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Command Line Media Research

this page is under construction ;)

RESEARCH: Tool to support visual comparison of front pages newssites a la Sarah Charlesworth's Modern History (1978)

• Modern History examples
• The Order Of Things through the end of the year at the MuKHA, Antwerp.

start with example of how to rip the above page with wget. & re-assemble with montage...

cron job to automate ? (need simple solution for naming files with date, basic back quoting)

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Necessary Tools:

• ssh program (look up for those on windows)

• http://www.ir.bbn.com/~bschwart/adventure.html

• text adventures == early intersection of narrative and computational forms
• multi-person / time sharing / interaction vs. batch
• getting comfortable with the command line
• command line == programming
• pipeline VS. sealed case "suites"

pragmatic exercises / "puzzles" involving:

• wget for some spidering
• ffmpeg for some media manipulation?
• imagemagick for some xxzzy ?!

Maybe cool to keep in the spirit of group / network activities / timing. How to communicate between users logged into the network. ... too complex for now

Exercises could take the form of puzzles with a description of a desired end result, like:

• Produce a single image made up of images collected from the homepage of a particular website.

(wget => montage)

• Produce an animated gif made up of the headlines from a particular news site

? CL feedreader ?? => image => movie ?

(?! find command / wildcards as a prelimary way to loop ) By creating a single (or more) variables, create a basic tool.

!! show how copying images / animation to public_html allows for instant web "publishing"