Digital Arts and Technology: The diary of my degree, with a few additives.

Prid 302: visual references

claudnoir — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:21:22 +0000

Just been looking are the web, well mainly YouTube and got some really interesting and moving videos, that involve the PostSecret postcards, or has been created fro the project:

Idat 307: A simple Video

claudnoir — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:07:44 +0000

I have made this video f the installation being interactive with. I would have loved to have displayed this on a project and had it going on for a whole day, for many people to interact with it, I was just unable to found a suitable place, with the little time I had

This video is just to give an idea of what the piece is:

Idat 307: It has a name!!

claudnoir — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:19:51 +0000

I have decided on the name of my piece and it is………. loMOTION!!!!!

Idat 307: All Complete!!!

claudnoir — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:01:01 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I had completed the prototype of my 4D project ( I was using lomography photographs off the Internet at the time – find below in earlier blog). But today, I was able to add my 7 photographs of my own

I am really pleased with the result and I feel the TweenMax.as really has made my piece work smoothly and made the photos blur into each other in a very lomography effect way.

Here is a link to the final swf. *You will need a webcam for it to run*

http://claudia-g.co.uk/CG4D.swf

Idat 307: Getting Lomoed

claudnoir — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:58:14 +0000

Here are the 7 photographs, that were taken every hour, plus a few others, (as I just wanted to practice lomoing photos up). I have edited them in Photoshop, to give them the Lomography effect, as sadly I was unable to receive a film for the Holga 120GN Camera in time. I am still pleased with the results:

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Hour Seven

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My next task is to add them to the my complete web cam model in flash and code in the TweenMax.as file

FYP: Idea that I am sticking with

claudnoir — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:49:32 +0000

Inspired by Postsecret, with the way it brings emotion and image together, and my love for the photobooth, i am wanting to set up a photobooth- that takes photos of people and their emotion or secret and display them as a projection of a mosaic made up of the images.

From further thinking this idea, i thought maybe it would be good to ask the users to record a 30 second video telling their secret and then the projection mosaic could be made up of the videos of the lips. What would add a interesting factor to the piece would be, if that the on going viewers would have to lip read, as i would have no sound to the piece. Keeping the secrets still under-wrapped but still being displayed.

This lip idea is very rocky horror and also links with the saying “my lips are sealed”

some lips images, for inspiration:

I think that Lily Allen has a really interesting tattoo, that represents secret and interacts with the lips with out having to make a sound

Idat 307: Photo taking

claudnoir — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:28:43 +0000

I went to the Jazz and Blues Festival on the Barbican in Plymouth yesterday and I took a few snaps. I made sure I took at photograph, a hour from the first one, till I have my 7 photographs. Then I started to just over photographs, that I thought I would place on my blog, as I feel they are quiet nice snaps.

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Hour Seven

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something a bit cool

claudnoir — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:56:06 +0000

As I am thinking of using Quartz Composer to build my final year project up in, i have been looking around at projects that use this developers tool, this is some pieces i have found, on the world wide web:

Apple Hyperwall

The hyperwall is displaying all the apps within the apple store, with a live feed of their growth. Every time a customer downloads an app, its icon lights up (5min delay).

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Share Wall

“Wirelessly transfer photos taken from Samsung’s Omnia II phone to the large Share Wall (approximately eight square metres). Visitors can capture and share their memorable WOW moments and post it on the photo mosaic frame which will be constantly updated with new images.”
from Samsung’s official press release.

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The Existentail Mirror

Image distortion formula to the live video feed before being rear-projected into the mirror frame.

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Old Skool

claudnoir — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:08:11 +0000

I am really into my analogue art and photography at the moment, i found it much more exciting than anything digital. As it has a raw and much more real aspect.

Here are some projects using analogue technologies or items:

Ghost in the Machine is a series of musicians portraits that have been made out of recycled cassette tape. It was inspired by the description of how your spirit lives in your body.

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This is so simple but very effected:

“Webcam technology is being connected with analogue Polaroids to create live pictures (cut out to create a 3D model) – an example of a digital solutions in analogue context.”

http://www.core77.com/gallery/designmai-2006/210.asp

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I found this really interest site. The idea is that people send in their secret written on a postcard, image or any related object. Bringing imagery and human emotion together.
The site link is: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Here are some of my favorite images sent in:

Prid 301: Dissertation…Completed

claudnoir — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:46:07 +0000

Here is a copy of my final dissertation:

Has Technology and the Internet Caused Us to Forget the Private and
Emotional Meaning Meant to Be Gained From the Photograph?

Dissertation