Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

Remember, i am in Orlando on Thursday, so you have a free day to begin your midterms. I will see you all on Tuesday! Enjoy the weekend! Patrick

Pat, I believe you asked us to post our ideas for our midterm projects. You have given me several appealing choices and I may need some help deciding, but these are the nervous contestants: 1) A project learning and using Keynote 2) A project involving Sketchup as it relates to the storytelling project for Arturo's class 3) A project using stitched together panoramas and/or Quicktime VR panoramas P.S. Don't feel bad about not grading the panoramas- we will forgive you someday :o)

1.) A Homepage/Webpage to include basics a.) Pictures, with text and links b.) embedded video c.) VRML [not required] d.) Menus e.) Navigation System f.) Sound of some sort The webpage can be from a template, or you can use Dreamweaver or Bluefish or code it by hand! I will do a Dreamweaver tutorial if there is interest. 2.) Software Survey DO a survey of a piece of software that you might use as a tool for another class in MADAS or towards your degree. It can be modelling (WINGS3d,Blender,3DSMAX) Graphic (GIMP,PHOTOSHOP) VRML (Freewrl), 3D (Sketchup,Open Scene Graph) Video (Premiere,After Effects, Resolume) or anything else you would like to explore in a project. 3.) A video/music piece. Please discuss what you woud like to do with me so we can create a criteria of what you want to present together 4.) Powerpoint with Media on a chapter in the Book 5.) Avatar modelling or Second Life (script, model or gesture or fashion design) Remember creations in second life can be sold for real m

Originally, I was going to develop a website containing my portfolio, resume, sample work and so on for the mid-term project. I plan to create a greeting video on the homepage, I want to use freesound and audacity to make my own background music. I will use i-movie to put my photograph works together as a video, then add some text as explanation. Etc. But now I feel it is difficult to use dreamweaver to develop a website because I only have a little basic knowledge about it. So, if I can't figure out how to use it soon. I will use creating a second life object as a backup plan. I might create a kindergarten which contains many fun stuff in it for children.

I watched most of the fluxus films on ubu.com. I was quite confused about the meaning of those videos. It seems there is no story, no structure to them. Then I Google searched for an introduction about fluxus. It says fluxus is about blending different artistic media and disciplines together. It is intermedia, an attitude rather than a story. Fluxus artists are fond of combining various elements at hand , intersecting them together, in order to creat a new piece of art work. One example, called wrist trick by Paul Sharits, contained images of a wrist trick which were overlapped together to form a wrist trick film. Fluxus films are also very simple and small. For example, Peter Kennedy & Mike Parr - Flux Film 37 (1970) showed a process of bluring by using tape stuck to the camera lens. I like how they used a simple method to creat an effect which couldn't be duplicated by the technology of the time. Fluxus is also humorous, for example, "end after 9" and "9 mintut

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I watched most of the fluxus films on ubu.com. I was quite confused about the meaning of those videos. It seems there is no story, no structure to them. Then I Google searched for an introduction about fluxus. It says fluxus is about blending different artistic media and disciplines together. It is intermedia, an attitude rather than a story. Fluxus artists are fond of combining various elements at hand , intersecting them together, in order to creat a new piece of art work. One example, called wrist trick by Paul Sharits, contained images of a wrist trick which were overlapped together to form a wrist trick film. Fluxus films are also very simple and small. For example, Peter Kennedy & Mike Parr - Flux Film 37 (1970) showed a process of bluring by using tape stuck to the camera lens. I like how they used a simple method to creat an effect which couldn't be duplicated by the technology of the time. Fluxus is also humorous, for example, "end after 9" and "

I'd like to create a video that weaves together dance, myth, song and indigineous knowledge. In addition to using pre-existing public domain/ creative commons files, I will be creating original content through collaborations with other artists - at this point a singer and a dancer. I will be exploring how to use the digital media suite, the greenscreen, protools, premiere, audacity, resolume, and pure data in order to make this video.

