Flickr start of set for #Enviromental #ForkBeardProjection #AnimatedExeter2012
more later. your last chance is this evening.
#Evolumental #ForkbeardProjection #AnimatedExeter2012 video on YouTube with SceneChat
http://animexeter.blogspot.com/2012/02/video-of-evolumental-could-try-out.html
I have loaded one take to YouTube. This blog, the blogspot one not this Posterous one, is enabled for SceneChat. Should work ok so please add any comments. I have sughgested including where another source is possible for a better edit. But it could be any comment.
There is already a video from Princesshay Life.
I hope there will be a lot more and also stills. Creative Commons makes it clear that remix is invited.
Couple of questions. What is supposed to be happening with the Rose Window by the main door? The lights are not strong enough to be easy to photograph. I don't think many people have found them. Would it need outside projectors to work better? IDAT did a good job on this last year but their sound system was a bit limited. Can they come back sometime?
There was some guidance that social media video, YouTube etc. , should back moff until the propertelly had the exclusivity at the deadlines of their choosing. I'm not at all sure about this. Would a few hundred views on YouTube really make much difference to how they feel about turning up? And can it be clear if one fails to send a van on night one then they won't be there sometime later. Also although they have wonderful equipment they are only interested in a live broadcast of maybe two or three miinutes. Even this may not be online. If there isd a tryout on Wednesday I don't see any harm in a version being available. With social media the more options the better.
Journals and social media, some YouTube as well #mtw3 #twinity
Things are moving with Management Theory at Work #mtw3 , an online stage for a third conference ( see previous posts). The starting point is an update by John Burgoyne on a keynote from the first one. He varies this a bit but I think the basis is going back to ideas around the learning organisation updated for current technology. Still optimistic some of the time.
The blog at
has been updated to link to a YouTube clip of the sound from a similar lecture at Suffolk University Campus. With slides as well. By the way, I completely agree with Linda Shelton's concerns about Twinity. Any conference intended for the Work Foundation will benefit from a walk in the Twinity London to connect with other locations and discussions. Not so easy without the mapping information. I know another avatar - source.dubious10 - with a flat near Fleet Street, but really it is the street that makes the Twinity experience.
Listening to the full John Burgoyne sound you get the asides around the questions that you might not get in an edited extract. He mentions a talk in Lancaster by Hugh Wilmott that considered the downside of current journal publishing. I think I have found the relevant page on the Lancaster site and an online version of the paper, referencing another from Cardiff.
I have tried to read the papers in full but I have just skipped through enough to comment. Could there be a blog version in something like a thousand words or so? The issues with journals will remain much the same if only discussed in the format of a journal publication. Just my thought about it. I do agree about Checkland and soft systems being worth a look as Operations Research. But also I think quality ideas are worth more consideration than the HR scene has afforded since "Making Quality Critical", a very biased and destructive book in my opinion.
Anyway this #mtw3 thread is moving and the journals publishing situation is becoming part of it. There is a practitioner conversation which is more or less on another planet.
Peter Wells writes about "sustainability" as represented on the journal rankings from the Association of Business Schools. He concludes-
Of particular personal concern, within the context of BRASS, is the
inability of the ABS list to find room for sustainability as a theme. This is part of a
wider problem, and one that will become worse with time as the ABS list becomes
enshrined as mandatory rather than as a guide. That problem is the systematic
exclusion of some areas of work, some journals, and all other types of output as being
beyond the scope of the discipline. The result will surely be the atrophy of the
discipline and a decline into irrelevance, a retreat in to the ivory towers and a reduced
social justification for academic work at a time when public budgets are under
increasing scrutiny. We have built a monster, and it will now devour us.
I also notice that quality is not an obvious heading. It must be in there somehow. The word crops up as the apparent rationale.
There will be a meeting in March about an ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide. So I wonder how the quality is decided. Is it part of a process around being discovered or understood? Is the intended audience just academics?
Meanwhile David Weinberger has a new book out. There is a video online which explains what it is about. There is an explicit Creative Commons licence. So this will reach a wide audience. I think video should be part of the assessment.
Like Minds views on events, cameras ok @wearelikeminds
Andrew Gerrard - @andrewgerrard – started off talking about the shift from the era when cameras were taken off you when you attended an event, to the sheer impossibility of doing so today.
So would this apply to a gallery launch with visual content? Best way to welcome cameras?
Like Minds in London this week with video from Exeter on the website.
apology, Ghostwriter sound turned up while I was thinking about previous post
Just after the previous post I checked my email again and some sound has arrived. I think this will be broadcast during the Wild Show on Thursday between 10 and 12 on Phonic FM.
So the assumptions of the previous post are a bit wrong as in 180 degrees. But the argument about the value of Creative Commons licencing is still worth looking at. Chris Norton thinks the Wild Show is mostly about music and he is not wrong. But there could be some discussion then or later.
