Magic Technology Sets Minds on Fire : The Agony Column for May 21, 2002 Commentary (a day late and a dollar short) by Rick Kleffel

I was pleased to receive this email today:

Hi!
I have fell into your blog and find it interesting. In your posts you quote “Dogma 95″. I have an ongoing project more close to technology-cinema-performative arts that is a good showcase. If you want you can check it out at www.cinemasolubile.net.
Is a non-profit enthusiasm driven thing… if […]

It’s been an interesting year - I’ve learned a lot but not the sorts of things I was expecting to learn. I probably thought I’d learn about techniques but I’ve learned more about myself and the way I work. I’ve discovered that I default to projection work, that interactive art is the work […]

A brilliant video as part of an inspired media campaign by Control Arms: Control Arms - teleshopping

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So last week it was palm-sized LED projectors and over a drink on Tuesday a few of us discussed the possibilities if the technology was even smaller - I think ‘the size of a matchbox’ was mentioned. Well, here it is. (Or at least might be late next year.) via wired.com

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Been thinking of paradigms for new media as it will be a new course at WSA this year - figure as the first students through we might well influence the direction of the course as it develops. With that in mind, this article is well worth a read:we make money not art: Interview with […]

To save you manually typing in the links at the top of each scene on the storyboard I’ve put them all here for you. Isn’t that helpful? Except that it doesn’t work if you’ve come here via ‘blog.nursebadger.co.uk/tag/new+media’ (See web address if in doubt) in which case you’ll have to click on the title […]

Check out this video - some of the techniques are genius and I guess feed (& in some ways go beyond) into some of the work I was hoping to do with the projector (On hold at present - looking for it to make a come-back next year) - Anyway here it is:The Works […]

So I managed to capture the Quartz Composition and here it is. . . . .

Click on the above to start loading the movie (2.2MB)
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There are people out there doing a lot more exciting work than me with Quartz Composer (see links in previous posts) but everyone’s got to start somewhere and perhaps posting up the work I’m doing will help someone else who’s at the same stage. The following Quartz Composition uses sound to alter the position […]

I’ve been using Quartz Composer to complete the New Media unit of my degree - I was interested in it as a non-linear method for video production as I’ve used Final Cut before and have a good working knowledge of the way of working.
I had been looking at using QC to blend previously recorded footage […]

Matt, (Not sure why I put the link in there Matt!) found this interview with D. Barenboim on sound, as part of the Reith Lectures. Matthew, I love you.

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UPDATE:
These lectures really are worth looking at or listening to - there are a further four, with […]

I was getting a lot of cathode ray distortion (the coloured lines) in the scans of the TV, (Michael Golembewski talks a bit about Cathode ray tube distortion in his work) so I thought I’d see what the scan from an LCD screen looked like - and this is it - not sure whether I […]

I blogged in ‘New Addition to the Family‘ (I’ve stopped using direct links to my own site because of those pesky trackbacks. . . I know I left the preference page around here somewhere!) about using a scanner to lift images from a TV. Well here’s a proof of the concept.

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Well, this should be the final word in my series on the show formerly known as Temporary Assignment where I showed a piece of my work that also doubled up as the IRP unit for my BA.
Thinking about people’s feedback - It seems obvious that the piece had some difficulty in getting the ideas across. […]

There is a clear philosophical criticism of slogans, of the language of television, which is that it does not take into account the relation between content and time, and you cannot compress it and you cannot abbreviate it - Daniel Barenboim
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In talking with Mel recently it’s become clear to me that the way I work isn’t the most constructive. I tend to be very immediate with my ideas and feel frustrated if I can’t work on them the moment they come into my head. Especially at the moment where I’m having to do […]

Looped three times, this is approx. 15 frames of Theo walking toward me. I didn’t use a tripod but the jerkiness is caused predominantly by the film scanner which couldn’t align the photographs.
I was disappointed by the results when I first saw them - mind you, I had just spent two hours wrestling with […]

Just met with tutors about the movie project. Very useful meeting, they helped me narrow some of my ideas down.
yesterday I took a number of still frames that I’d shot of Theo walking toward me, and tried to put them together into a short film clip. Unfortunately the film scanners I used lack […]