Please post your Midterm idea on the blog before Tuesday. I will bring a handout for those of you who might be struggling with an idea for midterm. It will also help by giving you some examples of what projects have been done before. I invite you all to check THIS blog for project ideas as i have left some of the posts form the previous semester on this blog. ALSO: Some people have asked and i want to be clear YES, you can do a midterm and then ENHANCE, UPDATE and EXPAND the same project into your final. I always allow this but i like for you all, as i said before to really take some time to explore the variety of topics before deciding what you want to do. REMINDER: I want you all to email me pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu with a time where we can meet about your project. Pat

Hi everyone. PLease fill out the student survey that chris has sent you all. PLease do this before midnight tonight! I want to use the survey to soften the rough edges and focus on the things that people are concerned about. We have hopped around a bit because i have wanted to expolore ideas as they have come up instead of being strict with lessons. This does not mean there is disorganization, trust me. I have been trying to expose you all to as many elements of digital culture so you have some fun ideas for a midterm project. I also want you to know that you do not have to feel obligated to do an Second Life project if you are enrolled in IST or IRS. These courses are designed to have some important overlap, not redundancy, so please use time in SL to improve your Avatar or create a media space if you have not already. Important things we have covered so far including Second Life has been Beatniks & the 60s -- Media, Fluxus and arts Burroghs and Gysin -- Hypertext 3D basics -- vi

After watching all of the fluxus movies on ubu.com, I though End After 9 is still my favorite. I like the humor it brought from the expectation we paid to what will happen after 9, it will just really end? or something else? But it appeared that nothing happed, the movie just ended after 9, like what the title said. It’s sort of strange, but memorable. I found the key factors of the Fluxus artistic philosophy that define the majority of Fluxus work: 1. Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style. 2.Fluxus is intermedia.[5] Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts. 3.Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief. 4.Fluxus is fun. Humour has always been an important element in Fluxus. (source:wikipedia.com) End After 9 is typical Fluxus work accordi

I viewed three films which were categorized in theme” Dance with camera”. Before I viewed these films; I started to imagine what they would be presented. I guessed designers would dancing and carrying with camera at the same time. After I viewed these films, I knew I was wrong. The author, Harris, shot a dancer from different camera angles among twenty-five filing sessions over the course of a year, and then he put the sequences together as a montage. This film is quite different to usual films which also shot dancers. Most of films would focus on the movements of a dancer; however, Harris used a lot of zoom in frames to create a new insight. He may want to express different thoughts behind the dancer’s body through camera. The background music was congruent with that images, it did convey emotions within movements. Another one was a silent film which featured a dancing girl. This film was titled “water motor”, but I did not understand why it got this name. The introduction stated

I'm interested in Yoko Ono so I chose to watch her Film No.1 (One) in which a match lit up and went out eventually. The whole movie focused on only one subject (a match) which enable viewers totally immerse themselves in this silence scene. I wonder whether it was shown in slow motion? Then I watched several other fluxus films on the website and found that subjects in fluxus films are varied. It seems that everything at the center of the screen has its own story worth a deep investigation from the artistic perspective. It might also imply that anything can be art even if there is no shining decoration (e.g., sounds, production and shooting techniqures). As for my mid-term project, I initially wanted to do an E-magazine but I didn't know any good free software. Now I will probably construct a webpage dedicated to 2010 Shanghai World Expo. I originally planned to participate in this event as a volunteer, but now I'm not sure whether I can back to Shanghai next year T_T. So I

After viewing a few of the fluxus films, i found myself struggling to be captured or connected to these works of art. obviously minimalistic in intention but big in personal meaning for the individual creator, these experimental films were certainly unique and had their impact on the time. The film that I watched that was most interesting to me was George Maciunas' - Artype, featuring no more than patterns of monochromatic dots and lines. It begins with a while dot, varying rapidly in luminance against a black background. Suddenly, the colors are reversed, with the dot appearing in various shades of black against a white background. All the while, the camera is jerking around, giving the dot the appearance that it is shaking within a constrained area of the image. Then, numerous dots appear on the screen and appear to have upward motion, going at speeds fast enough they create a blur of almost horizontal lines. They then morph in size to create a visual field that is hypnotizing. C