When did RAMM reopen? Time passes slowly here by the river..
Is there a better way to describe a Creative Commons culture event? #Strandbeest #evolumental
I am looking for a word to describe a certain kind of event. So far it is rather clumsy to describe it as a Creative Commons copyright style open source sort of thing. But I did notice last year that Watershed PR were explicit about the rights issuers around Isca Obscura. It was ok to video and photograph the sound and images and offer any results on Creative Commons terms if you liked. There was also an Arts Council funded video on YouTube with Creative Commons terms so there was at least one decent soundtrack.
This is a different business model to the art object in a gallery. Supposed to be unique and valuable and suited to a particular place. The artist is paid for sale of the object or similar ones in the future. The Creative Commons sort of approach works better in my view as a promotion for a city or location. The Strandbeest seemed more at home on Exmouth beach than in Bedford Square. But a recent search finds something similar in Melbourne and Taiwan.
I found that the Melbourne blog linked to my own Tumblr account so I could move the video across very easily.
I only started with Tumblr when Spacex selected it for the Review Group blog. So far the skin chosen often gives the appearance of an academic journal but there is scope for visual content. And I now reralise there is scopoe for mixing stuff across blogs with few limitations.
So I do have some questions about the copyright approach on Ghostwriter, the audio available at RAMM. As far as I know there is no audio sample for broadcast on radio or tv. There is no mp3 download or app version. The use of dial-up may be more democratic than assuming the latest gizmo but the costs of a mobile call over the length of a RAMM visit could also be an issue for some. Apparently there is a mobile you can borrow at RAMM somewhere but this is not widely known. Some people listen at home and then visit, but I am not sure what this means for the view that the work must be experienced in a specific place.
I support the Wild Show on Phonic FM Thursday mornings. We visited RAMM and were told it was ok to record and photograph in the permanent spaces but not to include any objects. So I think it was ok to Photoshop Chris Norton in Greek helmet onto a Greek beach from Flickr. See the Wild Show Facebook page. This week I will try to get a couple of minutes to play a recording of an object in the World Culture Gallery being played.
There is a sign saying "please touch" but only one set of sticks. Apparently there could be up to four people playing at once. I don't know if there could be another one built. I don't think they would allow it out of the museum where space is restricted.
( See previous posts on the giraffe and 3d models, quick response codes etc )
Thursday and Friday there will be reporting from the cathedral by local TV. I don't think much will be ready for YouTube till next week. But it often turns out that TV only use a few minutes of what they have. Last year the Spotlight van was there for hours but the interview was with images in background. There was not time for the full loop. And the policy is not to make available anything that was not broadcast. Could this be looked at again? There will be records on YouTube etc but the people with the expensive cameras and external microphones etc. have some sort of public duty.
By the way I am still very happy with my Kodak Zi8, great for what I do.
Only time will tell how the publicity works out for #evolumental.
But I would like to know a shorthand description for the style of event.
Animated Exeter, Enlightenment ideas, a week of mixing
This week is Animated Exeter, also I am working with a group on a Deming meeting where this clip was mentioned. So later more on how to use YouTube and animation.
travels in Flickr, Creative Commons as a positive
The news from the end of the cathedral phase of Occupy Exeter seemed to be an interest in ACTA, a new legislation that I am still checking out. I have found a website and some photos on Flickr from a demo in Berlin
So I have moved some to the photo from Exeter. I think Creative Commons is a way to have a positive base for new stuff. Flickr has an established method. More and more crazy legislation matched with protest is maybe not getting very far.
Creative Commons, how will it work with Animated Exeter for example?
This post is to explore what can be done working with Creative Commons. There are a few situations where I am trying to connect with more content but the main event will be the Forkbeard Fantasy projection. Last year it bacame very clear that Isca Obscura was on a Creative Commons licence. So it could be photographed and videos posted online etc. Also there was an official video on YouTube with a Creative Commons licence so the excelent sound recording could be used again. I also got interviews which were posted on YouTube. I hope the same will be possible this year.
But there is a mixed trend on web access. I am still trying to get a sound sample of Ghostwriter foir RAMM. I might put this in a YouTube clip or play it during the Wild Show on Phonic FM. But there is still what I take to be a view that art content should stay in the gallery under firm control. The themes of content may be sharing in a web meme of mutualised creativity but I'm not sure the approach to journalism has caught up with this. Social media as including everybody as journalist.
Meanwhile I am continuing to blog about a New Canvas or Visual Music or however digital animation is described when linked to a music soundtrack. I no longer try to arrange a talk during Animated Exeter because the costs of renting work to display are not easy to fit with probable ticket sales and a free event is easier to promote. But there is now quite a lot of stuff online. So this may work out just as well. If you are in Exeter next week and would like to meet please add a comment.
