! jeje. i know. i keep eyeing the huge standalone monitor and the Intel G5 PowerMac. but i'll have to wait for my next contract for something like that. then, i can trade this one in for a small mexican village.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 2 de Enero, 2007 at 06:12 AM
yellow snow in colorado dijo:
i have been thinking of web design as an interactive art form through the use of flash and other macromedia software.
kinda like a labyrinth you just keep going over 'rollovers' that reveal worlds within worlds and than use nahuatl and north american myths, and there you have it. a world that transforms itself. its like using the race memory to remember before when there were more buffalo than gringoes and the heavens were darkened by passenger pigeons.
and empire continues to cleanse the world of people of culture and color.
oye it gets kinda old all this violence so we can have a jefe like 'little boots' the degenerate dry drunk.
Palabras por yellow snow in colorado spat forth on el 2 de Enero, 2007 at 05:47 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
that's a pretty wild idea, yellow snow in colorado. i've thought about real minimal or interactive design that is like a puzzle, almost like you say. i experimented with something like that with one of my older sites, but all i had was javascript and layers to work with, try and make stuff happen. i like to make interaction fun, leave some things hidden, not announce everything. that site had a bunch of stuff like that. unannounced pathways, strange icons that did nothing until you touched them, and then opened other choices...image maps with links hidden in eyeballs or other intuitive places. i like the feeling that there's always something hidden, treasure hunts and stuff with timelines that close a link after a certain amount of time....
but it's true that without flash at least, you get less interaction, or at least less freedom to design interaction. and i dont really know any flash aside from basic button making stuff. the javascript and layers i used to use for all that junk get really get code-heavy and lately i've tried to go more in the valid xhtml direction, lighter code direction. and that was a whole site, not just a blog, which i see this as. i've left a splash page, (http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org) tho. i've always known in time this blog will expand, and at that time, the front page will offer choices.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 2 de Enero, 2007 at 07:07 PM