Objects At Rest

explorations in audio and moving imagery

Category: Form and Content

  • Philosophy of Creative Works: 3

    Figure 1: One dimensional content delivery.

    • Elements: Content
    • Format: Oral and written communication

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    Figure 2: Two dimensional content delivery.

    • Elements: Form and Content
    • Format: Oral, written, and visual communication

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    Figure 3: Three dimensional content delivery.

    • Elements: Form, Content, and (Context, Time, or Space)
    • Format: Oral, written, visual, and (psychological, experiential, or referential) communication

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  • Philosophy of Creative Works: 2

    silentsound

    • Facet A (absence of sound) is more important than facet B (noise or tone).
    • Facet A or B exist individually as data.
    • Facets A + B together equate to information.
    • The existence of facet A provides definition or identity for facet B. Without A the accumulation of sounds from B results in noise.
    • The illustration is not music but instead provides instructions for the creation of an audible work.
    • The illustration contains no primer. Only minimal (symbolic?) meta-instructions are provided with an assumed literacy on the part of the recipient.

    More to come…

  • Philosophy of Creative Works: 1

    I was thinking about my stopmotion projects and also what I find attractive in the work of other creatives. I then thought about ways to visually represent this method, approach or general philosophy. So…

    A is more important than B.

    circles-a-b

    More to come…

  • Semantic Structures and Storytelling 2.0

    I found another post on the web about the impact, or influence, of technology in filmmaking, videomaking, and animating. In this case it is the ideas borrowed from the semantic web that could be used to enhance traditional narrative structures and possibly change the way people consume-create media.

    This approach lends to the portability of the character’s representation across multiple instances, types, and modes of story delivery.

    Mike Brent recently posted the link to a very interesting blog called “storyfanatic” which, if you read it, will eventually lead you to Dramatica which is story creation software. Makes me wonder…does Dramatica support the creation, editing, and exporting of metadata structures?

    The potential for innovation is very real if one were able to take a screenplay and export semantic structures and metadata as well. Screenplay files wouldn’t just be destined for printing on paper anymore. Subsequently, the support of editing and authoring software for video being able to embed that metadata similar to importing subtitles or other elements and being able to sync things up with timecode would be needed. If not in the NLE then perhaps have the metadata encapsulated in the typical MOV, AVI, FLV or other media container files.

    I’m viewing this as a platform to remix my own projects. In that sense this model would support transmedia projects or a new forms of serialization. But, the reality is that the same platform would be available to the users or creators of any content for co-creative transmedia.

    Possible workflow in the future?

    • Create content (ie. text, audio, video, animation, etc.).
    • Create metadata (automatically via the content creation stage above or manually).
    • Bring content and metadata together in editing (ie. enhance media and semantic components).
    • Author media deliverables with metadata channels embedded (visible or hidden).
    • Author or user based post editing, remixing systems arise being able to search, find, index, collate, and remix media from any “smart media” files. From mixing entire projects or specific nodes of data deep within a project,

  • Story Cubes

    I made some story cubes over the weekend as a creative project.

    story cubes

    Story cubes seem to be used for brainstorming stories or narrative content. You roll them out and based on the icons that are showing formulate some kind of story. Since they are physical blocks it adds a tactile quality to the activity which is nice.

    Searching further on the web resulted in screen shots of the illustrations on story cubes. I found a set for purchase called Rory’s Story Cubes which unfortunately appeared to be sold out. So, I went to Michael’s and got 1 inch wood blocks and a small basswood box to make my own set of cubes.

    The cubes on the web seem to be in groups of nine. But the box at Michael’s would hold sixteen blocks. So I made nine blocks and then added six more blocks with generic shapes and colors. I suppose the extra cubes could come in handy for added brainstorming. I was planning on painting the cubes white and using a marker to draw the icons but decided to use my wood burning tool and just stained the wood.

    It was a fun creative diversion from animation and perhaps it will help when generating ideas for future projects.

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