Very interesting video lecture about ‘space’ from MIT
Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City by William J. Mitchell
The book by the same name should also be an interesting read
A must see!! PIPILOTTI RIST AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, acclaimed for her innovative video installations. This exhibition, her first survey show in the UK, presents single channel videos, sculptures, photographs, wallpapers and video installations spanning her career from the 1980s to today. Highly accomplished technically and employing dazzling colour, Rist’s practice fuses sensual images, music and text to create mesmerising installations. Rist creates a total sensory experience for her audience by showing her works within architectural installations conceived specially for particular spaces.
The power of social networking is growing ever greater in today society, nowadays also key to business and to market themselves, as its been proven to be effective and costs nothing at all. I am using twitter, to further market and brand ofthedigital - and myself as an independent digital artist. I will use the twitter account to update inform and update followers on my artworks and other projects. This account is hyper-linked from the ofthedigital website. I first had a hyperlink to my personal twitter account, however this seemed inappropriate and unprofessional, as the modue is in after all professional practice.
I have designed my items to promote myself as an independent digital artist, and to market myself as a web designer and a graphic designer to large and already established organisations. The website (ofthedigital.com) is the focal point and the hub of marketing myself and all the materials designed lead the user to it. The site is my portfolio and provides an archive of all my projects ordered by years.
Logo design 
Business Card
Postcard
CV Design
The completed SFX shot. We added the classical audio to the shot and added another adjustment layer in final cut to blend eveything together. The slow paced audio, slow moving chairs and clouds all work very well together. We’re both very pleased with the result.
We’re now at the finishing stages of our SFX shot, Mohannad has also finished his part of modeling the objects in the scene. He also added vegetation to blend the modeled building and lamppost to the scene. At this meeting we fixed the lighting and added shadows to the bouncing chairs. we adjusted the lighting positions to achieve convincing shadows. We both also decided to change the colour of some of the lights from white to make the 3D objects and footage blend even more together.
Found a great article by Russell Smith on self employed artists entitled ‘Becoming self empolyed‘
In cinema 4D, we placed the full colour train footage on to a plane, and used the alpha footage to key out the black background. It took us a while to get the alpha setting right, but we got there in the end. We then placed this plane on top of the modeled bridge and just behind the modeled barriers, we altered the size of it to in accordance to the size of the modeled lamp post, which is also present in the train footage.
Initially in After Effects, we cut and exported the footage short to just before the trains appearance. Since, we have the time we decided we would add the train footage over the scene we already have in Cinema 4D. This is to achieve a more convincing composition, where we would now have the illusion the chairs are flying down behind the bridge and train. To do this, I had to first key out the the train from the rest of the footage, followed by painful key framing of the trains movement. I also used the footage to create an animated alpha mask to use for keying out the black background later in Cinema 4D.
University of Southampton
Nearly 200 works, including paintings, prints, posters, photographs and film, are displayed across two of the city’s most prestigious art galleries, the John Hansard Gallery at the University of Southampton, and Southampton City Art Gallery. The works on display are part of ARTIST ROOMS, a new collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the nation.
This free exhibition, which runs until 26 June, explores Warhol’s fascination with fame and celebrity, giving visitors an overview of his work from 1951 until his death in 1987.
Looks like a long drive it is then …
De la war pavilion
This exhibition presents over 100 works including watercolours, drawings and prints, spanning his whole visual art career, including his Ryoanji series. In these works he drew around the outlines of stones scattered randomly across the paper or printing plate, in one case drawing around 3,375 individually placed stones. He also experimented with burning or soaking the paper, and applied complex, painstaking procedures at each stage of the printmaking process.
Every Day is a Good Day will be arranged using a randomising computer programme inspired by the I Ching – an ancient Chinese text and philosophy that Cage often used to create his work. This system, based on chance operations, will mean that works are displayed at different heights and in groups and spaces that a curator would not necessarily choose. Such chance encounters between works will give a sense of an ongoing creative process and the exhibition will be re-hung, according to the I Ching, at least once during the exhibition period.
I completed my sky replacement task and we’re both happy with the shot. I also animated the sky to give the illusion that the clouds in the sky are moving. The slow moving clouds would also compliment the slow classical music and the slow moving objects which would be added to the shot later. We both decided to add an adjustment layer and adjusted the colour balance to fuse the sky and scene together.
Also, we initially thought we would need to track the shot in PFHoe at this stage before exporting to Cinema 4D, however it came to our attention, since the camera is not moving, we wouldn’t need to track it at all. The next step was to place the shot in a ‘background’ in cinema 4D, ready for mohannad to add the 3D elements of the shot.
We have been having regular group meeting and in the latest one we discussed: Although, the current building is great and fits perfectly into the scene the current textures make the building stick out from the rest of shot, resulting in an unconvincing composition. For a more convincing composition we decided that Mohannad would play around with the textures more to make them fit in with the scene, perhaps grey bricks.
I have managed to transform the previous Processing Pixel test to work on a video (multiple images) using a short clip from ‘Wall.E’. The colour value of the 50th pixel on every line has been stretched to fill the screen, these values keep changing with every frame in the video.
I also thought of a name for my Double Project: Erudio Spectaculum
Using the SLO18 from RFID Sniffer, each Serial Card touched on the SLO18 reader presents a different Processing drawing – or different sized diameters of the ellipses.
The serial 2734bdc4 draws …
The serial e2145bda draws …
I have been looking around for a way to play only certain frequency of an audio file within Processing, little did I know the built in Processing examples had with them the sketch BandPassFilter. A band-pass filter is a device that passes frequencies within a certain range and rejects frequencies outside that range. The sketch can currently filter frequencies by moving the mouse over the sketch.
The next step is to edit and modify this sketch so I can set it to only play a certain frequency range, eradicating the use of the mouse. Thereafter, modify the sketch so the range of frequencies is determined by an RFID card or serial number.
I used the shot of the bridge to create a mask in Photoshop, which I would later use to mask out the sky in After Effects.
After some feedback, it became apparent that the sky I used (below) looked too dramatic. I need to use a sky that would compliment the lighting of the shot, so as to make the composition believable. We also decided instead of masking out the barriers at the top of the bridge, we would later model them in Cinema 4D. Also the middle section of the barriers in the original shot was burnt white from the sun.
