10,000 Miles From A Car Window from CHARLES VON ROTBERG on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Monday, 7 February 2011
Out Of Nothing
Screen shots from the remarkable "ex nihilo, an observational film by Jesus Olmo.
Watch it here.
http://vimeo.com/10142498
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Hybrid.
It didnt feel right without sound so I used one of Beaty Heart tracks to fill it out. I will be using something else though
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Who you know? from CHARLES VON ROTBERG on Vimeo.
First thing Ive made in ages. It pretty much sums up my Easter
Monday, 12 April 2010
Telepathe - Devil's Trident (Teengirl Fantasy Basic Sensation Dub) from Mark Brown on Vimeo.
Portofino ~ Teengirl Fantasy ~ blackmoth.org from Teengirl Fantasy on Vimeo.
Its been long time. Found this new band. Found this video. Inspiration back online. Watching this makes me feel like I should start making things again. I think I will
Monday, 15 March 2010
Monday, 1 March 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Friday, 15 January 2010
Digital Environments evalutive report.
In my evaluative report I am going to respond to some of the main points that came up in the discussions we had that are relevant to me personally. I have found some of the topics that we have talked about somewhat overwhelming and found it hard to get to grips with the vast amount of content that has been discussed.
As a visual communicator I very much rely on the internet and often take the web 2.0 tool for granted. Before I started the elective I didn't appreciate the power of the web and how much I gain from it everyday, be it getting feedback on my own work uploaded to my blog and flickr account or researching and increasing my knowledge which is often supplied by random people I don't know and probably wont ever thank. I would like to think that what you put into web 2.0 you get back, and I would like to think that I have contributed my fair share but in all honesty I probably haven't.
A digital environment such as Web 2.0 has the capabilities and diversity to provide for everybody's needs, with an unconstrained personal choice one can easily find their niche and express their opinions. One can be part of several online communities at the same time, and are not restricted to a sub culture. All done from the comfort of your own home there isn't even any need to dress differently or listen to a certain type of music! After our many discussions about mass collaboration and the voice of the individual, I hope that the knowledge and media that I have uploaded onto the internet has reached individuals and has found its niche. If it hasn’t found its niche, it doesn’t matter, as in my opinion I have contributed my voice, and my voice will always be there if someone does want to listen to it.
Have I earned the right to access others content? Do I have to? Reflecting on the statistics brought up in Lev Manovich's essay I certainly don't. On the photo sharing website "flickr" it was shown that the amount of members that had collectively submitted the majority of photographs was of an extremely small percentage (0.5-1.5% of all members). Maybe illustrating that people freely take looking at other people's pictures without submitting their own for granted. This maybe a good thing, as there is still a clear boundary between semi/professional and amateurism. However Clay Shirky argues that this boundary no longer exists. Technologies such as camera phones are now taken for granted and are readily available. Anybody can contribute to digital environments instantly, taking a picture of the Sichuan province earthquake in China for example. News of the disaster was published to the world as it was happening by the people experiencing it, not professional journalists and photographers. News spread, and within hours and donation sites had developed online.
With unlimited access to free content and the platform for anyone to take existing data and "remix" it into something new the consumer and the producer become one, for example the online encyclopaedia "wikipedia". This may lead to professional content being diluted by amateur content and the thought that nothing on the internet can be thoroughly trusted. This then leads to the plans of Rupert Murdoch and his "pay for content" policies.
This side of the internet actually really excites me, not because the information I pay for will be purer and more accurate but for rebellion and free "black market" web that could possibly be sparked from it. I think it will enhance mass-collaboration and encourage people more than ever to be heard, as if they were using a pirate radio station or T.V channel. Communication technologies from the last five hundred years have completely changed, they haven’t disappeared but are now just carried on the back of the internet.
Digital environments create the possibility for a completely unconstrained social system, a platform for totally unrestricted mass communication and collaboration, the sharing of knowledge, thoughts, images, videos and pretty much anything else you can think of.
