electron microscope brush #5

okay, nothin is stirrin but me. i’m gettin the new place in order you see. this is not permanent. but i think it is the basic structure for the near future. i may see about adding a thin column on the right. sort of a “med, thick, thin” format. but the color scheme is bound to change. it will either get slightly more red (i’ve about had it with orange, i usually do a salmon if i go near it, that’s what this is to my eye) or green, overall. who knows.

but i do have a question for you.

i’ve said it before, but of course i keep bumping up into it. what i detest about designing for coded elements like web pages, blogs, etc. is that everything changes. imagine if painting a canvas, you could work for hours on the space between a woman’s smile and her chin. and then someone else bought the painting and hung it up and everything shifted around on the canvas. well. artists would be even more insane than they are now.

anyway, i design for safari because its on the best platform that exists and who cares for the rest. but lo and behold because safari is not the best browser after all (oh my broken apple heart), i cannot blog in wordpress blogs using it. it removes all breaks from my paragraphs.

anyway. i designed this blog (this version today) using safari, but then i fire up firefox and the font is much tinier.

groan. here we go again.

i am also the kind of artist who chooses the right space or color down to the molecule. now, its possible all artists by nature are this way and how great their work is (or can become) is a matter of how much patience (time, resources to enable them) they have to tend to and heed that voice that says “not quite. almost there. try again.” my point is that i deliberate .em sizes to the decimal place. i don’t just put a page together and say “yeah cool.” so i get very frustrated when i decide on, say, a shade of gray that JUST lets you see a character’s eyes through the darkness, and then the book is printed, or someone else’s browser/screen/printer shows my work and that careful consideration is completely squashed. this is what drives me away from web work and such. how can it ever really show any great art? it can’t. it can only try to represent it. until we all share calibration on screens and printers and browsers, forget about even getting close. we may be seeing TOTALLY different images, given hue, luminance, screen rez, calibration, and stylesheet interpretation issues.

so i know a billion peoples dont read this blog like UMX blog (which is groovy, i like it just fine for now) but if whomeva is reading this now, if you have a moment and the ‘Net connection to look at big pictures (they arent SO big really), let me know. which picture below looks closer to your view on your computer? especially note the text on the lower left. in the “firefox” popup image it is just plain illegible, even if you can read tiny print.

[click for larger pop up actual size image of web page]
1. firefox

2. safari

i may bump up the font. if it looks that small to most people, forget about it. that’s way too small.

also please tell me your browser and screen resolution if you know it. gracias.