Assignment 4- Draft

Below is some of what I have written for our fourth assignment. It defiantly needs some fleshing out in places, but I think it's an okay start.  I'll be working on this more later. 

-What might future tech hold?

Games and mobile devices, we may not have cameras in our heads such as Vannevar bush might have predicted.  But we do have them with us constantly in smaller devices.  One device that can take a picture, record data via journal or document.  Not to mention possess the ability to send a letter without ink or stamp, communicate without a voice and give one access to a library of information anywhere.  Smartphones, tablet devices and web books. These devices we keep close to us to remain connected.  We have ways at our fingertips to access our friends, family, ect.  

But at what cost do we have this information? There are cars with Heads up Displays (HUDs) that will connect with your iPod and report back data.   Along with showing you facebook statuses on your windshield , twitter  updates , and becoming a general distraction.  These small devices can be concealed in classrooms to allow students to distract themselves and others from an otherwise dull lecture, or they can be used to enhance ones knowledge. Allowing a student to look up more information on the current subject.   Or used in a social setting, “I wonder how plants work..”  However while we’re looking up information, we’re not paying attention, or communicating with those around us. 

It’s already in the process of what happens when we decide speaking is too much.  Friends sitting in the same room, text one another, or even other friends.  We as humans don’t speak to other humans  in public places around us.  There’s tons of us, and yet we will ignore one another on  the bus, streets, subway, sidewalk… Why?

How is it that technology will not find its limit, where we will go to far.  Where we become blind to our own thoughts, feelings and emotions, then come to rely on others to tell us how we feel?

Will the future bring us this tech, stream less in our brains, or will it be a robot that does it for us? (Link to helping robot bbc)

As we may think

A response to the article here:At this link.

 VANNEVAR BUSH's article, "As We May Think" makes references to many many things from its time. technology advances that have happened, and already happened in our past and present.  One of his curiosities is the process of photography.   To instead have to deal with wet plates, to deal with dry plates. To use film as we know it today, was his future thought. I doubt he would have dreamed of even seeing cameras as we do now. Instead of cameras in our heads, we have them in our hands, pockets, or hats if you're clever.  We use no film, only electrical impulses that are remembered on a wafer thin chip. Our cameras can be as tiny as a blood cell, or for practical use as large as a cassette tape. 

Another ideal he's had is the thought of preserving human history. Of methods to catalogue our existence in the smallest state possible, and accessing it via connected links and routes.  

I suppose this is a reference before his time to hyperlinks and the internet as a vast network of information. 

Critique on Kinetic Text

First-
The simple three color scheme and one font choice helps the image move through
and stay consistent.  The artist had a mass amount of contrast, and a great message that
engaged me. There are a few points I would change like the smile frown animation. Instead of jumbling off, it should have done something else... or not condensed at all. Also some slight tweaks to
pacing at points with more text, to give the viewer a few more seconds to read.

Second-

Awesome job. My favorite part was the laugh track part with all the Ha's coming in.  Using audio is a big challenge and she did a great job with it.  The end of the flash part with knocking down the stairs isn't quite synced with the words. It's the length of the knocked that throws it off. And perhaps instead of every stair, every other would make it quicker.

Flash works well with playing audio while scrubbing the text. Though someone else mentioned using iTunes while working.


Third-

Interesting job, and her transitions are an interesting choice.   Though the biggest complaint is that the size and speed of the text. My complaint is that the text is white with such a light background,  a darker color would be great.  Though the message of the flash is also lost on me. There's image and text theme, and then there is the poem...

The music is cool, but doesn't quite fit what she was trying to go for.

Fourth-

Alignment isn't quite right on some, and the aggressive text needs to be a different font and more red.
The last feels a little more interacting, which is pretty cool.  The diagonal text would be better in a smooth curve diagonal. However the alignment is throwing me off when they're all there.  Perhaps having more questions coming, or bringing more on the screen, letting pile up with different size.

Fifth-

The spinning subtle background gives and extra sense of space.
With audio it's great. There's a few alignment issues. However his idea to use the camera feature would be awesome.  The various texts went well.  One thing I would have liked to see was LCD-HDTV's animated somehow. Perhaps spelled out, or flash on. But I see again how the camera effect would have made that a lot better.

Mine-

Color code the text a bit better.  Separate fonts, with serifs.  Should be different.
something about sound,  or narration, or sound effects

Some people say that it reads like a book without sound.
Defiantly change the color scheme. Cookies brown does not work well. Brighter/primary color for child.
Brighten up background. Flashing cookie in the background/ low opacity.

Personal notes- Changing some pacing around No, what are we having for dinner, ect.

My assignment:

http://youtu.be/_RMREnH_hX8

(Editing a few things before I re-post it on you-tube.)

Artists of art and design

I'm clumbsy, and bad at this. We had an assignment to find an artist who designed as well? I didn't quite understand the assignment as well as I thought. That, and I can not seem to find the paper that I had written down the assignment on.


Failing that, an artist of design? Isn't any sort of design usually some sort of art?

After a little searching around I stumbled across a rather lovely set of images regarding furniture
Bill More had built. It combines elements of art, given the small designs ere and there. Not to mention influences the architect himself draws on, Frank Gehry , Richard Serra, and Andy Goldsworthy.  I feel that the art he has produced is functional, and beautiful. The design of some of his pieces, like his Glacial Till table could easily be in a museum. Or even stand out by themselves. If you thought of each piece of the table as an individual panel to be hung.


And I probably missed the point of the assignment again.
    - Here's him featured in area of design http://areaofdesign.com/featuredartist.htm#view1
    - And his website: http://www.billmoredesign.com/

Assignment 3

Apparently our assignment wasn't due last week, so I spent some time trying to tidy this one up. It's interesting to say the least, though I'm sure it looks so... pre-made. I guess.

It's more or less what I saw when I was making it.

Debrah Bright's talk

I sadly did not get to make it to the lecture last week. Which is a shame because I desperately wished to attend and see this artist speak.  My car decided to loose break power in the morning and I could not make it to the lecture. After spending three hours, and 200 dollars later in the repair shop I manged to get to my later class.


One thing I can talk about is the Artist Loop that I attended Friday, which was a lot of fun! We saw interesting galleries, many I didn't know existed. The Collingwood Art center is one of the more interesting places we visited. I looked forward to visiting the Secor gallery, however by the time we got there it was closed. Bozarts looked very crowded, and we didn't go in, as it was late.

Much of the art was fantastic, and I really enjoyed seeing a lot of the younger art from high schools and such.


... We'll defiantly attend the spring loop, hopefully it's announced a little better.

Messing with After Effects

I've learned a little from the Lynda tutorials, but then we did some work in class.

It's most frustrating to not be allowed to follow around, as I sure as hell can't see what tiney icons he's clicking on to do what.

Regardless, I've created a small mastercrap. :D

Check it out:
Rather, this is something I uploaded in attempts to show a friend what the puppet tool is like.

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