I will be working on a website for my mid-term project. I am using this opportunity to learn how to create a web page, as having a strong web presence is a very important aspect in my field of study: filmmaking. I am currently working on my Master's thesis in the documentary film program in the college of journalism, and I would like to take what I learn from my mid-term project and create a web page for that thesis film. The web page that I will be creating for this class will be a profile for me as a filmmaker. It is very important that any film website (and, in my opinion, any website period) is very easily navigable, the included media on the site is easily accessible, and the the person visiting the site gets an overwhelming sense of what the film is or what type of filmmaker is being profiled. So this will be my goal. I would like to create a site that is simple yet stylized in its design. The films and all associated media and text that will be included on each page mu

My ideas for a better World - Suresh

In looking at some of the Fluxus films archived on ubu.com , I was surprised to find that they were all silent films. After learning about the all encompassing aspirations of the works of John Cage, and after reading the Fluxus Manifesto by George Maciunas, I was expecting the Fluxus films to try to achieve an overwhelming sense of total immersion on the viewer. My experience was quite the opposite. Most of the films are very simple, in technical execution and in imagery, almost to the point of feeling incomplete. What most struck me was the lack of sound in all of the films. "Surely if they wanted to achive immersion in the idea and experience of the work, they would have included sound, right?" Even in the early 1960's, capabilities for sound recording and even sync-sound recording were a possibility for independent filmmakers. The Cinéma Vérité filmmakers as well as the Direct Cinema filmmakers were employing the use of the Nagra sound recorders at the same t

Text in media has always been a problem. Chaplin introduced sound in films, then they had to have subtitles in other languages to be shown in non-English speaking venues. Beat Poets: Burroughs, Kerouak, Ginsberg William S. Burroughs predates the idea of hypertext Who was the true hero of “Star Wars”? In the classical sense of the idea of a hero (see Joseph Campbell), it would have been Darth Vader because he went through the greatest transformation. When developing “Star Wars”, Lucas studied poet William Carlos Williams. The name Obi Wan Kenobi is taken from the idea “obey one master.” Musician Ravi Shankar said that the difference between the Beats and the Hippies was that Beats already had ideas before drug use started in both groups. Beats included American poet Alan Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouak, Brian Gysin. Non-Linear Narrative- the “cut up method” Gysin is famous for introducing the idea of the “Dream Machine” These ideas were based in the literary,

As I heard the voice of William S. Burroughs, with its deep timbre and its authoritative pronouncements, I thought of the work of a Mexican-American poet who refers to borders as places of power: the border between city and desert, between family and individual, between words and images. In the three sound files that I listened to, “Bradley The Buyer”, “Mr. Bradley Mr. Martin Hear Us Through A Hole In The Air”, and “Inflexible Authority” from ubu.com, Burroughs too was exploring different types of borderlands. Perhaps all poets do this, but the methods Burroughs used in cutting up and interweaving texts seem to find a back door into the consciousness, and to test the boundaries of cogency and confusion, the meaning versus the sound of words and the experiential nature of reality. For me the sounds become a kind of drone or buzz, like a mantra, which allows word associations to freely surface from their mysterious place of origin.

Hi Everyone, this is mainly for MAC OS users [Nick, Elaine!] here is a .dmg with Open Scene Graph --a a nice version at that! http://www.openscenegraph.org/downloads/stable_releases/OpenSceneGraph-2.2/binaries/OSX/OpenSceneGraph-2.2.0-10.5SDK.dmg PLease install this version for mac!

