Ok, This player will sometimes show a live feed, when I can be bothered to broadcast the webcam on my Cat's food bowl.
For the moment it's just showing some bits and bobs that I had previously made and uploaded to the Tube.
I took the player off as it plays automatically and fucks up i.e. - it lives here.
More soon
Monday, February 25, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Location Aware Geotag Photo Twitter Project (part 1)
What is the relationship between physical, digital and mental geographies?
Can we record action, word, position and thought all at the same time?
Will we ever be able to rewind reality?
...Today I have mostly been screwing around with my new N95 Gizzmo... It has GPS and everything.
So - here's the first GPS/Geotagging photo expedition. Nothing too crazy, just a walk around Soho, taking a few pics. At the same time I was Twittering from my old phone. I though it would be interesting to mash up the thoughts that I express from twitter with the same moment in space and time as captured in a GeoTagged photo.
At the moment the whole process is very convoluted and only appealing for extreme conceptual techno-geeks; but once we're in a position to make the technology hidden; then I think it's a pretty infectious idea.
After taking the photos on my phone; I upload them to Flickr; then Flickr sends the images to Google Maps. Then Google Maps sends the map to this blog. Simple you would think - but to get it working I had a whole 2 hours of fucking with Flickr, phone and the like before it worked.
Remember - everybody's life is a movie waiting to be made.
So - here's the GoogleMap Mashup:
View Larger Map
And here's my twitters at the time I was taking the photos:
Now I just need to plug one into the other, into the back of my eyes...
Can we record action, word, position and thought all at the same time?
Will we ever be able to rewind reality?
...Today I have mostly been screwing around with my new N95 Gizzmo... It has GPS and everything.
So - here's the first GPS/Geotagging photo expedition. Nothing too crazy, just a walk around Soho, taking a few pics. At the same time I was Twittering from my old phone. I though it would be interesting to mash up the thoughts that I express from twitter with the same moment in space and time as captured in a GeoTagged photo.
At the moment the whole process is very convoluted and only appealing for extreme conceptual techno-geeks; but once we're in a position to make the technology hidden; then I think it's a pretty infectious idea.
After taking the photos on my phone; I upload them to Flickr; then Flickr sends the images to Google Maps. Then Google Maps sends the map to this blog. Simple you would think - but to get it working I had a whole 2 hours of fucking with Flickr, phone and the like before it worked.
Remember - everybody's life is a movie waiting to be made.
So - here's the GoogleMap Mashup:
View Larger Map
And here's my twitters at the time I was taking the photos:
Now I just need to plug one into the other, into the back of my eyes...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Future is Getting Closer.
Like Photoshop, but running from a browser?
The nice people over at Aviary are developing a suit of browser run replacements for the disgusting monopolies that the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and Apple have over the creative applications market.
Aviary is a suit of web based applications that will allow creative professionals, and those who just like to play, access to powerful image, music and video manipulating tools. In English? It's like Photoshop but it ain't by Adobe init. It's like the Google Word Processor, for images. I'm very excited by all this.
Why am I excited by this?
For me this is NOT Web 3.0 (fuck buzzwords), but it is a refreshing conceptual step away from that awful mental model of the web as taught to us by the powers that be back in the late 90's.
Let's reiterate:
The internet is NOT something that we "Go Onto".
The Net is a set of interlinking routes of data - connections (like in your brain)
The Net is everywhere, all around us, every minute of every day.
The Net is wireless.
Therefore:
We View the Net through the rendering tools we choose (be this a desktop computer - rendering a big HTML page, or through a mobile phone (just showing me my text email).
The Net is MORE powerful than my desktop machine; therefore it makes sense that the net hosts my number crunching image manipulation programs. Physical Geography is no longer an obstacle.
The Net is smarter than I am, so why don't I work openly to it, collaboratively - as there's always other like minded people plugged in else where in the grid.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Some Thinking on Film Online
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.
- A.A. Milne
I was musing on the bus...
