1 comment Sunday, April 20, 2014 | admin
The other day I made a post on A Timeline For The Universe by Omid Kashan which has been featured on the website Information Is Beautiful.
Patterns can be captured and processed through software to create artwork, and in this digital age, the possibilities are endless.
For his graduation project from The Royal Academy Of The Arts (Den Haag), Frederic Brodbeck has focused on visualizing and comparing movie data in his Cinemetrics project. By focusing on one aspect of the film, (such as movement) the program can generate an overall fingerprint of the film in its entirety, as you can see below.
cinemetrics from fb on Vimeo.
In the video, Brodbeck compares many different films so that you can see the varying degrees of movement in films such as The Shining and Alien.
Patterns can be captured and processed through software to create artwork, and in this digital age, the possibilities are endless.
For his graduation project from The Royal Academy Of The Arts (Den Haag), Frederic Brodbeck has focused on visualizing and comparing movie data in his Cinemetrics project. By focusing on one aspect of the film, (such as movement) the program can generate an overall fingerprint of the film in its entirety, as you can see below.
cinemetrics from fb on Vimeo.In the video, Brodbeck compares many different films so that you can see the varying degrees of movement in films such as The Shining and Alien.
Labels: Alien, Art, Cinemetrics, Data, Film, Frederic Brodbeck, Information Is Beautiful, Movies, Royal Academy Of The Arts Den Haag, The Shining, Video, Vimeo
0 comment Saturday, April 12, 2014 | admin
Today, I was drawn to the work of Amie Siegel , in particular the series of photographs in which holes seem to have been burnt out.
On further research, I found that these photographs are in fact stills from her film Black Moon.
"Black Moon / Hole Punches" (is) derived from the hole punches, or black moons, typically cut by the motion picture laboratory into the first frame of action in film negative. Always left out of the final edited film, these hole punches appear in Siegel�s prints as imperfect black disks or voids cut out of film frames. They are evocative of lunar phases, yet strangely violent in their intercession into the otherwise smooth picture plane." source.
In other words, this "black moon" phenomena is due to a fault in the film. The artist embraces the fault and uses it to her own ends.
The motion-picture film in its entirety explores a post-apocalyptic landscape and the concept of a world with no future. For me, the gaping void in each film still add to the feeling of hopelessness and absence.
On further research, I found that these photographs are in fact stills from her film Black Moon.
"Black Moon / Hole Punches" (is) derived from the hole punches, or black moons, typically cut by the motion picture laboratory into the first frame of action in film negative. Always left out of the final edited film, these hole punches appear in Siegel�s prints as imperfect black disks or voids cut out of film frames. They are evocative of lunar phases, yet strangely violent in their intercession into the otherwise smooth picture plane." source.
In other words, this "black moon" phenomena is due to a fault in the film. The artist embraces the fault and uses it to her own ends.
The motion-picture film in its entirety explores a post-apocalyptic landscape and the concept of a world with no future. For me, the gaping void in each film still add to the feeling of hopelessness and absence.
Labels: Amie Siegel, Apocalypse, Artist, Black Moon, Circularity, Film, Video
0 comment Monday, March 31, 2014 | admin
This "Last Clock" application records 60 seconds of video information and warps it in to a circular pattern.
Last Clock from New Mediology on Vimeo.
As someone who is interested in alternative photography processes, the use of a clock is very interesting. I love the idea of representing the passage of time in one image.
Labels: App, Film, Information Is Beautiful, Last Clock, New Mediology, Time, Video, Vimeo
0 comment Thursday, March 20, 2014 | admin
When researching the soap bubble photographs of Richard Heeks, I came across another artist specializing in the art of bubbles; Jane Thomas.
Whilst writing this blog, I have come across many artists who have used soap bubbles in their work and each artist has shed some light on the way soap bubbles behave in different situations.
In this video that Jane has uploaded to her Flickr, you can see how soap bubble mixture moves around within a fixed frame.
Jane Thomas' flickr profile has some delightful psychadelic-looking images of soap bubbles that are unique to her own style of processing.
Jane is so interested by the images that soap films create, she has opened a soap films flickr group where members can submit their own pictures of soap films. There are 547 photographs submitted to the group, and each photograph is different.
Jane is also a member of The Physics Classroom flickr group, which is a collection of photographs which relate to The Physics Classroom website. The Physics Classroom website is particularly good for refreshing knowledge on basic physics, but provides a good set of tutorials which could be altered for artistic merit!
Whilst writing this blog, I have come across many artists who have used soap bubbles in their work and each artist has shed some light on the way soap bubbles behave in different situations.
In this video that Jane has uploaded to her Flickr, you can see how soap bubble mixture moves around within a fixed frame.
Jane Thomas' flickr profile has some delightful psychadelic-looking images of soap bubbles that are unique to her own style of processing.
Jane is so interested by the images that soap films create, she has opened a soap films flickr group where members can submit their own pictures of soap films. There are 547 photographs submitted to the group, and each photograph is different.
Jane is also a member of The Physics Classroom flickr group, which is a collection of photographs which relate to The Physics Classroom website. The Physics Classroom website is particularly good for refreshing knowledge on basic physics, but provides a good set of tutorials which could be altered for artistic merit!
Labels: Bubbles, Film, Jane In Colour, Jane Thomas, Soap, Soap Film, Soap Films, The Physics Classroom, Video, Videos