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Places and non-places
I started a new flickr set. Quote:
Marc Augé describes, in "non-places : Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity", the reconfiguration of space in contemporary society. Here history bites our heels, space expands yet the world shrinks, and the individual is supposed to be allowed to be, do, but most of all, consume, whatever is necessary for them to achieve selfhood.
Of place, we might have thought that "all the inhabitants need do is recognise themselves in it". Now, in the supermodern space, we misrecognise ourselves: we obey direction, and we are permitted to experience only solitude: the consequence of individualism is solipsism, that of consumerism is solitude.
Updates will appear here via the magic of the Flickr API and python, or you can watch it at source.
Bournemouth Soundseeing
Bournemouth Soundseeing
This is a little app I've built as an experimental project to use with students of Interactive Media and Radio Production at Bournemouth University.
You can upload audio clips in mp3 format (60 seconds-ish is the general idea), and tie your clips to specific locations.
The interface is built with the Google Maps API; there's a little Flash mp3 player involved too, but what with Javascript and various browsers, it's a little temperamental.
UPDATE: See more on Bournemouth Soundseeing
3D Solar System - part III
This is a pilot project exploring ways to use simulation in learning. The simulation is of the Solar System, and this is an exploration of ways in which added interactivity can facilitate learning.
So far we have a Director movie which simulates the Solar System in 3D. The relative sizes, orbital periods and distances from the Sun are fed into the engine, and ways of scaling logarythmically are being explored.
The functionality currently allows the user to alter the focus of the camera to all the planets and moons, and the position of the camera in relation to its focus (zoom, vertical pan). Users can also enlarge or decrease the size of the planets, and the speeds of their orbital periods and spin.
Issues to explore now are what kinds of response should be developed. It is envisaged that the functionality should include:
- Context sensitive info menu providing data about each planet, images from satellites, etc
- Dynamic responses to changes in the planets' size, period or spin - eg shorter days / longer days, consequences for satellites being swallowed, becoming so large that their gravity alters orbital paths, consequences for life-sustaining systems, etc. [With apologies to the excellent Planet 10 by Wired Science!]
- Other similar movies containing similar simulations focussed on :
- man-made satellites in space
- views from the surface of each planet
The project grew from something I began in 2002 after Director 8.5 was released, and a prototype was created. See the original prototypes: v1 (Feb 2002) & v2 (Jul 2003), bearing in mind it is pretty bloody crap :-)
3D Solar System - part II
A Director movie showing the orbits of the planets around the sun in the solar system. The planets were modelled in Lightwave, textures in Photoshop, and the textures and animation applied in Director 8.5 using the 3D engine and Lingo.
So far the relative speeds of the orbits are correct, as are the relative spins of the planets and sun. Obviously things are speeded up to relieve the profoundly slow real-time experience. The planets and sun are also scaled up quite unrealistically so they are all visible at once...
Added:
- Switchable camera views - click on a planet in the menu to see the view from nearby that planet. You can now see how the planets seem to move backwards and forwards in the sky, which I coud never get my head round before...
Still to do:
- If I feel really ambitious, and have lots of time on my hands (;-p), I might have a stab at some elliptical orbits and pluto's tilted orbit...
Click on the link to see the movie, bearing in mind it currently weighs about 555kb ;-)
Dancing EastEnders
Continuing the current craze for silly fluff, the cheery folks of Albert Square strut their stuff. This is a Flash game (not sure game is the right word...) I made for BBCi EastEnders Online in the style of Dancing Bush, Stereo MPs, and a load of other similar silly bits of glitter that avalanched across the internet a little while ago. Here's the prototype I made for fun :)
The Keyboard and The Mouse
An interactive movie editor in Flash. This is an exercise to try out Flash MX's new video capabilities. In this editor, you can cut up and mix Sophie Hannah's poem The Keyboard and the Mouse to create a new version all your own. Thanks to Charlotte for reading :)
Shot on MiniDV, edited in Premiere, adjusted in After Effects, built in Flash MX. Conclusion: Flash MX is superb for compressing videos down to smaller file sizes using the Sorenson codec, but not as much flexibility and control as Director...
i think i still have some of last year's tan. still got a pale stripe where my pants go.
i've stopped smoking. yesterday. still at the 'want to kill someone' stage. will feel better tomorrow, if i make it that far... i nearly finished making my video editor....
- from an email during development... needless to say I didn't quit.
Reverberate
Musical fun with Director. Strum away, record yourself or extemporise over preset sequences.
The initial inspiration for this piece was the work of Maria Mencia. Look at her digital artwork: Another Kind of Language, in the Recent Projects section of her website.
