So busy that I have time to make odd experiments using scaled up spinning Mac OS beachballs that work across spaces…
Here is the video showing how I achieved this. If you want to try it yourself, you can download the file here: /Alwaysbusy.zip
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A mosh study of the letter A from my alphabet. Taking all of the pixel lines created in the video and composing it into one visual set in four colours. Thinking of doing these painted or spray painted on canvas/some other surface large scale in my spare time. It would be nice to do each letter…
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Just a few photos of our final box for our digital arts brief. It is an open box to let in light with an adjustable shelve so that the kaleidoscope can be sat on it and moved back and fourth to suit the camera. The shelve is long so that a camera can sit behind the kaleidoscope with a slot hole in the front for the stained glass (which can be changed to other designs accordingly)
copied an image off the internet into photoshop and this happened, thought it was interesting, would like to try and capture glitches sometime like this but need to work out how to make them happen, instead of just capturing them when they naturally arise!
Some development from mine and Louise Lawlor’s digital arts brief where we are trying to make a giant interactive stained glass window proposal to go in the Cathedral. We want people to interact and be projected on-top of a boarded up stained glass window, allowing them to be part of the window. We found this wonderful window, The Bishops eye:
The Bishops eye is in a part of the Cathedral that collapsed in the 12th century, it was damaged and unable to be put back together in it’s original design so instead they reconstructed it in this mosaic like form which is reminiscent of a keilodscope. From this we decided to develop our own blue peter style Kaleidoscopes which we have been experimenting with since and are still developing for a more finished visual which we are trying to base around the history etc.
Continue for more photos of the kaleidoscopes and window detail. (more…)
I’m reworking some work from 2nd year where we were encouraged to experiment with code in flash to make imagery, I’ve decided to develop them into posters for my portfolio. Really pleased with them at the moment, each one has it’s three separate parts of code at the bottom, with both a landscape and portrait design depending on the image. Would like to print them but seen as they were made in flash not sure how great a quality I can get, I’m hoping they’ll go to A3.
A bit of research into how the dialect sounds by having a few chats with real people from my area.
Here is some progress from my language brief, I’m thinking of printing posters and using materials which are from my area such as coal (charcoal) to render the type as my areas history is based around coal mining. Also possibly using cloth as we are also known for our history of textiles and using local type styles that are influenced from real environments and people of my area.
I’m going home sometime this week to take some photos and interview some people, specifically my Grandad to gain more insight and information.
Currently looking at the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire dialect for my language brief. I am from a small town on the border so I know a lot of people who use different dialects, often they all merge together. We have some very weird words that nobody else in the country uses such as ‘cob’ for a bread roll or ‘snap’ for food. I’m hoping to go visit my family and interview them and others from my area to further explore the dialect on top of reading this book to really get to grips with it.
Here are some good examples of strings of words and how they are said.
it’s tonnin intureen – it’s turning into rain
put t’wood in t’hole – put the wood in the hole (close the door)
don’ b’mardy – don’t be so sensitive
aya gorrit rayt? – have you got it right?
