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What a rocky week! I spent most of the weekend figuring out how to edit and add audio onto a QuickTime movie I had made of a fly-by of the IDS space from the SoftImage XSI files. The first time I posted it to YouTube, I lost the first 3 seconds which was a problem, so it took a while to figure out a work-around.

I’m very interested in Julian’s weblog- it’s beautifully designed, using Ruby on Rails. I don’t really know enough about programming to understand how scaffolding works.

Monday we had what I thought was a productive chat. One of our tasks seems to be to design a poster. To me, designing something by committee is not the best way to get good design. I wasn’t clear on the purpose of the poster and I have no real idea of what is appropriate as I am so far away I don’t really know the context there at Camberwell. I don’t feel I can make an informed opinion.

The wiki has gone a little off the rails- in that the discussion aspects have now moved onto the wiki pages. I’m not quite clear how to get it back on track- it now looks like a bulletin board. We need to figure out how to address that. I’m still excited about wikis and open source options. I’ve been looking at ning as a possibility for a social space. I’m going to explore this further. I’ve been thinking about one of the key qualities of the internet- that it is viral- that it spreads and multiplies, and what that implies for digital arts.