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Year In Pictures – June 28 thru July 15, 2003

June 28, 2003 Saturday

We attended a wedding party for Kristen Graves (former tenant at 52 Kinnaird) and Lien Tung at their house in North Cambridge. 06282003KristenLien

Sunday June 29, 2003 Roadrace and Shulman Party

The New Charles River 5K and 5 mile race.

06292003_MMO_Running The guy to my left appears to be running. In fact, he is a race walker. I kept pace with him for the first mile. By the three mile marker, I couldn’t see him. He finished 3 minutes ahead of me across the finish line.

That’s me closing in on the finish line [the finish line photo was in an old now defunct format – so lost]. A disappointing 37 minutes, barely under 12 minutes per mile pace.

BTW: After the race was over, the race walker came over and we chatted. He had heart bypass surgery a year ago.

(Thanks for the photos to the official Mr. Wonderful Sports Photographer, Ms. Karen.)

>We also went to a luncheon given by Hank and Flo Shulman in honor of the son Brian and new daughter-in-law Tracy.

Goldie Barman

Mariachi Band

Monday June 30, 2003

Boston Harbor Cruise sponsored by the Cambridge police department for the Riverside and Cambridgeport neighborhoods.

Talked with Anne Williamson, a neighbor and compatriot from the old RCCC days and other community matters.

Tuesday July 1, 2003

Went to see Dr. Jim Umlas today. Looks like I have some floaters. To my surprise he found floaters that i had not noticed in my left eye as well as the new one in my right

“FLOATERS

Seeing floaters (spots) before one or both eyes is a frequent adult complaint. Floaters are usually most noticeable against a white homogeneous background and seem to move slowly when the eye is still. Floaters maintain their relative position in the visual field with eye movement. They result from contraction of the vitreous gel and its separation from the surface of the retina (posterior vitreous detachment). This leads to macroscopic opaque aggregates of vitreous fibers, which can be seen floating in the vitreous. Since the vitreous gel is denser where it attaches to the optic nerve, floaters are usually more apparent in this area. Although floaters usually are without significance, in a few patients they may indicate a tear in the retina. They are more prevalent in highly myopic and older persons and tend to become less noticeable with time.”

from THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 8, Ch. 90, Approach To The Patient With Eye Disease

image borrowed without permission from www.lensconsultants.com/_images_us/020602.jpg information downloaded Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:25:24

Thursday July 3, 2003

Trip to NYC for a long Fourth of July Weekend

We left Cambridge by 8:30 or so and arrived in NYC, the Chelsea neighborhood first, in time for lunch at a tavern’s noisy back yard. All was ok because I took my bowl of chili with Guiness.

We stopped at a number of galleries, but we found our return to InCamera to be the most rewarding.

InCamera Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 401
New York, New York 10001
Phone: 212 647 766

The current exhibition is a group show. One of the owners of InCamera, David Monaco, took an inordinate amount of time showing us lots of photos in his portfolio of artists.

photo above by David Stewart – From the Fogeys series

Friday July 4, 2003

We visited with the New York crowd, Andrea, John, Noah, Nyla and the extended family (more on them below).

We went to a pool party at John and Jeanette’s (147th St & Malcolm X Blvd). Little did we know that these are real partying pros.

Karen bouncing Nyla

Noah

Nyla

Karen with Nyla

By the time a couple of hours had passed, we had enlarged our territory to four table from our original two. And, we were still there until the clean up crew began to sweep us towards the gates.

Saturday July 5, 2003

On Friday and Saturday mornings, I took advantage of the running path around the Reservoir in Central Park. Nice packed dirt surface. Most everyone runs in the same direction around the 1.6 mile circumference.

(picture appropriated from http://www.centralpark2000.com/touring/runners_bikers_skaters/reservoir_tracks.htm)

(After my run Friday morning, I found our way north through the park, skirting the tennis courts and stumbling through a ravine and under two bridges of very different construction to the Harlem Meer and the edge of the park. A mini-adventure.)

