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September 22, 2006
September 18, 2006
motion
This past weekend I dived deep into the inner and outer edges of the Apple Motion program. I kicked off the party with buying dvMatte Blast and had a blast with that real time keyer. Very cool. Now i'm the quest to find key footage to play with. Theres a bit of motion stuff on the web, but clearly not as much as say after effects. Ahhh well.
It's great to finally tap into the power i thought the mac would have. Motion is blissful interaction, and i love the real time processing. I've got a new sexy beast video underway and I came across a funny clip in Livetype that made me want to redo the old Doctor Who intro piece as well.
So we'll see more of that soon. I should be learning the ins and outs of final cut pro/express as well but ya know motion is just too damn addicting, that and livetype, i spend all my time in those apps.
I saw some hilariously BAD attempts at doing xfrog like animations online this past weekend as well, people forcing motion to do really abstract and generative things and essentially its scratch work, I hate to see high end apps trying to do "scratch" work really. Xfrog is great at making scratch work, or work thats is additive into a piece of motion art. Xfrog is far more tweakable, generative, flowing, screwin around easily ish vs attempting to get motion to do it.
Soon I'll get parallels running on these macs and get xfrog going again. That will be fun! I miss that app more than anything else.
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September 12, 2006
laundry. mt. laurel, nj. 2004.
laundry. mt. laurel, nj. 2004.
Originally uploaded by eyetwist.
September 11, 2006
and now for the doctor
feast file
feast file is a new video blog using the noodle flix software on the mac. its basically a text reader + avatar player, i had a bit of fun with it awhile back, i started using it as a way to tap into my inner monologue, i dunno, it was just fun this idea of a bot basically summing up the weeks blog noise news. the voice is male/female and quirky, certain words are hilariously said, while others are well ok too, i liked the way it read the text, and how you could make it pause and seem to come across like its really thoughtful or mind screwball stutteringish... the more i messed with it, the more i liked the output
anyways check it
September 08, 2006
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September 07, 2006
immerse me
taken from a comment i tired to leave on business week...
"I think they key point here is that it was bound to happen. Researchers are always on the hunt for new methods and smart tools to capture, analyze and incubate concepts and ideas harvested out of consumers.
There's a wave of change happening in the research space and many of us are taking cues from the web 2.0 scene, what flickr does with interestingness and clustering is not that different than what researchers are doing in analyzing ethnographic results.
I disagree that companies don't know what's going on. I feel firms do have a hint to what's wrong, what they lack is actionable process in discovering it, weeding it out, acting on change and making it happen - and then not forgetting.
Capture and analysis tools are fine and dandy. What's really missing in the research space is immersion. Design teams need to swim in the data, remember the big picture, think about the customer and make change.
Immersion is where we need to focus next."
IMMERSION BABY