Category Archives: my art

Polaroid ceases film production

robinna/ March 18, 2008/ Technology, History of Technology, Culture, my art/ 0 comments

This breaks my heart. I have a collection of polaroid cameras from the late 60s – 80s and I use the film for art projects. AP article (via Boston.com)http://tinyurl.com/27auph Impact on professional photographers (via Elle.com)http://tinyurl.com/26rjw5 and Polaroid press releasehttp://tinyurl.com/2znmm4

Various web bits – Firefox3.0, image editing online, and make your own comix

robinna/ December 5, 2007/ social media, webdesign, tools/tips, my art, Search engines/browsers/ 0 comments

Good overview of Firefox3.0 in terms of web editing is located here I uploaded a rather large (and upside down) photo to pixenate, a free online web editing tool that even works with facebook.Pixenate tools include zoom, crop, resize, rotate, red eye, whiten, saturation, a few other features. Pretty nifty and easy to use. When you’ve finished, you can import

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art installation in second life and word of the day

robinna/ October 26, 2007/ my art, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Art Installation in Second Life Wows Educators If art schools around the world start introducing their students to “hyperformalism,” credit can go to DC Spensley, who invented the term to describe abstract three-dimensional works created using software and personal computers. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2422

creating a e-zine — lessons learned to date

robinna/ August 12, 2007/ software, publishing, CMS, my projects, webdesign, opensource, XHTML/XML/CSS, my art/ 0 comments

1. Have a vision.Check. I had that one a year ago (a regional arts magazine with topics both about art and by artists) 2. Funding.The amount of $ you have to spend will affect everything else 3. Hosting? Find a place to host it.I used some extra webspace I have. 4. A software list of features that you need (and

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looking for contributors

robinna/ July 22, 2007/ publishing, my projects, my art/ 0 comments

Okay, so I totally hope this is ACTUALLY going to greenlight this time. Sigh. Let’s not talk about the technical issues that have plagued this problem, mmm? ..looking for contributors for a new online arts, literary, & music magazine, moonshine (details follow).—————- … a few people who would be willing to write articles, essays, reviews, op ed pieces, entries,comics, whatever,

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geeky links: barcodes, isbns, and librarian stuff

robinna/ November 18, 2006/ Libraries, my art/ 0 comments

everything you would want to do know about barcodes and then some:http://www.barcodeart.com/links/coderef/barcode_resources.htmlhttp://www.barcodeart.com/front_page.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN become a librarian (and a distance ed comparison)http://www.becomealibrarian.org/DistanceEdComparison.htm