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Start with creating from scratch your own brand spanking new theme, and then applying your own CSS tweaks to it.

Step 1: create a zip of your base theme and get me to host it on the server.

Step 2: verify that it “stjerome_s”(Difficult) or “Toolbox” or “Bones” or “Victoria Park” as the active theme on your site before you commence a-fiddling with it.

Step 3: apply some CSS tomfoolery using the EditCSS plugin in your JetPack.

(Complete the CSS W3C schools lessons and the final test.Basic: text, backgrounds, colours. Medium Difficulty: layout. Advanced: background animations?)

Tips: Enable the developer menu in Safari so you can find the needles in your haystack of code.

In 2013 we used “ToolBox” theme – but any other modern theme in the theme menu is doable for custom CSS changes/tweaks. Read more about “underscores” _S theme.

Watch the video, from the point of view of CSS design tips only. You might get some tips on what to change in the CSS: http://wordpress.tv/2013/09/28/steve-zehngut-underscores-the-only-theme-that-matters/

http://pacificwild.org/site/great-bear-live/raw-pacific-wild-live.html

 

iPhone: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wp-for-ios/ , https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/

Guide: [gview file=”https://comtech.snowotherway.org/files/2013/11/iOS-Documentation.pdf”]

Any volunteers?

Oh, it will cost someone $99 to actually login as an Apple Developer so any apps can be distributed via the App Store.

Android: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wp-for-android/ , http://wpappmaker.com/video-tutorial/

I don’t have anything running on Android so I can’t even begin here.

… not the river but the stream

Try a classic Barbershop Quartet as a sonochromatic composition.

[youtube video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a3nkiidY74]

Turn this score:

Into a sonochromatic score like this:

Matt’s Blues Progression

Record a video of your “Hallelujah ColorSay Quartet for iPhone”.

Read Neil Harbisson and his Sonochromatic music scale, first. You will also need the ColorSay app for iPhone (and PhotoShop).

Create a Twelve Bar Blues animated GIF.

If you use 4 iPhones, each on a separate quadrant of colour, you should be playing a C7 chord.

Now add the remaining “bars” using one of the common twelve-bar blues progressions.

Extra
Dedicate one of the quadrants for the “boogie woogie” line.

Create your own harmonious “ColorSay” composition as an animated GIF.

Use PhotoShop as your tool for making the “score”.
Use the ColorSay app from my previous post as your musical instrument.

What songs do these pictures sing?

Inspired Yet?
[youtube video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptq_N-gjEpI]

[youtube video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CelV7EbuV-A]

[youtube video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zQHNmz0gU]

[youtube video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPL8u8gJL0A]

Watch videos by Harbisson at TED.com.

[ted id=1512]

Have a look at this.

Ask yourself something important about the relationship humans have with colour and sound.

What is you favourite colour?

What is your favourite harmony?

Want to see what connecting the the internet looked and felt like circa 1995?

The eWorld News links in this sim don’t work today, but it is where I first found out a significant piece of “live” news way back on April 19, 1995.

Oh, the modem squawks in the sim last a few seconds, but in ’95 I could pop a bag of microwave popcorn while waiting for just the home screen to load.

I have a small peeve with the default behaviour of a gallery. It takes a few clicks to see an image in its original size.

So I offer the following tips.

1. Add link=”file” to your gallery short code.

2. Enable “Lightbox 2” or “jQuery Colorbox” plugin so your images have that certain Je ne sais pas.

Extra Tip: I used the iPhone Dead Yourself App to doctor the images of my family and then uploaded them to this blog with the WordPress app.