Second blog

For my second blog for my net art class I decided to make it an animation blog. Initially I made a drawing of a Gummi Bear Gangster and named him Gumbo Bear and didn’t know what to do with him. The idea came from an old Flash project I did in my First-Year Seminar class.

Afterwards I thought about making a blog for animation so I started looking up articles related to that topic. I ventured into upcoming animation/CGI works to some comedic clips to historical clips about animation as blog material. Here the voice is different from my first blog as it is in third person and not first. It is also branded with the Gumbo Bear Gangsta as an animated looking icon. Even the name for the wordpress account is Gumbobear which is different from my first blog. My first blog is a personal blog of notes and ideas from my net art class.

The limitations of embedding files on Word Press

From these links it says that you can not use Javascript because it can be a security problem. Someone made Livejournal and Myspace shut down by using it. This limits the different types of video that you can stream from because Word Press does not trust adding a Flash animation directly. You would have to upload it on You Tube for example for it to stream onto the blog.

Also it says that you can only link to files from certain sources from Google Video to Splash Cast for security reasons as well.