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Out of all the projects linked on the assignment, John Ashbery’s Nest<\/a> stood out the most to me. When I first visited the website, I was taken aback by the animation zoom that took me from the end of the sidewalk to the doorstep. The audio of footsteps that supplemented the introduction made me feel immersed in the setting. The way the website presented information about John Ashbery and his home was very creative.<\/p>\n

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The team members of this project extracted the sources by collecting the various excerpts from interviews<\/a>, journal and sketchbook entries, and major milestones in Ashbery’s life. These team members also selected particular photographs that highlighted important time periods for Ashbery. Most importantly, two major sources of this project is the house and John Ashbery himself. The team members wanted to create a virtual tour of his only home to introduce people to Ashbery’s antique collections and creativity through his poems and the artwork displayed around the house.<\/p>\n

The house (and information about it) was processed through digitizing photographs and making Ashbery’s interviews accessible through audio. The virtual tour was made possible by a 360-degree camera that seamlessly panned the entire room. Important milestones about Ashbery’s work with the Hudson house were displayed through an interactive timeline<\/a> that began with his grandparents’ homes. The team members of this project also selected unique artifacts throughout the main rooms and supplemented the artifact with an auditory explanation or interview from Ashbery about it.<\/p>\n

After sourcing and processing the data collected about John Ashbery and his interest in homes, the team members of the project presented this information by publishing an interactive website that walked users through notable artifacts of the house. In addition to the main interactive portion, information about Ashbery’s life was presented through a timeline<\/a> on a separate page. A short biography was also published on that page. Interviews that mentioned the process of populating the Hudson house were published on a separate page<\/a> in a question-and-answer format with images supplementing his answers.<\/p>\n

For users who wanted less of an interactive experience with the house, the team members listed out all the unique artifacts in the Center Hall with small descriptions on a separate page<\/a>. There is also a written page<\/a> that highlights some of Ashbury’s poems and their relations to the collections throughout the house. Another page<\/a> linked to full versions of some poems that were mentioned in the interactive tour.<\/p>\n

Overall, the team members published a great project that examined John Ashbery’s house and his creative life. They presented the data in a simple way that helped viewers like myself to quickly understand and digest the information. I would love to learn more about how they integrated the interactive aspect of the website through animations and supplemental audio files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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