http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/ A blog/vlog exploring the aesthetics and storytelling possiblities of networked cinema. Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 May 2008 01:27:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.35 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I have moved past posts over to my new blog/vlog soluble fish, which is the name of my Breton inspired video blog site started in 2001. Why the change? Tired of fiddling with Movable Type. Constant invasions. Wordpress.com seems simple, free and protected. Also, looking for a new start. Which will happen. Sometime soon. Please visit. Thanks.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/05/migration.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/05/migration.shtml Mon, 12 May 2008 01:27:38 -0800 click to play An elaborate voodle. It took most of a Sunday, but thoroughly enjoyed moving panels around the grid. The "pixelate" effect generates a rich map on which to work and then it is a matter of intuitively putting on layers and rendering to see what happens. The audio is made up of tracks from Eno and Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which are available for free download and remixing. Imagine if all musicians offered this from their back catalog. Also woven through the audio are Dava Sobel's "Street Five." (via Negative Sound Institute) and city textures from Freesound.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/01/steam_light_gri.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/01/steam_light_gri.shtml Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:30:28 -0800 Carp Caviar returns.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/01/carp_caviar_08.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2008/01/carp_caviar_08.shtml SEMANAL Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:51:23 -0800 click to play My last video post of this year. A quickie loop. Videobloggers were ambitious in 2007 and the results are mixed. For me, the highlight of online video was Navlopomo. As Aaron Valdez put it so clearly: "In this show-saturated, promote-yourself-to-death state of videoblogging it was great to see the videos from all over the world with no other intention than sharing. It’s just great to see people doing for the love of doing. I feel like it’s lost more and more every day, that idea that somehow this form will change things. There are a lot of people involved in some amazing projects, but somehow the magic is getting lost, those little moments." -Aaron Valdez My... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/12/animal_pile.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/12/animal_pile.shtml Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:30:50 -0800 click to play This loop comes in at 33 seconds. Moving into epic scale! My daughter looked over my shoulder as I was making some final adjustments and asked, "What are you doing?" Good question. I'm not sure, but I am looking deeply within a relatively short span of time and that is exciting. The conscious mind can only process something like 16 bits of information at any moment. The body processes millions of bits in the same moment. Deep seeing has something to do with moving aside the conscious mind to make way for something more expansive. I'm still learning... Inspirations are coming from three who were together in art school: Tom Phillips Roy Ascott Brian Eno (the... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/12/the_west_again.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/12/the_west_again.shtml Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:37:53 -0800 click to play I can't get away from them. I will be posting one more loop to complete a loop series using movie iconography.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/12/another_loop.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/12/another_loop.shtml Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:03:47 -0800 click to play Congratulations to participants of National Videoblog Posting Month. Enjoyed making and watching, though I still have catching up to do on the watching. Thanks for stopping by.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_30.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_30.shtml Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:45:54 -0800 click to play One more loop completes the cycle of this month's game. I must admit, I'm getting tired of the ten second rule. Eager to go in new directions. This one for example is limited by the ten seconds. If the panels extended the flow of information - just enough - then it might be more interesting. I want multiple asynchronous loops going out of phase, suggesting ever wider narrative landscapes. This can be done on a webpage with several quicktime movies playing and looping independently (bandwidth is always a concern, however). A five second loop, next to a twenty second loop, next to a minute loop. In some of the loops I have created this month, I... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_29.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_29.shtml Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:16:13 -0800 Listening to the many great speakers on the Seminars About Long Term Thinking podcast. Here is Brian Eno speaking with Sims creator Will Wright about asynchronous loops: "Instead of trying to design a piece from the top down, which is what you normally think of as composition - you know, you sort of build it piece by piece like an architect makes a building - this is more like a gardener. You have a seed, you plant it and see what happens." - Brian Eno Cinema has its monuments. It is time to harness forces and make cinema gardens. For me anyway, this shift has been liberating. Less about the creator, more about the discovering. Ambient and serial music (esp.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/cinema_gardens.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/cinema_gardens.shtml Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0800 click to play... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_28.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_28.shtml Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:53:20 -0800 click to play Something a little different. Rhythm track from The Boredoms.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_27.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_27.shtml Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:01:54 -0800 click to play... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_26.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_26.shtml Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:58:44 -0800 click to play... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_25.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_25.shtml Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:35 -0800 click to play... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_24.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_24.shtml Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:46:27 -0800 click to play A time quilt.... http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_23.shtml http://www.taylorstreetstudio.com/blog/archives/2007/11/navlopomo_23.shtml Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:40:39 -0800