No trip to the city would be considered without visits to museums.

We spent part of Saturday at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Karen found the National Design Triennial stimulating.

At the Whitney, we focused on three exhibits:

Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958–2003;

The American Effect;

and Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life

Sarah Sze’s “The Triple Point of Water” in the courtyard at the Whitney

The American Effect is a large show of artwork from around the world that focuses on reflections, influences, and commentary on America. Only a few pieces really revealed how engrained American images and ideas are throughout the world. Most of the work was much more straightforward commentary. An interesting phenomenon in the exhibition is the presence of so much video/computer-based art. I found this off-putting because I was not mentally prepared to put on headphones and settle down for a while to see a video or interact with a computer. Thus an awful lot of the exhibition was missed by me.

Monday July 7, 2003

Here is friend Linda at her new Apple eMac.

More lessons about surfing the web to follow.

After many year’s of using old machines and suffering the breakdowns, this is her first brand-new, out-if-the-box computer.

Wednesday July 9, 2003

07092003KarenBirthday_450pW Karen’s birthday – after the party

Thursday July 10, 2003

A favorite with Law & Order

Saturday July 12, 2003

Arnold returns!

Sunday July 13, 2003

A smoke stop in one of my favorite parks in Cambridge, Cpl Burns on Flagg St.

07132003CplBurnsPark

What is not visible here?

To the left of the path at rear of picture, two basketball courts where some of the best round ball around is played. On the right of the path at rear of picture, several panel trucks and a couple of SUVs with noisy rap music and people hanging out. To the left at about where the father is helping the tricyclist, is a street hockey court. To the immediate left, is a large playground with a couple of water spritzers and little children screaming as they run through the water sprays.

I walk up this path from the river after each run along the Charles. I enjoy it every time.

Harvard is finishing up new student housing across the river at Western Ave. I have been troubled from the beginning and now as it comes to completion i am struggling to find good things to say. I will return later with a little photo essay and you can decide for yourself.

Monday July 14, 2003

A visit to Dr. Wolpow, neurologist 07142003neuron .

I paid a visit to my neurologist today. He gave me a little lecture about how we lack appropriate mental models for the pace and process of peripheral nervous system repairs. He said the good news is that the nerves damaged in the Lyme attack two years ago are alive, but that recovery could take 2 to 3 more years assuming that recovery continues…. so I guess I have to keep my consumption of Scotch dwon to once a week. As Mother used to say in such states, “What a bore!”.

Construction at 217 Western Ave continues. Controversy over disruption of neighbors side yard seem to be resolved with new fence and promises of landscaping when the project is finished.

6/28/2003 – Graves-Tung Wedding

We attended a wedding party for Kristen Graves (former tenant at 52 Kinnaird) and Lien Tung at their house in North Cambridge.

6/26/2003 – Thursday – evening picnic on Charles River

Another picnic.

Michael Crichton’s Congo and the Transformation of the Western Mind

Original Book Review/Essay 2/97 ((originally published on markorton.com ))

(REVISED 1/29/02 – MAPS ADDED AT BOTTOM) (REVISED 6/25/03 – MAP OF ANGOLA SUPERIMPOSED ON THE US)

Michael Crichton’s 1980 pulp novel Congo opens with an introduction that is truly arresting . I quote here the first two paragraphs in their entirety.

“Only prejudice, and a trick of the Mercator projection, prevents us from recognizing the enormity of the African continent.

Covering nearly twelve million square miles, Africa is almost as large as North America and Europe combined. It is nearly twice the size of South America. As we mistake its dimensions, we also mistake its essential nature: the Dark Continent is mostly hot desert and open grassy plains.

In fact, Africa is called the Dark Continent for one reason only: the vast equatorial rain forests of its central region. This is the drainage basin of the Congo River, and one-tenth of the continent is given over to it – a million and a half square miles of silent, damp, dark forest, a single uniform geographical feature nearly half the size of the continental United States. This primeval forest has stood, unchanged and unchallenged, for more than sixty million years.”