With the recent bonkers exponential increase in bandwidth and computing power we are able to deliver ever higher resolutions of both pre-recorded and live video to browser and mobile platforms alike. For me, the challenge here is to reconcile a traditional comprehension of the linear nature of a narrative with the web-like presentation structure inherent to interactive content delivery. Finding a vernacular for communicating interactive ideas through the medium of film, while presenting that film in a non-linear structure is the key to building on the strengths of two traditionally very different disciplines.
Currently the the most engaging online content for me falls into either Interactive Film, or Live Broadcast.
The Live Event
With digital content now ubiquitous and increasingly being given away for free (Radiohead, Guilbert & George et-cetera), the future for engaging content creation lies with granting access to the real world; the live event or physical experience.
It is far more engaging prospect to interact with the real world, in real time; than it is to play with pre-recorded time. Browser based interfaces; served up to desktop or mobile platforms can provide a window on another location in the real world, unfolding incomprehensible distances away at precisely the same moment in time. The advent of streaming video, increasingly accessible by both mobile handsets as well as desktop browsers can grant users access to snap of reality happening else where at any given moment. This prospect is truly an exciting one; from creating synchronous online/real world events through to full augmentation of the digital and physical landscapes.
This engaging prospect has enormous potential for future facing brands, who want to peel off the billboard and have a presence in the real world; actually playing a part in peoples lives. For most people: seeing is believing; yet experience is meaningful.
Interactive Films
While I think that Live events have the premium of authenticity attached to them, the fact is that they will always be based in the real world. For fantasy, adventure and a sprinkle of cinematic action, the online interactive film is the future.
Looping film clips, narratives which fold back on themselves, taking captured information and crafting it into a well written, entertaining plot while not getting lost in what can grow to be a huge matrix of overlapping video clips is a big challenge. Producing effective, entertaining interactive films requires a synergy from the start of a project between ideas, technical understanding and creative direction. Thinking through a user-navigated plot falls very much into the same disciplines required for game design. At the same time, shooting film for interactive presentation is a very technically demanding process; requiring directorial input which is as much at home behind a camera as understanding the constraints involved in designing with Adobe Flash or whatever the next platform will be.
What does all this mean?
A new approach is most definitely needed; harnessing relevant thinking constructs from the both the world of film production and and interactive design. There is no textbook to learn from, no perfect agency or production company model; only the knowledge granted us through experience in this new cutting edge discipline. In order to continually push the boundaries of what is possible, it is essential that we feed this knowledge back into the ideas mix; allowing for rubber band conceptual thinking which can bind together the most relevant skills from film making, design and interactive production. In this landscape there is no space for the old fashioned attitudes of the big production companies who like to be briefed into making a film, then left to their own devices while a director works his magic. Old advertising boundaries between ideas people and people who make things are suddenly shown for the fallacy they always were, with technical skill and understanding now as important as the ability to turn an idea flip-side-upside down during concept development.
There are increasingly a new breed of thinkers who are directors, directors who are post-production monkeys, designers who are programmers and programmers who have a passion for wrapping a brand around an idea before hammering the idea into a site and the site into a piece of effective digital outdoor work. This can make digital a very confusing place to be at the moment. Unfortunately we’ve inherited many of the older adverland ideas about what job positions fit which descriptions... that’s something that I think is slowly starting to change and I think that this trend is set to continue. So; breaking the mold is good, even if it feels awkward. The aim, of course, is to become master of all trades, jack of none... I remain Jack.
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.
- A.A. Milne
I was musing on the bus...
With the recent bonkers exponential increase in bandwidth and computing power we are able to deliver ever higher resolutions of both pre-recorded and live video to browser and mobile platforms alike. For me, the challenge here is to reconcile a traditional comprehension of the linear nature of a narrative with the web-like presentation structure inherent to interactive content delivery. Finding a vernacular for communicating interactive ideas through the medium of film, while presenting that film in a non-linear structure is the key to building on the strengths of two traditionally very different disciplines.
Currently the the most engaging online content for me falls into either Interactive Film, or Live Broadcast.
