Nice idea, although it’s mostly toilet humour and penis jokes…
http://yourworldoftext.com/
Monthly Archive for March, 2011
Video Vortex is a really interesting conference run by the Institute of Network Cultures, and which focusses on the messy but interesting world of online video, the most recent one looking at Online Video Aesthetics, Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation, Civil Rights, Online Video Art and Online Video as a Political Tool. It has much to say about how images are created and transmitted, and what’s really great is that the Readers which accompany each conference are free to download from their website.
Creative Review write a neat summary of why it’s odd that a Government backed StartUp website (encouraging people to start their own businesses) firstly advocates using a crowd-sourced design site for a logo, and secondly recommends one that is based in the US. As for dissecting the visual language of the website…
Equally strange but much more enticing is this app which was forwarded by David Coyle: a desktop programme which at your command cuts you off from ‘the internet’, for periods of up to 8 hours.
Workshop: “Matching Design Education to Industry Needs” at Lighthouse, 10am, Tues 29th Mar.
While the title of this event has already got me reaching for the nearest copy of ‘what is a designer?’, this ‘Designed to work better’ (?) workshop might be of interest if you have strong opinions about how ‘industry’ and ‘education’ interact with each other, or are just interested to find out more. Its on next tuesday and you can register by emailing sally.borley@ccskills.org.uk – it would be really interesting (vital ?) to get some student input. At the very least its a possible opportunity to see me get angry about something in public.
I was lucky enough to work with Milton Glaser on a project in 1988. He was eloquent and respectful to all staff including a wee person from Glasgow. In the days when hand skills elevated your working process, I was asked to make a model of an exhibition he had designed for Triennale di Milano. A space that comprised of a simple ‘open’ spiral that lifted gently from ground level, I made sure that my trusty scalpel did not let me down. While waiting for the elegant curves to glue in place, I got my caran d’ache pencils out —
1st Year VisCom students have been out and about this week invading The Mackintosh Building with an army of plastic soldiers, holding a vigil for Olivia the dead pigeon, promoting a manifesto for foxes in fashionable Hyndland, challenging perceptions of fame at the Buchanan Galleries (sorry Justin Bieber) and welcoming Nelson Mandela (or at least his shirts) to Nelson Mandela Place.
The group of Gunnar Ofeigsson, Ellie Sharville, Luisa Casasanta, Rachel Thomson, Ailsa Sutcliffe and Sol Lamey discovered a disused railway station beside Kelvinbridge. By adorning a tree with mirrors, they created a poignant reference to industry, science and art as the station once brought the public to the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901.
http://kelvinbridgestationreopening.tumblr.com/kelvinbridgestationreopeninfo
You can download a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that allows you to author files in illustrator and export to html 5 and canvas. The info is here. Basic tutorials on how to animate in Canvas are available there also. Flash also has wallaby that is pretty straightforward for exporting to canvas / html 5 and is probably an easier option to use. The Ai plugin preceded wallaby for flash.
Just to point out Canvas is still in the experimental stage for compatibility with current browsers and is not considered road ready yet by the W3C who issue web standards.
This project (by Chris O’Shea) is one of several recent examples of ways to hook up the motion sensor and camera for Xbox kinect, and languages such as openframeworks, (as also discussed during our visit to Lust)
The (Unbound) Book is a Conference. It relates, in a way that almost seems planned by some higher being, to the current Book Value project.
A selection of short films about poverty and alternative approaches to welfare reform such as a Citizens Basic Income.
Guest Speaker:
Ailsa McKay, Professor of Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University
1.30pm – 3.30pm
Sat 19th March 2011
Free Admission
Screening & Discussing:
Sylvain Froidevaux
“Onesimus Paradox and the Basic Income as A New Economy Alternative”
Slavoj Zizek at the RSA
“First As Tragedy, Then as Farce: The economic crisis and the end of global capitalism”
Making a Difference –
“Tae Sail On Them Is No Their Fate – Stories from the Fight Against Poverty in Scotland”
Part of the 2011 Glasgow Reshuffle…
The Pearce Institute
840 860 Govan Road
Govan
Glasgow
G51 3UU
0141 445 6007
0141 440 1937
http://www.citystrolls.com/
http://www.documentfilmfestival.org/
http://www.commonperspectives.org/
Adobe have released a Beta on their labs that allows you to build an iPad version of your InDesign publication. A free iPad App is on iTunes called Adobe Content Viewer that allows you to preview your publication on an iPad.
Expect like all betas it will be a bit buggy.
Wallaby
Flash to HTML Convertor available form Adobe Labs now.
Limited to what Canvas can support and a Beta at present.
This really interesting post; Tahrir Square: Social Media, Public Space (on Design Observer), looks at the parallel role of virtual and physical space in recent events in the Middle East. With #Jan25, #Bahrain and the like ’trending’ on twitter, (not to mention the implication of Wikileaks earlier in the story), there’s much talk of this being a ‘communication’ revolution, but the article contextualises this nicely alongside some analysis of shared public spaces.
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