By the way, I won't post much all that quickly. I still have to edit stuff from long ago.
Huffington Post has more on Kodak and video cameras
These days, digital camera sales are suffering as consumers increasingly take photos on smartphones such as the iPhone. Certain smartphone makers such as LG, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung have agreed to pay Kodak to license its digital camera technology, while companies like Apple are fighting its patent claims.
So these are the companies to look at for video. For patent income longterm Kodak will offer something.
Goodbye Kodak video, must take care of my Zi8
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120210/BUSINESS/302100035/Kodak-cameras-bankrupt
confirms news heard on radio in background. Kodak will stop promoting digital cameras. As mentioned previously I like the Zi8 I was given at IPEX but I have noticed that availability in Exeter UK has not been that consistent.
This news report mentions using the brand for other products. What about the patents in phones? I am not too bothered about the size of a phone if it has a good video camera inside. Tapping the screen for a zoom is a bit of a worry though, I want to avoid too much wobble.
Clues please on where this Kodak direction could go. WiFi very important, The file sizes are quite large.
Meanwhile the Zi8 is lasting ok.
Flickr code working better on Blogspot official #mtw3 blog #mtw3
My colleague on the official #mtw3 blog is having a better result. Maybe Blogger likes Flickr standards better than Posterous.
#mtw3 might be better as attachment on Posterous in jpeg form #mtw3
try this
description on Flickr
Google search results on #mtw3 7th Feb Dickens graphic, Links to Grove, Suffolk, CMS and dynamic capability, Scribd and YouTube.
but how to link?
#mtw3 doing well on Google search for #mtw3
should work as embed code![#mtw3]()
Twinity still a base for Visual Music, New Canvas, music video
I am still wondering about location as Animated Exeter gets close. Spacex talk last week suggests that sound is specific to location but this sort of thing makes less and less sense.
Meanwhile Twinity has dropped the street links between places. Apparently the map information was costing too much, But the homes still exist and I now have one in each city, London, Berlin, Singapore, Miami and New York. 3D worlds with avatars must be part of the animation future. I realise bandwidth is a problem by now social media works as text with links, there can be video or not. I still have stills from several streets so this can be collaged with avatars etc.
The "visual music" term is still interesting. In Exeter we started with a "New Canvas" which I guess refers to the earlier work that is accepted on art courses. The demoscene is still not known in conference circles as far as I can tell. Sundown may happen again quite near Exeter but not much connected to Animated Exeter. I thought most visual music was recent but it seems to include earlier work as well sometimes.
A quick search on Google finds a started set of links.
Vibeke Sorensen currently Professor and Chair of the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where she is Founding Director of the Center for Asian Art and Design.
search on miami finds dance from Sweden
search on New York finds an events page now with New York coming up later
walk to Berlin from Munich?
London finds dorkbot
not sure about this tune
more later
Giraffe theme for Wild Show and creative commons sound in museums
I am still thinking about the talk last week around Blast Theory at Spacex.
Gabriella Giannachi spoke about the interest from computer science and made comparisons with open source. However I still find there is no audio connected to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum that can be used on radio or as paqrt of a YouTube video for example.
On the Wild Show we have done a few items on Creative Commons, and one reasoin for using this is to reach a wider public.
"Documentation" seems to be a way of authorising recording for an academic audience. I still don't know what has happened to the sound recording from the opening of the current show. How could such audio be used if and when it was available.
Meanwhile investigations continue around image rights and giraffes. I have an ongoing tweet discussion with a gifted giraffe but I'm not sure this is the giraffe I first thougt of.
#mtw3 extends to University Campus Suffolk, lectures series YouTube archive
The online version of Management Theory at Work is making more connections. The start point is a keynote by John Burgoyne, related to the original. Versions of his text adapt to situations including the Grove Journal. He recently spoke at the University Campus Suffolk and some record will appear soon
It is interesting what else is included and how it is recorded. The content of the online version of Management Theory at Work is still to be determined so this lecture series could be a guide, as well as the Grove Journal. There is one YouTube clip of an hour and a half so this took me a while to study. John Peters on "Risk, Trust and the Benefits of Social Responsibility" is not available to search on YouTube but you can find it on the link above.
What interests me especially is the reference to ISO 9000and to quality assurance in general as a comparison for managing trust. I have found that quality issues are not always included. John Peters now works for GSE Research where journal articles are published so this could be an example of an organisation adapting to technology changes.
The video is unusual as it is just sound though with the slides. He uses two clips from YouTube that can be more public. So my question is what happens with journals when text is as mash able?
Davos talk re copyright @DanJarvisMP @wood5y @CllrPaul4Cowick
This is a talk from Davos, a bit long but the main points are clear in the first ten minutes.
The chances of content industry in the UK working with social media depend on some understanding.