This reader was gripped by his own ignorance of the facts and yet skeptical. He could recall all those geography lessons of grade school. He had traveled a bit. But none of this brought enough confidence to bear for these first two paragraphs in this pulp novel not to send him off to his maps, atlases, encyclopedias, even the internet.

Mercator. Yes, that is the projection so familiar from grade school. It even sticks in the mind that one of its key features is that the latitude and longitude lines are straight lines. This is convenient for rectangular pieces of paper, but it creates great distortions of area. This rectangular display of the surface of the nearly spherical surface of the earth produces a Greenland that appears almost as large as the US. The farther away you go north or south from the equator the larger this error becomes.

So, OK this Mercator, who on investigation in the ‘97 Grolier CD Encyclopedia, turns out to be a Flemish cartographer, Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594), produced cylindrical projections of a spherical surface. This of course lead to this readers present state of misapprehension.

Well, let’s take a closer look at this matter. A few simple comparisons of territories that he has driven across will put this into better perspective (this reader does have a bit of trouble with abstractions).

So here is a chart neatly drawn up in tabular form (again courtesy of the above referenced CD encyclopedia). The data on Africa seems to hold up Crichton’s assertions. Hopefully the American reader (obviously of the East Coast persuasion) will find some suitable reference point to investigate the data for themselves. The India entry is just for fun and effect.

	Area (sq. miles)	Population
Texas	267,277	18,378,000
New England	71,929	13,239,000
New England, NY,PA,OH,IL	274,423	66,244,000
United States (continental)	3,106,231	261,429,000
Africa	11,710,500	720,000,000
Nigeria (most populous in Africa)	357,000	98,100,000
Zaire	905,567	41,200,000
South Africa	471,445	43,500,000
India	1,269,345	911,600,00
Wisconsin	65,503	5,038.000
Illinois	57,918	11,697,000
Vietnam	127,242	71,800,000

What strikes this parochial mind is that the Mercator effect is at work even in our views of the United States.

Let’s investigate this a bit.

First a couple of numbers to illustrate my thesis. Texas is 801 miles north to south and 773 miles east to west.

By contrast, think of a car trip from Boston to Chicago. The American Automobile Association preferred yellow-line triptych calls this out at 925 miles. Boston to Washington DC is approximately 600 miles. Do these numbers and our mental images on the map jive?

Let me close this bit of geography with a historical note about Vietnam. During the Vietnam War I found it useful in political discussions, during my college days in Wisconsin, to point out that Vietnam is very close to the combined land area of the states of Wisconsin and Illinois . In this area the US government dropped as much munitions as consumed during all of World War II in all theaters.

	Mercator Projection (circa 1596)
	Robinson Projection(most widely used by National Geographic and others during the 20th centuryh until 1980’s)
Both maps borrowed without permission from geography.about.com

6/25/3

Yesterday I was scanning through the New York Times and saw an article, “Latest Peace Hopes Thwarted on Africa’s Battlefields” by Somini Sengupta. It was accompanied by a series of maps, including this one: (text added by me) Congo_over_US_map

As for the balance of the 314 pages of this pulp novel, it’s entertaining…lots of gorillas and other beasts ………a page turner.

Year In Pictures – May 2003

Thursday May 1, 2003

Work on a proposal with Boeing.

Saturday May 3, 2003

I ran a 5K race along the Charles, The First Annual Asthma Fund Raiser at MGH, part of World Asthma Day. Here I am in the T-shirt from the last race (December 3, 2000) I ran in before the Lyme plague. Finished this one in 36’20”. Slow (targeted 33′ 30″) but Felt Great!!

Continue reading →

Year In Pictures – April 2003

Tuesday – April 1, 2003

Jonathan and Nan Visit

Stay until Sunday.

Wednesday April 2, 2003

Continue reading →

Year In Pictures March 2003

Saturday March 1, 2003

in the reading pile.

