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Major Project ❷ {Disappearing Cities}
3.2 Disappearing Cities
A3 Boards submitted to D&AD which includes an introduction, stills from the video, the transcript and an explanation of the secondary medium.
3.2 Sneak Peak (finale)
I have completed the production of my moving image piece and I am more or less ready for submitting it for the D&AD competition. Thanks to a good friend of mine, Rachel, I was able to secure a child talent for my production and it all worked very well with the narrative and visuals. The [...]
Location Recce
I asked around friends & classmates if they knew of anywhere in the UK which offered nice ‘foresty’ scenery and one of the most convenient yet ideal location was Hampstead Heath.
Made a trip up there to capture some photographs and moving visuals of the place to test out angles, location, lighting and mood. It ended [...]
Manifesto / Narrative
After much edits, retyping, sending to-and-fro between some friends. I have crafted a manifesto/narrative which Monica suggested I do to add to my moving image piece as recorded here >> http://hello.iampingpong.com/?p=1838
I have also contacted a student producer friend of mine from LCC (Rachel Berry) if she knew any young kid whom I can use in [...]
Look + Feel
So I am going to embark on a moving image piece which focuses on Children and how at 16 million strong, they are the fastest growing demographic on the internet and are effectively disappearing from the physical public space and starting to spend too much time online.
I was looking for images which are honest, innocent, [...]
Finalisation of direction
After much struggle to get a grasp around Quartz Composer as a software to do what I want to achieve, I decided maybe it was time to relook at my research and other ways to explore my concept of a disappearing city which inhabitants are now living online.
Going back to the pointers given by one [...]
Vanishing Point
This film was carried out by creative Japanese Takuya Hosogane on a tape its of the Cubesato artist and his title entitled “the Small Prince”. An elegant choice of colors and style for this work entirely conceived under AfterEffects and Cinema 4D. To discover in the continuation. I found the circles as a shape found [...]
Information Graphics on the Net
Simple and effective information graphics utilizing 10 x 10 dots to represent a 100%. The dots could be translated into LED lights which would possibly make up a wall which is ever changing based on live statistics fed into a computer system. Below are some examples of the 10 X 10 dots used effectively to [...]
Sketchbook
I attended Nicolas’ IMI workshop on using Final Cut Pro (which I already knew how to use) but I was interested in asking him questions regarding the interactive installation idea I had. Here are some sketches of the installation idea I had in mind as well as notes from my session with him and Monica [...]
Beautiful Transparency Series
In the line of work Camouflage by Liu Bolin, here posters and the series of photographs entitled “Transparency” by the artist Khristian Mendoza. A transparent and very effective design on these promotional posters. Sourced from >>> FUBIZ.NET
I love the simplicity, honest look & feel, use of basic shapes [...]
Invisible in the Mirror
Watch this video for a very simple yet comedic way of making people invisible… By using twins and a clean piece of glass!
Rob Chiu
Big fan of this motion director.
Rob Chiu is his name, otherwise known as The Ronin.
I found his latest video campaign designed for Mobile Else Phons, typical of his usual flair, technical style, visual impact and an overall exciting moving image piece. More of his awesome work could be found at http://theronin.co.uk/Motion/
One of his videos [...]
The Virtual Revolution
Caught the entire series of the Virtual Revolution on the BBC iPlayer which was totally in sync with my project so far, in terms of statistics, stories, cultural impact of the internet.
What I found outstanding from the series was how it was more of a REFLECTION on the impact of the internet based on [...]
Generative Installation
Found something called Generative Art which allows for an installation to produce it’s own visuals which are another idea I had for the brief. To make and create an installation which gives the user a sense of disappearing and invisibility, tying to the concept that we are disappearing from the physical into the digital world. [...]
Internet ‘R’ Us Part 3
From: http://www.which.co.uk/news/2009/01/britons-spend-28-of-their-free-time-online-165835
Britons spend 28% of their free time onlinePoll reveals habits of British internet users
02 January 2009
An international poll of 27,500 internet users – including around 2,500 Britons – has revealed we spend 28% of our spare time surfing the web.
The research carried out by TNS shows the amount of free time [...]
Internet ‘R’ Us Part 2
More Internet stats where hopefully I can find something to work with… Alot of numbers, percentages, stats to possibly pick out something striking
From http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Internet ‘R’ Us Part 1
Some useful facts & figures when I researched on how much are we online these days.
More Time Spent Online Communicating Than Getting Entertained
By Enid Burns, ClickZ, Mar 3, 2009
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As the number of people engaged in social media increases, people are more likely to be involved in [...]
Vanished, Under Force of Time…
I read this article to get a history lesson on past disappearing cities or civilisations as Historians would put it.
It was a good FYI.
Vanished, Under Force of Time and an Inconstant Earth
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: September 6, 2005
Nothing lasts forever.
Only the wind inhabits the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in Colorado, birds and vines [...]
TOKYO!
Paris may be the City of Light and New York may never sleep, but there is an undeniable energy to Tokyo. In this anthology film, three renowned filmmakers–Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho–each direct an imaginative featurette about the city.
Official Movie site: http://tokyothemovie.com/
Gondry (BE KIND REWIND) presides over INTERIOR DESIGN, [...]
Hikikomori
Socially withdrawn youths or hikikomori are youths who seclude themselves in their rooms and rely exclusively upon digital communications in order to avoid any kind of public interaction, were reportedly on the rise in Japan. I think this is a very intriguing issue as its a social problem as well as a personal one for [...]
Project Survival Media
Project Survival Media is a global network of youth journalists reporting from the front lines of the climate crisis, and from COP 15. We have a total of eleven new media teams, on all seven continents. We report on the most compelling climate stories from around the world, amplifying the voices [...]
Disappearing societies
I got my hands on an issue of Adbusters #86: The Virtual World / The Natural World which had the digital/online world and the real physical world as a running theme in the issue. The issue was particularly interesting as it addressed issues related to how the digital/online world has shaped and affected our physical world. [...]
eARTh
Visited the EARTH exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Named the Art of a Changing World. Having just returned from Copenhagen’s climate change conference, I was a little jaded by the ongoings at the conference and might well do with some art therapy. Plus I might find some inspiration to aid with the Disappearing [...]
Disappearing London
Its winter time in London and its snowing heavily outside, its cold, its windy and totally uncomfortable. When the weather and environment becomes this terrible, the city disappears indoors. Except me of course, as I braved the cold to capture the emptiness of the streets near and around my home.
So….. when does London disappear? When [...]