This is my project 5 and 4. Apparently, no matter what code i tried typing nothing wanted to work after changing my project idea at least four times now. For Project 5 it’s just this extension that changes the Wikipedia font to wingbats or something. I thought It’d be like decrypting the information we look for and Wikipedia is a big site that we use to find info on things, so in order to use that we have to translate it. The tricky part is the fade in and fade out. So not only do you have limited time, you have limited visibility. I thought it was funny trying to see people copy the text and converting it and trying to figure out where they left off.
Project Erase, however the extension does not cooperate and the code is so basic I’m still left scratching how hiding an image or just a div doesn’t want to work. Seriously, I switched this project from PornHub to Youtube to Facebook to CNN and then to Fox. I tried our course website lastly. I don’t know what the deal is but it was suppose to simply remove images on those sites and then remove the posts on the blog.
The best idea I came up with for my final project is an extension for Youtube. This extension would take the a huge aspect of what makes youtube so popular and flip it upside down and that would be the the idea of the “You” in Youtube and personalizing what videos you see on the daily. What if every video you clicked on sent you to a random video and there was no way to subscribe to a channel to keep seeing their content. It would almost force the user into viewing new videos and expanding their horizons instead of pigeon-holing themselves into one type of videos. The subscribe button would be unavailable and maybe using a random function can somehow give a person a random video per every click of a video link
I’m still not certain what I can do and the ability I have to do it. But one idea was to somehow have come to the website and type in a username and have their location mapped and display a pin on a map relatively in that area. I feel like it would be kinda funny for people to type in something so basic as just a username and have their location identified. I don’t know if that’d be possible with firebase, have multiple pins throughout the map.
Another idea that I am positive I probably can’t do is creating some sort of animation that makes Facebook shake or glitch up so you can’t really see what you are doing. I thought it can be a play on data breaching or social media exhaustion that it’s simply giving out. Obviously both these ideas are out there, but It would be great if their was a manageable way.
Drawings on snapchat so when you tap, you see an animation.
Change pronouns on all websites to they/them pronouns.
Messing with AI, use only AI to communicate? For example, send a message that someone sent to me to cleverbot, and I send cleverbot’s response back to the original person.
I want to see if I can use the tools of project 7 to finally develop the idea of the collective rolling snowball. I want to use the database to track arrow movements and increasing and decreasing values to adjust the size of a rolling snowball that collectively gets bigger with more participation.
I want to create an anonymous chat room using firebase. My purpose for using firebase has to do with the accessibility that firebase offers you when making applications on the web. When utilizing firebase, it is very easy to access webpages through your desktop, laptop, or mobile device. Originally I wanted to create some sort of iOS or Android application, but decided that it would result in me putting in too much time to code and not enough time to create a complete project that follows all the guidelines. My real drive for this project is to create a project with meaningful content that is always very easy to access to basically any person.
In basically every aspect of our lives in 2018 that involves media we always focus on our image and what people think of us. We create videos, images, and inquiries all day long in order to enhance situations and build a reputation for our identity. In my opinion, one thing that is lacked through this way of life is true conversation. That is why I want to make an anonymous chat room. When you open the page there will be a text box, a submit button, and a live feed of messages being sent. This will create a discussion that will have no previous biases or other factors that will effect the results. People often speak with a mask on when they know that there data can be shared, or looked at by anyone. The data that we give out in all the most popular media platforms builds up and creates a separate identity in it’s own. That’s why with TrueChat you can speak as you feel
I plan to further develop a past project for project 8.
I think I will probably continue looking further into project 5, where I swapped the position of the authors name and article title on the NYTimes. This was a great concept and I think if I spent more time I could create something neat.
My other option would be to continue with my food instagram account and then create a website of my findings, but Im not sure this would apply well to what I need to accomplish in project 8. OR I could do something more with my project where I deleted prices, because that was a interesting concept as well.
Allow a user to content swap between two select sites (provide several pre-set options and then swap headlines/content/images)
A new chair icon placed at the user’s choice in a designated space for the number of people “sitting in a room with you” –> virtual copresence, dibs on your spot.
Dense grid of “lights” like an LED grid –> clicking on a spot turns it on and off, creates a rudimentary pixelated image.
Currently I am interested in using Firebase in collaboration with realtime mapping software to create an interactive and collaborative mapping experience. I would like users to be able to open up a map, click and make pins that could contain data such as state, country, county, latitude, longitude, temperature, and maybe even a picture of the area. Currently, I have seen examples like this https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/firebase that involve creating a collaborative heat map however I want to step it up and have it be so that users can see data on not only their points but various others. I’d also implement a similar time constraint to the heat map though so that points don’t stay on forever lest over time the map would just be a bunch of points and be too difficult to try to find or click anything.
Has anyone ever even heard of Google News? Is it one of those many Google services that they offer, but no one uses, like Google plus? I discovered this by seeing what would happen if I simply typed “news” into google. The first couple links were articles from verified news sites, but the first text link was to Google News. When you click on it, the above interface comes up. It has the stark design that is typical of most google products, but at the same time none of the articles are very eye-catching. This is probably the reason no one uses google news.
I’d like to create a site for networked sound production using tone.js, with the idea that a user could manipulate various inputs (numeric values and buttons would be easy, but I’d like to learn how to integrate sliders and other graphic controls?) which would run through firebase to produce output(sound) for all users. I’m a little cautious with this idea as I’d figured that tons of versions of this already existed but I haven’t been able to find anything yet, and definitely not in a more critical/art context?
That’s my other concern, that it doesn’t have enough of an obvious critical component and can easily be viewed as pretty straightforward entertainment. But as I’ve mentioned in other contexts, I’m tired of [making] work that is so inaccessible (intellectually, spatially, however) as to essentially reinforce status quo by preaching to the same small choir or by being unusable in everyday life. I’m not using this an excuse to go lightweight on theory though, only to explain that there might be a kind of seductive facade.
I see the theory in this being related to the homogenization of music in general through web-based platforms like spotify, where we have the illusion of ‘curating’ our own tastes but really we are selecting off of an increasingly limited top-down menu. On top of the corporate stuff, I’m finding (as someone no longer in niche music scenes) it increasingly rare/difficult to encounter sounds that sound different, on a purely formal level, from everything i hear all the time. Maybe this is a cliche old-guy-vinyl argument, maybe not?
Various points of reference for different reasons:
Trolling Mitch…or trolling another friend using a similar mechanism we just built to function in an absurd way. May be advertised and many people enlisted to troll me throughout the day with a noise website.
I’m very very excited to create a live feed of my bedroom and an image on a webpage which is just a black page with the red dot made available for other ppl to move around. Ideally the user would have a small screen in the corner showing my bedroom inside a larger window in which they get to move the red dot. The black page with red dot will be projected in my bedroom continuously so ppl can log on and move the dot around my room while I am in there or while I am not in there. I’m really excited about this!!!
I am brain storming other ways to share this project. I am so proud of it even though it is mostly a toy. I will be changing the text buttons today and Mitch may be tweaking the sound a little bit.
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});
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