You may be wondering what happened to animation as a topic. Well, it could be that any form of content would fit in. The wifiExeter blog is more clearly about distribution unless that turns up here as well.
On Sunday 11th November the Creative Collective will tour intrepidly all the way from the Phoenix to the Globe Inn, Newtown. there will be a selection of short films, possibly including animation. That is, some films may be completely animation or some films may include sections of animation or techniques borrowed from animation. Now there is so much digital technique it is often difficult to tell what a clearcut definition of animation may be.
Discussion to be continued on blog and at Globe, Phoenix etc.
Linking to YouTube could be scaled up in time for Animated Exeter in February
Meanwhile from Future Shorts, coming to the Phoenix big screen sometime soon
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Continental Market
For some of us the food is an important part of any festival. The continental market will be in Sidwell Street on the 2,3 and 4th of November.
Here is my own video from last year. Very short but maybe Exeter Television will get out more this year. Most of the editing is done at Life Bytes at the other end of Sidwell Street.
Here is my own video from last year. Very short but maybe Exeter Television will get out more this year. Most of the editing is done at Life Bytes at the other end of Sidwell Street.
Deadly Wars, folk at the Globe
On 9th November, folk songs about war and the experience of soldiers.
Exeter Television did record a previous occasion here, a concert by Wistman's Wood.
Exeter Television did record a previous occasion here, a concert by Wistman's Wood.
Correction to previous post
Due to an error in copying links, the previous post confused James Taylor and the James Taylor Quartet. Apologies. The correct link should have been
This is only a blog. You should check any information for yourself.
As far as I know this is the current album
This is only a blog. You should check any information for yourself.
As far as I know this is the current album
Autumn Festival previews on YouTube
So far there are quite a few of the artists appearing in Exeter for the Autumn Festival who have video on YouTube. One aim of Exeter Television is that this should happen more often. More on this later. There may be a concentration on events at the Globe as this is the easiest venue for me to get to. Meanwhile here are a couple of other links.
The official site from Exeter City Council.
Bridgetower, English Touring Opera, Corn Exchange 9th November
James Taylor Quartet, 2nd November Phoenix
The official site from Exeter City Council.
Bridgetower, English Touring Opera, Corn Exchange 9th November
James Taylor Quartet, 2nd November Phoenix
Monday, October 01, 2007
Mobile animation coming soon somewhere
Adobe MAX is an occasion to conjure up a vision of the future. Most people attending are developers and they need to work out what the audience will expect by the time something is launched.
Gary Kovacs, in charge of marketing at Adobe's mobile unit, called Flash Lite 3 "the most significant advance we've made in mobile" and said it brought Adobe closer to being able to release software versions for mobile and desktop simultaneously.
"It's probably a few years away. We'll do it over the next couple to three years," he told Reuters.
Meanwhile the Apple iPhone is seen as an inspiration.
According to VNUnet.com, Anup Murarka, Adobe's director of technical marketing said that the iPhone has "changed the landscape" with its sleek graphics and tight integration of services, turning the phone from a simple commodity into a fashion statement. Gary Kovacs, vice president of marketing at Adobe's mobile and devices branch added that
"Since the iPhone, the energy in the industry to create something compelling has been off the charts.The iPhone has convinced customers that data on a mobile phone is possible."
However a list of devices that are currently available with earlier versions of Flash shows that many of them are supported in Japan or North America.
It may be a while before Flash Lite 3 is widely distributed in Exeter.
There will be an Apple shop so the iPhone can be demonstrated. There are some doubts about the cost and capability. Martin Courtney in the UK IT Week suggests that wifi availability will be a factor given that there is no support for 3G. Not a problem in wifi Exeter.
Other announcements at MAX included another update on the runtime now known as AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime- and an example in the form of an Adobe Media Player. Warning, this is all beta stuff. Uninstall previous versions of AIR or Apollo or it could go wrong. The Media Player can only cope with Flash video as far as I can tell. You can enter demographic information about yourself to help the advertisers. there is quite a lot of video already including animation. the Two Dollar Pistols on nTune.TV are not reaaly the sort of band that would be booked for Vibraphonic but they deserve a hearing. It is not all from the USA. there is areport on a Lady Sovereign Concert at the Scala in King's Cross from Jumpoff TV. Now back to technology issues, enough time for content later.
