For the CAR project within our Experience Technology module
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Doing some hardcore infographic buisness
For the CAR project within our Experience Technology module
Playfullness
And the three other items (artistic, technology and usefullness) Bjorn and Jonas talked about the last two days, put into one simple ball.
Zygote
(Its really inspiring!)
Zygote
(Its really inspiring!)
Breach
Yesterday, our lecturer Bjorn Renner showed us a very nice visual piece done by the Swede Ralph Lundsten in 1966, the piece was called ‘EM nr 1’. It was a psychedelic collage of some unidentifiable shots transformed by a couple of filters accompanied with ambient soundscape collage consisting of only electronic manufactured sounds.
In the beginning it felt quite uncomfortable and strange. And my mind made me once again realize the aversion I have for meaningless overused filters. But wait. This was made 40 years ago, when Resolume and AfterEffects didn’t exist yet, and when clubs weren’t packed with VJs using the same filters over and over again.
At this point I started to enjoy this voyage into the void of meaningless audiovisual experimentations and let the experience come down to me. With this mind set I got easily drawn into this audiovisual experience (as I wouldn’t like to refer to it as being a movie/film or animation) and I was quite disappointed when Bjorn stopped it halfway the run.
Bjorn commented this as being a good example on what could happen if you break your barriers and try to do something outside your comfort zone. And I could totally agree. Within the 60’s this probably would be some mindblowing piece of visual extravaganza. But it probably ended up to be just that and it would be very hard for people to look at, understand and enjoy (except for the hippies). He probably didn’t get rich or popular with this as well.. But what you should not forget is that these pieces of uncomfortable experimental behaviour should be held responsible for the (over)used audiovisual techniques nowadays. And thus this is why VJs end up with ugly additive effects.
My thoughts as inspired by our lecturers: don’t be afraid to experiment, step out your comfort zones, but be careful with the things you invent. Because your children either will; get sick off it, or benefit from it.
And here's a nice picture of ralph to end with:
In the beginning it felt quite uncomfortable and strange. And my mind made me once again realize the aversion I have for meaningless overused filters. But wait. This was made 40 years ago, when Resolume and AfterEffects didn’t exist yet, and when clubs weren’t packed with VJs using the same filters over and over again.
At this point I started to enjoy this voyage into the void of meaningless audiovisual experimentations and let the experience come down to me. With this mind set I got easily drawn into this audiovisual experience (as I wouldn’t like to refer to it as being a movie/film or animation) and I was quite disappointed when Bjorn stopped it halfway the run.
Bjorn commented this as being a good example on what could happen if you break your barriers and try to do something outside your comfort zone. And I could totally agree. Within the 60’s this probably would be some mindblowing piece of visual extravaganza. But it probably ended up to be just that and it would be very hard for people to look at, understand and enjoy (except for the hippies). He probably didn’t get rich or popular with this as well.. But what you should not forget is that these pieces of uncomfortable experimental behaviour should be held responsible for the (over)used audiovisual techniques nowadays. And thus this is why VJs end up with ugly additive effects.
My thoughts as inspired by our lecturers: don’t be afraid to experiment, step out your comfort zones, but be careful with the things you invent. Because your children either will; get sick off it, or benefit from it.
And here's a nice picture of ralph to end with:
Experience Insanity
My RSS reader, and especially the folder HyperBlogs, went completely bonkers (thank you Sam & Max) yesterday because of an overload of experience technology experiences. I rather not go down that same path as everybody goes, because for now it had been only dm07kna students that read these blogs. And why read 51 times about the same stuff you've already experienced happening a couple of hours earlier that day.. You know how it feels to get lost in a house of mirros filled with dozens of refelections.
Still for a undefinable certain reason I feel obliged to write at least something down and I will do it this day in the form of a review on Ralph Lundsten and our hit product CAR. But first I need to do some more research on Ralph Lundsten.
PS. today is 'Talk Like A Pirate Day'. So i am gonna fetch me a nice bottle o' rum and get shipwreck'd.
Still for a undefinable certain reason I feel obliged to write at least something down and I will do it this day in the form of a review on Ralph Lundsten and our hit product CAR. But first I need to do some more research on Ralph Lundsten.
