Frustrations with technology

I just realized I forgot to write about frustrations with technology.
Well, I work in IT, so I get frustrated with it on the daily basis. But in relation to class, I have the following issues:

1. Flickr -- slow, times out, can't re-arrange pictures, freezes during upload.

2. Blogger -- once the entry is posted, I can't seem to find any easy way to return to the dashboard to put up additional posts.

3. www.minettabrook.com -- why not post the weekend schedule in advance?! Why?!?!?!

Floating Island and using technology

On Sunday Songul and me went to see the Floating Island at South Street Seaport. We met up at 12:00, since the schedule on the website said that would be the time when the Island is visible. We waited till 1:30 and never saw the island. After that, according to the schedule, the Island should be visible from Battery Park. We went there and waited there till about 4:00 and the island never showed up. It was disappointing. At least we took a bunch of pictures of each other using technology. When I went home and looked into the Island schedule, I found out that the weekend schedule is different from the weekday schedule, that is why we never found the Island.

Here are the links to our flickr pages:

Mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaxy/

Songul's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12802745@N00/

By the way, Flickr posts pictures in a backwards order. I did not find a way to re-arrange the picture order.

First Webpage

I've done some HTML and CSS before, but never that much, especially not CSS. CSS makes managing styles much easier and I was suriprised to discover that you can put all the setting to different html files on one css file. Anyway, I still got a lot to learn, but this is what I have so far:

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~km602/CLab/main.htm

Here's the css file, the HTML files should be viewable, by "view source".

.bann {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 38px;
font-weight: bold;
background-image: none;
border: 50px groove #00FF99;
background-color: #2277FF;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: left;
text-align: center;
width: 90%;

}
.bod {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: url('Neuron.jpg');
height: 100%;
width: 100%;

}
.men {
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, mono;
background-color: #2277FF;
border: medium groove #00FF99;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
height: 100%;
}

Self and Subject

When I went to see "Self and subject" I was expecting a rather boring collection of portraits (since the website said it's a portrait exhibit). I was expecting to see the conventional portraits, forward facing, from waist up, and I was rather surprised to find the opposite of that. The painters represented in the exhibit depict themselves and others in very unconventional ways -- from the regular photograph-like portraits of Skyllas and Joseph P. Aulisio, to expressing their personal turmoil, such as John Kane's "Seen in the Mirror" or Hugo Sperger "What Doesn't Destroy Me", to representing people as buildings (A.G. Rizzoli), to collages, cement sculptures, dolls, plywood, and two of my favorite - Ray Materson's miniatures made of cotton thread make from unraveled socks, and Linda's Firedman Schmidt's "Hear no Evil" made out of scraps of her old clothing. Despite the face that all these portrait artists (and I cannot call them painters, because of the wide variety of media used) were all amateurs (and in most cases it really shows), I was amazed by the range of expression that can be defined as a portrait.

Intro

Created a blog for the first time. This looks a lot like AOL.
Going to see which exhibition I can go to, because I cannot do the walk in the Park (even though that sounds fun)