So my point of view is that this is well worth watching but is some way off in the future. The Media Player works ok full screen. Something similar will be possible later on mobiles.
Meanwhile I am looking at two photographs as a token for discussion in the near future, say the rest of this year.
One is to show that an Apple shop is expected in Exeter sometime. This is on the Time Travel section of Snap City so could connect with other places.
The other one is an impression on Flickr of how Exeter Castle may look when the icerink arrives, an almost certain event for the fourth quarter. Mostly it is borrowed from Paul Keleher in Boston. The Creative Commons has many possibilities. I have claimed that there will be some genuine photos later. Maybe there will be some video.
Meanwhile this blog is mostly text. And I can add to it from Life Bytes on Sidwell Street.
Gary Kovacs, in charge of marketing at Adobe's mobile unit, called Flash Lite 3 "the most significant advance we've made in mobile" and said it brought Adobe closer to being able to release software versions for mobile and desktop simultaneously.
"It's probably a few years away. We'll do it over the next couple to three years," he told Reuters.
Meanwhile the Apple iPhone is seen as an inspiration.
According to VNUnet.com, Anup Murarka, Adobe's director of technical marketing said that the iPhone has "changed the landscape" with its sleek graphics and tight integration of services, turning the phone from a simple commodity into a fashion statement. Gary Kovacs, vice president of marketing at Adobe's mobile and devices branch added that
"Since the iPhone, the energy in the industry to create something compelling has been off the charts.The iPhone has convinced customers that data on a mobile phone is possible."
However a list of devices that are currently available with earlier versions of Flash shows that many of them are supported in Japan or North America.
It may be a while before Flash Lite 3 is widely distributed in Exeter.
There will be an Apple shop so the iPhone can be demonstrated. There are some doubts about the cost and capability. Martin Courtney in the UK IT Week suggests that wifi availability will be a factor given that there is no support for 3G. Not a problem in wifi Exeter.
Other announcements at MAX included another update on the runtime now known as AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime- and an example in the form of an Adobe Media Player. Warning, this is all beta stuff. Uninstall previous versions of AIR or Apollo or it could go wrong. The Media Player can only cope with Flash video as far as I can tell. You can enter demographic information about yourself to help the advertisers. there is quite a lot of video already including animation. the Two Dollar Pistols on nTune.TV are not reaaly the sort of band that would be booked for Vibraphonic but they deserve a hearing. It is not all from the USA. there is areport on a Lady Sovereign Concert at the Scala in King's Cross from Jumpoff TV. Now back to technology issues, enough time for content later.
So my point of view is that this is well worth watching but is some way off in the future. The Media Player works ok full screen. Something similar will be possible later on mobiles.
Meanwhile I am looking at two photographs as a token for discussion in the near future, say the rest of this year.
One is to show that an Apple shop is expected in Exeter sometime. This is on the Time Travel section of Snap City so could connect with other places.
The other one is an impression on Flickr of how Exeter Castle may look when the icerink arrives, an almost certain event for the fourth quarter. Mostly it is borrowed from Paul Keleher in Boston. The Creative Commons has many possibilities. I have claimed that there will be some genuine photos later. Maybe there will be some video.
Meanwhile this blog is mostly text. And I can add to it from Life Bytes on Sidwell Street.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Adobe Max Video Wall works ok as a slideshow
Here it is
But is it animation?
Is there a plot?
Are there characters?
Moral development?
Can it be stored on film and curated properly?
But is it animation?
Is there a plot?
Are there characters?
Moral development?
Can it be stored on film and curated properly?
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Feb 08 for discussion on distribution
Conversation with Jo Gedrych of Exeter Television about future possible meetings. More later but just as a note to come back to it seems probable there will be some future conversation around the time of Animated Exeter in February 08. At the Phoenix Media Centre there is an interest in YouTube and offering support for people who want to find better ways of using it. My own approach so far has been to load very short token clips and try to persuade other people to load longer ones. Otherwise I just borrow something that is already there.
