Illuminated Dreams

An interactive media kiosk based on dreams and medieval illuminated manuscripts.

elcome to my website!!

My name is James Khazar, and I am an educator and artist practicing in the field of digital media. The site serves several functions: As a portfolio site for my art practice, as a curriculum vitae site for prospective employers in academic job market, as a presentation site for the classes I am teaching, as a portfolio/resumé site for the commercial work I have done as a multimedia designer, and last but not least, as a place to put things up on the web that friends might like to see.

This site is also an experiment for testing out some of the web technologies that I teach. For example, it uses CSS CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets” and, when used to their best advantage,
controls the appearance of html tags. Appearance of things like position,
color, type-size, background images, and so forth, way beyond what HTML can do without it. to determine all of its look and feel, and uses PHP PHP is a truncated abbreviation for “Personal Home Page Tools” and is a programming
language used to control what web-servers send to your browser. It allows web pages
to be generated dynamically; that is, to create pages that change based on rules
about what should be on them, rather than pages created one at a time by typing a lot of text and saving it. to dynamically create the pages that you see, and JavaScript and jQuery JavaScript is a programming language. Unlike PHP, which works on the other side of the internet – on the server,
or the computer which serves up web pages – JavaScript works on your side of the internet – within the browser –
to control events like what happens when you click with the mouse. to control certain aspects, like the little window that pops up when you roll over one of these: This little goodie is a very nice bit of jQuery UI code from jquery.com')

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Twitter Updates

I used to embed my tweets on this page, but since Twitter has forced users to use their branding and layout, I won't embed them anymore. It's a shame, really, because I like Twitter, click here if you want to go to my twitter.com/khazar or twitter.com/khazar_course tweets.

Sign the Adobe Anti-Subscription Petition

Sign the Adobe Systems Incorporated: Eliminate the mandatory "creative cloud" subscription model petition! Adobe is moving to a subscription only model for its revenue, and I believe it will greatly reduce, if not eliminate, Adobe's incentives to improve its software. If they don't have to create improved versions to keep consumers buying their upgrades, then what is their incentive to improve the product? There's no real competition to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver. Software engineering staff at Adobe make six figure salaries -- what's to keep executive staff from seeing the obvious financial model that they don't need as many engineers on staff since there's no potential revenue increase in adding a new feature or fixing an old bug? It's an employment disaster for Adobe employees.

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Posted: Monday, May 13th, 2013, 3:11 pm

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