Reading for Sept. 30
Body and Screen
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v021/21.1morse.html
Based on the ideas in this reading, re-write your Installation #1 proposal for your Second Life installation, AND START TO BUILD YOUR INSTALLATION IN SECOND LIFE. In your new Installation #1 proposal, please address Morse's ideas about ritualistic installation art in which the video screen is a mirror or window, a plane in space that is a reflection or an opening that offers "change" or transformation to the viewer/participant." Post your new proposal, and work on your installation in Second Life.
Re: Chris Marker's "L'ouvroir" in Second Life:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loisstavsky/3623142397/
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
video-textured objects in Second Life
1. create an object
2. select the Edit Tool
3. select the object
4. go to Texture and click on the Texture icon
5. inside the LIBRARY, and inside TEXTURES, Select Default Media Texture
2. select the Edit Tool
3. select the object
4. go to Texture and click on the Texture icon
5. inside the LIBRARY, and inside TEXTURES, Select Default Media Texture
Web Cinema
What is web cinema?
Web cinema is the gateway to the future. It is completely different than any other type of cinema, allowing loads of different genres to the plate. There are only a few things that existed before web cinema that sort of resemble it. Those being shows such as "America's Funniest Home Video's", or any other show that uses peoples' home footage. Other than that, any web cinema now is something that is partially or completely new.
What could web cinema be?
Web cinema is sort of doing what the digital camera did to photography. It is opening up the world of cinema and video in general to a whole new world of people. I feel that there will be really serious web cinema sites that will emerge, and then there will be the ones that are only for webcam/phone, or there will be genre websites created. Eventually the amount of these videos uploaded to one site will be too much, and with things like Ipod Nano's coming equipped with a video camera, this might happen really soon. I feel that web cinema will have a more distinct place in the near future.
John Curall-Interesting video
I found this interesting video.
I don't know if you watch the Emmys.
I personally don't, but there was a segment on there about internet video that I thought was entertaining and relevant to our new media discussions.
Here is the link to watch it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaT31eOoB54
If your not familiar with this, the group doing the segment got nominated and won an Emmy in the first ever category Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Program.
Im not sure if your aware of this internet short movie called "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog".
It was made by one of my favorite television writers during the writers strike.
He is a television writer/show producer that is very interested in exploring the internet medium.
If you have not seen this video, let me know and I'll try to find it for you.
It's a lot of fun!
I don't know if you watch the Emmys.
I personally don't, but there was a segment on there about internet video that I thought was entertaining and relevant to our new media discussions.
Here is the link to watch it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.
If your not familiar with this, the group doing the segment got nominated and won an Emmy in the first ever category Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Program.
Im not sure if your aware of this internet short movie called "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog".
It was made by one of my favorite television writers during the writers strike.
He is a television writer/show producer that is very interested in exploring the internet medium.
If you have not seen this video, let me know and I'll try to find it for you.
It's a lot of fun!
Proposal #1: Virtual World
I have an idea for a virtual world where the ground is constantly changing and moving. It would not move rapidly, but it would shift from different sorts of terrain and earth. For example, one hike through the city could consist of a rock climb, a trek through the desert sand, a frozen pond to glide across, etc. The surfaces of the ground would change constantly so that if the avatar were to stand still, they would still experience the change of land beneath them. By filming different surfaces with tracking shots I could create a feel of movement that could be both shown in real play and in reverse. Then this video could be projected on the surface of second life.
What is web cinema? What COULD web cinema be?
What is web cinema?
Web cinema seems like it is unlike any other form of media (closest to video games). It allows the viewer to experience a world in both time and space, much like a movie can. However, movies do not allow many options in how you experience that world, while web cinema gives more. The reason I say it is closely liked to video games is because much like web cinema, video games allow you to experience the world that you are presented with, rather than observe it.
What could web cinema be?
Web cinema could be the wave of the future. Filmmakers can use this idea of experiential media can be used in many other realms, and not just the web. Filmmakers can use this as a way of thinking outside of the box and creating an alter reality that their viewer can be a part of, from the inside.
Web cinema seems like it is unlike any other form of media (closest to video games). It allows the viewer to experience a world in both time and space, much like a movie can. However, movies do not allow many options in how you experience that world, while web cinema gives more. The reason I say it is closely liked to video games is because much like web cinema, video games allow you to experience the world that you are presented with, rather than observe it.
What could web cinema be?
Web cinema could be the wave of the future. Filmmakers can use this idea of experiential media can be used in many other realms, and not just the web. Filmmakers can use this as a way of thinking outside of the box and creating an alter reality that their viewer can be a part of, from the inside.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
John Curall-Streaming Remix II
Here's my second remix video.
A lot of this footage is from my early experiments with using a camera.
Not that I have gotten that much better, but some of this is a little shaky.
Also, the music might be a little cheesy.
Let me know what you think.
Here is the Vimeo Link: http://www.vimeo.com/6720137.
Make sure you let it load completely before you start playing it.
I had a lot of trouble getting it to load.
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