A few examples
The Plump DJs mix video. There is a connection with the demoscene in my opinion. You could start with a search on Sundown and Budleigh Salterton.
Mobile phones as an input. Would it work as an output?
More later. there will be a closely argued script with categories each making up a timed sequence of television. Unless something else keeps turning up during such a project.
Almost forgot
From Exeter TV
Can it all fit together somehow?
A few examples
The Plump DJs mix video. There is a connection with the demoscene in my opinion. You could start with a search on Sundown and Budleigh Salterton.
Mobile phones as an input. Would it work as an output?
More later. there will be a closely argued script with categories each making up a timed sequence of television. Unless something else keeps turning up during such a project.
Almost forgot
From Exeter TV
Can it all fit together somehow?
Monday, September 24, 2007
Modem Festival continues
In the Guardian it said that the Raindance Festival would be showing stuff online. More about this when it turns up.
Meanwhile the Raindance site seems to be promoting their TV that turns out to be based on Joost. So far I have found some stuff from Aardman. A Town Called Panic. So this is reassuringly normal animation.
You have to follow the link then think of a name, use an email address that works etc etc. install takes a while. random adverts turn up. but maybe the Raindance stuff will be worth a look.
Meanwhile the Raindance site seems to be promoting their TV that turns out to be based on Joost. So far I have found some stuff from Aardman. A Town Called Panic. So this is reassuringly normal animation.
You have to follow the link then think of a name, use an email address that works etc etc. install takes a while. random adverts turn up. but maybe the Raindance stuff will be worth a look.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Flashforward winner has a plotline
More later on the demoscene in Budleigh Salterton.
Meanwhile a link to one of the winners from Flashforward.
Works ok on a small screen, just wait a while for it to load.
Nothing abstract about this and it has characters. So some balance there in the wide scope of this blog.
Meanwhile a link to one of the winners from Flashforward.
Works ok on a small screen, just wait a while for it to load.
Nothing abstract about this and it has characters. So some balance there in the wide scope of this blog.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Sundown invite
Trying out the new add a video feature in Blogspot.
Actually, cancel that. No link to YouTube so I still need to copy code
Come on Google, life is supposed to be easy.
Actually, cancel that. No link to YouTube so I still need to copy code
Come on Google, life is supposed to be easy.
Friday, July 13, 2007
John Whitney on YouTube
Update to yesterday's post, John Whitney is on YouTube. Arabesque.
My memory is that a previous example did disappear. Maybe you should be quick to see this. Who knows?
In a sensible world, everything from the early days of computer animation would be on YouTube. But this cannot be guaranteed.
There is also a video on Charles Csuri with short extracts towards the end. Personally I find the soundtrack annoying. But this is an example of how to mix interviews, presentation and original computer animation. Half an hour or an hour is not impossible to imagine.
My memory is that a previous example did disappear. Maybe you should be quick to see this. Who knows?
In a sensible world, everything from the early days of computer animation would be on YouTube. But this cannot be guaranteed.
There is also a video on Charles Csuri with short extracts towards the end. Personally I find the soundtrack annoying. But this is an example of how to mix interviews, presentation and original computer animation. Half an hour or an hour is not impossible to imagine.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
A New Canvas, notes for Sundown
Thinking about an online guide to digital animation it strikes me that the top problem is the lack of availability of the classic stuff. For some reason the kind of work covered in A New Canvas is very rarely shown and is also very heard to find on the web. It seems to have the same sort of status as an ancient oil painting, best kept in the dark away from anybody except a distinguished academic.
Seriously though, why is it thought this style is suited to film and more or less film only. I may be repeating myself from previous posts but I feel certain that computer distribution would have been used in 1967 onwards had it been available.
The demoscene stuff is getting easier to access. A dedicated web TV channel. Versions on YouTube. A big screen at a party is much much better so the YouTube versions are in no way damaging parties as events, any more than MySpace damages live music. By the way, exhibitions of oil paintings can also benefit from online versions in reasonable resolution.
