This is the portfolio site of artist Michael Joaquin Grey. What interests me about the organization of this site is how he alignes his work with historicevents in the areas of science which he explores. The orange/red area of the timeline at the top depicts the events that have shaped his work in his life. The grey area below the orange/red section defines the time related to the creation and production of his art-objects. Using your mouse, you can scroll at varying speeds through the small pictures below, which correspond to the marker on the timeline.

At a glance an organizational method which he employs is the separation of methadologies (micro, macro, biologigcal, information, pedagogy) on the left and meduim (modeling, media, meta, movement/design, narrative/play) on the right. On closer inspection, one must move through these categories left to right and top to bottom, for they contain bits of a narrative that when read "out of order" can be a bit confusing, although, to allow the visitor to understand the meaning of each category and the origins of topics within them would make for a lot of repitition on the artist's part. For example, I read at random the categories on the right first (their titles were more interesting to me) and in them, he talks frequently about the Zoob playset and Kindergarten as contributing to the origins of Modernism. It wasn't until I began to read some of the categories on the right that I was able to understand the basis for the narrative contained in the right hand side categories. This organizational method might not be a negative, for it motivated me to try and find the answer to why Kindergarten might have contributed so heavily to modernism. It is possible that the artist wrote one long narrative about his work and then found general descriptions to associate with diffferent parts of the text, becoming the categories on the webpage. Language being what it is (there are far more original thoughts/associations than there are words in the dictionary) makes it difficult at times to create an umbrella term to hold one's thoughts, especially when those thoughts are so delicately strung together as one trying to make cohesion out of one's past actions.

Another bit of functionality that I think also makes for interesting design is the ability to scroll at different speeds on the picture of his work...the work timeline. Every time your mouse enters into a new frame, it glows yellow so that your eyes can remain fixed on the enlarged image that you have selected and then recieve the cue to click again once your mouse has passed into the territory of a new image. If the speed is too fast, or you want to pause longer on a specific image, it is not hard to figure out how to move your mouse to re-adjust the speed.