Sunday March 2, 2003

12 inch baseboard in 1840s house Jaffrey NH during visit with Bonnie Mitchell and Martin.

Monday March 3, 2003

Ready for the day’s activities – computer and gym bag

Tuesday March 4, 2003

The end of the Pamela Worden project. 50 copies of “Letters To Andrew: the house book” Flash movie.

Wednesday March 5, 2003

Friday March 7, 2003

Huntington Theatre Breath, Boom by Kia Cothron

Sunday March 9, 2003

Dan Sapoznick visits

Trip to Lowell MA – an outing

Friday March 14, 2003

Karen is ready to go.

Karen is ready to visit Cheryl in Palo Alto, CA.

Some wit …..

Tuesday March 18, 2003

Bush announces more steps in his war.

Saturday March 22, 2003

Visit to NYC

Nyla

Tuesday March 25, 2003

410 Franklin St.

Jim and Judy, our backyard Franklin St. neighbors are convinced that Spring is here. So am I, after my first outside run along the river since late October.

Reconstruction has actually begun on this vest-pocket park on Franklin St. The original concrete monstrosity was built in the 60’s during the same architectural phase that brought us the King and Tobin elementary schools in the “brutalist” style most famously seen in Boston City Hall and the nearby state mental health building.

Construction – Franklin St pocket park

More expensive housing being built on Franklin St. The lot was formerly the site on an automotive repair garage.

Saturday March 29, 2003

“Hours”, very good, especially surprising Meryl Streep who really is some else, not Meryl Streep working very hard at acting. Also Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in outstanding performances.

Sunday March 30, 2003

Year In Pictures – February 2003

Saturday February 8, 2003

Back on SATURDAY 02/28/03 I started the YIP Project.

Snow on spiral stairs. Forecast 4-6 inches. More than 12 arrived. But, very fluffy.

This began as a picture-centric project with just captions below. As explained elsewhere, I have been plagued by a bad memory of my day-to-day life. So my first swing was to keep a digital camera with me and take pictures every day. Here is the first, following a snowy day:

Sunday February 9, 2003

PAMELA WORDEN PROJECT

Work is well underway on the Pamela Worden Flash movie project. Miriam Goodman stopped by and proffered some advice on the project. As with every project I do, this one is taking several times longer than anticipated.

MORE WORK ON THE PAMELA WORDEN PROJECT

Further work on the flash movie.

Monday February 10, 2003

Regular Day at Work

A messy desk is SOP for me.

Work on Six Sigma proposal

Scribbling on the white board with Terry Burton & Sherry Gordon preparing proposal for Six Sigma project at MKS.

Tuesday February 11, 2003

Off to the Sports Palace in Central Square

Wednesday February 12, 2003

Dark matter and energy make it to NYTimes

WMAP project reported in the NYTimes. Front page below the fold. There is dark matter and dark energy. The universe is 13.7 billion years old.

Dark Matter, Dark Energy in the Universe

A relatively cheap little satellite has confirmed astrophysicists theories that most of the universe is filled up with stuff they call “dark matter” and “dark energy”. I have called my brother Ed about this and he assures me that Parker (nephew age nine) will shortly have this all figured out.

Thursday 02/13/2003

The back of Simmons Hall located on Vassar St. Steven Holl Architects. This was a bit of a surprise seen at night. Karen and I had visited it during the day when the multi-colored facade seems a key feature .

Friday – February 14, 2003

Temperature at 7am.

SATURDAY 2/15/2003

MR HANDYMAN COMES TO THE RESCUE

Sink drain clogged up. Resisted drain snake, required industrial strength chemicals.

Sunday – February 16, 2003

PREP FOR A VISIT TO THE “OTHER” MR. ROTO-ROOTER MAN

Prep for colonoscopy. Cancelled next day because of blizzard.

Monday – February 17, 2003

Kinnaird St. Cambridge during snow storm.

A Harvard house along the river.

About 6 PM. Record 27.5 inches of snow, but still nothing like the Blizzard of 1978 that lasted for two days and was accompanied by 50 mile per hour winds.