Recorded on an old amp into Cool Edit. Jumbled around in Director. A maze of lists. Thanks to Friends of ED :-)))))
What colours should they be? Do you know any synaesthetes who see colours with sounds and chords?
Any suggestions for improvements ? :)
Horse
Animated galloping horse, inspired by Muybridge, who photographed motion in many moving subjects in the early days of photography.
This animation was made for a class, to illustrate the basic principles of stop-motion animation. Download the source file here.
Dancing Joe
In the tradition of Dancing Bush, Stereo MPs, and Dancing Queen, here's a prototype: Dancing Joe - what a screaming poof. Thanks to Pony for taking the snaps.
Update: check out the BBC Dancing EastEnders I made :-)
The Buroughs cut technique
The beat poetry creator has moved to the Menticulture website
Burroughs is famous for using the cut technique in his writing - he would write his work on sheets of paper which he would cut into pieces and then reassemble. Apparently he even used to allow sheets to fall out while he was in progress, and place them back randomly and leave them where they sat for publication.
Anyway, this form will do the same to the text you type in. The script will produce the same effect as writing out your text on a sheet on paper, cutting it into four, and swapping the pieces around. It's a perl script which cuts up text into chunks and rearranges it into a Burroughs-style cut up.
Stuff it has come up with so far:
- I felt my presence in a care. But now it seems hard to your sight
- the whiteness lives, it is because our souls are of a swan
- all the beauty in the world all into infinity. It is lined with the truth
- To regain the beauty, you passed to me through blood, to a burning light.
Try it! Use the Beat Poetry Creator at the Menticulture website
Nature Girl
Composite of a face with some moss overlaid. Simple Photoshop stuff, using masks and layer blending :-)
Villainess
This picture took fucking HOURS of my life. I have nothing else to say, except that the lesson learnt here was to never work with a client at your shoulder ;) ...
The image is composited from 4 pictures, (as shown below...) using Corel Knockout and Adobe Photoshop. The model was cut out in Knockout, which incidentally is fantastic at what is does - it exports an alpha channel which allows you to blend the cut-out with any background with no worries about halos and anti-aliasing. The rest was done in Photoshop, using colour washes blended into each layer... The sky was tarted up slightly with difference clouds, of course.
Original shot of model - she was cut out in Corel Knockout.
Original mountains. The hills around Lough Corrib, Joyce Country, Ireland. The mountains were added fairly late in order to add detail to the backdrop. Just a compositional effect, really.
Original sky. The mountains eventually obscured the sun, and the clouds were added in Photoshop. This image was really only used for texture, as even the colour was washed out with a blended layer.
Ah, the water, the water, the water. My, um, client insisted that the model's dress had to bleed into the water, so the water is used in several layers, using varying masks to blend the water and dress together. Still not happy with the poison stain, but there we go...
Cleggan Bay
This is a composite of 6 photos combined in Photoshop to create a panorama. The camera lens was dirty so there is some banding caused by the fact that there was a gradient over each photo which proved rather hard to fix :(
The rock on the west side of the picture is a wedge tomb - a megalith. Photos taken on a holiday in Galway in 2001.
600 x 67
900 x 100
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Hierarchical Menu
A Javascript / CSS drop-down menu system...
dHTML, CSS and Javascript used to produce a drop-down menu. Pointless waste of several hours, no doubt :) This script will not work on old browsers (ie version 4 or earlier of IE and Netscape), as it uses standardised ECMAScript code. In other words, only look if you're using a web standards compliant browser!
Speaks for itself, really...
Lough Corrib
This is a composite of three photos combined in Photoshop to create a panorama. Photos taken on location in Joyce Country, Republic of Ireland.
Sunset
This image is a composite of several others. Inspiration is a backdrop for a make-up student's photoshoot (hello Charlotte). Photoshop, using collage, channels and layer blending. Photos taken on a recent holiday to Devon.
Dunguire Boat
This pic was taken in 2001 while travelling in Ireland. The light that day was amazing, this image has no Photoshop trickery in it at all.
3D Solar System
A Director movie showing the orbits of the planets around the sun in the solar system. The planets were modelled in Lightwave, textures in Photoshop, and the textures and animation applied in Director 8.5 using the 3D engine and Lingo. Man, Director is fantastic!
So far the relative speeds of the orbits are correct, as are the relative spins of the planets and sun. Still to do:
- get the proportions of the planets' sizes and distance to the sun right (hey, this is complex maths!)
- add switchable cameras so you can choose your view. (Also thinking of having a user-controlled spaceship fly around, but will drop it if the thing slows it down horribly...)
- If I feel really ambitious, and have lots of time on my hands (;-p), I might even have a stab at some elliptical orbits and pluto's tilted orbit...
Click on the link to see the movie, bearing in mind it currently weighs about 295kb :-)
