http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=464 Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:43 +1000 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:43 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1953 Buzz is a long forgotten MTV experiment from 1990 In 1988 Mark Pellington developed an idea for a non-linear collage program he called Buzz Created in partnership with MTV Europe producer director Jon Klein Buzz was an ambitious 13-part global series commissioned by MTV and channel 4 UK It was hailed by critics as ground-breaking adventurous television This is episode 1 of the 4 episodes that have managed to survive on an old VHS tape to be digitized for your edification in this modern digital age Black Flag Party YouTube Channel Fig 1 Buzz Episode 01 Segment 01 Fig 2 Buzz Episode 01 Segment 02 Fig 3 Buzz Episode 01 Segment 03 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1953 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:43 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1952 Daniel Pink provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in the workplace Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce 8 April 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1952 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:20:56 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1942 In 2007 NZ On Air initiated the NZ On Screen project as an integral part of its digital strategy Since 1989 NZ On Air has funded over 15 000 hours of local television production Much of this content as well as thousands more hours supported by broadcasters film investors and other funding sources is not easily accessible to the public NZ On Screen is unlocking the treasure chest providing access to the wealth of television film music video and new media produced in NZ along with knowledgeable background information New Zealand on Screen Fig 1 Murphy G 1981 Goodbye Pork Pie Aotearoa New Zealand NZ Film Fig 2 Tamahori L 1994 Once Were Warriors Aotearoa New Zealand New Zealand Film Commission Fig 3 Ballantyne A 2009 The Strength of Water Aotearoa New Zealand NZ Film http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1942 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:34:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1937 This is my final project for motion graphic design which is a Flash animation that depicts an origin myth of the self-created hero Hundred Pacer The name Hundred Pacer derived from a kind of very venomous snake that exists in mountain areas of Taiwan called Hundred Pacer snake and the protagonist Hundred Pacer was an ordinary Paiwanese Indigenous girl until her and her father were killed by the mudslide and the snake God chooses her to revive in passing down the power The story was inspired by the Typhoon Morakot happened in August 2009 which killed nearly 500 people and destroyed half of Taiwan at that time Jonghsiang Kwan 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1937 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:04:10 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1934 The Tagtool is a performative visual instrument used on stage and on the street It serves as a VJ tool a creative video game or an intuitive way of creating animation The system is operated collaboratively by an artist drawing the pictures and an animator adding movement to the artwork with a gamepad The design achieves virtually unlimited artistic complexity with a simple set of controls which can be mastered even by children The project is coordinated by OMA International Our approach is that all knowledge acquired within the Tagtool project should be shared We are inspired by the open source movement and believe that it is also relevant for the digital arts OMA International Austria Fig 1 Hagleitner Krenn Kermer Rieger 2008 Tagtool 039 short video documentary http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1934 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:17:31 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1933 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1933 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:06:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1931 By now it seems like just about everyone has seen the iPhone 4 vs HTC EVO video and the rebuttal video The video portrays an electronics store employee trying to convince a person looking for an iPhone 4 to buy an HTC EVO 4G instead It s hilarious - like all good humor so funny because it s at least partially true But you know who didn t find it funny Best Buy How do I know that Because they re trying to fire the kid who made it The video in question was made by Brian Maupin a 25-year-old based in Kansas City Missouri For the past three and a half years he s been working at Best Buy selling mobile phones He s probably not going to be doing that anymore as Best Buy has suspended him indefinitely and is currently taking the steps to terminate him Maupin tells us The reason The video The video became so popular it currently has nearly 1 3 million views on YouTube that someone at Best Buy corporate saw it They then put two-and-two together that it was an employee at one of their stores that made it and the hammer came down They felt it disparaged a brand they carried iPhone Apple as well as the store itself and were fearful of stockholders amp customers being turned off to Best Buy Mobile Maupin says MG Siegler TechCrunch 1 July 2010 Fig 1 Tiny Watch Productions 2010 iPhone4 vs HTC Evo Fig 2 Tiny Watch Productions 2010 HTC EVO vs iPhone4 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1931 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:31:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1930 xtranormal s mission is to bring movie-making to the people Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies Movie-making short and long online and on-screen private and public will be the most important communications process of the 21st century Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill-typing You type something we turn it into a movie On the web and on the desktop Xtranormal The Xtranormal Text-to-Movie authoring tool allows you to produce short films It does so through adding your typed dialogue in the form of text to speech to supplied animated character assets http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1930 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:32:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1928 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1928 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:14:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1926 The Second City is a 1930 s Chicago inspired street scene This was created for a client who was looking for a proof of concept with a view to presenting it to games publishers All assets were modelled and textured