Twitter Feed

I created a Twitter Feed for our Missing Children Link in the story. I wanted to see how it would be done and if it would work. I created it using Twitter's search widget, that you can customize with your own search query's. It can be incorporated into any website we create, our blog and social media accounts.

heres the link https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets

Here is a screenshot of what I made:

drawings

I started using my graphics tablet. It took a while to install it and get used to using it. Once I had the hang of it I opened photoshop and practiced drawing characters of child soldiers using it.

Here is the first completed drawing.



















I found the tablet very natural and easy to use, it is extremely accurate and reacts to pressure. It is excellent for shading, colouring and outlining. Im sure with more and more practice I will improve at using it. The drawing I created is a "cell shading" type of graphic novel drawing.

Graphics Tablet

Today I bought a wacom graphics tablet. I bought it for sketching and for creating graphic novel style drawings.

Cinemagraph Technical Research

I researched into how to make a cinemagraph. I found tutorials on you tube and on websites here are the links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7-npcf4J0

Photography in motion

So I did these tutorials and I made my own cinemagraph. I wanted to do this because I am interested in photography and the group also liked the cinemagraph style. At least now we know how to make them and that it is possible if we need it for our project.

here is my cinemagraph:



It took a long time to do but it does create a nice effect.

Research Tools

I have been routing through the internet and its hard to find good sites and keep track of what you do find. I have been using Evernote to store website urls and pages i liked. you can clip the web page you are on to Evernote so its handy for looking back over things. Also I have been using stuble upon to find interesting websites based on topics you choose and you can also save urls of pages you like so you can go back and find them again.

First draft of coming uo with concept - Lauren & Linda

Torch - Shining it on a wall will reveal the inside/otherside of the wall e.g. into someones house, hut in africa, shanti town etc (or see your insides) or buildings shine the torch see a garden.

trendhunter.com

Chris O' Shea

NB - Write down concept in one sentence

- Market Research

Concept Ideas

• human emotion - reaction to whats going on
• putting yourself in others shoes - stepping outside your self
• sensitivity/interactive
• make computer seem more human like - us empathising with computers/disability
• showing making human more computer like - making computer more human
• Senses - see -> webcam, touch -> interactive, taste -> charging/ food - "hmmm chocolate", hear -> sound -> speakers, smell -> senseors

Technology

• Processing Application
• Motion Dectection - blobs/colours mixing when cross border
• Cinemagraphs

Research into Processing software

After Paul's talk at the workshop I downloaded Processing. I looked through examples on the web and in the software itself I found some very interesting ones that may come in useful for a project. They could be tweeked, joined with other code ect to create something useful for a project. I thought it was a good idea to practice using it now, because if something came up that it could be used for then i would have an idea if it could be done or not.

Here are some screenshots of examples of what it can do..

This one adjusts the brightness where the mouse is and lights up that part of an image






Here you can use the scroll bar to move the image
position







I thought this was a cool way of displaying text









This was in the drawing category, it would draw circles depending on where the mouse is and its speed








I loved this one, you move the cursor to the word tickle and it jitters and moves away from you.






I think processing would be useful for doing a project with human interactivity, it seems simple to use and there are a lot of existing libraries and examples to work from.

Research into audio

I am interested in audio and especially in audio visualisation. So I looked through you tube videos, tutorials and also looked into how to create visualization effects in flash, processing and after effects.

Here are some screenshots and links of ones I liked on you tube

http://youtu.be/Yd3hzYAJzOo

I made an equalizer effect in flash using actionscript





I also looked into using the processing software to visualize audio and i found some interesting existing libraries and examples.

http://code.compartmental.net/tools/minim/

http://code.compartmental.net/category/sound-bytes/