MONDAY 02/17/03: THE BLIZZARD OF 2003 – CATCHING UP ON READING

Taking advantage of the record snow storm, we stayed home. This lead to a catching up on old New Yorkers. “to Google” has entered the everyday vocabulary. The most amazing thing about Google is how wonderful its search capabilities really are!!

Tuesday – February 18, 2003

SHOVELING OUT

After Karen and I did our Kinnaird St,. duties we walked over to Richard and Nancy’s house on Harvard Street to shovel their sidewalk. They had taken off for a “school teacher’s holiday” to Florida. When we got there we discovered that their tenant had done an excellent job. So, with an excess of moral energies we found Dorothy and Jim’s car on Pine St. to extricate.

Pine st. Cambridge

Went out to dinner with Linda Larson

A favorite dinner spot with Linda Larson. Best ambience in Watertown.

Saturday February 22, 2003

Trip to Hartford CT.

KCD at the Sheraton in Hartford, scene of our weekend “holiday”.

A real destination breakfast spot in Hartford. Replete with the owner of 30+ years hobbled on crutches on a corner stool.

Mel Bochner at the Wadsworth in Hartford

Atheneum Museum

Sunday February 23, 2003

Breakfast in Avon, Ct. Second day of continuous rain

Monday February 24, 2003

new Apple 14.1 inch iBook put into service.

Tuesday February 25, 2003

Seen in the bathroom at work… did someone misplace a fig leaf?

Wednesday February 26, 2003

envelope for the CD

Help Pamela Worden set up her show on Church St. Cambridge. Included a computer showing the video I made, “House Book” an animation of her artist book about her husband’s decline.

3/25/2003 – CyberArts Presentation and Resources

March 2003 – Presentation Announcement

I will be presenting two Flash movies of artists’ books and a brief technical discussion on Wednesday April 30, 2003. Time and location details below.

I have been interested for some time now in how to make artists’ books and other three-dimensional art forms more accessible. Paintings and photographs generally hang on walls and you can readily view them as closely as you’d like. Generally larger sculpture is similarly accessible; you can simply walk around it, crouch down and peer up, or otherwise examine sculpture.

However, when you see artists’ books in a museum or even in an art gallery, generally you can’t pick them up and manipulate them at all. They tend to be exhibited under/behind glass. And, since Karen has been making artist books and boxes with structured collections of objects (her Aidila project for her mother is an example), I have become more familiar with the form and all of the interesting facets built in, but normally quite inaccessible in a museum or gallery.

So,how did I get to Flash movies from that question? Last spring I attended the final presentation by students in Karen and Miriam Goodman’s RADCLIFFE SEMINARS Course, “Word & Image: Making Art in Two Languages”, and saw Pamela Worden give a performance of her book, “Letters to Andrew: the house book“. This immediately struck me as a terrific starting point for really doing something about my question.

One thing lead to another (partly through the intervention of Miriam Goodman) and I found myself with an additional project of working on a piece done by Dot Krause, “Vengeance Is Mine“.

Pamela Worden’s book is currently in the Book Arts show at the Cambridge Artists’ Cooperative. The movie is on display also.

My ultimate objective is to put this type of work on the web.

For the moment, if you want to see both of these movies come to the presentation.

Boston University – Photographic Resource Center
“Printmaking, Artist’s books, and the Digital Age”

As a part of the jointly sponsored New England School of Photography and the BU Photographic Resource Center “Word and Image” series, Dorothy Simpson Krause, a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art, will talk about her work and Mark Orton, software entrepreneur, will show virtual artist books, he has translated into Flash. Orton has been working with Krause on an electronic representation of her artist’s book, “Vengeance is Mine”, and with artist Pamela Worden to create an electronic representation of her book, “Letters to Andrew: The House Book.”

