animation and code
I haven’t posted in a while, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. A lot of work (which I can’t talk about right now), and also a lot of messing around with the Casio EX-F1 slow-motion camera.
http://www.vimeo.com/4878256
Continue reading ‘Slow-Motion Videos’
I’m still not sure of how excited I should feel about this, but one of the pictures I took of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens is featured in the Schmap!! Guide to New York. See it here.
linearMusic is an interactive installation that reacts to the presence of passers-by and turns them into performers. It consists of a camera tracking pedestrians on a street, a projection on a wall covering the surface tracked by the camera, and sound played through speakers.
When a pedestrian is seen by the camera a set of lines appears on the wall, following her and “wrapping” around her silhouette. As more people pass in front of the camera, the lines reform themselves to wrap around all of them. A soundscape plays as people interact with the piece, and each individual affects a specific quality of the sound by moving left to right and up to down.
There are two ways to interact with the installation. One can simply pass across the projection, or actively engage with it, seeing how the movements affect the soundscape.
linearMusic was tested in the hall at ITP, but the ideal setup for the installation would be a large wall on a warehouse in Chelsea.
http://www.vimeo.com/4260794The ITP Spring Show is taking place this Sunday and Monday and it’s going to be a good one. I will be presenting my Rats ‘n’ Bedbugs visualization.
ITP Spring Show 2009
May 10th, 2pm to 6pm
May 11th, 5pm to 9pm
@ 721 Broadway, 4th Floor
The Zoeprojectoscope is a mechanical toy designed to teach kids the main concepts of frame-by-frame animation. Animation is a fascinating concept, especially for kids who watch a lot of it. It’s always exciting to understand how the shows they watch are made.
How it works
View the PDF
Better late than never… Here is the documentation from Eyal and I’s Spatial Media midterm, flora.
http://www.vimeo.com/4416736
Rats ‘n’ Bedbugs is an on-screen interactive visualization of the rat and bedbug populations in New York City.
The interface consists of a map showing the concentration of rats and bedbugs at different focus levels: the entire city, the five boroughs, and the community districts.The focus changes by zooming in and out of the map, through simple mouse clicks on or off the area of interest. This zoom is accompanied by scattering or flocking of pests as the numbers get adjusted, creating a smooth yet disturbing interaction.
The idea for this project came to me after moving to the city and seeing rats all over the place, and reading that there are approximately 5 rats per person in New York City. This made me very uneasy and I felt that making a project about it would help desensitize me.
The bedbugs aspect of it came from my girlfriend, who is as freaked out about bedbugs as I am about rats.
There is plenty of data on this subject, most notably the NYC Health Rat Information Portal and the New York vs. Bed Bugs website. Since the numbers are in the millions, the amount of pests shown will be scaled according to the number of people living in the area of focus. For example, if 1 000 000 people live in Manhattan and 5 000 000 rats live in Manhattan, this could be represented as 100 human sprites vs. 500 rat sprites.
http://www.vimeo.com/4385303One more step done for Rats ‘n’ Bedbugs: http://hipstershit.com/
The final application will be up very soon…
Here we go… Click to make them change burrows.
We’ve got the visuals almost there, just need to play with the camera calibration and adjust the colours. The next and hardest part we need to tackle is the audio…
