Week 5 Assignment
Posted on December 16, 2005 at 06:33 PM by sj695
Sequential image project with Fazreen and Wendy
0 CommentsWeek 8 Assignment
Posted on December 16, 2005 at 06:19 PM by sj695
STORYBOARD FOR DIGITAL VIDEO
WITH LISA, DAFNA, KATE
THE GREAT BAKE (title subject to revision)
an up-close & personal baking experience with a 70s science class filmstrip flair dramatic food action shots paired with awesome ground-shaking sound effects
*there will be no dialogue
*there may be dramatic narration [National Geographic-esque?]
*the natural speed of shots will be exaggerated
*the tone will be playful
*the completion of the cookies will be treated as a monumental achievement
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Week 10 Assignment
Posted on December 16, 2005 at 06:12 PM by sj695
Video with Lisa, Kate, and Dafna
Week 12 Assignment
Posted on December 16, 2005 at 05:58 PM by sj695
Flash animation with Kate and Teresa
Proposal for final project
Posted on November 28, 2005 at 03:04 PM by sj695
Description
Graphic and Audio display of the latest news items from the internet via Google News
Breakdown of what I need
News Balls
News Collection
Music
News Titles
News Source Count
News Connectors (Connectors connect news items from different categories)
News Voice Reader
News Zoomer
Rules???
What I already have
Class for Ball
Adapt the processing's ball example
Breakdown of specific tasks and a time line to accomplish
By November 21
This proposal, project mapped out
Combining pieces of code I already have
By November 28
Balls Loading News from Google
Click and display news
Maybe scrolling news at bottom
Maybe background music
By December 5
News Voice Reader
News Zoom
For the Final presentation on December 12
Graphic and Audio display of news
Bonus stuff would like to do (but probably won't have time)
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Re: The Future of Micro Payment Systems
Posted on October 10, 2005 at 09:25 PM by sj695
After reading both articles by Clay Shirky and Scott McCloud, I would side with Clay on the topic of the future of micropayment systems. I’m not siding in this direction because Clay is a professor here at ITP, but because I agree with him on many points. As the future of the web is much clearer today than it was in 2003, especially with coming of the Web 2.0 era, it is obvious tomorrow’s web, I mean today’s web, is one where it’s core relies on the user and the user’s ability to exchange and connect with content of the internet. Although I side with Clay on this argument, especially when it comes to informational based content like news, essays and any other form of written word, I do believe there is a little hope for Scott’s bitpass.
That hope relies on the type of content that will be available through the micropayment systems. Content like articles, essays and etc will not do well, but content like music, videos and maybe software have some chance for success. But at the same time those types of content would do well if they are not of the recurring type, anything that is episode based or recurring. I believe consumers of that type of content would prefer a subscription-based model; they would feel the cost of the transaction each time they would view the latest content or episode.
The bitpass model should also consider some type of flex pricing that allows the user to pay more if they feel like or just the base price, since most of it’s sellers are small and independent. I think this may eliminate the mental cost of the transaction a little. It seems a person is more likely to give than is to purchase when it comes to the web, this system would be more along the lines of micropayment extension of PayPal.
Clay Shirky's Fame versus Fortune and Scout McCloud's response
Re: The Grey Album
Posted on October 10, 2005 at 08:17 PM by sj695
I sat for a few days trying to ponder in my mind what was legally wrong with Danger Mouse mashing up the Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles White album. Was Danger Mouse selling copies of the album on the Internet? Was the album so much like the originals it seemed as if he was allowing others to freely download original versions of the music? The answer to all of the above is NO. When did art become a crime? Is the record industry so out of touch with consumers they can’t see that this was nothing more than a form of creative expression? This is interesting because mash ups have been around for a long time. I remember as a kid listening to the radio and the D.J. would mash up things like Michael Jackson and RUN DMC.
I look forward to the day when artist will no longer be dependent on big music labels. Maybe indie bands can looking to blogging to figure a filtering system of what’s considered good music and what’s considered garbage. With a million blogs on the web, users have no problem discovering and finding what they like and don’t like. And maybe like the bloggers they can also figure out a way to make money from music they distribute on the web.
The story of DJ Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album"
Re: Podcasting
Posted on October 10, 2005 at 07:25 PM by sj695
WHOA!
Yahoo has just launched their podcasting service. This phenomenom came out of no where. Just a few months ago I recall reading about this new type of web content but never thought much of it, it’s just people with regulary update mp3 shows. At the time I heard the creator of Blogger was working on a online podcast search service call Odeo and then BAM Apple anounced they are integrating podcast into the iTunes Music store. Within weeks podcast had become as main blogging and now with the introduction of Yahoo into the fray it will be very interesting to see how this technology morphs in the coming weeks, months and years. And I must admit it is nice to have free, frequently updated audio content to listen to on my ipod.
