post-it

me: i thought of a cool thing
Nicholas: yee??
me: people design web pages like other graphic-design objects (magazines, etc)
1:59 PM but there are often completely separate sidebar and header and footer things going on
Nicholas: mmhm
me: randomly generated sometimes?
i don't know
but it does create this oddly sutured, oddly seamless surface
Nicholas: like gimme a page frinstance
me: i dont know like google generating ads based on email content
2:00 PM Nicholas: yeah
me: what i'm thinking of is more how there are options to play with that, with the page being really designed and laid-out, but there are these encroaching edges
you could probably make a page that would do cool things
2:01 PM or not a web page but something that looks into that idea
Nicholas: yeahh
yeah, kind of like that guy trying to write with all the word windows open
2:02 PM me: maybe, but also it's just an interesting element of web graphic design
im just thinking about this because i'm reading about paul rand, who designed all this shit for IBM and Microsoft and stuff, but he was a magazine guy
and there are some different design considerations for the web page
like banner ads, for ex.
Nicholas: yeah
2:03 PM me: maybe you could bring that back out of the monitor and let those considerations/limitations play in cool ways with non-electronic pages
WHO KNOWS
there's this cool website called tifprabap.org where she has videos in which she points (in the video) to the side bar
its weird
Nicholas: ooh
2:04 PM me: have you seen this website
its nuts
Nicholas: no
me: listen: she makes like pep-talk videos for herself
she has her WHOLE LIFE
(she's a dancer)
and she always has the same music in the background
and she posted them all
Nicholas: that's insane