My server space provider is evil.
Godaddy doesn’t support POP or IMAP (fetching email information) functions. I tried. I tried so hard to make it work. But, alas, I will have to find a new solution for the SMS part of my project.
For now, I have made a little documentation page for the project. I even made a super duper maquette (image accompanying this post) of what my work should look like.
The maquette was actually a great deal of help. It’s sad that we never have to make any in any of our work even if we do make installations. I made a box with cardboard and glued white paper on the inside to make the room, and put a little cutout bonhomme in the foreground to cast the shadow in the background. It was a lot of fun, and it really represents how the project will work (finding shadow, casting text bubble, people entering their own text via cellphone technology and seeing it appear unto other’s shadows…)
The project is still in it’s prototype phase. This week I will be working on the aesthetic side of the piece, as well as trying to made the SMS functions work. This part of the project is really important to me as it is the core of my project. I have a couple of alternatives in mind. One of them is to use the Twitter API, but the problem with this alternative is that not everyone has a Twitter account connected to their cellphone. I don’t want people to have to register to Twitter and then to configure their phone with the service to use the piece.
Anyways, enough talking for me, here’s the site for Shadows Lie.