Wikipedia’s definition of Podcasting
Podcasting is a method of publishing audio and video programs via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers.
Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, which uses a feed (such as RSS or Atom) to deliver an enclosed file. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated "radio shows," and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution method. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using "podcatching" software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically.
Most podcatching software enables the user to copy podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. From the earliest RSS-enclosure tests, feeds have been used to deliver video files as well as audio. By 2005 some aggregators and mobile devices could receive and play video, but the "podcast" name remained most associated with audio.
"Podcasting" is a portmanteau word that combines the words "broadcasting" and "iPod." The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or any portable player. Aware of that misleading association from the beginning, some writers have suggested alternative names or reinterpretations of the letters "p-o-d", without winning much of a following.[1] Another little-used alternative is "blogcasting", which implies content based on, or similar in format to, blogs.
Re: MGM v. Grokster
Posted on October 10, 2005 at 06:49 PM by sj695
“As we noted in our arguments before the Ninth Circuit, the case raises a question of critical importance at the border between copyright and innovation: When should the distributor of a multi-purpose tool be held liable for the infringements that may be committed by end-users of the tool?”
Well, as everyone knows most users of peer-to-peer filesharing use such software to find and exchange copyrighted material.
“The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (a.k.a. the "Sony Betamax ruling") held that a distributor cannot be held liable for users' infringement so long as the tool is capable of substantial noninfringing uses.”
Most users of the betamax who did copy copyrighted materials did so for personal usage. Unlike the betamax, filesharing services users exchange copyrighted materials through the internet with users all over the world.
While i do think cases like this hamper technological innovations, they do have a valid point concerning the usage of such technologies that limits their revenue stream. They are in the business to make money.
MGM versus Grokster: Electronic Frontier Foundation's position
Photoshop Layering Homework
Posted on October 05, 2005 at 09:47 AM by sj695
Create a single image which contains 3-5 disparate elements which are combined to create a convincing new whole (i.e. opposing/contrary background and foreground elements, matched pieces to create a new single element, etc.) Upload to your class site. Bring psd file with layers to class.
Extension of Man
Posted on September 21, 2005 at 09:09 AM by sj695
I decided that I should write a entry today since we have to show our website/journals for Communications Lab.
I've been reading Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media - The Extension of Man, we were required to read chapters 1, 8 and 9, but I've been reading the entire book. This is a very insiteful book that I'll probaly read again after I finish (it's a bit of a hard read). It's amazing that it was written in the 1960's and how it applies to so much of today's media including the Internet. I haven't finish the book yet, I'm currently on chapter 11 - Numbers. I wonder as I read the book what McLuhan would have thought of the Internet, especially in chapters like Roads and Paper Routes. If the discovery of paper from China "accelerated education and commerce steadily from the eleventh century, and prodived the basis for 'the Renaissance of the twelfth century'" what will the Internet do for this century. Ahh, what a great time to be alive.
Gotta go I have class in 2 minutes.
Imagine and Discover,
Steve
RE: The Web Rewires the Movement
Posted on September 13, 2005 at 12:10 PM by sj695
The Web Rewires the Movement but is missing a couple of wires, that was what I got out of The Nation article “The Web Rewires the Movement” discussing the use of the Internet and E-Mail as a political organizing tool. Allowing political groups access to millions of people around the world with very little cost, instantaneously and with feedback proves the future of political organizing will definitely include an Internet component. Especially as more and more people continue to gain access and become more comfortable with the Internet.
One of the critics the article did have about using e-mail and the Internet as a political tool is that it leaves certain demographics of people, mainly lower income and non-white, out of the movement because they do not have access to the technology. Although this may not be a problem in the future, because more and more people will gain access to the Internet, it is a problem today.
After reading “What: Mob Scene. Who: Strangers. Point: None.” I begin thinking that some of the problems facing the Internet as a tool to mobilize groups politically can be solved with cell phones. Although certain groups lack access to e-mail and the Internet, almost everyone has access to cell phones, the New York Times has an article reporting the increase in cell phone usage in rural villages in Africa and how Africans will probably bypass landline telephone usage and go straight to cell phones. With most people having access to cell phones it seems that another piece of the rewiring the movement will also include cell phones, SMS and flash mobs.
By combining the Internet, e-mail and cell phones/flash mobs to mobilize people politically we may be able to solve some of the problems of not being able to reach certain economical and racial demographics of people.
First Communications Lab Entry
Posted on September 12, 2005 at 07:12 PM by sj695
This is my first Communications Lab entry, not much here now check back later.