In the case of removing a folder, you have to first make sure that it’s empty and in order to do that you have to loop through each file and delete each one in turn.

Wanted to keep note of it somewhere and figured here was as good of a place as any!


function removeFolder($ftpConnection, $path)
{
static $log = "";
$contents = ftp_nlist($ftpConnection, $path);
if(!$contents)
{
// Nothing in the folder
ftp_rmdir($path);
$log .= "Removed {$path}";
} else {
// Loop through each of the files
foreach($contents as $currentFile)
{
if($currentFile != "." && $currentFile != "..")
{
// Assuming it's a folder and there's no dot in the name
if (strpos($currentFile, '.') === false)
{
// It's a folder, so call itself
removeFolder($ftpConnection, $path."/".$currentFile);
// Once all files are gone delete the folder
ftp_rmdir($ftpConnection, $path."/".$currentFile);
} else {
// If it's a file delete it
ftp_delete($ftpConnection, $path."/".$currentFile);
}
$log .= "Removed {$path}/{$currentFile}\n";
}
}
ftp_rmdir($path);
}
return $log;
}


With this task, I wanted to keep it relatively simple and concentrate on making it look like an actual tattoo. Whereas other have filled the entire area with text, I chose to include just a few words.

It’s definitely not the best photoshopped tattoo but it’s not too bad considering the brief and the time in which I did it.

In a way this module’s pushed me out of my comfort zone a bit and forced me to explore ideas and movements that I wouldn’t have considered before. For example, one that really made me feel uncomfortable was the art intervention. Our group decided to place stickers around town spreading the idea of being watched constantly by CCTV. It wasn’t really a subject I was passionate about, and though I’m quite outgoing normally, the idea of expressing this in public made me feel uneasy.

In all, we’ve covered some really interesting topics and it’s helped further my insight into the world of digital art. When I (and no doubt others) signed up, I’d assumed digital art referred to the digital creation of art. This is covered but it’s much more about trying to inspire us and find an area we want to expand in.

“Jean-Antoine Nollet, the Abbot of the Grand Convent of the Carthusians in Paris decided to test his theory that electricity traveled far and fast. He did the natural thing on a fine spring day in 1746, sending 200 of his monks out in a line 1 mile long. Between each pair of monks was a 25-foot iron wire.

Once the reverend fathers were properly aligned, Nollet hooked up a battery to the end of the line and noted with satisfaction that all the monks started swearing, contorting, or otherwise reacting simultaneously to the shock.

A successful experiment: an electrical signal can travel a mile and it does so quickly. Of course, this is the kind of experiment you can only run once as your monks may prove less-than-cooperative the second time around. So, in another demonstration he discharged a Leyden jar in front of King Louis XV at Versailles by sending current through a chain of 180 Royal Guards. The King was both impressed and amused as the soldiers all jumped simultaneously when the circuit was completed. “

Source: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/nollet.html

Can’t see that being very popular by modern scientific standards, though I suppose that’s why these people are considered pioneers. They come up with a crazy idea and just go with it.

It’s not something I feel particularly strongly about and I felt pretty uncomfortable putting the stickers up. I wasn’t a massive fan of this task.

We set out with a rough plan, giddy at the thought of Andy in a jockstrap being on YouTube for everyone to see. We’d managed to get the majority of filming done before the next session, where we were shown sites/projects such as the Johnny Cash Project. A lot of other groups decided to base there’s on the same concept, posting messages and events on Facebook to try and get people involved.

It was too late to try and change our game plan so we stuck with it and filmed a few more scenes. You can see the result below:

It’s not exactly viral, but it’s got close to 100 views! Though I’ve got a feeling Andy may be the majority, checking himself out.

I chose the font Helvetica as it’s widely regarded the most legible of typefaces, and is generally nice looking.

Didn’t realise we were allowed to use colour, so I used a cutout effect to make it a bit more interesting to look at. Chose to make it all lower-case as it’s informal and approachable, much like myself

decnorton.com

Just putting the finishing touches on my one page website, thought I’d write a post about the kind of process I went through in designing and making it.

Admittedly, I’ve been doing stuff like this for a few years now so I’ve got a bit of a head-start on most, though that’s not to say everything is perfect.

First of all, I had to come up with a design, or at least a theme. I wasn’t very imaginative with this, you can probably find hundreds of similar concepts – notes/pages stuck up with tape. It’s quite aesthetically pleasing as it brings physical objects into a digital environment and it looks different to a standard website. I created a basic layout on paper so I had a rough idea of what I wanted it to look like.

Use guides!

Next I created a mockup, which I did in Photoshop. It’s important to get the dimensions right in your mockup, it makes thing a whole lot easier later on when you’re putting it all together. Of course you don’t need to do it in Photoshop at all, you can do it with a pen and paper or even in Microsoft Paint if it tickles your fancy. I use Photoshop as it allows me to create a pixel for pixel reference. I can grab elements and put them into a webpage in seconds.

To get the background I spent a little while searching the google for a texture I liked. Came across this by someone who goes by the name of ‘bittbox’.  He’d released it under the Creative Commons license and allowed people to remix it and use it for commercial purposes. Played about with it in Photoshop (woo!) to make it a bit lighter.

Next I used an article I had come across to create a background tile out of it.

Creating Seamless Textures Without Even Leaving Your Browser

By this point I had everything I needed to start coding the site. I had my finalised design, I had my background tile and I had my brain.

I started by thinking about what kind of containers I would need to house the content. The HTML ended up looking something like this:

Next I start adding the different elements, the sticky tape, the icons etc. and pretty soon I had it finished and had a chance to play around with a bit of CSS!

Things like the shadows, rotation, gradients, fonts etc. are all achieved with CSS.

With the social media icons I used a couple of CSS3 properties to get a funky rollover effect going on. Czech it out!

Name: Declan Norton
Age: 19
Location: Plymouth, UK
Occupation: Student

• Phone – First and foremost. I think we’d all be lost without one!
• Wallet
• Blue Folder – a folder containing mementos from different places I’ve been, including a rather large collection of beer labels!
• External Hard-Drive
• Laptop

While phone, wallet and laptop can easily be replaced, but the mementos I have stored in the folder and on my hard-drive are irreplaceable to me. I would never be able to get those back.

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