Blogs
Monday March 9th 2009
I chose this particular post because of the effect I feel that this type of service has on a person’s privacy and anonymity. To me I think this is a major problem and as I have been a victim of identity fraud, this subject is brought closer to home.
Data Visualisation
Wednesday May 13th 2009
When I first saw this data visualisation I was blown away at how simple yet informative it actually was. For this reason I chose this as one of my favourite blog entries.
Multiplicity
Tuesday May 5th 2009
I found this one not only interesting, but also shed light on a major example of multiplicity. This was probably my favourite lecture pretty much because it opened my eyes as to how much a group of people can do over one independent source.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Production Project B
All Done.....HUUUUUHHHHH...
My project discusses the relationship of user interaction with the YouTube video hosting service.
I thought that it would be interesting to discuss its functionality by only using iconography and not text. So I developed this idea and created a visual style that I would follow throughout the entire piece. As part of this visual style I decided to incorporate a blue print background, as if the entire piece was explaining the YouTube service in its construction. I then replicated a blueprint style of drawing with dotted outlines with some of the iconography. This helps the piece establish an identity.
I decided to animate certain elements of the iconography to engage the audience. The movie reel for example rotates as if it is really playing. As a stagnant object it was not as clear that this movie was actually playing back to the user.
The scene with the multiple user interacting with their computer’s, I used animation of bulging wires to display that these users were streaming video from the same source (The rotating film). They then proceed to make comments of either good or bad. The comments are displayed through the use of the thumbs up and thumbs, down animations, that are icons I previously drew for another segment.
As this piece was to be replicating a blueprint style, I found it was a fantastic opportunity to explain the sign up feature of YouTube. The pencil draws as if it is really writing on the page, and I felt that traditionally that this method is used when drafting real blueprints, you put pencil to paper.
The entire piece follows this same design convention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PnUBcMrBM
My project discusses the relationship of user interaction with the YouTube video hosting service.
I thought that it would be interesting to discuss its functionality by only using iconography and not text. So I developed this idea and created a visual style that I would follow throughout the entire piece. As part of this visual style I decided to incorporate a blue print background, as if the entire piece was explaining the YouTube service in its construction. I then replicated a blueprint style of drawing with dotted outlines with some of the iconography. This helps the piece establish an identity.
I decided to animate certain elements of the iconography to engage the audience. The movie reel for example rotates as if it is really playing. As a stagnant object it was not as clear that this movie was actually playing back to the user.
The scene with the multiple user interacting with their computer’s, I used animation of bulging wires to display that these users were streaming video from the same source (The rotating film). They then proceed to make comments of either good or bad. The comments are displayed through the use of the thumbs up and thumbs, down animations, that are icons I previously drew for another segment.
As this piece was to be replicating a blueprint style, I found it was a fantastic opportunity to explain the sign up feature of YouTube. The pencil draws as if it is really writing on the page, and I felt that traditionally that this method is used when drafting real blueprints, you put pencil to paper.
The entire piece follows this same design convention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PnUBcMrBM
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
No Lecture
Just putting the finishing touches on my project at the moment. Im pretty happy with were the project is heading at the moment, and the music I chose sounds great. as the clip was very short however I had to loop the entire song, but it sounds ok. I don't think that it sounds repetitive.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
No lecture
Just working on the production project this week. Haven’t got much further visually since last week, but I did find some audio that I’m going to use in the piece. The license is to be used for educational purposes only, and being that this is a project for my university studies I feel I am quite qualified.
The license agreement is as follows-
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com offers a diverse set of free royalty free music clips that can be used, without limitation, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit projects, free of charge.
* This does not include professional charities or non profits that pay administrative salaries.
The free royalty free music clips on this special page change regularly and can be downloaded by Educators, students and individuals looking for high quality background music, production music, to use in their projects.
The royalty free music clips and free music clips on this page change frequently and represent many different musical genres with varying instrumentation. Free royalty free music clips in the classical and light jazz vein will add the needed touch when used as background music for personal websites or production music in educational videos, while free clips in progressive styles such as Hip-Hop and rock and roll can add flair as production music for film or television productions at educational facilities.
These free royalty free clips have been composed and performed by the same talented artists and musicians that work on all the tracks at Royalty Free Music.com. The instrumentation of these free music clips include resonant strings and woodwinds, powerful brass and even electric guitar, keyboards and exotic percussion instruments, and will give any project a unique and professional sound.
The music clips that appear on this page are rotated and changed every few days, offering a fresh selection of music clips.
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com owns all copyright interests in the music clips posted on this page.
These music clips may be used in conjunction with educational or personal not-for-profit programs and projects at no cost. RoyaltyFreeMusic.com requires that clients using these free music clips must cite Royalty Free Music.com, as the source of the music and - when possible- provide a link to our site.
All tracks are copyrighted and registered as follows:
JupiterImages © 2009
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/
The license agreement is as follows-
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com offers a diverse set of free royalty free music clips that can be used, without limitation, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit projects, free of charge.
* This does not include professional charities or non profits that pay administrative salaries.
The free royalty free music clips on this special page change regularly and can be downloaded by Educators, students and individuals looking for high quality background music, production music, to use in their projects.