PS. today is 'Talk Like A Pirate Day'. So i am gonna fetch me a nice bottle o' rum and get shipwreck'd.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Generator.x on flickr
The Norse site about coded graphics Generator.x has put up a nice flickr album with computer generated graphics.
I am a sucker for this stuff and I feel like trying to make something alike someday this week. I already managed to do some coding in the form of neat random line stuff with processing as you can see in the background of my blog (now that's some hardcore Einstein shit 'innit? (actually no. because Einstein was more a physicist instead of a mathematician as we all are supposed to know)).
I am a sucker for this stuff and I feel like trying to make something alike someday this week. I already managed to do some coding in the form of neat random line stuff with processing as you can see in the background of my blog (now that's some hardcore Einstein shit 'innit? (actually no. because Einstein was more a physicist instead of a mathematician as we all are supposed to know)).
Monday, September 17, 2007
And so I have been featured
Yesterday I received an invite from Simone to join Behance, a network for creatives. I Joined, uploaded some projects. And just a couple of minutes ago my iPinball project has been featured.
Check it out!
For all Hyper Islanders: I created an hyper island circle on behance, so please join us, we can rock this place ;)
Check it out!
For all Hyper Islanders: I created an hyper island circle on behance, so please join us, we can rock this place ;)
Sunday, September 16, 2007
To All Lurkers,
I've updated my rss feed to feedburner so I'm able to check some hot stats stuff. Those few souls that subscribed to my feed, I would like to ask you to 're-subscribe'.
Feed me weird things
Allright, I will confess, I have been hiding under a rock for a while. Max has learned me some revolutionary stuff. How to use and read RSS feeds. It was necessary step, I didn't want to go all RSI on checking up 51 hyperblogs a day.
I was aware the existance of this all along. And I actually had some lessons about RSS and XML on my previous education a time ago. But back then the brilliance of RSS somehow didn't seem struck me. Maybe because RSS wasn't so exstensive implemented as it is nowadays. Today 95% of the sites I follow use RSS.
For those who don't know how this thing works, I shall give a small explanation. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. But actually the name makes it more confusing, although the use is really simple. Very big amount of newssites/trendsites/websites/blogs and whatsoever have RSS implemented nowadays. And I quite expect that almost every regulary updated site in the near future is going to do this as well.
At this point it starts to get interesting. You see, all these newssites, blogs and whatsoever are using the same protocol to encode the updates. What if you can manage all these equal encoded updates into one programme that checks for updates for every single one of them on a regular basis, let's say once an hour and pops up in your tray bar when there happens to be an update on some site. OMFG! (excuse my h4x0r). Here you have it, the new definition of newspaper, and it's about the things you are interested in.
It sounds radical but this is about to save me 10 to 15 hours checking favourite websites, a week. No more do I have to go round clicking every single bookmark every single moment I feel like this ( and this happend to me multiple times a day). I just open my RSS reader hit Shift + F5 and Im updated again.
I was aware the existance of this all along. And I actually had some lessons about RSS and XML on my previous education a time ago. But back then the brilliance of RSS somehow didn't seem struck me. Maybe because RSS wasn't so exstensive implemented as it is nowadays. Today 95% of the sites I follow use RSS.
For those who don't know how this thing works, I shall give a small explanation. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. But actually the name makes it more confusing, although the use is really simple. Very big amount of newssites/trendsites/websites/blogs and whatsoever have RSS implemented nowadays. And I quite expect that almost every regulary updated site in the near future is going to do this as well.
At this point it starts to get interesting. You see, all these newssites, blogs and whatsoever are using the same protocol to encode the updates. What if you can manage all these equal encoded updates into one programme that checks for updates for every single one of them on a regular basis, let's say once an hour and pops up in your tray bar when there happens to be an update on some site. OMFG! (excuse my h4x0r). Here you have it, the new definition of newspaper, and it's about the things you are interested in.
It sounds radical but this is about to save me 10 to 15 hours checking favourite websites, a week. No more do I have to go round clicking every single bookmark every single moment I feel like this ( and this happend to me multiple times a day). I just open my RSS reader hit Shift + F5 and Im updated again.
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