The Live Event
With digital content now ubiquitous and increasingly being given away for free (Radiohead, Guilbert & George et-cetera), the future for engaging content creation lies with granting access to the real world; the live event or physical experience.
It is far more engaging prospect to interact with the real world, in real time; than it is to play with pre-recorded time. Browser based interfaces; served up to desktop or mobile platforms can provide a window on another location in the real world, unfolding incomprehensible distances away at precisely the same moment in time. The advent of streaming video, increasingly accessible by both mobile handsets as well as desktop browsers can grant users access to snap of reality happening else where at any given moment. This prospect is truly an exciting one; from creating synchronous online/real world events through to full augmentation of the digital and physical landscapes.
This engaging prospect has enormous potential for future facing brands, who want to peel off the billboard and have a presence in the real world; actually playing a part in peoples lives. For most people: seeing is believing; yet experience is meaningful.
Interactive Films
While I think that Live events have the premium of authenticity attached to them, the fact is that they will always be based in the real world. For fantasy, adventure and a sprinkle of cinematic action, the online interactive film is the future.
Looping film clips, narratives which fold back on themselves, taking captured information and crafting it into a well written, entertaining plot while not getting lost in what can grow to be a huge matrix of overlapping video clips is a big challenge. Producing effective, entertaining interactive films requires a synergy from the start of a project between ideas, technical understanding and creative direction. Thinking through a user-navigated plot falls very much into the same disciplines required for game design. At the same time, shooting film for interactive presentation is a very technically demanding process; requiring directorial input which is as much at home behind a camera as understanding the constraints involved in designing with Adobe Flash or whatever the next platform will be.
What does all this mean?
A new approach is most definitely needed; harnessing relevant thinking constructs from the both the world of film production and and interactive design. There is no textbook to learn from, no perfect agency or production company model; only the knowledge granted us through experience in this new cutting edge discipline. In order to continually push the boundaries of what is possible, it is essential that we feed this knowledge back into the ideas mix; allowing for rubber band conceptual thinking which can bind together the most relevant skills from film making, design and interactive production. In this landscape there is no space for the old fashioned attitudes of the big production companies who like to be briefed into making a film, then left to their own devices while a director works his magic. Old advertising boundaries between ideas people and people who make things are suddenly shown for the fallacy they always were, with technical skill and understanding now as important as the ability to turn an idea flip-side-upside down during concept development.
There are increasingly a new breed of thinkers who are directors, directors who are post-production monkeys, designers who are programmers and programmers who have a passion for wrapping a brand around an idea before hammering the idea into a site and the site into a piece of effective digital outdoor work. This can make digital a very confusing place to be at the moment. Unfortunately we’ve inherited many of the older adverland ideas about what job positions fit which descriptions... that’s something that I think is slowly starting to change and I think that this trend is set to continue. So; breaking the mold is good, even if it feels awkward. The aim, of course, is to become master of all trades, jack of none... I remain Jack.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Flash 3D Kinematics Are Here
Just poking about the net and I found lee felarca's interesting Kinematics Flash 3D test, using Papervision. Check out his Blog Here:
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Berlin
Finally I got round to scanning my favorite Lomo print from Berlin. I want to get the rest of the film printed, but at £15 a print, this Lomo project is going to have to be a slow burner.
Lomo? Printing? Film? old school! ... you say?
- I say - Fuck Digital.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Your Life: Live
I really don't like reality TV, but I do like reality (contrary to popular belief). Qik is the latest crazy Loic Le Meur project; which lets you broadcast from your mobile telephone's videographic enabled camera device.
Make sure you sort out a decent tariff with your phone company first tho - T Mobile charged me £3 for a 1 min video call to Kooch the other day!
Anyway - Check out QIK (note the 2.0 spelling).
update - Thanks Thayer for the link (I couldn't remember where I got it from!)
Make sure you sort out a decent tariff with your phone company first tho - T Mobile charged me £3 for a 1 min video call to Kooch the other day!
Anyway - Check out QIK (note the 2.0 spelling).
update - Thanks Thayer for the link (I couldn't remember where I got it from!)
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