Ravenous ellipse
I found a sketch example in the processing book I have been working through, Processing: Creative coding and computational Art by Ira Greenburg. I really liked the sketch as it was but thought there might be a way I could take it even further for my own uses. So I started to experiment by adding elements of my basic circle movement sketch to this one and managed to come up with some really interesting results. You can see the various steps I took HERE it’s all the files titled chasing ball. The later files I’ve included a change in background colour with keypresses now I want to see if I can change the shape of the circle with keypresses as well.
February 20th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments
Nobody Here
At first look I thought O.K this is a bit of a weird e-card there isn’t really anything happening then suddenly this hair starts sprouting from the nose and it becomes obvious your supposed to pluck it. The next bit though was a delightful shock once plucked the hair then curls up to form on of the words listed on the right. The other clever thing is the word will land in which ever direction you tweezed the hair out at. The sound effects also added a bit more humor to the piece as well.
February 19th, 2008 - Posted in Flash, Random | | 0 Comments
CN tower timelapse
Thanks again to the Captain for this one and also yet again another really simplistic concept. It’s also a completely achievable concept and one i think i might have a go at. I think what makes this one work so well though is the contrast of the sky against the city skyline. The city skyline produces such a wide variety of differences that it really helps this piece I can’t help but feel my back garden won’t have quite the same impact!
February 19th, 2008 - Posted in Random | | 0 Comments
Circular Life
This one was a Captain find and a damn good find at that, although i can’t help but feel it was perhaps a year too late. The whole idea kinda screams virtual space at me but oh well its amazing to look at whether its for research or not. The whole concept is really simple yet must have taken forever to compile with the amount of shots they had they would have had to take a picture every 24 minutes but thank god they did because it just makes it all the more amazing. Looking at all these websites I’m realising that simple is a key factor for most of them and it’s something i really need to keep in mind because i have a habit for thinking too big for my time constraints then getting frustrated with myself when i don’t produce exactly what i wanted.
February 19th, 2008 - Posted in Random | | 0 Comments
Door
http://pascalcampion.com/door.swf
This flash animation is one of the coolest funniest things i have seen on the web in a while. The drawing style is so simplistic but it works for it so well. The amount of emotions they seem to have captured in this basic character is amazing you really feel this characters plight. The distinct lack of colour in everything else but the character makes him stand out even more and makes him easily discernible from the background. The animation itself is surprisingly long although you don’t realise it at the time because you are so caught up and entertained by the animation. Looking at this its making me want to return to Flash and start experimenting again.
February 19th, 2008 - Posted in Flash | | 0 Comments
Stumble fever
I have spread my love of the stumble to the captain and we have been having an awesome time discovering some interesting/weird/cool/fantastic/ROFL sites/picture/videos/animations (the list could go on and on) so be prepared to be bombarded with double the amount of stumbles mwhahahahaha
PS be sure to go check out Captains Chants site which has some uber cool GEEK drawings and a multitude of other great stuff
February 18th, 2008 - Posted in Random | | 1 Comments
Circle Progression
Right I’m really like my circle sketch I’ve produced and I’ve managed to get it looking pretty good. I’ve got it changing the stroke weight and colour dependent on whereabouts the mouse is within the sketch. I’ve also managed to get the colour to do the same, so it’s red near the bottom then blue near the top but with a soft gradient. Now I need to start thinking about how I can slter it with keypresses to enable me to make it interactive.
February 17th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments
GEEK
While perusing through the sites in the learning resources section of the Multimedia Applications section i came across this definition on one of the sites. While the site didn’t appeal to me all that much this piece of text grabbed my attention : -
“Geek” doesn’t just mean “computer nerd”. To be a geek about something is to love it unconditionally – to have it crawl into that special place in your mind, where it takes up residence, crowding all the normal things out.
I thought that it summed up the term geek so perfectly and it reminded me of a certain someone not naming any name *cough cough* CAPATAIN *cough* but i think we can all relate to this at some points in our lives we all tend to obsess over something or someone at one point or another!!
February 17th, 2008 - Posted in Random | | 0 Comments
Yenz
The opening page of this site was enough to captivate my interest the symbol was incredibly simplistic but really well designed giving it an almost 3d look. I then realised that when you rolled over it appeared as if a spotlight was turned on along with a futuristic sound. Rollovers like this can sometimes seem a bit gaudy and over zealous yet it really seem to work with this site.
Once through there is a menu page with simplistic icons the really nice touch though is that they have small periodical animations that kind of invite you to click. The main section of the site has a definite japanese anime feel to it with bright colours and simplistic graphics. The site is very much interactive with lots of material to discover and click. It has clear and concise instructions on how to navigate the site . It even gives you tips on the best way to use the flash plugin on a PC or a Mac. The aim of the site is to find the secret codes to unlock the secret garden in order to find the codes you have to participate in simple mini-games that mainly consist of pointing and clicking. I really like the whole idea of this site and the navigation is incredibly easy to use it’s definitely something i will keep in mind when thinking up my idea for MMA.
February 15th, 2008 - Posted in MMA | | 0 Comments
MOWA – Museum of Web Art
http://www.mowa.org/enter.html
For a website about web art it was a rather uninspiring website aesthetically but i was pleasantly surprised as i delved further. The aesthetics didn’t change all that much but the content was really interesting. It showcased some of the earliest work into web art like buttons and wallpapers. I think what surprised me the most was how most of this was from around 1995-1998 it feels like we’ve had the internet for so long yet when you see those dates it feels like it was incredibly recent. It amazes me how far the internet has come along in the matter of a decade or so. It makes me think that these people who created something so basic we would scoff at it now paved the way for the intricate and amazing sites we have now.
February 15th, 2008 - Posted in MMA | | 0 Comments
