FINAL PROJECT: COLLECTIVE COLLAGE

Tim McNerney, Zach Layton, and I came up with a system for public participatory collage-making.

FINAL PROJECT: Video Routes

Steve Jackson, Marti Grimminck, and I worked on a project called Video Routes. It is a sketch of an idea of linking geo-tagged video together in order by a predetermined route, so a geographic journey can be made conceptually via video. This particular version is a mash-up of YouTube, Yahoo maps, and Wikipedia. We like . . . → Read More: FINAL PROJECT: Video Routes

MORE PHOTO POSTING

The view from Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City. Care of Megan MacMurray’s camera phone.

POSTING PHOTO TO BLOG WITH PERL SCRIPT & PHONE

Tim used his phone to post photo of us hard at work on our final directly to my blog. Once again using Shawn’s perl script.

POSTING PHOTO TO BLOG WITH PERL SCRIPT & EMAIL

I posted this photo with the perl script directly through email rather than the phone.

MOBILE VIDEO POSTING USING BLIP.TV

I uploaded this video directly to my blog using blip.tv’s automatic cross-posting.

Watch the video

USING SMIL

This is just a basic presentation integrated video and still images. The smil file can be found here.

[QUICKTIME http://itp.nyu.edu/~kh928/video/mx.mov 530 225]

LOOKING AT STREAMING MEDIA

The main forms of streaming media I came across were live webcams, television, and radio. The webcams seemed to be mostly devoted to street scenes and traffic (or lack thereof in Fort Kent, Maine) and the occasional bird nest surveillance. The television and radio that I found was exactly that: television and radio. It’s great . . . → Read More: LOOKING AT STREAMING MEDIA

TAGGING VIDEO WITH VIDEO

I have this idea of tagging video with video. Tagging video with text (like in YouTube or Google Video) is extremely practical, but what if you wanted to create an association that was less about being machine readable and more about a wholly visual/human experience? Because the thing about the reduction from image to text . . . → Read More: TAGGING VIDEO WITH VIDEO

GETTING STARTED WITH BLOGS

So I just subscribed to my own RSS feed in iTunes and it wasn’t until actually doing it that I realized how incredibly easy this whole process is. I guess I just never thought through the idea that a podcast is simply audio within an RSS feed. The steps between consuming and producing are so . . . → Read More: GETTING STARTED WITH BLOGS