Learned that I don’t even need a video editing program; FFMPEG does 90% of what I need :)
Archive for the ‘My Work’ Category
Alfred and Lucy
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016Cumudgeoning about Internet
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016I’ve had this list of dot-points sitting here, slowing growing, over the past few months. Though I’d wanted to turn it into a little essay, I think I just need to post it all before it rots.
So here are an assortments of thoughts on Internet. Mostly about my ideal Internet and knowledge sharing.
- A website’s markup (the HTML and CSS) should be able to be understood. Far too many pages are completely incomprehensible when you look at their source. I want to learn things, and get an insight into the page’s maker when I right click > view page source.
- Links should be descriptive; link shorteners are awfullllllll.
- Websites should never block downloading images and other elements, but it’s something I see so much now.
- ISPs should always provide free webspace.
- There should be WAY better free tools for site making—every OS and browser should have them built-in.
- Programs that run in your browser are kinda handy (Google Docs/Drive, for example), but most websites should not be these!
- Pop-up messages asking me to subscribe to your newsletter :/ Remind me of the ol’ splash screen days, though I can’t even remember why those were considered annoying anymore.
- Internet is about sharing information, distributing information. This Internet seems to be about hoarding and controlling information :(
- Wikipedia should be much more inclusive.
- We are sticking our toe into an Internet that is just a bunch of corporate intranets battling for your attention and sabotaging you internet usage outside (and inside) their boxes.
- Why are all UIs so awful and tablet focused? Fuck hamburgers. Fuck every UI improvement which seems to hide everything behind more and more clicks.
- I suspect that the Internet I’m all nostalgic for was actually mostly white dudes though.
- Pretty sure if books were invented now, libraries would be illegal.
Only solution I have to this is help people make websites. I’m slowly planning a basic HTML/CSS workshop, which I hope gets people playing with websites and gives them enough basic info to teach themselves further.
Also I’m redo-ing my own site so it’ll be a bit more fun~
I really wish my address was a .net instead of a .com. Maybe I’ll have both~
Lake Tyers
Friday, January 29th, 2016And a cat
Williamstown 2
Saturday, January 9th, 2016Youtube seems to have mangled this video. First time I’ve edited a video using Blender, and I probably wont be doing that again.
Video Works Catalogue version 2
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015I’ve put up a new version of Video Works Catalogue.
You can now reposition the videos and hide the introductory stuff.
Hand Game
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
I made Hand Game for an exhibition the other week. The starting point was thoughts about my awareness of my own body, and the correlation between location and body area. Over time it changed from being about bodies to focusing on hands. All the hands in this game were chosen from a bunch of 3-D scans downloaded from that 123D website I use a fair bit. It was set up in a bathroom, one of the locations I felt most in touch with my body, and was played by holding two gobs of Play-doh, which were of course able to be sculpted. I’m not making the game available as I usually would, because of its site and controller specificness, but there is a version up for people who support my game making through Patreon ;) ;) ;)
There was also a publication given away at the show, and I included some hand drawings. In these I attempted to draw my hands as I pictured them without looking at them, mostly dictated by where I felt the most weight, if that makes sense. I’ve always meant to make drawings of how I perceive my body non-visually (for ten years, at least!) so it was about time I got round to it.
I also made this other game a week or so back that I like and other people like: Japan Game.
There are more screenshots at my videogame making Tumblr blog.
Illustration
Saturday, September 26th, 2015Made a new website for the purposes of getting illustration work.
Just dogs and Tony Abbott up there so far↴
http://illustration.ryliejamesthomas.com/
2020 update: lost this with my Tumblr mishap.
Tony Abbott
Friday, September 25th, 2015
The rest of J-pop
Sunday, August 23rd, 2015Every now and then I do another one of these J-Pop intro loop songs. I keep meaning to put together another album of them called Second Best of J-Pop.
2012 / Dialogues
Tuesday, August 18th, 2015I was going through earlier work, and was pleased to all the work I had made in 2012, in my second year of University. most of those things I’d never posted here, I assume because some I never finished properly (a series of clay heads), and some I thought were too personal (the Dialogues). I made a lot that year. Also a lot of drawings/rubbings, wood carving, and the performances I, at the time, called Monologues (they were made after these Dialogues).
I’ve made a web site for the Dialogues, and I might make a general 2012 one to link all those works together.
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