The royalty free music clips and free music clips on this page change frequently and represent many different musical genres with varying instrumentation. Free royalty free music clips in the classical and light jazz vein will add the needed touch when used as background music for personal websites or production music in educational videos, while free clips in progressive styles such as Hip-Hop and rock and roll can add flair as production music for film or television productions at educational facilities.
These free royalty free clips have been composed and performed by the same talented artists and musicians that work on all the tracks at Royalty Free Music.com. The instrumentation of these free music clips include resonant strings and woodwinds, powerful brass and even electric guitar, keyboards and exotic percussion instruments, and will give any project a unique and professional sound.
The music clips that appear on this page are rotated and changed every few days, offering a fresh selection of music clips.
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com owns all copyright interests in the music clips posted on this page.
These music clips may be used in conjunction with educational or personal not-for-profit programs and projects at no cost. RoyaltyFreeMusic.com requires that clients using these free music clips must cite Royalty Free Music.com, as the source of the music and - when possible- provide a link to our site.
All tracks are copyrighted and registered as follows:
JupiterImages © 2009
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Data visualization: A Map of Olympic medals
I found this data visualisation on the delicious site when I was re directed to the New York Times website in the sports section. The actual content to me as I am not a fan of the Olympics is pretty trivial and useless, but I like the fact that the content indirectly references past world events in it’s data such as the American led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics due to the soviet union’s invasion of Afghanistan. This is not mentioned in the data but it is affected by it. Cool.
The design might not be great looking but it does the job when trying to covey its data. Unlike most of these data visualisations I can understand it and it is nice to have the numbers lurking in the background to accurately determine the medal count. The idea that the circles are geographically placed is also really helpful when trying to find your countries medal count.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
The design might not be great looking but it does the job when trying to covey its data. Unlike most of these data visualisations I can understand it and it is nice to have the numbers lurking in the background to accurately determine the medal count. The idea that the circles are geographically placed is also really helpful when trying to find your countries medal count.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
"Data, data Everywere" dah, dah, dah, dum (dramatic music)
Is the idea of the representation of abstract non-physical information.
Large numbers are easy to comprehend for a computer, but hard for humans.
To engage a human audience we need to use tools that spark visual response, and what we can interpret with ease. They include
- Scale
- Colour
- Shape
- Movement
- Change of position.
Also did some work on my project. If I haven’t mentioned this earlier I am doing the YouTube video about YouTube none the less. I have created a storyboard and I am well on my way to finishing it off. I am yet to find some good music that I want to use in the piece. I am going to many, many different sites that have royalty free music to download, but the music is not as comical or cartoonish as I would have hoped. I will have to keep looking I suppose?
Here are some screen shots of the blueprint style I am trying to achieve in this piece.
I think I drew a lot of the inspiration from the title sequences off the television series Mythbusters, but I have put them into a context I believe.
Large numbers are easy to comprehend for a computer, but hard for humans.
To engage a human audience we need to use tools that spark visual response, and what we can interpret with ease. They include
- Scale
- Colour
- Shape
- Movement
- Change of position.
Also did some work on my project. If I haven’t mentioned this earlier I am doing the YouTube video about YouTube none the less. I have created a storyboard and I am well on my way to finishing it off. I am yet to find some good music that I want to use in the piece. I am going to many, many different sites that have royalty free music to download, but the music is not as comical or cartoonish as I would have hoped. I will have to keep looking I suppose?
Here are some screen shots of the blueprint style I am trying to achieve in this piece.
I think I drew a lot of the inspiration from the title sequences off the television series Mythbusters, but I have put them into a context I believe.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Multiplicity
Multiplicity was well defined with the phrase “combinational explosion” meaning an explosion of possibilities. The digital world is unfathomably infinite, and due to its immensity content does not adhere to physical scale. An application in the digital world can be as big as a hard drive will allow it.
With a multitude of users using one program we gain “wisdom of crowds” this wisdom encourages diversity, independence, decentralisation and aggregation.
Diversity
Of information and opinion.
Independence
Of thought and opinion
Decentralisation
Of knowing local knowledge
Aggregation
Using this information and making something out of it.
Basically the more people that use an application the more intelligent that system will become.
Take Linux for example. It is an operating system that you do not have to pay for and is generated through user contributions and collaboration. If all of the constructive benefactors had not all partaken in their own unique way’s the system might have been a little flat and not as content rich, but due to its diversity the system is a rival to most of the operating systems that are turning a profit.
With a multitude of users using one program we gain “wisdom of crowds” this wisdom encourages diversity, independence, decentralisation and aggregation.
Diversity
Of information and opinion.
Independence
Of thought and opinion
Decentralisation
Of knowing local knowledge
Aggregation
Using this information and making something out of it.
Basically the more people that use an application the more intelligent that system will become.
Take Linux for example. It is an operating system that you do not have to pay for and is generated through user contributions and collaboration. If all of the constructive benefactors had not all partaken in their own unique way’s the system might have been a little flat and not as content rich, but due to its diversity the system is a rival to most of the operating systems that are turning a profit.
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