Following on from the work of last years students on the MA Digital Media Arts at University of Brighton, here are a new batch of animations from the Flash Puppetry Workshop that I ran recently.
Click the image to see a preview (and find the button to start the animation).
Some great ideas here, with more to come.
Again, you can follow the students on their Blogs using the links on the right.
Well done all!
A truly inspired competition by Booooooom!, that really caught the imagination of many. Pick your favourite Artwork, and shoot a photographic version of it.
Straightforward, simple, and as you can see from the images above, very effective. The quality of some of the remakes is extremely high and well worth a look.
Click this image to visit the BBC News article on this first Chatbot conversation. Makes for some funny viewing as it emerges that, just like us, computers can easily become prone to being spiky and argumentative.
You’re almost waiting for them to turn away from one another in disgust. Brilliant.
A wonderfully easy to use new web service that joins all your dots, ifttt also has the best name for a start-up that I’ve seen for some time.
An easy way to connect WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Tumblr, Flickr, Gmail (to name but a few) using a dead simple event management approach?
Yes please.
I’ve got a handful of ifttt invites too, so if anyone wants to give it a spin, let me know in the comments below…
Music made by bird-spotters. Sort of. Twitchr demonstrates a lovely, playful community based project, and is well executed using Google Maps. Should be of interest to you Sayuri, as the user can upload info along with their marker placement details…
Truly inspired use of a virtual sense of place to create haunting visions of a communal experience. Hundreds of tourist photos of world famous landmarks (that were all found online), are superimposed here to create these stunning images by Corinne Vionnet.
A great example too of a project that fits right in with the “Virtual Culture & Network Practices” module, for any first years in need of further inspiration. I wonder if permission to use any of the photos was sought?
(Via My Modern Met)
Simple yet effective drawing wall, with many users drawing on the same page at any given time. Best way to see how people use it is to leave it open for a while. You can even chat to your fellow doodlers (how’s your Russian?). Another brilliant HTML5 experiment from Mr Doob, creator of The Wilderness Downtown by Arcade Fire.
Be sure to visit his Harmony drawing tool too (see video below), which features the amazing drawing tools seen in the Wilderness video. Plus, the project is available as open source, so you can poke around behind the scenes and play around with the different brushes.
A great example of an online collaboration project. After becoming a member of the Doodlers Anonymous site, you can enter a drawing or doodle to be voted on by fellow members. The most voted for entry gets published as part of the calendar for 2012. Simple.
They are now taking entries for February, and will also feature guest artists for future months. Plus, after spending a whole year marketing the calendar and growing their customer base with interested participants, they’ll release a product to a ready and waiting audience. Simple.
Google have now taken their nine eye camera into a number of galleries around the world. You can now wonder around a virtual National Gallery, Museum of Modern Art or Rijksmuseum. The experience is a long way removed from the real sense of place you get in these locations, and frankly some of the photography of the galleries is crude to say the least.
However, the project begins to transcend these limitations when you start to explore a picture in isolation. Using the increasingly popular Google Maps interface, you can get closer to a painting then you can in any of the museums and see details beyond the average naked eye. If you could only find an enormous monitor upon which to view the work in it’s entirety; even the 27 inch iMac I viewed the site on feels restricted, and again points to the fact that there is nothing like being there. Nevertheless, a worthy and genuinely useful way to explore art in snippets of it’s glory.
