By traceymeloche on October 31st, 2009, 9:42 pm 4 Comments
I have been spurred on by a discussion I had with Stephen, a class or two ago, that deals with getting the H1N1 vaccine. I am trying to sort through web sites that are either pro vaccine and those that are against the vaccine. Its slow going. So far it seems that there are more that are pro. My problem is how do I come up with the numbers. I have searched “polls” for the vaccine info but what I come across are the numbers for people that are pro or con (so far Canadians stand at 48% con and 51% pro) but I can’t figure out how to find out how many websites are one or the other. Does anyone know of sites that give information on the number of sites that exist on any given topic?
By kristiner on October 28th, 2009, 12:55 pm 2 Comments
Transparency: The Most Homicidal Countries
This Infographic displays which countries you are most likely to be murdered in and which countries have the least homicide rates. The image displays the murder per 100,100 people. I think this is an interesting infographic and might give people some ideas. Click on the image to see it in full size.
By aelwynn on October 28th, 2009, 12:05 am 0 Comments
Okay so I’ve been reading a little bit about making youtube videos viral and one of the top things to do (this is from a youtube video marketing business) is to send the video to everyone you know and ask them to send it to everyone they know. Simple but effective.
I really want to get my work further than my house’s walls, so I’m asking everyone to watch my video again from their computers and if you could be so generous as to send it to everyone (or even 1 other person) you know, I will do the same for anyone who asks me.
There are all sorts of ways to increase the about of “views” you get. For example (as I said in class) putting the word “exclusive” in the title helps as well.
Here is a link to one of the sites I was looking at, for increasing the viewership of your youtube video, if anyone is interested…
By diane on October 26th, 2009, 12:23 am 5 Comments
This collaborative animation piece by Blu and David Ellis is so much fun to watch. It really kept my attention throughout the entire video, which i can’t say about most videos I watch on YouTube. I can appreciate the hard work that went into creating this piece. I’m really impressed by what a group of artists can do when they put together their creative minds.
I especially love seeing the combination of traditional painting, stop-motion animation/time lapse, and audio components in a huge outdoors work space. Using buildings as a canvas is also quite intriguing. Also, showing the people working on the set adds something to the animation.
It kills me when they paint one beautiful image and have to cover it completely with their next image for purposes of the animation. I’d really hate doing that to my own artwork, but it’s a sacrifice that appears to be well worth it for the video. I appreciate the artists even more for being able to not treat their work in such a precious or sentimental way.
Definitely check out David Ellis’ work if you are particularly interested in the graffiti component of COMBO (what Ellis calls “motion painting”). I like the fact that he tends to paint on less conventional surfaces like brick walls, transport trucks, and burlap sacks, rather than simply using canvas.
This piece is a part of Italy’s “Fame Festival“. (Check out their blog if you have a chance). The Fame Festival strives to give the public a new point of view on buildings around Italy, and I think the artists achieved just that. By painting these buildings, which are mostly improvised, the artists transform the space into something unique and conceptual. This has been an increasingly popular concept, and can be found more and more on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
Hopefully you guys haven’t seen this video already!
By aelwynn on October 25th, 2009, 11:30 pm 2 Comments
So I started to research a little on infographics and the highlights of my first round of research consisted of the following:
The David Hasselhoff was particularly moving… actually I just thought these images were good templates for displaying information. I didn’t find the content all that intellectually simulating.
I also found video style infographics which are a little more fun to look at.
Such as:
I love how this video pictorially illustrates changing variables like a chart. There is a time variable, a type of person variable as well as a total number of people variable.
To tackle this type of project though I’m going to have to get more familiar with After Effects. Is there anyone else in the class that knows this program at any level? Maybe we could work together or at least go to each other for technical help.
If anyone is interested a great resource for tutorials is:
Searching for some info on infographics I came across this blog. Basically this guy (couldnt find a name) states that he believes infographics are a type of jonouralism that can be used by artists to display different information topics. He wrote about one work that was done by Antoni Muntadas and some students from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. This group of people searched for military words on databases of different enterpriese of the world and located them on a map. They looked at terms used and ranked them based upon the website they found them off. Each website is ranked by its levels of technology, military, cultural, and economical influences. The showed these by using different color combinations on a graph allowing the viewer to see the trends. The example given was the word “setback” and how it leans mostly towards military due to the web sites it has occured on.
By ronniechang on October 25th, 2009, 6:56 pm 2 Comments
Was surfing around for some ideas on our next assignment but ended up staring at this video .
An early example of video art, Barbara Sykes using the color capability of the Analogue Image Processor or the “Color IP” for short. This idea of manupilating the video/television signals and sound enables the viewer to see the effect directly on the video signal.
I know it sounds abit complicated that is why i’ve included another video entitled ” 5 Minute Romp thru the IP (1971) ”
This is one of the movies that document the early history of the research that resulted in the creation of the EVL Lab. Furthermore, the computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illonois at Chicago.
By EmilyH on October 25th, 2009, 12:00 pm 2 Comments
David Clark is the media designer of the interactive website aisforapple.com. A is for Apple is a non- linear internet projects that uses audio and images in a web of continuous associative links. It basically starts with the word “apple” and allows the viewer to click on related terms that link to different pages. He links everything from an apple to Yoko Ono to Freud. Each page is made up of interactive flash animations so be sure to move your mouse everywhere!
Clark has received various new media awards and done TV appearances for this other works. This project is suppose to look for hidden meanings and coincidences that start from the apple and lead to pop culture, language, science and more. I think that the flash animation and interactive images on this site are interesting and chaotic in a good way. However, I don’t quite understand the reason for these associations because I think it’s possibly to link any terms if your try hard enough. Is it a map… or a maze? I think Clark’s net art piece is visually interesting, but conceptually confusing.
If you are interested in more of David Clarks work, check out his project 88contellations.net.