1. Marco Brambilla:Civilization This video brings us a journey from hell to heaven with fabulous computer technology. It uses hundreds of individual layers, which are representatives of different times, like inception of train, plane, Ameircan Beauty contest, stripper dance, etc, to descripe the journey sarcastically. The authors' attitude to this world is obviously from this video-they hate wars, like peace, hate Nazi, love Michael Jackson. 2. Pd-extention the Pd didn't work on my computer when i tried to run in on Tuesday's class, then I reinstalled the Pd, the quicktime and even started to use mouse instead of touch board when i got home, but it still doesn't work. Anyone can help me?

I am running PD_Extended on OSX, which is where I think most of my problems are probably arising. I am able to open up all of the GEM components, but I am not able to manipulate them in anyway. That goes from rotating the Dancer to changing the font in the Text element. I am able to layer multiple elements (see included pic) but that is about it. I could change the justification on the text, but couldn't change the words themselves. On this example, I used the biquad, maskDancer, and Text elements.

I'm interested in adding a fountain at the top of a tea pot. I turned the color of the default yellow teapot into a green one. When clicking "draw line" instead of "draw fill", I found teapot changed its appearance. As for the fountain, a lot of parameters can be adjusted. For example, you can control the radius, velocity, size of the water column.

After I try every GEM modes, I find the ColorMatrix is my favorite one. It seems like it just changes color of that image, but when you stare at that image for a while, you would find that image look different. I check out the panel, it just shows three colors: green, blue, and red; however it looks so colorful. I do not have any experience in tradition computer language, it is not very difficult for me to operate so far. Hope I can get more info about these fantastic stuff. by Wei-Hsuan Yang

Dante would be thrilled! The viewer's ascension through the various levels of the hellish to the sublime immediately sparks a reference in my mind to "The Divine Comedy." The cylinder-like feel of the space that Brambilla has assembled (in addition to distinct levels) made me recall the classic depiction of Dante with the 7 layers of purgatory behind him. Beyond that, I really enjoyed the "twist" at the end... as we are moving up, out of our hellish origins, we are only moving back towards them. Cynical, but, none the less, definitely a point worth pondering. Especially in the context of our analyzing the merging of these various mediums... On what journey is all of this integration taking us, and is the final destination exactly where we started?

This video really makes me eye-opening! It integrates a lot of clips and sounds to tell a whole new story. However, I notice that clips are not fully related to the images. The designers use colors to express different feelings: they use red color to form a hell vision; use sky color to form a heaven vision; use gray color to form an unclear age. Music also plays an important role in conveying images, for example, designers use low tone to create scary feeling. This video is not just about technique, it is about creative. I really curious how they combine different stuff, and make them unified. What a masterpiece it is. As an advertising master student, i really think this work can be a good attraction of Hotel. When people talk about this video, the hotel successfully draw customers' attention. After viewing this video, i believe most of people would not forget it. by Wei-Hsuan Yang

I think it is a really cool program. I went online to did some research about GEM because I have no idea how to explore it. I get a general idea about it now after I read some introduction of GEM, GEM is the Graphics Environment for Multimedia. From the introduction I read, it is not an application. It is a library that Pd loads at run-time. But it is still too hard for me to actually do some thing with it. I tried every one under 'Pix'. My favorite one was the movie. When I change the number of the frame, the object moves like a video, the little people run and then fell down. When I change the number of 'rotateXYZ', the object can be spined around so that you can view it from different angle. This is pretty cool. However, I still have difficulty to understand it. I found a website, there is a lot of information about GEM, PD, etc. I read some of them, they are too complicated for me.... Hope it will be helpful for you all. http://gem.iem.at/

This is an amazing piece of work. I have never seen a video work like this before. I think it represents 'civilization' very well through the hundreds of thousands of film clips combined. I have to say, Marco Brambila did a really cool job putting so many film clips together to tell a story of civilization. The order he organized those clips, the stroy line - from hell to heaven, are pretty creative. It reminds me of what we talked about in class: integration of different elements and storytelling. This video integrates sound, graphics and film elements as well as other elements into a short video clip, however, the short video clip clearly presents to the audience a condensed version of civilization and the development of human society. It is not only a new type of art work, but also a historical diorama.

