Doubting.us is a web-based introspective narrative documenting my travels and experiences in a time of transition. I have taken important decisions about many things recently, and many more are to come – this Website is a repository of dichotomous text/image snapshots of the experiences stemming from these decisions

CONCEPT

The main premise on which this project was built is the lack of certitude and assurance we all feel at different moments in our lives. I view this uncertainty in a very positive way, allowing us to consider different perspectives at these precise moments of doubt. As I believe not many things stand for very long, I have chosen text and images that are connected at different degrees, leaving a lot of room for interpretation and abstraction. The same way our decisions can sometimes lead us in strange and unexpected paths, the images are all taken on the spur of the moment with my low-quality cell phone camera, creating distorted narratives that barely brush the surface of reality.

TECHNICAL

PHP, Javascript and Mootools

PUBLICATION

Project is currently featured on the Design and Computation Arts home page of Concordia University.

I’ve decided to put up all the code for my doubting.us project – it uses MooSizer to scale the images, JS, CSS, PHP and HTML for the rest. I decided to strip down the functionality so it could be easily shareable and easily updated. I had everything in a database but moved it into a PHP file instead, so there is no need to setup mySql, etc.

DOWNLOAD THE FILES HERE

Installing Doubting.us

1) Download the ZIP archive
2) Upload to your Web server, and that’s it!

How to add pictures

1) Open functions.php and add a new line to the array found at the top of the doc. Here’s the syntax to follow, don’t forget the comma at the end there :
array(”name_of_your_image.jpg”,”Descriptive text”,”Slide label”,”Permalink_parameter_use_a_number_here”),
2) upload the “name_of_your_images.jpg” image in the images folder, and you’re done.

How to delete pictures

Basically just undo what you did in the last step, although deleting the image in your “images” folder in not necessary. You can take out pretty much any line in that functions.php file, just make sure the code respects the syntax described earlier once you’re done.

A picture and some text for every doubt. This is a bit of my visual blog, I’ll be posting to it and feeding into this site once in a while.
Everything on http://www.doubting.us