Hi James, Actually, I did send it in ascii 1st of all and it all went strange as you mention, then I posted a jpg version of it afterwards..
I am aware, that some will only receive txt due to default settings on their email clients, I constantly reset mine all of the time so to view things easier. >So from this interaction and unveiling, I actually prefer this first piece to the second image which is more sensibly in shades of green, but loses out to the experience of the first. I was thinking of doing different versions, a visual version and perhaps pure code mmm... All worth considering :-) marc > Hi Marc, > > My email system is webmail and due to the amount of spam which comes > through it I've set it to display only plain text. So your first > "Green Man at the Dark Mountain..." came to me as just a matrix of > seemingly random binary digits and I had to wonder 'what on earth' I > was supposed to do to find its relation to the green man. > > h0w3v3r, the webmail system also provides links to each sub system of > content. So I click 'MULTIPART/alternative' and then 'text/html' and > lo and behold! The green man! Hurray! But in interesting shades of grey. > > So from this interaction and unveiling, I actually prefer this first > piece to the second image which is more sensibly in shades of green, but > loses out to the experience of the first. > > Sorry for the slightly long-winded explanation, but I thought it might be > something to consider in a net-art piece. I don't suppose I need to > spell out the (is it?) meta (physical?) (narrative?) (errm, brain giving > up now with words). > > Cheers! > James. > > > > On 26/10/2009, "marc garrett" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> >> Just thought I'd mention how I am approaching the DIWO Dark Mountain >> project myself. Earlier on I posted an HTML (ascii) image of the Green >> Man. I have decided that I will be making a Net Art piece using this >> image as the front interface - visitors will interact with the work by >> clicking on his face to hear various sound files consisting of news, >> poems, everyday country noises and videos relating to climate change and >> related themes - which will pop up for viewing and listening to. >> >> "Parallels have been drawn between the Green Man and various deities. >> Many see the Green Man as being connected to many gods such as Osiris, >> Odin and even the Christian Jesus, as well as later folkloric and >> literary characters such as the Green Knight, John Barleycorn, the Holly >> King and Tammuz of the Mesopotamians who is thought by some to symbolize >> the triumph of Green Life over Winter and Death.[8] >> >> Mythical figures such as Woden, Cernunnos, Sylvanus, Derg Corra, Green >> George, Jack in the green, John Barleycorn, Robin Goodfellow, Puck, and >> the Green Knight all partake of the Green Man's nature; it has also been >> suggested that the story of Robin Hood was born of the Green Man >> mythology. A more modern embodiment is found in Peter Pan, who enters >> the civilized world from a nether land, clothed in green leaves. Even >> Father Christmas, who was often shown wreathed in ivy in early >> depictions, has been suggested as a similar woodland spirit [9]." >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man >> >> I will be using various files found on the Internet, some from Free >> Sound Project, which Rob Myers reviewed - >> http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=361 a few weeks >> ago, as well as my own experimental sound and images, videos. >> >> The main idea at the moment is to combine nature and digital. Also, I >> wish to have the Green Man as a watcher viewing all that is happening to >> the world from his own nature-orientated perspective. >> >> Anyway, this is just the beginning, it may change along the way. >> >> If anyone else is thinking of making net art works specifically for the >> DIWO Dark Mountain project, we can set something up at the space so your >> work can be viewed from the sapce itself... >> >> It would be great to hear other people's ideas, we got plenty of time >> though :-) >> >> chat soon. >> >> marc >> >> >> >> >>> gm >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
