Although it is not directly relevant to my groups final project, I wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to apply the digital humanities to my own area of interest. I have recently become familiar with the computer music programming language Chuck, which has expanded my ability to understand how we think about the relationship […]
For my web mapping project I decided to cater to a niche audience, the elderly squirrel enthusiasts. ArcGIS had an interesting data set that rated all of the streets in New York based on walking safety for senior citizens. I soon saw potential for a tool that catered to a small but strong audience. If […]
I found the process of creating a website to be extremely fluid and straightforward. As I argued in my last blog post, digital resources have reached a point where engaging with them is accessible to non-technical audiences and WordPress certainly meets the mark. Installing plugins, themes, and creating pages are all approachable, and the processes […]
As technology has become more important in everyday life, the demand and hype around programming has exploded. Kids are being taught to code at younger ages, and the expectations placed on new graduates by employers now expect people in non-technical roles to have technical skills. Our recent readings and week of class have focused on […]
Virtual Angkor is a digital humanities project that aims to teach users about thirteenth century Angkor by using a combination of educational posts and 3D replications of the city. The sources for the project are numerous papers written by various historical figures and contemporary scholars. The website cites the Chinese historian Zhou Daguan’s A History […]
Making is not a rebel movement, scrappy individuals going up against the system. While the shift might be from the corporate to the individual (supported, mind, by a different set of companies selling a different set of things), it mostly re-inscribes familiar values, in slightly different form: that artifacts are important, and people are not. […]
Considering that I had no experience with modeling in Sketchup and my limited artistic experience as a youth, I found the program to be easier to use than I expected. I was extremely excited with process involved with creating my art and the satisfaction of tangibility experienced in creation. That stated, it was still annoying […]
