THE COLLATION
BYKEG.com
All the weird pictograms in the landing page were made by drawing an object, coloring it
using only primary colors, compressing it lightly with JPEG, and using the exposure filter
on it roughly 7-8 times to remove all colors that aren't primary. I also made all magenta
and white transparent, since it wouldn't be visible against the magenta background.
I was planning on making a unique pictogram for a footnotes page, but it never looked
right. I still made made pictograms for a potentiometer and a pen.
I ended up using the potentiometer to make the favicon.
The original idea was to have a blogicle AND a traditional blog, but I wasn't able to
figure out anything to post on there that wouldn't fit better in a page like PROJECTS or
THE BLOGICLE, and I removed it. I still made a pictogram for it, though.
I was also planning on having a page called 'UNORIGINAL MEDIA' where I'd review the games
I play and the shows I watch. But I don't consume enough media to be able to regularly
update it, and I don't like to be critical of other people's work.
I still made a pictogram of a disc drive for it, which I later repurposed to use for the
CONTACT page. The old pictogram for the CONTACT page was of a mailbox.
The GIFs of a person dancing were made in the same way as the pictograms, just that I
instead rotoscoped a video of someone dancing against a green screen.
For completeness, here are the rest of the pictograms' unfiltered drawings.
Revisions
It didn't actually take very many revisions to get to something I liked, and the
revisions themselves don't contain very much. I'll still link them here.
11.24.25
11.25.25
The idea with 11.24.25 was to have the web site be a kind of scavenger hunt, where you find
random clues for things and input codes on the right. If you look at the source code, you
can find a lot of commented bits of CSS from testing. I ended up scrapping the entire idea
because I want my web site to be more of a hub to play my video games than an escape room.
I did like the comic book style, though.
11.25.25 was made more to see if I could even make a spinning wheel, and the idea was that
you would rotate the wheel to bring up different links to go to another part of the web
site. I didn't really like the idea from the start, and I immediately stopped working on
it when I realized that the web site would have poor navigability for non-JS users and
would be unrecognizable for users with limited CSS. After I moved on from this revision, I
immediately started working on what would become the current web site.
It's actually very ergonomic and smart. You wouldn't know.
Not everyone can afford such commodities in today's economy you know.