As a visual communicator I very much rely on the internet and often take the web 2.0 tool for granted. Before I started the elective I didn't appreciate the power of the web and how much I gain from it everyday, be it getting feedback on my own work uploaded to my blog and flickr account or researching and increasing my knowledge which is often supplied by random people I don't know and probably wont ever thank. I would like to think that what you put into web 2.0 you get back, and I would like to think that I have contributed my fair share but in all honesty I probably haven't.
A digital environment such as Web 2.0 has the capabilities and diversity to provide for everybody's needs, with an unconstrained personal choice one can easily find their niche and express their opinions. One can be part of several online communities at the same time, and are not restricted to a sub culture. All done from the comfort of your own home there isn't even any need to dress differently or listen to a certain type of music! After our many discussions about mass collaboration and the voice of the individual, I hope that the knowledge and media that I have uploaded onto the internet has reached individuals and has found its niche. If it hasn’t found its niche, it doesn’t matter, as in my opinion I have contributed my voice, and my voice will always be there if someone does want to listen to it.
Have I earned the right to access others content? Do I have to? Reflecting on the statistics brought up in Lev Manovich's essay I certainly don't. On the photo sharing website "flickr" it was shown that the amount of members that had collectively submitted the majority of photographs was of an extremely small percentage (0.5-1.5% of all members). Maybe illustrating that people freely take looking at other people's pictures without submitting their own for granted. This maybe a good thing, as there is still a clear boundary between semi/professional and amateurism. However Clay Shirky argues that this boundary no longer exists. Technologies such as camera phones are now taken for granted and are readily available. Anybody can contribute to digital environments instantly, taking a picture of the Sichuan province earthquake in China for example. News of the disaster was published to the world as it was happening by the people experiencing it, not professional journalists and photographers. News spread, and within hours and donation sites had developed online.
With unlimited access to free content and the platform for anyone to take existing data and "remix" it into something new the consumer and the producer become one, for example the online encyclopaedia "wikipedia". This may lead to professional content being diluted by amateur content and the thought that nothing on the internet can be thoroughly trusted. This then leads to the plans of Rupert Murdoch and his "pay for content" policies.
This side of the internet actually really excites me, not because the information I pay for will be purer and more accurate but for rebellion and free "black market" web that could possibly be sparked from it. I think it will enhance mass-collaboration and encourage people more than ever to be heard, as if they were using a pirate radio station or T.V channel. Communication technologies from the last five hundred years have completely changed, they haven’t disappeared but are now just carried on the back of the internet.
Digital environments create the possibility for a completely unconstrained social system, a platform for totally unrestricted mass communication and collaboration, the sharing of knowledge, thoughts, images, videos and pretty much anything else you can think of.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Digital Environments Notes
Notes
‘Aesthetics is for artists what ornithology is for birds.’
Digital systems record or transmit information in the form of thousands of very small signals.
Digital is:
purely artificial.
Instant
Convenient
Unlimited
_Lev Manovich's essay.
I found statistics on the photo sharing website flickr particularly interesting. Myself an avid flickr user I take pride in my page and upload images regularly. I find it hard to believe that I'm in the 0.5-1.5% of members uploading the images. It actually makes me feel a little cheated. Although i want my images to be seen by the public, it would be nice to think that the majority of flickr users are uploading images as well, putting something back into the system. Or maybe I should just be grateful for the decreased competition to get the most "favourites" or "likes".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24399408@N05/
one of my favourite flickr groups:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/formica/sets/72157602571474907/
‘ it is only a matter of time before constant broadcasting of one’s live becomes as common as email’?
This is already happening. Since the time of writing "twitter" has exploded and we can be constantly updated about what each all doing, in real or virtual life. Updates on ones life can be sent from our mobile phones via txt to our twitter page where it is broadcasted to the world.
_Chris and Keir came to speak to us today. Some very interesting performance based projects that were often originated from online occurrences.