The video created by Marco Brambilla makes me think that, in this digital age, we don't even need language to express ourselves. The perfect integration of sound, images, tempos, etc. in Marco's video illustrates the process of human civilization. But, I'm a little confused about the background music which is kinda scary. Does it connote pessimism about modern civilization?

Pat, I was most interested in the GEM mode called Curves. It seemed to work much like a similar interface in Photoshop in that it was manipulated by dragging the curved line, but it has more flexibility. The first time I was trying to create a pale color palette in the fractal image (middle image). As I played with it more, I saw that not only could the color go very dark, but a box appeared within the image (right). The left most image here is the product of dragging the curve so that it was out of the graph area, which was something I was surprised it would do. The GEM environment seems to be a way to make the programming into a kind of flow chart which lays out some elements that are set/unchangeable and some that can be manipulated in a sort of branching design.

After viewing Marco Brambilla’s video art piece “Civilization”, I found that I had to watch it again. Even after the second time, there are so many nuances in this writhing panoramic vision that I could probably see something new in it during each of another dozen viewings. The analogies that came to mind were to Milton’s Paradise Lost , Dante’s The Divine Comedy , the complexity of Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and the eerie unreal tone of Hieronymous Bosch’s paintings. Perhaps the eerie feeling is brought about by the strange score, which heightens the power of the imagery.

I'm sure you all will laugh (because my husband did, and he's the kindest man in the world) but Marco Brambilla's piece moved me to tears! Perhaps it simply caught me off guard, because I really wasn't expecting to see something profound. The blog said "watch this video," so I clicked the link expecting to see a YouTube clip. Once you get to know me you'll discover that I'm never at a loss for words, but "Civilization" struck a deep chord within me... I couldn't speak. It is absolutely breathtaking. I was awed. I'm a PhD student in Mass Communication. In the social sciences, and particularly in Mass Comm, we invest a great deal of our research efforts into observing the development of our society... and "pop culture," for whatever that means. We theorize and spend a lot of time flapping our gums about why people do what they do, and how we communicate what we're doing and what we've become. I've watched "Civ

I envision a future in which people spend more quality time and fun with their family and friends, with free education and free health care for everyone, able to go and spend several years in any part of the World without any Visa without Political and Social discrimination. A world in which people get holidays for his/her own birthday, spouse's birthday, kids' birthday, marriage day and able to retire gradually and happily from 5 days a week work up to 40 years of age to 4 days a week work between 40 to 50 years of age to 3 days a week work between 50 to 60 years of age, debt free. -Suresh

Comments about the video and audio in http://motionographer.com/theater/marco-brambilla-civilization/ The video was spectacular with 1000s of movie clips and pictures seamlessly stitched together and played independently and with unison! The sound was horrible throughout the clip giving a feeling of Hellish sound though the video transitioned from Hell-> to ancient civilization -> to modern civilization -> to Heaven. It was funny to see Arnold showing his muscles at Hell! The Video is good to watch once or twice but to watch every time while riding an elevator is scary especially with the Hellish music! Psychologically everyone with the right mind will like to end up in Heaven!. So either way going up or down the elevator, it will be nice to have the ride end in Heaven! -Suresh

1. Gesamtkunstwerk (p.4) means "synthesis of the arts". Wagner thought opera was a Gesamtkunstwerk, combing music, architecture, painting, poetry, and dance together. In this technology-dominated world, this term also refers to computer by which we can process sounds, images, videos, texts, etc. p.s. Bayreuth Festival is an annual musical festival held in Bayreuth, Germany, where Wagner's operas, representatives of Gesamtkunstwerk, are performed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth_festival 2. What distinguishes new media from traditional media is that individuals can interact with new media. (e.g., cinema-television-computer) 3. The idea of story: to envision something positive about the future! 4. The advancement of media: some cool stuff you should know. Magic Lantern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern Phantasmagoria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria View Master http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_Master http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?t=page&