mini-linkroll Sun. July 29 2007
twittervision 3D
Miro video player
Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine
Posted on July 29, 2007 at 10:27 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Derek Lerner 2007 Digital video 04:39:00 minutes 640 x 360 pixels
Soundtrack: La Muchacha de Los Suenos Dorados composed by Harold Budd, Daniel Lentz, and Ruben Garcia
For the last year I have been heavily involved in virtual worlds, primarily Second Life. This has prompted many thoughts about the concept of virtual space in general as well as blurring lines between simulation and real.
Mixing of realities, infinite space, multi-user online 3D collaborative environments, and time travel.
When asked to contribute work to the NOKIA Trends Lab project I immediately started to think about the level of connectivity and immersive experience handheld wireless hybridized multifunction devices offer, resulting in a type of virtual space. The sense I get when walking down the street taking photos, listening to the radio, & then uploading images to a server is of a disjointed reality where one’s mind is in another place but body is walking down the street.
Inspired by this, I used a NOKIA N93 to film video feedback loops creating abstract video drawings as a metaphor for 3D immersive virtual space. Infinite syndicated regurgitated communicative white noise evoking feelings of becoming so intertwined with digital communications that the grayness of life as we currently know it is a blurry place of virtual and real.
Posted on July 29, 2007 at 08:00 PM | Comment (1 comments)
In 1998, Jonathan Keller of Detroit began taking pictures of his own face. Two years later, Noah Kalina started “Noah K. Everyday”.
Noah Kalina is a Brooklyn-based photographer that has photographed his face everyday from January 11, 2000 and is still a work in progress. He says in the FAQ on his site that, “I will take a photo today, and tomorrow and until the day I die”. In an April 15th LA Times article I read that “Arno Klein, a neuroscientist at the New School, has been taking similar pictures of his daughter every day since she was born, and if things go according to plan, she may be the first to lay claim to a genuine whole-life portrait.”
I think it’s interesting to watch the things Noah likes to consistentally wear and the facial transformation that happens after being in NY for a while. Truly lifelogging gone mad turned to art. Will be interesting to watch as he ages.
Posted on July 29, 2007 at 08:54 AM | Comment (2 comments)
