9. Meme Write-up

The task: “But as you might remember you are creating an internet meme....or an series of images that use three different elements. Two types of images and some text.”

Now I looked up what an Internet meme actually was for this task, Wikipedia says “The term Internet meme is used to describe a concept that spreads swiftly via the Internet.” In which case it’s a bit hard to create one, as it’s not actually a meme unless it spreads fast, but I gathered the task was more of a create a potential meme by having a picturething with three elements. So I did that.

However, I thought I’d put a bit more layering into it, and instead of just combining three things, I did so and made a whole cool puzzle thing out of the images. Which I think is rather fetch....

Which means that my meme isn’t meant to be funny, but more of a puzzle that get’s one thinking. I realised that some people really hate not being able to solve puzzles, and the idea was that they would try and solve it by getting other people ‘in on it’. There were cues on the page in hopes it would prompt it. That was the general idea of how this could become a proper meme. Either way it’s a rather complex puzzle, and spending time and getting multiple people to try and solve it is the best way to solve it. So it was somewhat of a ploy. But a cool one at that. :)

Now I don’t really understand some memes. I think that the selleckwaterfallsandwich thing is ..... So if that’s a good meme, than mine must be brilliant. Either way I think there most of them are silly, and the ones that are actually good, people ‘beat a dead horse’ with them. And then they become annoying and tedious. Well I think so at least.

Which is why I decided to create a limited meme, because I don’t like animal cruelty; and in all fairness, ‘beating a dead horse’ is one of the biggest problems about ‘internet humour’. I mean would it have been funny if when you clicked the link to get to my write up, I instead rickrolled you? No. Overdone. Lame. Deadhorse beating, and it’s not like all of your bases would have belong to me had I done it......

My point exactly. Some obviously disagree, hence why they continue to beat the horse. Either way I don’t like most of this sort of ‘art’.

So try and solve the puzzle. There is a plethora of information on the page to solve it. You just have to use your brain. :) Enjoy!

8. Website Write-up

I wasn't sure if we had to do a write up for this project. But here is a short one anyway.

Project: My project was a rather abstract one, in which I personified a website. I didn't go very in detail as to how the whole website thing worked, as I thought it would be mostly boring. I did however try to be mildly humorous. I also added depression to give the character depth. This also gave the character a story. The story starts on the front page; the hope is that the viewer will progress left to right in the navigation bar until they get to the last page, which is the end of the story. The story subsequently ends when one clicks the link at the bottom of the page, and gets the conclusion to the story in the error message on the following page.

Tools used: I created the website from scratch, using the website creation skills I learnt in Writing for Web. I also incorporated Google maps into the project, it was a simple use, but that's because it wasn't very warranted. I included a twitter feed on most the pages; I created this twitter, and tweeted for this task. Facebook was also used in this project. I created a Facebook group page for the websites 'cause', that people could join if they wanted to support him to keep on living.

I also used the generators for this project. I created two graphs using the graph generator located on the ICanHazCheezburger website shown in class. It was hard to create graphs that I thought would fit in nicely. Maybe I failed? But I wanted them to be mildly humorous on their own at least. I also created banners in photoshop, there's a few different ones, with different numbers on them, as well as a different background (although the background is in the same style), these banners is one way that each page is different from the next.

I used the program (GIMP) shown in class to create a long .gif artwork, with the idea it's what my character created. This was very tedious to do, I think it was about 150 frames all up. I made objects grow and colour in gradually, in the hopes it would sort of simulate drawing. I think that worked well. It was however a large file, and it seem to slow down dramatically at the end if it's not completely loaded yet. On the second viewing it is fine though.

I also used symbols, and some other slight progressive mistakes to tell the story. I added some subtle errors in the page, like an extra bracket at the end of one of the pages, and used a lot of ellipses on the final page.

End idea: I'm actually quite proud of the writing in some areas of the page. I think it's quite humorous. But I'm weird, and so's my writing. Not all will like it. I also felt right to add a warning at the front of the page. This introduced the idea of the website, as well as warned the viewer on the content of the webpage. I felt it right to do so as the website contains black themes, and some black humour. Plus I didn't want to upset people, or be insensitive about the dark issue of depression. I do however believe that art has no bounds. So I went with the depression idea, but thought it was at least humanly to warn people about it before they delve into the site.


And that, is my site. :) Hope you like it!