Jun
28
video formats
June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
i recently tried to upload a video in anamorphic pal
and found out that it is not accepted anywhere:
youtube, google videos and the fancy vimeo !
went crazy encoding it, used all the storage in my little computer on the way.
no way.
had to re-capture the anamorphic and set the new sequence
as standard pal, do the endless rendering [btw, can anyone tell me the
advantages of fcp6.0 over fcp5 in rendering time?]
after modifying the aspect ratio to get it as a ‘fake’ 16/9
and get it running out there.
right now i’ve just discovered that MySpace does accept the
anamorphic format !!!
they have an awesome uploading pal !
so, for now on, MySpace rocks
oh, btw, here’s where i got my one hundred bug bites.
as we say in spain, ’sarna con gusto no pica’
[any translators]
May
16
BYOB
May 16, 2008 | Comments Off
BYOB stands for Bring Your Own Books and it is the name of the project I presented for finals at school.
Why BYOB? Because I don’t like to keep books on selves that I will never read again.
When I like a book I like to give it to someone else to read. I will never have the time to read it again, so what to keep them for?
I specially hate them when moving from one place to another. So heavy. And I move so often.
It all started here
where this russian MIT’er [my friend Alberto García Saenz] made a presentation for his last ‘invention’ that was never taken into consideration. Seriously. Throwing books against a wall and getting the letters out to splat first on the wall and then fall seemed to me the perfect way to get rid of some heavy weight in my next moving.
Plus the act of throwing an object against the wall is a long time fantasy.
So, I geared myself to re-vitalize the project from ITP.
As I had been playing with Shiffman’s Particle System in my midterm project for DanO’s Computational Cameras, I knew I could use the Particle’s code to make the letters stuff and then I would use MaxMSP Jitter to track the book and trigger the processing code when the book hit the wall.
On the processing side:
I first made the particles to be an array list of letters. Then give them a time [to stay on the wall splatted] and make them fall. At the bottom of the screen, I’d make them roll to disappear, otherwise the applet would get too heavy. Then I had to make the letters start at a certain location that I chose to be the mouse location. this would later be changed to location x,y determined by the location sent by Max to Processing: exactly where the book hit the wall.
On the MaxMSP Jitter side:
I had to track the book, find its centroid, listen to the hit on the wall, scale from the image captured in the camera to the output screen, and send all this to processing, modifying the processing code to understand Max.
The Processing code can be seen here.
And the first final sight of the project looked like this
I know it is just the beginning of this project outcome. The based is set, now it needs to be properly wrapped.
Apr
16
voilá!
Feb
3
site’s first assignment
February 3, 2008 | Comments Off
the right shape of monuments maybe round and the scale, spectacularly big
postcards can take you on a really long trip
a landmark of a country, of a city and of a universal emotion
Jan
29
back to school
January 29, 2008 | Comments Off
back is hard. school is harder. classes are good.
good season at the movie theaters as well. First recommendation: no country for old men.
the coen bros make a very intelligent movie about a heartless killer played by spaniard Javier Bardem.
the aesthetic of the whole movie and the tempo are amazing, almost european style. smooth. the killer is just passionless.
Dec
30
New Video
December 30, 2007 | Comments Off
Working video effects on Final Cut is very intuitive. Color correcting is easier than I thought,or at least it’s been improved from earlier versions. Still rendering takes soooo long!
This is my friend’s Lu Liu’s fashion show in New York, last November. She’s marketing her work as Lu 12.28, [hey this is actually her birth date, just for you to know] and she’s opening a store in Beijing that will be running by April. Just in time for the Olympics. Bravo brava!
Dec
29
unfortunately
December 29, 2007 | Comments Off
I don’t seem to get along with this WordPress style, so I will add
the link of another one of my blogs on the blogroll while I tried to fix it.
Dec
28
one more time
December 28, 2007 | Comments Off
trying to change the outlook of this blog.
Dec
17
Final
December 17, 2007 | Comments Off
This is how our final project, Powered Flower, ended up:
Dec
9
private show
December 9, 2007 | Comments Off
today could be the last day we have the flowers up and running.
they looked healthy as desired. the blinking and the variation on the brightness was neat.
it was the perfect day to invite friends to see them
.