February 29, 2008 – 3:52 pm
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It is a set of techniques for allowing a higher range of values between the lightest and darkest areas of a digital image. The results can be truly breathtaking, here are some examples from Wikipedia.
The practical details involved with achieving these effects I’m not sure of yet, I literally [...]
February 28, 2008 – 11:57 am
The (insert-any-letter-here)Art puns continue. But in all seriousness, I think I’m ready to make Mars Bars go Far, work. This was one of my very early creative ideas developed during a furious period of brainstorming just after I was offered an interview for University. My notebook was this envelope;
Ideas 2006
The concept embodies my target of [...]
February 27, 2008 – 1:28 am
I just experienced an earthquake for the first time in my life, in Manchester, of all places.
It was a truly weird experience; I was sitting on a chair working on the computer. I noticed a swaying motion and looked round expecting to see my girlfriend there. Unfortunately as I turned I saw she was sitting [...]
February 25, 2008 – 3:14 pm
Researching stuff for the Interactive Arts Wiki, found Zenphoto. Possibly a good thing for Photobombing…
February 19, 2008 – 9:44 pm
I’m collaborating on a project with various people on my course to create “David Bowie World” on Second Life. That is a separate post on its own – but its got me to thinking about a few things:
Geocaching for Second Life (or a Geocaching-like game)
Photobombing for Second Life
Travel-bug games for Second Life (passing a “token” [...]
February 16, 2008 – 3:58 pm
I’ve made my own Infrared Pen for use with a Wii controller; interactive white board a-hoy. Hopefully will use it somehow with Zimmy’s feedback project using Johnny Lee’s interactive white board software. See this post for some cool videos demonstrating it.
For anyone’s reference; I got the infrared LED from Maplin. The part is “High Power [...]
February 13, 2008 – 7:58 pm
I’ve started working with Zimmy on creating an multi-faceted installation based around audio visual feedback. It stems from Zimmy’s experiments with pointing video cameras at projections of what the video camera is looking at… thus creating a feedback loop.
It is hugely fun, and awe inspiring in a way- I really love things that make you [...]
February 10, 2008 – 11:19 pm
Just as everything felt as if it were going well… I discover I’ve somehow managed to spam everyone who got involved with my “Prayer 2.0″ project. I had a feeling something was up, should have sniffed it out. Idiot me… Makes me think of Bob Dylan again;
Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories [...]
February 6, 2008 – 6:27 pm
During my last years study I was very interested in WikiPedia and the potential of creating or using a Wiki for developing creative practice, as well as using the structure of a Wiki for some sort of creativity. I explored creating a self-referential artwork through sabotage of WikiPedia; an interesting concept but in reality something [...]
February 2, 2008 – 6:10 pm
I liked Gregor Neuerer, and I thought his work was of interest. However it doesn’t detract from an element of irony in the title of his latest exhibition; at least there is irony for me having listened to his lecture! It left a trace, but it was but a trace! I found the presentation reminiscent [...]