Things I Noticed About Google Earth

I was looking at Google Earth a while ago. And it seems as though it consits of a collection or collage of satilite photography, perhaps loaded into the goolge earth system, not unlike how Wikipedia is edited. Another thing I thought was interesting is how Google Earth is perpetually summer, not much snow anywhere.

animation vs animator 2

In case anyone ws interested in seeing animator vs animated 2. Click on the link below.

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/animator_vs_animation_2.jsp

Most of the clips I showed in class can be found on newgrounds.com. The disney like animation was called the yuyu.

Interesting perspective on the Internet

I found this interesting take on the history of the internet:

Soooo....

The internet was designed by the military so that distributed survivors (the military and key government officials) could survive a nuclear holocaust. Consider that the internet, then, is a stronger weapon than an atomic bomb, because it is designed to survive it (same reason that paper beats rock). Is there any wonder that myspace exists? Myspace is why the military invented the original Arpanet back in the 60's: so that the alienated and seperated zombies could find each other and procreate.

Given that the nuclear bomb is at least partly responsible for the alienating factors of antisocialist existentialism, the network as a means of existential survival and recovery is really apt. It's kind of like we are already surviving an existential nuclear holocaust that takes place in possibility only, went into hiding, and now the possibility of reconnection is bringing us out of our bunkers. (So, was TV a practice system for entertaining the bunker-based survivors? It's another perfect system- almost all of our culture post 1945 was based on convenience for the isolated and unconnected.)

Posted by Eryk


Baudrillard says that the nuclear war has already happened... I guess this is what he means.

Alien music interface

This is a preety interesting sound manipating interface I found on the web.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/73241/Alien_like_Music_Interface_Part_1.html

Links and stuff

Here’s some links to supplement some of the stuff I presented plus some more for fun but are also areas I’ll be exploring for my paper.

This video cleverly explains what web 2.0 is.

The Machine is Us/ing Us


These are the threads in two car forums that wound up getting some guy busted for dangerous driving. It can be followed or read much like a narrative, connected by hypertext and supported by various forms of other media put together by those who decided to get in on it, all the while being rather entertaining and very real.

“This is some really stupid driving…”

The original thread

“Some videos…”


Collab

"A full scale audio/video multiuser communication environment. Features text chat, shared drawing, and webcam video chat. The audio/video feature is implemented with Macromedia's Flash Communication Server, while the rest of the application is powered by Unity 2 and Coldfusion MX."

This wasn’t working in class but it should now. Just open it up from the right hand collum and your in it. Still very basic but to me it was instantly inspiring.
The real-time collaboration, interaction and communication seems extremely powerful and as this and other similar sites get increasingly immersive and sophisticated, new collaborative functions will create entire worlds of ideas and ways of working.


wannaspell

This is everybody’s favorite wannaspell, the online letter board. Don’t give up too quick if people keep stealing steal your letters.


Something I noticed is that the web has seen entire new breeds of collections emerge individually and collectively as people congregate over information. Whether it be a favorite top ten or a trivial obsession, music, video, pictures, stories and media of all sorts are naturally created and edited into categories generated by people connected by like-mindedness and the net. Here are a few examples I’ve noticed.

.gif thread. 800+ links to .gif animations provides hours, or seconds, of entertainment. Just press next.

http://www.newstoday.com/pv-an/view_comment.php?topicId=74436&showTitle=1

People playing the theme music from Tetris on keyboard…

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=tetris%20on%20keyboard&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=1

Doctor Who theme remixes…

http://whomix.trilete.net/?wmid=music

Kittens…

http://images.google.com/images?q=kittens&ndsp=18&svnum=10&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&start=0&sa=N


Browser Based Entertainment

I think this is just a demonstration of the file format .flv (flash video) with some loops, juxtaposing music and audio with video. Interesting enough to be a work in and of itself but either way it’s a good presentation of video online.


We Are The Strange


A feature film made by one guy in his bedroom (with some great sonic contributions I should add by Noise Inc http://www.noiseinc.org/ ) Clearly influenced by the mash-up of animation and video game imagery on the internet and made possible by accessible digital technologies, it’s possibly (another) first example of what is and will be possible in the future of cinema. On his vlog he mentioned that while he was at Sundance, where the film is an official selection, Youtube and other online video companies were the only industry people he seemed to see eye to eye on. Lots of hype and meaningless pictures but clearly there are new business models and creative ideas being brewed for the entertainment industry online.


'Mooninite marketing guys’

The infamous video. A testament to the savvy of modern day marketing. With some for sight they deflected the questions amusingly for the publicity and especially the video that inevitably would be broadcast on the internet all over the internet, ‘viral’ as they say, generating more and more exposure for a hugley successful ad prank and ultimately the cartoon that started it all, The Mooninites.


Some long exposure photography taken of some old school video games. Cool stuff.

http://www.rosemariefiore.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=12

gaming notes

ABC national radio of australia has a podcast called "background briefing". one episode was about second-life and virtual money

here is the link to the transcript (the audio file is probably somewhere):
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also

we use the word hacking a lot. here is an interview with Steven Levy who formulated the hacker ethic in his book “Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution”.
here is an audio file with him in interview
chaosradio

more interactive sound work

by Ralph Ammer

The declared goal was to create six different interaction paradigms which deal with musical aspects in a playful way. In addition to that the instruments were provided with a possibility of orchestration to enable simultaneous playing.


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