2 hrs, 40 mins

Made a syllabus layout for E316K

Played with Drupal. Decided and posted navigation for Prof. Client

Converted InDesign copy into a pieced (and usable!) Psd file

To Do:

Consolidate Humpty Dumpty into 2 designs to present
(Change font from Palatino to Garamond in one of the versions)

Finish scanning Edlund-Berry slides by Sept. 30th

Follow up work on E316K (after meeting suggestions)

SEPT: GeoDia – Active – Total hours this week: 5.5 hrs

• Met with Stuart about some problems with the css
• Suloni gave me some good insight into color choices and I changed it to be consistent with the other site
• Attempted to fix annoying pixel differences but didn’t work out
• Consolidated color scheme a bit more

What’s Left

• Meet with Sarah or Camri to help create icons
• Add circle badge on tabs for results
• Found out why navigation bar shifts on Images > Search
• Add carefully crafted icons to GeoDia

 

SEPT: Uncanny – Active – Total hours this week: 4.0 hrs

• Refined the proportions on the header
• Moved From Hell (2000) clips into their proper place
• Refined the Assignments navigation by adding another level
• Centered Contact info
• The From Hell (2000) clips were not working and I added .mp4 which helped…of course
• Arranged all my tags to create a visual of where styles could be combined
• Listed all tags on a spreadsheet to find out which styles were universal, local to a div, or something completely different.

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: 2.25 hrs

• Migrated over 27 types of content
• Uncanny took some of my weekly allotted time for this project

What’s Left

• 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: Henri Michaux – Active

• Met with Stuart about some problems with the css
• Suloni gave me some good insight into color choices and I changed it to be consistent with the other site
• Attempted to fix annoying pixel differences but didn’t work out
• Consolidated color scheme a bit more

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

Nothing like a little judicious levity: Strutting Leo

MONDAY
STA Meeting:

• Weekly meeting for 0.5 hours.
• 1 hour of meeting preparation consisting of updating the wiki and making screencaps. Also replied to emails prior to meeting.

Humanities Institute site updates:

• 2 hours: Made updates to Humanities Institute site consisting of creating new pages, formatting content and new menu structure. Updated homepage to reflect new section of the site.http://www.humanitiesinstitute.utexas.edu/programs/helpthink/

TUESDAY
Masterwork Literature, Richmond-Garza

• 0.75 hours:Reworked layout to remove drop shadow and changed font choices.

WEDNESDAY
ClicaBrasil

• 1 hour:Cut the imported video into workable clips.

THURSDAY
Drupal training

• 1.5 hours:Worked on response to Prof. Client and met with Kate for makeup meeting.

Masterworks Literature, R-G

• 0.75 hours: Worked on Richmond-Garza mockup

FRIDAY

• 2.0 hours: In Media Lab. Had to help troubleshoot some printing issues. (0.75 hours)
  Also worked on updated the wiki (0.5 hours). Began work on new page for French study abroad programm (0.75 hours)

SATURDAY
ClicaBrasil

• 5.25 hours: ALL VIDEOS FINISHED!

SUNDAY
Masterworks Literature, R-G

2.5: Worked on refining the mockup again.

1. Drupal Migration – Finishing up (4 hours)
2. AFROTC (4 hours)
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3. Working on World Literature Website Mock-up (1 hour)
   • Just Starting with base
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4. COLA IDs (2 hours)
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Behind the Scenes

Why the maps?

 

Process

The maps werecreated to show the geographical changes in Eastern Europe from the 1700s to the 1990s.

Interactive Maps
The 9 maps of Eastern Europe maps were traced in Illustrator to recreate the border changes. Each country had to be traced to make this effect. Each of the maps were retraced on top of one another to create a seamless flow from map to map.

 

To create precision in the contours of land, there are more vector points for every line traced.

Final

In addition to the full maps of Eastern Europe, we also traced individual countries of Eastern Europe to customize the countries to the discussion.
The country maps were done the same way as the full length maps.
Country Maps

3:30-6:45

Slide scanning for Edlund-Berry. Pages 4,5,6 and started page 7.

The scanner shut down less often today but some of the slides are “blueing out”