Posted: January 8th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects | Tags: social network | No Comments »
Often span (and by ‘often’ I mean ‘more than often’) I get carried away with my ideas in their complexity. I forget where the idea started as I blast full steam ahead into a universe of ideas. More specifically, with Artacio.us, I did not forget anything, but was just completely ignorant as to what I was doing. Attempting to build a social network is WAY more difficult than I imagined. I knew it was going to be hard, but now I have a much better idea of how hard it will be.
In my classes I told my peers, faculty, and friends about a milwaukee social network that is on the rise and will be here soon. Another thing I tend to do often is put my ideas before reality. In order for my ideas to coalesce I need to have a better understanding of how things work. For instance, when I started selling artwork I knew shit. School didn’t teach me anything about selling art so I had to learn via trial and error. Now I know a few things.
The same type of learning has occured with the SN. I knew ‘rien’ (except from a user’s perspective). But in my opinion its not how much you know, its how much you learn, and compared to when I first had this idea of a milwaukee based SN I know a hell of a lot more. I almost feel ashamed at my ignorance until I realize how far I have come.
So, to prevent myself from talking on and on about this SN without much to support it aside from my excitement and interest I’m shutting up. The SN artacio.us will be completed. It will take much longer than I anticipated, but this time I will let actions speak for the SN. Nothing more here will be said about it until it is finished.
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Posted: January 5th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: acid dj, firefox, google, google chrome, nerdcore, social network, the search, webt 2.0 | No Comments »
As often occurs I have been filled to the brim with enthusiasm and a slightly euphoric inspiration. The cause? The popular girlfriend of several nerdcore artists: the internet. Oh how I do love her. I’ll save the intimate stuff until after this post, cause I know you don’t need to read about it 
. Just a taste though:
Tomorrow a programmer is coming by to take a look at this supposed social network. Yesterday I was at the point where I was going to just give up on the SN for a bit and build the forum (which I can feasibly do). Hopefully this will work out and I can patch together a little something in time for next semester to hit.
The Search. Almost finished reading it and am astounded at the true power google has. I love discussions about culture (even if I know little), how we as a world people work like a giant multi cell organism, organize ourselves, and interact. Add the internet and search, well I should stop before I get too excited (as I mentioned before you might not appreciate). As dangerous as too much power in one place is, I’m still pretty optimistic about google.
Speaking of Google: Google Chrome. I thought firefox was king, but I have been mistaken (almost). I love how lightweight google chrome is (visual and operationwise). Its got some pretty sweet web dev features built into it and it automatically transfered my gagillion bookmarks over from firefox. Also it saves all my tabs w/o asking. The only qualms I have is that there is no Stumbleupon toolbar for it yet and I’ve had some issues with replying to emails in hotmail. Otherwise, bomb.
[Edit: 04.26.2009: no longer applicable because the blogs are merged!] SeanBodley.com. This website for some dude I will soon be revamping to 3.0. The first site was a cookie cutter wysiwyg template structure. The second was html and css (with maybe one sprinkle of jscript). This one will have html, css, flash, and more sprinkles of jscript. Seanbodley.com4.0 I intend to have php as well.
Acid Dj Pro 6.0 This only has to do with torrents and the internet, but really I’m just happy because I FINALLY found the quantisize button (enabling me to make MIDI beats that are exactly where I want them dispite the milla second delay between keyboard-program-speakers which always throws my rythem sense off).
Lastly a TorkianMan.com is on the horizon. What will be posted there must remain a secret. I’m hoping to have some interactive elements to it as well. Web 2.0 is my new best friend.
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Posted: December 20th, 2008 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects, Thoughts | Tags: elgg, etsy, social network, web design | No Comments »
The more I work on this social network the more it feels like endlessly chasing the wind. From [edit] and dolphin, to revolart.com and elgg, and now I’m switching yet again. I’m staying with elgg to be sure as it is the best out there for what I need, but my web-dev-tech-savy-ness-less is catching up. Today I was able to play around with php, mods, and themes in order to get this:
Its as far as I’ve been so far. I am learning a great deal. An aquaintance (who is quite skilled with webdev and design) of mine is setting me up on his own servers and helping me out a bit with this project. I’m eternally grateful just to have this guy on aim teaching me more in five mintues than an hour of searching on the web. Part of the difficulty is that Elgg (the base I’m using for this social network) is very young and there isn’t a whole lot of info out there on it. Most of the people using it already have the skills to use it effectively.
So, I’m taking a new approach. I’m going to build the site on paper, put down everything I want, fill my imagination to the brim and then build from there. I know its possible and little by little I’m gathering the necissary tools. It will work.
In other news I’ve opened up a second etsy store. One might wonder why I need two and the simple answer is that each store showcases different styles of work. The original store has sketchwork and studies, the crude raw stuff. The new store has more polished works and even framed prints.
I’m exhausted.
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