Thursday, December 10, 2009

Final Project (Xuan)

This is what I did for the final project. It's a Animated GIF file. But, I don't know why it does't play after I posted it in this blog....I'll send you the file via email, Pat:)


The idea is "Protect our earth"! (because the serious enviroment issues now)




First, I imported this picture of earth into After Effect, I use CC sphere to make an 3D earth. Then I make it keep spinning..Then I use star burst effect to make the backgroud effect. After that, I saved it as a filmstrip file and then edited it in the Photoshop. I changed the color, contrast, hue and the light to make it seem poisoned which results from evironment damage.
In the whole process, I encounter so many difficulties, it was not easy as I thought. I failed to render the file for so many reasons, such as the image size, ect. In the end, I re-do the whole thing by using 1/3 of the original size image. Finally, I make it.!
I was planning to add sound for it, but the dreamweaver in my laptop doesn't work, so...
However, I found the "filmstrip" skill that Pat told us is very interesting! I'll keep learning and practice ^_^
Thank you everyone. Hope you all have a good holiday.
Xuan


Final Project

Greetings,

This is a video I created of my talk at the 2009 Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium (RATS) held on October 17 at SUNY Binghamton. The organizers recorded every presenter and uploaded the audio of our talks online at www.radio4all.org. I downloaded the mp3 of my talk and used free movie maker software to line up my PowerPoint slides with the audio. Now, you can watch my slides and listen to my talk as delivered at the event, cool!


I've found the process of turning my talk into a movie enlightening for a number of reasons. First, I realize that my delivery needs some work and I actually contradict myself once when describing the requirements for Academic Activism course. I say something like "there are no qualifications, except for the qualification that..." Oops!

Additionally, I think this way of posting a talk is more interesting than simply e-mailing the typed version to people who ask for it. For instance, the soundscape of the room where I delivered the paper is captured here (even the coughs). I like the ambiance that this adds to the video clip.

Finally, it wasn't actually too difficult to turn the PowerPoint into images (you simply select 'save as' and choose an image format) and line them up with the mp3 in Microsoft Movie Maker. Currently, I have plans to do this with my 2009 GIS Day paper delivered at the University of Florida libraries on November 18th and my American Anthropological Association paper delivered on December 3rd in Philly.

Thanks for reading, (and listening)
-Ed

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Privacy Bingo

This is a recent story about a young Georgia teacher, Ashley Payne, who was fired over what was on her Facebook account, even though it was her personal account with the permissions set to the highest priority level to prevent public viewing. She is now in the process of suing the school district for reinstatement to her position at Apalachee High School in Winder, GA. The offense seems to center around a photo of the teacher on vacation with an alcoholic drink in her hand and a comment that she was about to go out and play a game called "Crazy B___ Bingo". The photo and comment were copied and forwarded to the Barrow County superintendent by a parent. Clearly this incident reflects the value system of the administration, because the cited "offensive" content would be perceived quite differently in another locale.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Tweet Wars: PLease discuss

http://fem-fatl.com/2009/tweet-controversy-courtney-love-technology-law/

For ED: Processing and Puredata: Gombology

Hey this post is for Ed, who has been trailblazing with posts and work inside processing.
Please think about extending Processing with Pure Data if it suits the project.
check this out

http://gombology.net/


I'll try to get this working today...

pp

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Vague Terrain

Hey everyone please check this new Digital Arts Related blog.

http://vagueterrain.net/

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Come slide with me

video
This is a fun short video that I made with ToonLoop. It only took a few minutes to do, but attention to detail is the key with this stop motion animation!