you should have had something from TVU I think but just in case……

click the read more link to see all the grades for semester 2 2010

any problems let me know

mark

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two exhibitions worth going to see this summer at the TATE MODERN, south bank.

Student discount available with your college ID + an extra discount when you see both exhibitions.

FRANCIS ALYS

Alÿs’s work starts with a simple action, either by him or others, which is then documented in a range of media. Alÿs explores subjects such as modernising programmes in Latin America and border zones in areas of conflict, often asking about the relevance of poetic acts in politicised situations. He has used video projection and film but also spreads his ideas through postcards. Painting and drawing remain central to his work too.

EXPOSED

Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects.

see you all tuesday – 6 till 8

enjoy!!!!

PostSpectacular: start

find out more, share the links in the comments below and get ready to speak to him on tuesday

great article on daring fireball

‘First to Do It’ vs. ‘First to Do It Right’

  

caring about the details and centring on the actual user experience has always been more important to apple than including bluray players in a phone (or whatever) there were mp3 players before the iPod
there were smartphones before the iPhone
there were LOADS of lame tablet pcs before the ipadcopy and paste, HDvideo, multitasking, video calling, GPS (yawn)from the article the experience of trying to use video calling on the new android based HTC Evo:

After two days of fiddling, downloading and uninstalling apps, manually force-quitting programs and waiting for servers to be upgraded, I finally got video calling to work — sort of. Sometimes there was only audio and a black screen, sometimes only a freeze-frame; at best, the video was blocky and the audio delay absurd.

To make video calling work, you have to install an app yourself: either Fring or Qik. But we never did get Fring to work, and Qik requires people you call to press a Talk button when they want to speak. The whole thing is confusing and, to use the technical term, iffy.

read the article

and your work? there’s sometimes a lack of attention to detail and the overall view in favour of trying to take on new whizz bang technical feature driven stuff – I think you may need to put the balance back the other way at times

god is in the details
mies van de rohe

cancel my iPhone 4 order – I want one of these babies – the nokia X5

Nokia, despite still being the world’s largest handset company have been struggling recently so it is good to see them returning so strongly in reaction to the iPhone/blackberry/android market

isn’t it lovely? that pink sets off the blue, green, yellow and beige of the compact screen so well don’t you think?

who wouldn’t want one of these ahead of the iPhone 4?

but you’ll have to wait till september I’m afraid

ok everyone just for your reference – your contribution and management of the group show will account for 30% of ass 2 of prof practice

this week is a critical week for this however you may be interested to see how you are doing so far with this as already it seems some of you are opting out and leaving it to others to sort things out for them – chnoor has an overview and knows what needs doing – get in touch with her

you need to be in every day this week till the gallery is ready

and who was responsible for the timelapse movie – it needs to be already set up I think

update at 6.30 tuesday

marc n – 12%
mark b – 55%
caroline – 50%
silas – 52%
chnoor – 58%
roshan – 50%
basia – 50%
richard – 48%
jon – 45%
tim – 50%   

This mainly affects first years this morning but also year 2 – mark is held up but will be in this afternoon at the latest – hopefully before 11
I’ll see you later
Make use of the time and be ready to hand in today
Mark

nicely done

Don’t forget to submit your individual peer assessment form along with your final SFX clip.

Each member of the group needs to fill in their own form.

In folder 36. Print it out, fill it in

come back bill – that sweaty ballmer guy seems to be pulling the microsoft elephant over the cliff

at least the Xbox makes a profit – oh hang on it doesn’t

Apple Passes Microsoft to Become Second-Largest U.S. Company by Market Capitalization

I know little about MIDI really as I’m not a musician even though midi can do more than just music

but I have been forced to learn a little to help Jon out with his project with his midi drumkit

we eventually got it working with a processing library RWMidi from http://ruinwesen.com/

so I was reading a bit more about ruin and wesen……..

there is a very famous programming exercise called conways game of life – there’s a good example here

and on the wesen (ruin and wesen) vimeo account he live codes and talks through recreating this in processing – which is cool enough as it is but the really interesting thing to me is that he then links the whole thing up to a software synth via MIDI and uses the game of life animations to create music

this is fundamentally and conceptually different to what Jon is doing – Jon is trying to get processing to read and sense the drums to drive animations

music >> animation

but what this allows is the reverse – here it is the animation driving the sound, and it sort of works in an ambient tinkly sort of way

animation >> music

I think this is really interesting – the idea that you can take those images that you know work visually and have them translated in some sense into another form – here music – is a rich avenue to explore I think

vimeo link here but quality is not good but you can download processing source file from http://ruinwesen.com/

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