by myself from an extensive catalogue of reference photography This is a fly-through video recorded in Fraps straight from the UDK viewpoint Breakdowns of meshes and lighting can be seen Thanks to Robert Antill for the work he did in After Effects on this Philip Howlett http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1926 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:29:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1888 Since August 2005 We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs Every few minutes the system searches the world s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases I feel and I am feeling When it finds such a phrase it records the full sentence up to the period and identifies the feeling expressed in that sentence e g sad happy depressed etc Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways the age gender and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written All of this information is saved The result is a database of several million human feelings increasing by 15 000 - 20 000 new feelings per day Using a series of playful interfaces the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices offering responses to specific questions like do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans Do women feel fat more often than men Does rainy weather affect how we feel What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s What do people feel right now in Baghdad What were people feeling on Valentine s Day Which are the happiest cities in the world The saddest And so on The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual The particles properties e color size shape opacity e indicate the nature of the feeling inside and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes expressing various pictures of human emotion We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled Madness Murmurs Montage Mobs Metrics and Mounds At its core We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone It will grow and change as we grow and change reflecting what s on our blogs what s in our hearts what s in our minds We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life Jonathan Harris amp Sep Kamvar May 2006 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1888 Tue, 18 May 2010 13:23:08 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1887 H5 est l auteur de nombreux clips Alex Gopher Massive Attack R ouml yksopp et a eacute t eacute r eacute guli egrave rement expos eacute Nuit Blanche 2007 Beaubourg MoMA Avec Logorama H5 Fran ccedil ois Alaux Herv eacute de Cr eacute cy et Ludovic Houplain signe son 1er court m eacute trage 17 mn H5 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1887 Wed, 12 May 2010 05:53:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1886 n 1969 a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck snuck into John Lennon s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview This was in the midst of Lennon s bed-in phase during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace 38 years later Jerry has produced a film about it Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennonos every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation Raskin marries traditional pen sketches by James Braithwaite with digital illustration by Alex Kurina resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennonos boundless wit and timeless message Josh Raskin http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1886 Mon, 10 May 2010 23:18:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1880 User-oriented digital information search environments call for flexible information access interfaces that may interact with a dynamically changing searcher view in capturing a variety of media Optimal use of conventional libraries and bibliographic databases requires a general understanding of the knowledge structure of the collection domain Hsieh-Yee 1993 Pennanen amp Vakkari 2003 Novice searchers without such understanding however can seek the help of librarians and intermediaries when they get lost in search processes Increasing numbers of digital libraries and online resources on the Internet provide potential users with opportunities to access and interact with these resources directly from offices and homes Such trends seem to offer searchers useful information access environments for a variety of information resources However in such environments novice searchers are forced to seek the information they need without the help of librarians or other intermediaries In reality many novice users of digital libraries do not have a general understanding of the knowledge structure of the digital collections held by these libraries Eventually they may give up pursuing their information needs when they get lost during search processes or obtain unsatisfactory search results This research project seeks to find a way to overcome such limitations of existing information access interfaces developed for traditional libraries and bibliographic information services Specifically we explore a qualitative research method for eliciting the knowledge structure of novice searchers and patterns of its modification in their search and learn processes and build on it a na iuml ve ontology for time and space Makiko Miwa amp Noriko Kando 2007 Hsieh-Yee I 1993 Effects of search experience and subject knowledge on the search tactics of novice and experienced searchers Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27 3 117-120 Miwa M and Kando N 2007 A na iuml ve ontology for concepts of time and space for searching and learning Information Research 12 2 paper 296 Available at http InformationR net ir 12-2 paper296 html Pennanen M amp Vakkari P 2003 Students conceptual structure search process and outcome while preparing a research proposal Journal of the American Society for Information Science 54 8 759-770 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1880 Fri, 07 May 2010 14:21:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1874 Corporate returns are under pressure from far more than the recession The patterns we ve uncovered span decades and deeply affect even the highest performing companies with the single greatest driver of these challenges and indeed future opportunities being our underlying digital infrastructure Regardless of when the economy shifts back to an upturn the long-term implications for continued erosion of return-on-assets will continue We developed the Shift Index a new economic indicator that suggests the current recession is masking long-term competitive challenges for U S businesses John Hagel III and John Seely Brown J H III Brown J S et al 2009 Measuring the forces of long-term change The 2009 Shift Index Deloitte Center for the Edge http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1874 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:37 +1000