Here’s how to post a Vimeo video on your WordPress blog.

1) Select “New Post”
2) Click the tab labelled “HTML” on the top right edge of the post field.
3) Paste “vimeo URL” between two brackets [ ]
4) Change URL to direct to your video, e.g., http://www.vimeo.com/123456
5) Publish

For your “visual music” project, consider the work of Norman McLaren (above). (You should also feel free to depart from geometric abstraction and incorporate photographic images in your animation if you wish.)

Create your soundtrack using loops in Garageband.

Create your animation using Photoshop.

The total length of the project should be 30 seconds.

Welcome to Beginning Digital Arts (aka, ART/COM 210). Check this blog regularly to keep on top of class assignments, class discussions and other stuff related to digital art in general.

Here is a list of our required texts, with links to Amazon. Please purchase them as soon as possible!

Digital Multimedia, 2nd Edition, Nigel and Jenny Chapman

Digital Art, 2nd Ed., Christiane Paul

Mythologies, Roland Barthes

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud

For anyone who is finding the WordPress interface a bit confusing– or isn’t even sure they grasp the whole concept of a blog– here are a few resources.

Lynda.com offers just a few videos as an introduction to WordPress.com. Click here to view them.

And recently, WordPress launched WordPress.tv, a video site for WP-related content. Try these:

The WordPress Dashboard – An Introduction

Writing and Publishing a Post

Saving and Returning to Draft Posts and Pages

Embedding Photos and Other Media in Your Posts

I notice when I watch these videos on my iMac that they are best viewed at full-screen size with HD on (click the button at top right of the movie window if this option is available to you).

Let me know if you still have questions.