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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...
Necessary Tools:
- ssh program (look up for those on windows)
- 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"