SVG in processing

since i love the look of Joshua Davis' work so much, i've been pointed in the direction of importing SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics or illustrator files to those slightly less geeky peeps). which will hopefully mean that i'll be able to create some elements in illustrator, and then import them into processing to create random pretty imagery.

my searching has found this little import script, which allows you to import SVG's made of paths. fancy things like fills and ellipses don't work at the moment. the script was used to create the elements that make up the creatures in this little program called manifest.

and now, i must faff with it.

wordpress

since several of the sites i'm quite fond of (like brendan dawes and joshua davis) use wordpress i decided to look into it. using a blog type thing would be a nice way of easily updating my site. but i'm concerned about how easy it will be to customise.

i've looked around on the forums and the wordpress site and installed it on my own site, so i can have a little play with it. but since all i'm really thinking of using it for is a news feed and possibly making some kind of commenting system on the work in my portfolio (which i'm not too fussed about), i'm not sure wether or not i will end up using it at this stage.

i could use it to create another blog on my site, but since i'm planning to re-design this one and i talk about my work on here i don't see much of a point.

i could do a bit of cheating with iframes, but that could mess up my plan to use that CSS swappy code.

i want to be able to design my site exactly how i want it, instead of re-working a template. there's blogger and myspace for that.

restoring my faith in the internet

as it were.

i've found i've been getting a bit bored recently with digital-ness, as i seem to be seeing the same thing over and over again. it takes a lot to make me go "OOOOOOOH!!" now, which is a bit annoying. so in an attempt to get over this and find something new i went into that weird place called the library.
most of the books were a bit crap but i managed to find a couple of good ones. one was interplay interactive design by lauren parker from the V&A. it had web addresses in it. i tried some out. some were dead. some were crap. some were interesting but looked nothing like the screenshots in the books. that the one thing about books that suck, they don't come with a refresh button.

anyway... here are my findings.

the first address i typed in was delaware.gr.jp, which turned out to be a strange music / visual group from japan. who like bitmaps. and scrolling sideways. and mobile phones. it's all artoon.

they also like remixing youtube, which is quite interesting.


i also had a look at praystation by Joshua Davis, who's a big coding monkey. he's currently remaking his site with a wordpress template, but there are some pretty amazing images on there. he also runs once upon a forest, which is a very nice simple flash gallery of his work. he's cleverly hidden the description of his work in the source.