24/02/2016
Black and White words
It just crossed my mind, how it can look when White is written by black and Black by white. I want to play with its contrast, try to animate them if After effects or Animate CC.
21/02/2016
Research Point - Creative writing and new media
Simon Biggs's reRead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSias0PZ6js
The technological as the socio-political: some case studies
James Nelson
Wide and Widly Branded http://www.secrettechnology.com/ausco/compass3.html
Birds still Warm from Flying http://www.secrettechnology.com/ausco/poecubic2.html
Roger Dean and Hazel Smith
Instabilities 2, http://www.drunkenboat.com/db12/06des/smith/instabilities.php
M.D. Coverley, Accounts of the Glass Sky: http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/coverley__accounts_of_the_glass_sky/glass1.htm
One of the main characteristics of new media writing is its capacity for kineticism. A major consideration in any animation is how fast the words move. In animations, letters, words, phrases or blocks of text can be rearranged, added or subtracted in such a way as to continually generate new words or arrangements of words. For example, word animations can create connections between words which have some similar letters but are disconnected in meaning, by using the common letter as a pivot. A highly meditative approach to animation, in which the sound, image and words unfold slowly and repetitively can be seen: Alan Sondheim and Reiner Strasser's Dawn, http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/strasser_sondheim__dawn.html
The second important technique in new media writing is the use of a split screen. Split screens allow you to juxtapose multiple narratives with interplay between the different streams. Screens can be split vertically or horizontally, symmetrically or asymmetrically, into two, three or four components. What is critical and timing between the different parts of the screens - that is, decisions about when the words will flash on and off, and whether there will be several pieces of text on different sections of the screen at once. M.D. Coverley, Accounts of the Glass Sky: http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/coverley__accounts_of_the_glass_sky/glass1.htm
Will Luers http://will-luers.com/
A third important feature is interactivity. This can be introduced through programs such as Flash and Processing, or in the case of interactive fictions, through programs such as Inform.
The reader has to imagine how a character can excape from being locked in a room with his hands tied before progressing with the story.
Jon Ingold, All roads, http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/ingold__all_roads.html
Aaron Reed, Blue Lacuna, http://blue-lacuna.textories.com/
Jim Adrews, Stir-Fry Text, http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/andrews__stir_fry_texts.html
M.D. Coverley, Afterimage, http://califia.us/Afterimage/end.htm
Finally, a very important set of techniques is the juxtaposition and merging of text with sound and image, all the pieces discussed in the case histories section contain multimedia elements. Images and sounds can be found or composed, representational or abstract, taken from the environment or synthesised. Sond includes the voice, which can be recorded and edited by a program.
Creating interplay between sounds, words and images augments the capacities of language. In the work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (http://www.yhchang.com/), for example, the rhythmic music coordinates with the speed at which the words appears, producing a new slant on the concept of verbal rhythm.
In terms of the relationship of sounds, images and text, major considerations are: a) whether a text and an image, or a text and a sound, are working with each other (in a contrasting, oppositional or independent way) or against each other (in contrasting, oppositional or independent way); b) whether they appear in a relationship of superimposition, juxtaposition of fusion, and c) the degree to which they adopt each others' characteristics, so that, for example, words are presented as visual objects using different fonts, spacings and colour.
Creating interplay between sounds, words and images augments the capacities of language. In the work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (http://www.yhchang.com/), for example, the rhythmic music coordinates with the speed at which the words appears, producing a new slant on the concept of verbal rhythm.
In terms of the relationship of sounds, images and text, major considerations are: a) whether a text and an image, or a text and a sound, are working with each other (in a contrasting, oppositional or independent way) or against each other (in contrasting, oppositional or independent way); b) whether they appear in a relationship of superimposition, juxtaposition of fusion, and c) the degree to which they adopt each others' characteristics, so that, for example, words are presented as visual objects using different fonts, spacings and colour.
Creating reading Exercise 1
1. What happens to a story when you take it from its source, make it permanent in print, and disseminate it to a wide audience?
The story has one version, we know how hard is to repeat story we heard, we build somehow our version even the story could be same. There are stories which have not to be say exactly in same way as original and we get what the point is. Like fairy tales, detective, roman etc. On the other side, the historical fact and news must not be distorted. I know how school system in my former communist regime told us about west part of the world! The worse thing is when the print document is used as propaganda for bad things (WWII for example).
The print version can be read forever. Even we have a printed version there is no guaranty it is the right one, there could be tiny differences or wrongly used words which could mislead reader. (it is said Bible is good example of this).
2. Write a list of implications arising from the printing press, For example, think about who has control/authority over the text, the meaning of the text, and the relationship between the source of the text and recipient.
- readiness - how the text is easy to read? Some texts translated in my mother language was not easy to read.
- interesting - is the piece interesting for reader?
- trueness - can we believe the text in case of news? There was plenty information which were lies in my childhood in communist era.
- objectiveness/subjectiveness
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The story has one version, we know how hard is to repeat story we heard, we build somehow our version even the story could be same. There are stories which have not to be say exactly in same way as original and we get what the point is. Like fairy tales, detective, roman etc. On the other side, the historical fact and news must not be distorted. I know how school system in my former communist regime told us about west part of the world! The worse thing is when the print document is used as propaganda for bad things (WWII for example).
The print version can be read forever. Even we have a printed version there is no guaranty it is the right one, there could be tiny differences or wrongly used words which could mislead reader. (it is said Bible is good example of this).
2. Write a list of implications arising from the printing press, For example, think about who has control/authority over the text, the meaning of the text, and the relationship between the source of the text and recipient.
