Hello,
I'm Ben. This is my online workbench, filled with the various media formats i've toyed with or destroyed. I'm currently submersing myself into a pool of web technologies, particularly Cold Fusion and a little AJAX. I've finished my degree program at the University of Leeds and i'm awaiting official classification. If you think my skills might be valuable to your web/ print project then please drop me a line...
- One Mans Opinion
- Boshanka!
- Face your elephant
- Audio on canvas
- Virgin Millionaires
June 2008 - Community driven band web site | One-mans-opinion.net |
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Josh & Chris from One Man's Opinion discuss their new site. |
One Man's Opinion are a canadian band with an already impressive fan base, the group wanted to create a new web site for their existing fans to share photos/ videos and reviews of the band and communicate with each other and the band themselves in a web hybrid environment. The solution: One-mans-opinion.net!
The web site encompasses various features, some of which are outlined below:
* Upload concert photos * Post videos of the band from YouTube, MySpace video or other similar sites * Edit profile page and photo * Discussion forum * Admin/ moderation options including varied levels of access * Backend access to update all aspects of the site's content |
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| Launch the project | Read the project proposal PDF document | ||||
April 2008 - Band/ Artist web design portfolio| Boshanka.co.uk |
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Boshanka.co.uk was set up to promote my own free lance web work to bands and artists looking for web representation. The site allows for full coldfusion back-end administration. The Boshanka.co.uk web site is highly optimized for search engines for specific key words associated with band web design in the city of Leeds.
Key Features: * High SEO (search engine optimization) |
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June 2007 - Icount climate change uni brief | Face your elephant |
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Icount animation | Face your carbon elephant!
This brief required the creation of a 30 second animation and functional game to promote the Icoun message - taking control of your carbon impact on the planet is easy! |
The Animation (shown left): The game allows the user to move their carbon elephant left and right and fire chewed up food at the falling rubbish, each time an item is hit, it is removed from the stage, if an item reaches the ground, the user looses one of their six lives. The game has a total of four levels which get progressively harder as more objects must be destroyed to continue. The game complements the animation, the two should be used as part of a full promotional campaign promoting all of the Icount steps. |
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September 2007 - New Media Arts | Uni brief |
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Audio on Canvas
Audio on Canvas represents a desire to create. The audio/visual piece utilizes both a strong visual sense combined with an abstract and yet soothing aural experience. This should evoke curiosity and intrigue from the user, encouraging them to explore further. The piece allows the user to create their own unique visuals within the constraints of the canvas, and then listen to an aural representation of their visuals - specific to the sequence of pattern they build up on the canvas. |
Audio on Canvas can be related to a Chapter in Lev Manovich’s book “The Language of New Media” which discusses ‘“Postmodernism” and Photoshop’ Photoshop, whilst not technically preventing users from beginning their art piece from scratch, are encouraged to follow a natural process, the logic of selection. Audio on Canvas acts in a similar way, by defining constraints of the elements the user interacts with. Audio on Canvas is by no means working to the same scale as something as massive as Photoshop, but should be considered to fall into the same category of digital art, as it encourages a natural progression of selection. “ Although computer software “naturalizes” the model of authorship as selection from libraries or predefined objects, we can already find this model at work in old media, such as magic lantern slide shows” Lev Manovich goes on to argue that these slideshows are “perfect examples” of authorship as selection – the placing together of objects that the author did not create, the creative energy of the author is thrust into the selection and sequencing of the available elements, rather than into the original design.
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May 2008 - The Virgin Millionaires| Multimedia coldfusion website |
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The Virgin Millionaires are a band from the states, having worked with various industry buffs, the band are looking to push themselves into the public eye, they've been playing massive venues around the states and were looking to build a rich media-savvy based site which could be easily updated. |
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