Wed, April 30, 7:30pm. Boston University, The Photonics Center, Rm 206, 8 St. Mary’s St, Boston. Free! For more info contact Miriam Goodman, 617.868.5215, mirgoodman@attbi.com , or Ingrid Trinkunis (PRC), 617.353.0700, itrinkun@bu.edu . Wheelchair accessible.

One of over one hundred events in the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival . For more information go to: www.bostoncyberarts.org or call 617 524-8495.

When you find other interesting sites or resources about Book Arts and the Web, please send me an email.

Flash Resources for the Boston Cyberarts Festival Presentation April 30, 2003

This information was gathered on 04/25/03 from the various web sites. Thanks to Karen Davis and Miriam Goodman for assembling this list.

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Books

Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On-Training
By Kymberlee Weil, Lynda Weinman; Paperback
Paperback: 803 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.23 x 9.56 x 7.38
Publisher: Peachpit Press; Book and CD-ROM edition (September 24, 2002)
ISBN: 0321112725 From Book News, Inc.

This beginner’s guide offers a series of tutorials on using Flash to create graphics and animation for web sites. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by screenshots are provided for performing such procedures as creating graphic symbols, motion tweening, importing bitmaps, attaching sound to buttons, adding ActionScript to objects and frames, working with text, and applying effects to video. The CD-ROM contains exercise files and a trial version of Flash.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Macromedia Flash MX for Windows and Macintosh – A Visual Quickstart Guide
by Katherine Ulrich, ,
Publisher: Peachpit Press.
Flash MX Savvy (With CD-ROM)
by Ethan Watrall, Norbert Herber
Paperback: 784 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
Publisher: Sybex; Book and CD-ROM edition
(May 15, 2002) ISBN: 0782141080

“The authors are smart and funny. The book is well organized and logical. The chapters feature a smooth transition between beginner topics and intermediate material (all of which is very detailed)

Reference Books
Macromedia Flash Documentation

Flash MX Bible
by Robert Reinhardt (Author), Snow Dowd (Author)
Paperback: 1300 pages ;
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Book and CD-ROM edition (July 15, 2002)

Includes enhanced coverage of using Flash with other powerful Web applications and exclusive expert tutorials from the world’s top Flash gurus. The most comprehensive Flash book on the market. Documents Flash’s integration and implementation of new technologies The accompanying CD-ROM is packed with trial software, add-ons, plug-ins.

Local Course Offerings

New England School of Art and Design/Suffolk University
http://www.suffolk.edu/nesad/ghtml/gcoursed.html

ADG S213 – Introduction to New Media, J. Fuchel
New media is design that deals with non-linear and interactive works using cutting-edge digital technologies. In this survey course, students will be introduced to the concepts of electronic presentation, interactive media authoring, animation, web site design and creation, digital photography, digital sound, and video effects and editing.
Prerequisite: ADG S219 3 credits/Offered fall semester

ADG S219 – Computer Applications in Design
In this course students will learn the major software applications used by graphic designers. Through a series of problems, students will learn how and when to use specific software to produce their solutions. 3 credits/Offered fall semester
ADG S340 – Multimedia
ADG S341 – Advanced Multimedia

Designing for Animation ADG S231 AE
Thu 6:00-9:00 L. Armstrong

Harvard Summer School
http://www.summer.harvard.edu/
CSCI S-K Introduction to Creative New Media and the World Wide Web (31439)
Jennifer Fuchel and Nita Sturiale
(8 units: UN, GR, NC) M-Th 10 am-12:30 pm. Required computer laboratories to be arranged. Prerequisite: Basic familiarity with Windows and/or Macintosh operating system. No programming experience required. Harvard College students see additional information. Tuition $3,900. Limited enrollment.

This introductory course is an intensive immersion into New Media production for beginning and intermediate students. The current state of “New Media” is the digital convergence of print, broadcast, audio, image, film, and the Internet. The course consists of lectures, demonstrations, visiting speakers, and computer lab experience.

