Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • I have done the following over the past few months:

    remove web fonts
    remove header navigation
    remove tag cloud
    simplify links
    simplify search
    simplify hierarchy

    And I can say that I am happy with my website. It looks the way I wanted it to look like.

    What do you think?

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • Anyone working with digital art knows the distinction between the file in which the work is actually made, often in a proprietary format, and the file exported for publication. Using PNG for graphic material such as typography, lettering, and flat shapes, while choosing some form of JPEG for photographic material, is therefore nothing new.

    You may also have seen some of my notes on ImageMagick, such as Figuring Out a New Workflow Pipeline Based on Asset-Type Processing. There, compression appears mainly as a practical decision made before an image is uploaded to social media.

    However, after leaving a comment beneath a graphic work by @jacobjoaquin on Instagram, and while writing this post to accompany its Tumblr repost, I understood compression differently. Just as I have used a handheld scanner to deliberately distort a printout, texture, or surface, I can use image compression as a method of image-making. Compression does not merely reduce or damage an existing image. Its artefacts can become part of the intended result.

    This may clash with the conventions of social platforms, whose own compression processes are largely outside our control. But most of us also have some box of our own somewhere on the internet, a place where an image can be hosted exactly as we intended it to appear.

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • I’ve been reading a few books lately, and I want to share what I think happens with art in general:

    Art is everything. Philosophy, especially, is not art because philosophy wants to be separate from art. So we let it. Maybe philosophy needs this kind of identity. Maybe it was the men who were philosophers who wanted their field of art to be tough and hard, so they said that art is not what philosophy is. Ask Danto about this. He is better at explaining the relationship between art and philosophy.

    And I think that this is the thing about art: there are people who explain art. They tell you this is art, that is art, and over here is art of such and such a kind. Other people listen and then interpret what this means.

    They might say that, oh, I don’t know, such and such a thing is art, and only such and such a thing is art, after having read an article or a whole book on what art is. I think that sometimes happens. There might be reasons for this.

    Then there are people who, for their own reasons, I believe, draw lines in the sand: up to here, it is art, and whatever is over there is not art.

    If you ask me, someone is always explaining what art is to an audience that has asked what art is. Sometimes, some people are satisfied with one explanation. Sometimes, they want other explanations as well, by other people, about other kinds of art.

    Sometimes, that means finding someone who sees art in something no one else did before. Sometimes, it means finding someone who declares something art despite prior definitions.

    Sometimes, you are any one of these people. Sometimes you are all of these people.

    “Hey, is this art?”

    And then you trace a meandering boundary around certain things until it closes into a shape. Whatever lies inside becomes art.

    Unless you are a philosopher: then you draw a line around philosophy and say that whatever lies inside isn’t art.

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • Heute bin ich froh darüber, wie höflich die Statuscodes von Servern sind.
    Wobei die Höflichkeit erst durch den Webmaster entsteht, der sich um Links kümmert.

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Wenn ich schon Grafikdesigner bin, dann will ich Sachen machen, die ich cool finde.

    https://t.co/CCF7oe6ufe #asca

    Quelle: Twitter

  • Programmierbares Papier, Programmiertes Papier: Layout bringt Funktion.

    https://t.co/Anqa53QBrw #asca

    Quelle: Twitter

  • A small link list around a thing I keep circling without wanting to name too early: paper as an operative surface.

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • codeandcanvas:

    codeandcanvas:

    Slanted recently published their issue #47, about digital tools, and its good! They also published a document as a companion for the issue which you can read and browse for free here:

    Digital Tools

    I haven’t even gone through a tenth of it by now, and it has been three days now. So much to explore, so much to use.

    I won’t post any images, but you can see more of the issue here:

    Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools – slanted

    Looks like I will need a mix of Excel and Sublime for this, using that issue’s appendix entries as well as my own brain to put together a usable html list, so that it has been built.

    I’ll especially figure out all those socials these toolbuilders use (looking at you, 414design, aka Felix Dölker).

    Doing this by hand though, although my partner has put together a robust social media account snooper in ChatGPT, so should I get sick of doing it like that, I’ll let ChatGPT compile the data.

    I want to learn JavaScript, Processing, and Python next, too.

    Generative design, parametric design, and programmatic design were always part of my plan for my work as a graphic designer, and your old pal Rio doesnʼt do performing graphic design for an audience.

    Quelle: Code & Canvas

  • Papier könnte also – mit den Worten von ChatGPT ausgedrückt – eine operative Oberfläche sein.

    Quelle: Mastodon

  • Ich kehre immer wieder zu dem zurück, was ich als programmiertes Papier oder programmierbares Papier oder Programmieren von Papier bezeichne.
    Das ist zwar total einfältig, ich ziehe hier ein paar Linien, unterteile ein Blatt Papier entlang eines Layouts und schon haben die verschiedenen Regionen des Papiers eine bestimmte Funktion, aber vielleicht erspare ich mir einfach das Urteil darüber: ich möchte mehr darüber lernen, wie man Papier programmiert.

    Quelle: Mastodon