- readiness - how the text is easy to read? Some texts translated in my mother language was not easy to read.
- interesting - is the piece interesting for reader?
- trueness - can we believe the text in case of news? There was plenty information which were lies in my childhood in communist era.
- objectiveness/subjectiveness
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20/02/2016
Creative reading - exercise
Write down all the reason why people read:
- pleasure
- to be someone else
- to go through a journey
- visit other worlds
- to get knowledge
- to find solution
- catharsis
reasons why people write:
- to tell a story, their own, fiction
- to realise themselves
- to get thoughts from mind on paper
Reading is about letting ourselves go into a world of somebody else. Writing is letting our world to be reflected in other minds.
- pleasure
- to be someone else
- to go through a journey
- visit other worlds
- to get knowledge
- to find solution
- catharsis
reasons why people write:
- to tell a story, their own, fiction
- to realise themselves
- to get thoughts from mind on paper
Reading is about letting ourselves go into a world of somebody else. Writing is letting our world to be reflected in other minds.
18/02/2016
14/02/2016
Fire and Ice, Peter Wollen
Notes:
- photograph - discussion about concept of time
It appears like a device for stopping time and preserving fragments of past, like flies in amber
Photograph is like a point, film is like a line
Photograph: Zero duration: spectator's now has no fixed duration, fascination as long as curiosity returns. Film: sequence of stills presented to spectator in fixed time
Language: perfective/imperfective form, progressive/non-progressive, in the present tense as well in the past.
New photographs: non-progressive present, narrative present since the reference is to the past time.
Art photographs: noun-phrasen, lacking verb-form. Same documentary photograph where we can find progressive present.
Imperfective form: Susan Meiselas' book Nicaragua. Muybridge's series photographs in participle form.
News photographs are percieved as signifying events. Art and most documentary p. states. Some documentary and Muybridge's as processes.
Film is like fire, photography is like ice.
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.
.... we sense something paradoxical about the photograph which signifies an event, like a frozen tongue of fire.
In a film, on the contrary, it is the still image (Warhol, Straub-Huillet) which seems paradoxical in the opposite sense: the moving picture of the motionless subject.
Hence the integral relationship between the still photograph and the pose. The subject freezes for the instantaneous exposure to produce a frozen image, state results in state.
Wiliam Klein https://www.artsy.net/article/phillips-william-kleins-may-day-parade-gorki-street
Koen Wessing (http://leicaphilia.com/koen-wessing-duality-as-photographic-puntum/)
.............. there is an eerie similarity between mourners and corpses ........
James var der Zee Book of death, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Der_Zee)
Robert Capa http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/283315
Chris Marker, Film and stills, https://vimeo.com/46620661
La Jetée shows that still photographs, strung, together in a chain, can carry a narrative as efficiently as moving pictures, given a shared dependence on a soundtrack.
- photograph - discussion about concept of time
It appears like a device for stopping time and preserving fragments of past, like flies in amber
Photograph is like a point, film is like a line
Photograph: Zero duration: spectator's now has no fixed duration, fascination as long as curiosity returns. Film: sequence of stills presented to spectator in fixed time
Change, perspective, duration :: States, processes and events
Language: perfective/imperfective form, progressive/non-progressive, in the present tense as well in the past.
New photographs: non-progressive present, narrative present since the reference is to the past time.
Art photographs: noun-phrasen, lacking verb-form. Same documentary photograph where we can find progressive present.
Imperfective form: Susan Meiselas' book Nicaragua. Muybridge's series photographs in participle form.
News photographs are percieved as signifying events. Art and most documentary p. states. Some documentary and Muybridge's as processes.
Ideal minimal story form: process - event - state :: Documentary - news - art
Film is like fire, photography is like ice.
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.
.... we sense something paradoxical about the photograph which signifies an event, like a frozen tongue of fire.
In a film, on the contrary, it is the still image (Warhol, Straub-Huillet) which seems paradoxical in the opposite sense: the moving picture of the motionless subject.
Hence the integral relationship between the still photograph and the pose. The subject freezes for the instantaneous exposure to produce a frozen image, state results in state.
Wiliam Klein https://www.artsy.net/article/phillips-william-kleins-may-day-parade-gorki-street
Koen Wessing (http://leicaphilia.com/koen-wessing-duality-as-photographic-puntum/)
.............. there is an eerie similarity between mourners and corpses ........
James var der Zee Book of death, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Der_Zee)
Robert Capa http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/283315
Chris Marker, Film and stills, https://vimeo.com/46620661
La Jetée shows that still photographs, strung, together in a chain, can carry a narrative as efficiently as moving pictures, given a shared dependence on a soundtrack.
01/02/2016
The battle of orgreave
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncrWxnxLjg
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2009/feb/23/don-mcphee-miner-strike-photography
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/12/ipcc-will-not-investigate-orgreave-police-action-during-miners-strike
Senior officers at South Yorkshire police, which commanded the Orgreave operation and conducted the prosecutions, privately acknowledged that many officers did overreact at Orgreave, and that there was evidence that they committed perjury, but did not want that misconduct made public.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncrWxnxLjg
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2009/feb/23/don-mcphee-miner-strike-photography
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/12/ipcc-will-not-investigate-orgreave-police-action-during-miners-strike
Senior officers at South Yorkshire police, which commanded the Orgreave operation and conducted the prosecutions, privately acknowledged that many officers did overreact at Orgreave, and that there was evidence that they committed perjury, but did not want that misconduct made public.
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