Particular attention is placed on balancing technical skills with individual content and experimental approaches. We will explore the evolution as well as the societal and cultural context of New Media the Web. Along with weekly assignments, students will propose, design, and produce a web-based, multimedia final project using the tools of the industry. Core software includes Adobe PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, and Flash. The course will also introduce digital video applications, QuickTimeVR, sound editing, and frontline developments in web applications.

Harvard Extension
http://www.dce.harvard.edu/extension/2002-03/courses

(Last fall)
CSCI E-14 Understanding and Developing Multimedia (11200)
Scott Traylor, BA, President, 360KID.
Creating dynamic media that communicates effectively through the use of sound, images, motion, text, and interactivity is a process that involves skill, planning, and practice. In this course, students will examine the concepts and tools necessary for producing their own interactive multimedia projects. A number of professional authoring applications willbe used to create student projects including Macromedia Flash, Bias Peak, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator. Many development- and user-related issues will be discussed, including the definition of target audience and playback conditions, defining the user experience before building, narrowband versus broadband delivery, as well as successful interface and compression formats. Prerequisites: a solid understanding of the Macintosh and Windows operating system; basic understanding of any paint or draw program.

Cambridge Center For Adult Education
http://www.ccae.org/catalog/courses/index.php?id=150

Introduction to Macromedia Flash MX
In this introductory class, learn the fundamentals of Flash and build dynamic media for web, CD-ROMs and other on or offline deliverables. We’ll start by familiarizing ourselves with the improved Flash interface and some of the brand new features only available in MX. Topics include working with timelines, creating movie clips and button symbols, using masks and guides, and building complex animated graphics.

This course is intended for new Flash users, but a working knowledge of Flash 5, Adobe
Photoshop/Imageready, and the Macintosh operating system is helpful. Limited to 12.
Sec. 01: 8 Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00 pm. Begins Jun. 17, 1 Story St. | $266
Term: SUMMER TERM Code: FLSX Section: 1

Flash Without the Cash

Term: SUMMER TERM
Sec. 01: 1 Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 pm. Jul. 16, 1 Story St. | $47
Instructor: Michael Mahoney

This course is designed to demonstrate alternatives to using Macromedia Flash to achieve the same results at 1/10th of the cost in 1/10th of the time. Limited to 12.

Boston Center for Adult Education

Boston Resources

Introduction to Flash 5.0
Flash 5.0 is a powerful motion graphics tool offering unique solutions to Web design, animation, games, and other interactive media. Get an introduction to Flash’s capabilities through a series of projects that explore its most powerful features. Projects focus on creating animation, enhancing that animation with interactivity, and adding
sound and dynamic media. This course is designed for the novice; however, a working knowledge of the PC is helpful. The tuition includes a materials fee for a CD containing the lessons as well as useful links, resources for, and examples of more advanced projects.

Member: $179.00 Non-member: $198.00
Mondays: Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Begins: 05/05/2003 Session(s): 4 Ends: 06/02/2003 Class does not meet May 26.
Meets at: Technology Learning Center Instructors: Museum of Science, Gary Tucker

Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University
http://www.lesley.edu/aib/EXTRA/courses.html

The Web Design Trio: Macromedia MX Suite (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash)
Matthew Nash July 14 – August 20, M, W @ 6 pm – 9:30 pm
1 Credit/$960, includes fees, or Non-credit/$900

Macromedia, the leader in web design and animation tools, recently released their MX package, a fully integrated web design suite. Create complicated and complex websites with Flash animations, graphics rollovers and great design with the tools of MX. This class will cover the basics of each program, look at how they are integrated when they are used to support each other, and how they form the best web design package on the market. We will use Flash to create amazing animations, Fireworks to create intricate and beautiful graphics, and Dreamweaver to combine them all into complete websites.

Massachusetts College of Art
http://www.massart.edu/indexF6.html
http://www.massart.edu/at_massart/academic_prgms/continuing/

Summer 2003
Flash

Animation is about telling a story through images that move. Macromedia Flash is so popular on the web because of its varied abilities to entertain, and communicate. In this workshop, students explore Flash’s unique drawing capabilities, animation
techniques, symbol creation and interactivity. We will create shapes and movement, make buttons, understand the concept of timelines, incorporate sound, and tell 7 stories that excite, entertain, and inspire us.

