NOV: Hans C. Boas website – Active – Total hours this week: 8.5 hrs

• Styled the website
• Attempted to organize CSS in a more coherent fashion

What’s Left

• Talk to Ran about WordPress conversion
• Turn site into WordPress instance
• Migrate content
• Have Dr. Boas check site before going live

NOV: Texas Theory – Active – Total hours this week: 1.75 hrs

• Migrated content over, only 5 more personal pages and contained subpages to go!

What’s Left

• Fix image in branding bar
• Add stars to compass
• Complete data migration

NOV: SPN328 Lecture Photos – Active – Total hours this week: 1.00 hrs

• Corrected three folders of images

What’s Left

• Finish correcting images

NOV: Deutsche Kultur – Active – Total hours this week: 0.5 hrs

• Met with Kate about creating new content for next semester

What’s Left

• Create new navigation
• Wait for new content
• Add new content

NOV: Texas Theory – Active – Total hours this week: 2.5 hrs

• Migrated over another class page
• One more class page to go!

What’s Left

• Add stars to compass image
• Center branding image in bottom-left sidebar
• Continue migrating content from old wiki. I have allotted 3.75 hour a week for migration but this could fluctuate due to other projects.

NOV: Henri Michaux – Active – Total hours this week: 3.5 hrs

• Attempted to implement keyframes but can’t get it to work
• Rerecording with audio narration read with scrolling text

What’s Left

• Create .mov of poem for Professor Cauvin to read
• Combine poem video file with landscape video and create one video

NOV: Hans Boas Website – Active – Total hours this week: 4.75 hrs

• Going with wordpress
• Designing a flat page to be converted into a wordpress theme
• Coded the header!

What’s Left

• Code flat page
• Convert into wordpress theme

NOV: SPN328 Lecture Photos – Active – Total hours this week: 0.75 hrs

• Corrected another folder of lecture photos
• This issue with projector dimness has come up in some of my other classes as well. Interesting htat it seems to surface all at the same time.

What’s Left

• Plan to brighten one folder a day for project completion in 9 days

OCT: SPN328 Lecture Photos – Active – Total hours this week: 0.75 hrs

• Brightened one folder

What’s Left

• Continue to brighten photos
• 60ish images remain

OCT: Hans Boas Redesign – Active – Total hours this week: 2.0 hrs

• Began planning DRUPAL site
• Started moving blocks around on DRUPAL instance

What’s Left

• Set up DRUPAL instance
• Find out if this will be a DRUPAL site

OCT: Texas Theory – Active – Total hours this week: 2.75 hrs

• Migrated over 40 types of content, two pages

What’s Left

• Clean up and organize CSS to prepare the site for Drupal or WordPress

 

OCT: Humanities Institute Feature – Active – Total hours this week: 4.5 hrs

• Sketched possible designs and settled mushroom cloud
• Began designing in Illustrator
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What’s Left

• Crop photos in Illustrator
• Blend photos together in Photoshop
• Mask photos with a faint cloud texture
• Copy photos into Illustrator

OCT: Hans Boas Redesign – Active – Total hours this week: 4.25 hrs

• Met with Dr. Boas about the design of his site
• Developed two mockups
• Met with Kate about possible Drupal instance

What’s Left

• Need to email revised mockups to Dr. Boas
• Begin building site on my Drupal instance

OCT: Humanities Institute Feature – Active – Total hours this week: 2.25 hrs

• Sketched possible designs and settled mushroom cloud
• Began designing in Illustrator

What’s Left

• Crop photos in Illustrator
• Blend photos together in Photoshop
• Mask photos with a faint cloud texture
• Copy photos into Illustrator

OCT: SPN328 Lecture Photos – Active – Total hours this week: 0.50 hrs

• Brightened one folder

What’s Left

• Plan to brighten one folder a day

OCT: Uncanny – Active – Total hours this week: 0.75 hrs

• Added clips to Uncanny and Masterworks

What’s Left

• Clean up and organize CSS to prepare the site for Drupal or WordPress

OCT: Deutsche Kultur – Active – Total hours this week: 0.25 hrs

• Met with Kate about Deutsche Kultur and went over basic details of project.

What’s Left

• Meeting on Nov. 5 to understand client’s vision

OCT: Texas Theory – Active – Total hours this week: 0.25 hrs

• Migrated over content last week but not this week

What’s Left

• Continue to migrate content over. Plan to be finished by the end of the semester

OCT: Henri Michaux – Active – Total hours this week: 0.25 hrs

• Met with Mike Bowman (10.15.10) about problem syncing pictures with audio. Gave me a method to sync using keyframes. I’m not certain it will be smooth enough.

What’s Left

• Use keyframes to sync poem text with audio
• Export poem as .mov
• Export landscape as .mov
• Combine both .movs in Final Cut Pro and export as a single .mov
• Burn to DVD

OCT: Other – Total hours this week: 1.00 hrs

• Sat in on a meeting with Ming illustrating techniques for planning mockups and designing in FireWorks. Learned some very useful bits. Groups blew my mind.

OCT: Texas Theory – Active – Total hours this week: 2.50 hrs

• Migrated over 42 types of content this week

What’s Left

• Add stars to compass image
• Center branding image in bottom-left sidebar
• Continue migrating content from old wiki. I have allotted 3.75 hour a week for migration but this could fluctuate due to other projects.

OCT: Henri Michaux – Active – Total hours this week: 3.5 hrs

• Began syncing png with audio
• My strategy to slow clips down isn’t working out. Looking to find why it’s not the solution.
• Mike emailed me a few ideas on the source of the problem

What’s Left

• Sync poem w/ audio
• export poem as a mov
• merge poem .mov w/ landscape .mov
• export combined .movs as a single .mov
• burn to dvd

OCT: SPN328 Lecture Photos – Active – Total hours this week: 4.5 hrs

• Met with Chris on brightening techniques
• Scheduled Meeting with Dr. Sutherland-Meier to review corrected photos
• Corrected Photos

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What’s Left

• discover an effective way to brighten without all the noise and reduce the overall ‘shopped feel
• Correct all images and deliver to Dr.Sutherland-Meier

Sept: Uncanny – Active – Total hours this week: 0.00 hrs

What’s Left

• Clean up CSS
  • Organize to eliminate duplicated tags
  • Trim any inefficient pieces of code

Design is art that makes itself useful: BBCx365

Sept: Uncanny – Active – Total hours this week: 0.00 hrs

• Increased weight and size of the font
• Added 3rd batch of videos
• Added 4th batch of videos
• Added links to Youtube videos
• Corrected spelling

What’s Left

• Clean up CSS
  • Organize to eliminate duplicated tags
  • Trim any inefficient pieces of code

Sept: Texas Theory – Active – Total hours this week: 0.00 hrs

• Imported 22 types of content

What’s Left

• Add stars to compass image
• Center branding image in bottom-left sidebar
• Continue migrating content from old wiki. I have allotted 3.75 hour a week for migration but this could fluctuate due to other projects.

Sept: SPN328 Lecture Photos – Active – Total hours this week: 0.00 hrs

• Corrected some photos. This one turned out well but the others not so great.

 

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What’s Left

• discover an effective way to brighten without all the noise and reduce the overall ‘shopped feel
• Correct all images and deliver to Dr.Sutherland-Meier