Their project on "Rob Ring" sparked from a controversial youtube copyright battle with a man from Cananda was particularly interesting.....
I fully support their digital is dangerous campaign however fear it may be a lost cause. As much as I love a good independent record shop I don't think it can compete with the digital revolution's equilivant (itunes,last.fm,spottily etc.). A cheaper, faster and greater choice in music can all be found online form the comfort of your own home. However its really great to see this record shop in Birmingham full of people listening to live music and browsing L.P;s over a pint.
_Charles Leadbeater
-Just a tool?
The internet started purely as a way to send medium, a more convenient, faster tool, an upgrade from postal services. It quickly morphed into a communication tool and a platform for mass collaboration and the sharing of media.
-Big but becoming dull
-Big but BAD
-Big and getting bigger FAST
-big,good-could become bad
Paying for content……
I think we generally came to the conclusion that this would be bad. Then again maybe if you paid for your content would you have greater trust in it?
Paying for content may be relevant for niche market's where information is rarer and less available?
Killing google
www.urbanscreen.com
This website really inspired me to try and project digital media onto physical objects and back into the real world. This was a test I did last year, trying to create a digital accompliament (made up of ripped clips from Youtube) for the background sounds coming from the street. I wanted the sounds from real life to be magnetised to the digital media, an effect that our brains often do automatically.
‘Aesthetics is for artists what ornithology is for birds.’
Digital systems record or transmit information in the form of thousands of very small signals.
Digital is:
purely artificial.
Instant
Convenient
Unlimited
_Lev Manovich's essay.
I found statistics on the photo sharing website flickr particularly interesting. Myself an avid flickr user I take pride in my page and upload images regularly. I find it hard to believe that I'm in the 0.5-1.5% of members uploading the images. It actually makes me feel a little cheated. Although i want my images to be seen by the public, it would be nice to think that the majority of flickr users are uploading images as well, putting something back into the system. Or maybe I should just be grateful for the decreased competition to get the most "favourites" or "likes".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24399408@N05/
one of my favourite flickr groups:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/formica/sets/72157602571474907/
‘ it is only a matter of time before constant broadcasting of one’s live becomes as common as email’?
This is already happening. Since the time of writing "twitter" has exploded and we can be constantly updated about what each all doing, in real or virtual life. Updates on ones life can be sent from our mobile phones via txt to our twitter page where it is broadcasted to the world.
_Chris and Keir came to speak to us today. Some very interesting performance based projects that were often originated from online occurrences.
Their project on "Rob Ring" sparked from a controversial youtube copyright battle with a man from Cananda was particularly interesting.....
I fully support their digital is dangerous campaign however fear it may be a lost cause. As much as I love a good independent record shop I don't think it can compete with the digital revolution's equilivant (itunes,last.fm,spottily etc.). A cheaper, faster and greater choice in music can all be found online form the comfort of your own home. However its really great to see this record shop in Birmingham full of people listening to live music and browsing L.P;s over a pint.
Dub Quiz - Digital is dangerous from keir williams on Vimeo.
_Charles Leadbeater
-Just a tool?
The internet started purely as a way to send medium, a more convenient, faster tool, an upgrade from postal services. It quickly morphed into a communication tool and a platform for mass collaboration and the sharing of media.
-Big but becoming dull
-Big but BAD
-Big and getting bigger FAST
-big,good-could become bad
Paying for content……
I think we generally came to the conclusion that this would be bad. Then again maybe if you paid for your content would you have greater trust in it?
Paying for content may be relevant for niche market's where information is rarer and less available?
Killing google
www.urbanscreen.com
This website really inspired me to try and project digital media onto physical objects and back into the real world. This was a test I did last year, trying to create a digital accompliament (made up of ripped clips from Youtube) for the background sounds coming from the street. I wanted the sounds from real life to be magnetised to the digital media, an effect that our brains often do automatically.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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