Prerequisites: Experience with computer graphics, strong comfort with Macintosh.
Workshop Code: NC517 Instructor: Margie Mintz
Schedule: Fri, 6-10pm. June 6-20 Cost: $275

School of Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.smfa.edu/default.asp?bhcp=1

Summer Program
Internet Animation / CMP 2015 S1

Steve Gildea
MTWR 9:00AM – 5:00PM Jun 10 2003 – Jun 26 2003 , Location: MAIN
1.50 Credits / Tuition: $620.00

The Web has become the new venue for animation, from avant-garde experimentation to commercial application. In this course we will take a hands-on approach to creating vector-based animations using the popular multimedia program Macromedia Flash. Flash allows the development of full-screen, streaming graphics, high-quality MP3 audio, as well as interaction. In a series of projects, we will learn to make use of vector graphics, key frames, and “inbetweening.” We will work with transparency, especially with text effects, and learn how to use raster graphics and audio. Upon the successful completion of this course, students will have a portfolio of Web-based animation that can be posted on a Web site or distributed on a CD-ROM. Prerequisite: Students should be familiar with Web page design techniques and editing tools and capable of working with Photoshop.

Introduction to Macromedia Flash / CMP 2017 S1

Lisa Berelson
TR 9:00AM – 5:00PM Jul 22 2003 – Aug 7 2003 , Location: MAIN
1.50 Credits / Tuition: $620.00

Flash technology has freed Web designers from the constraints of HTML programming. It melds the possibilities of unbounded design and creativity with a technology that allows graphics to be quickly downloaded over the Internet. This class will introduce Flash techniques and tools, such as drawing, layers, and working with scenes. Through hands-on exercises and projects you will learn how to create motion, shape “tweens,” design and edit symbols, and add interactivity using action scripts. We will also explore plug-in options, browser detection issues, and publishing and optimization techniques. Students will be expected to develop individual projects. Prerequisite: Students must have previous experience in basic Web development using Dreamweaver and HTML as well as experience with imaging software such as Freehand or Illustrator and Photoshop.

Consultants/Developers

Lenni Armstrong
http://www.informmotion.biz
informmotion@attbi.com
(617) 764-1682

Leigh Clark
Site includes lecture notes on interactive design as well as design and
production using Flash, available to the public for reference.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lclark
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lclark/resume
lclark@fas.harvard.edu

Steve Hoey
steve@stevehoey.com.

Sites of Interest to Book Artists

http://lab.dce.harvard.edu/summer/cscisk/creatnewmedia/
extensive resources list

Book Arts Sites

http://www.thesecretbooks.com/sitelink.html Artist Book using Flash (also published book)
http://www.seankernan.com/

http://www.colophon.com/
modern illustrated and fine press books

http://www.bostonbookarts.org/
excellent site resources, links, individual artists

http://www.philobiblon.com/
extensive resources, gallery

http://www.colum.edu/centers/bpa/links.html

adaptable
http://www.artmonster.com/flash/flashexamples/silverbearintro.htm

When you find other interesting sites or resources about Book Arts and the Web, please send me an email

What is the Year-In-Pictures Project?

I have been troubled for most of my life by an almost comprehensive lack of memories of the day-to-day events in my life. So, this year I started with the notion that I would keep a diary, rudimentary to be sure, in which I would note significant events.

This I have done since the beginning of the year.

Recently I was trying to organize my photos and it struck me that these photos are, to an extent, a record of many important events over the last 6 or 7 years.

Why not add to my written diary a picture taken every day? Not necessarily a picture of anything literally reportorial, although this would not be excluded, rather at times just something I noticed during the day.

I have now armed myself with an older point-and-shoot camera that fits easily into a pocket or my computer bag. These pages in the web site are the results.