Final project anxiety
This week I’ve been thinking (and worrying) a lot about my final project. Like everyone else, I really enjoyed everyone’s Makey Makey projects, but I don’t know whether I want to make my final project Makey-centric. The Makey is fine as a toy, I think, but its capabilities (or, probably, my imagination) is just too limited. What I would like to do is stick with Jonathan Sterne. I’m expecting his book, MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Sign, Storage, Transmission), to come in the mail today. Hopefully I can get some ideas. I’m still liking the idea of compression, and I like Nathaniel’s idea about whatever the opposite of that is, but I’m not sure what to do with it. Another obstacle is that I want to tie this all in with my concentration, which is early modern English lit & culture. In my meeting with Scott the other day we talked about it for a bit, and he downloaded the full text of Hamlet, compressed it, and then opened it in Atom. It was really cool, and only a fraction of the size. Still, though—that does not an entire final project make. As inept a programmer as I am, I was also thinking about maybe using P5.js in some way. I also don’t know what that would look like, either, especially in the face of early modern English communication. I suppose I should look into some history of the book stuff and maybe think about the transition from oral to print culture. But this is just me brainstorming in a blog posts. Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, I’m all ears. I’m lookin’ at you Courtney and David.
On an unrelated note, my links still won’t work. I’m formatting the text the same way I did before, but for some reason, the path goes through my page and ends up at a “page does not exist.” What am I doing wrong?