Jason Van Anden
Since 2004
Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

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Jason Van Anden is a new media activist, artist, inventor and robot maker. His creations are exhibited internationally, receiving recognition in the art, science, technology and gaming communities. More about Jason and his work can be found at his website www.smileproject.com.
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Re: How do you prepare a powerpoint presentation for a


I can't agree more with Pall, if they are requesting Powerpoint, disregard my comments entirely and definitely do Powerpoint. Hopefully my advice will be worth something for something else in a future time.

I got carried away with the CD part in relation to your website, etc...

Jason Van Anden

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Re: How do you prepare a powerpoint presentation for a strange machine?


I am certain there are better ideas out there and I am super curious about how others have gone about this. I tried to take the most cautious route - which was to make the code as vanilla a possible.

Since posting this morning, I looked at the code and found something I left out - a file that causes the home page to auto start off a CD when it gets popped into a Windows box.

Here is what you do:

1.) Create a text file named "autorun.inf"

2.) Put these two line in it:

[autorun]
open=start start.htm

3.) change "start.htm" to whatever your home page is called.

4.) copy this and your home page to the root of the CD.

After doing minimal research into how to do this on OS X I gave up - either it was not as straight forward or I was mistyping something over and over again. I put instructions on the CD label that the user should double click "start.htm" to begin the presentation, so either way I was covered (including if auto open was turned off on the Windows box).

Jason Van Anden
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Re: How do you prepare a powerpoint presentation for a strange machine?


Hello Geert,

Arg - how frustrating! I am going to go out on a limb here and point out that if the grant committee is not prepared to look at art that requires the net, you may be barking up the wrong tree.

That being said - I have been down this road before - and I did not see a way around building a local mini version of my site by hand coding html. Following are some notes from my experience...

The home page of my CD site describes the software that ought to be installed, which browsers on which platforms are recommended (and have been tested on), and links to install what might not be. I put the files in order of most likely to suceed — simple html pages with images first to quicktime video, java applet, etc... last. Given how prolific you are (I regularly enjoy your work), I would think that you would do fine with the pieces that do not require flash alone.
When I included files that required server side scripting, I posted a warning message on the local page with a link to the www page and hoped for the best.

Some tips you might find useful:

I am assuming that you want to show a subset of your website, if this is the case you can always give the look and feel of your site with hard links instead of server side scripted pages. A quick and dirty way to generate this is to lift the html source out of your browser, and then do a search and replace on the file paths.

Speaking of file paths, if you put the homepage in the root folder of the CD, you can use relative paths without concern to where the drive is (at least on Macs and Windows machines you can).

If you absolutely need to simulate animation there is always the "refresh" meta-tag.

May the www be at your back,
Jason Van Anden

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ascii chewy *. .*


ascii chewy" is an animated, (soon to be) interactive ascii entity based loosly on my brussels griffon puppy named Chewy.

it does it's thing using javascript and regular expressions. i am posting this as a work-in-progress, for those interested in watching how the piece, and the code, evolves in the course of its creation.

http://www.smileproject.com/ascii/chewy.htm

it is also an experiment of sorts using the creative commons license.

feedback, as always, is appreciated.

brussels griffon:
http://images.google.com/images?q=brussels%20griffon

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