Web graphics and digital art is flourishing nowadays and will be even more popular from now on.

I'm frequently asked by my friends and ex-colleages on why I'm not putting all the good graphics on my web page. Making my webpage a digital portfolio was my primary motive for the homepage, but I still keep it as just a notepage and sketchbook. No 3-D models, animations and digital images are uploaded yet.

Calling me a computer scientist rather than a digital artist will be more appropriate for me. So I became more concerned with the speed of downloading text and graphics rather than the fancy graphics. I've used the internet from its inception almost a decade ago, and I still use lynx, the text based browser, occasionally to avoid the hassle of wasting time for downloading of graphics.

Storing and exchanging technical papers and informations was the main idea of the internet, and I still try to stick to it. I am capable of building beautifully designed web pages to impress and please the eyes of visitors. But electronic portfolio is less impressive and practical than the hardcopy portfolio.

Having been a network/web systems administrator, minimzing the downloading time has been my concerns. Actually I still do. I don't want to waste time to see ugly graphics. (No one can deny there's more ugly graphics pages than the pretty and practical ones in the internet).

So I ended up putting little graphics on my web pages, but other questions baffled me. Hoping to become a digital artist, I should not be deprived of the technology to express. Digital artist should concern only about the messages he wants to express, not on how he will convey. Even if it takes several minutes to download, the graphics page will be accessed to see the graphics by the visitor who is determined to see the graphics.

Medium of expression should not limit the content of the message. I can't articulate well about this situation as that's the point I've never thought about it before until I'd changed the side from internet programmer to web digital artist.

It's difficult to make everyone happy. I can't even make myself satisfied with the speed and graphics. I think I should stick to the quality of graphics, not the speed. There's no way to rationalize the poor quality of graphics unless I'm not capable of expressing it. Art is for art's sake. (Oct-19-97)