This five-minute piece is part of my course requirement for a Masters in Digital Arts at Wits University for Christo Doherty. (Course -- WSOA 7007: Critical Debates in Digital Art and Culture.)
In...
This five-minute piece is part of my course requirement for a Masters in Digital Arts at Wits University for Christo Doherty. (Course -- WSOA 7007: Critical Debates in Digital Art and Culture.)
In it, I discuss the 'Modern Living/Neurotica' series of interactive Flash animations by Nederlands artist, Han Hoogerbrugge. The series is at http://ml.hoogerbrugge.com.
I've intentionally made this piece incredibly low-tech. I love the clash between high-tech and low-tech.
I used a low-end web cam and microphone to record it. I used Camtasia to record the screen-captures. And I used Adobe Premiere Pro to make an AVI movie of it. I then went back to Camtasia to produce a very small version of it as an FLV file.
Turns out YouTube doesn't ACCEPT FLV files, even though that's the damned format they PLAY them in. Dammit.
So then I had to make a NEW playout, this time as a very low quality 38 meg AVI file.
[UPDATE 11 April 2007:] That made a TERRRRRRIBLE YouTube viewing experience. The resolution made it unwatchable. So now I've made a version that's 84 megs. I'll give that a try.
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Ive watched alot of his work, he is a relative of mine (hence my screne name) but i never meet him my dad's family moved from the netherlands after ww2. fyi you pronounced our last name wrong but don't worry everyone does lol
Nice, I feel into his trap i looked through everyone :P, as captinhowdy said, was insightfull, and with you changing locations all the time just as random as the piece you were talking about.
I reckon my vid quality will improve over time. I made this one using a low-end webcam, an old Logitech. I was actually going for a low-tech look and feel.
But I think the encoding is really quite poor. And that's more than likely due to a lack of technical expertise on my part. That'll ramp up once I've trascended the ole learning curve.
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Blue skies
love
Roy
I reckon my vid quality will improve over time. I made this one using a low-end webcam, an old Logitech. I was actually going for a low-tech look and feel.
But I think the encoding is really quite poor. And that's more than likely due to a lack of technical expertise on my part. That'll ramp up once I've trascended the ole learning curve.
Blue skies
love
Roy