This was a difficult assignment as it was theoretical and trying to understand the concept of normalization in databases were a little difficult. The 3 forms of normalizations were explored and a database was created to exercise the 3 normalizations. The ITP server was down so the assignment was created in excel and screen shots were taken and put in a php page.
Week 3 assignment was to play around with Mysql and databases. We had to create a table and enter the fields and then modify , delete and edit the content in the table. Screenshos were taken and put in a web page.
Week 2 assignment was to play with widgets in php and get the data entered and use it in some way. Mine is pretty simple and kind of works.
http://www.sanjaypapinazath.com/dwd/week2.php
Here i played with radio buttons, drop down box , text area and a button. When everything is filled out or selected and submit is clicked the answers will be printed on the screen. Pretty basic but it works.
HTML and PHP used.
www.sanjaypapinazath.com/live_web/thirteen.php
Here we have a video of Shawn with a comic dialog box overlay. The textbox is used to enter text and when submit is pressed the text appears inside the comic dialog box.
www.sanjaypapinazath.com/live_web/fifteen.php
Same concept here except we use a video which is being broadcast live.
One problem i faced was overlaying the images on top of other objects. This was over come with the following tag
<div id=”movie” style=”position: absolute; left: 100px; top: 100px; z-index: 0;”> by setting the z-index = 0 layers can be added to the page.
code for embedding video :
<div id=”movie” style=”position: absolute; left: 100px; top: 100px; z-index: 0;”>
<OBJECT CLASSID=”clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B” WIDTH=”320″ HEIGHT=”257″ CODEBASE=”http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab“>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
<PARAM name=”SRC” VALUE=”http://www.sanjaypapinazath.com/videostream.mov“>
<PARAM name=”AUTOPLAY” VALUE=”true”>
<PARAM name=”CONTROLLER” VALUE=”true”>
<EMBED SRC=”http://www.sanjaypapinazath.com/videostream.mov” WIDTH=”320″ HEIGHT=”257″ AUTOPLAY=”true” CONTROLLER=”true” wmode=”transparent” PLUGINSPAGE=”http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/”></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</div>
Check www.finetube.com
http://www.jamnow.com/Default.aspx
This is a social music site which allows to people to jam remotely. Different users who play different instruments can come together and jam together to create music. This jam session can also be broadcasted live.
The jamnow application has to be installed before use and it is relatively simple if you know how to use a basic sound editing tool. I found that its a cool idea but there are hardly any users online to jam with or even listen to. The user can also listen to radio shows created by other people live.But here also i was not able to as all the stations where offline. Each user or radio station also has a profile. The profile layout is kind of an exact rip off of a myspace profile. Like anyother social site it has a message board and news about indie
So after a very long time i got back on the chat wagon. I installed mIRC and started using it. It was good for a change but sorry to say its so 1990’s. I can see how it could have been fun and an easy way to communicate with random unknown people, but in this day where user generated content is huge using irc is like taking a couple of steps backwards. I feel with todays technology chat is nolonger a means of entertainment or a way to connect with people, rather a simple add on to much bigger applications such as facebook or gmail. Its more about sharing pictures and videos. Also today its more about profile pages rather than having a nickname to represent a person.
Live web starts now…..
For the PPM final i worked with Cameron and Matt to create a Lumiere Response. We shot and created around 15 lumiere videos. What is a lumiere video ? http://videoblogging.info/ . The speciality of a lumiere video is that it is supposed to follow the following protocols:
At first i thought it was kind of dull and boring but as i started producing lumiere videos and watching them it was very interesting. I started to notice things which could be shot in lumiere format.
Anyways our project was a Video blog : www.itp.nyu.edu/~my661/hitchcock
This is a video blog for lumiere videos. The difference is out site has a video comment plugin which allows the videos to be commented on. We also have a flip button which allows viewers to flip through videos similar to the tv remote. The original video commenting plugin was developed by ITP researchers John Schimmel and Shawn Van Every. Another feature of our project it the upload feature. A user can click on the upload button and upload their lumiere videos easily.