So plan A is to find at least some still images in time for Sundown. Not sure when it is, but summer has not started yet so there must be a few months to come.
Aim is to show some connection demoscene / new canvas. Maybe this will be an occasion to discuss archiving, preservation, distribution.
Not wanting to upset anyone by directly ripping off graphics, here are some links.
A New Canvas
Cibernetik 5.3
1961-65, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 8 min.
John Stehura
Charles Csuri
Hummingbird
1967
Computeranimation, Microfilm Plotter, Film übertragen auf DVD, 10 min
Charles Csuri
Lillian Schwartz Papillons
1973 music by Max Mathews,
video [large detail of still from installation]
John Whitney Biographical Page
Digital Harmony
still and Quicktime extract
what about some complete stuff somewhere?
Seriously though, why is it thought this style is suited to film and more or less film only. I may be repeating myself from previous posts but I feel certain that computer distribution would have been used in 1967 onwards had it been available.
The demoscene stuff is getting easier to access. A dedicated web TV channel. Versions on YouTube. A big screen at a party is much much better so the YouTube versions are in no way damaging parties as events, any more than MySpace damages live music. By the way, exhibitions of oil paintings can also benefit from online versions in reasonable resolution.
So plan A is to find at least some still images in time for Sundown. Not sure when it is, but summer has not started yet so there must be a few months to come.
Aim is to show some connection demoscene / new canvas. Maybe this will be an occasion to discuss archiving, preservation, distribution.
Not wanting to upset anyone by directly ripping off graphics, here are some links.
A New Canvas
Cibernetik 5.3
1961-65, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 8 min.
John Stehura
Charles Csuri
Hummingbird
1967
Computeranimation, Microfilm Plotter, Film übertragen auf DVD, 10 min
Charles Csuri
Lillian Schwartz Papillons
1973 music by Max Mathews,
video [large detail of still from installation]
John Whitney Biographical Page
Digital Harmony
still and Quicktime extract
what about some complete stuff somewhere?
Friday, June 22, 2007
Radio Vague and Flash
A very strange thing has happened.
Radio Vague, a longterm supporter of open source, have made the following statement about broadcast from Glastonbury this weekend-
"To listen in you'll need nothing more than Flash Player version 7 or higher, available from Adobe."
I wait to see if this is true. I have now managed to get Ogg Vorbis working and VLC seems ok. So something as simple as Flash seems too obvious. I hope the bandwidth can cope now this is not something just for the dedicated techies who can persevere.
I am not making this up. I first discovered Open Office when Psand refused to send me a Word file.
Radio Vague, a longterm supporter of open source, have made the following statement about broadcast from Glastonbury this weekend-
"To listen in you'll need nothing more than Flash Player version 7 or higher, available from Adobe."
I wait to see if this is true. I have now managed to get Ogg Vorbis working and VLC seems ok. So something as simple as Flash seems too obvious. I hope the bandwidth can cope now this is not something just for the dedicated techies who can persevere.
I am not making this up. I first discovered Open Office when Psand refused to send me a Word file.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
More on Remixer
Look for "Remixer" on Youtube.
Presumably you can load up anything, then select what to include.
The full Ann Shelton extract is here.
Presumably you can load up anything, then select what to include.
The full Ann Shelton extract is here.
YouTube video edit test
The Adobe online video edit option reaches YouTube, I have tried this out.
Seems to be missing the last bit. Tests from a lunchtime lecture on electronics during Vibraphonic and the food festivities of Sidwell Street. More next weekend but maybe you only get sausages in the winter.
Seems to be missing the last bit. Tests from a lunchtime lecture on electronics during Vibraphonic and the food festivities of Sidwell Street. More next weekend but maybe you only get sausages in the winter.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Meanwhile Ubuntu turns up on YouTube
Not sure what is happening with the project discussed at Sundown for intros on Ubuntu but a short video has turned up on YouTube made by a librarian. As promotion it is fairly convincing, making simple points well.
one special effect towards the end.
one special effect towards the end.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Video from Animated Exeter now on YouTube
Exeter Television has now loaded to YouTube a short on the Games Day at the Phoenix.
It shows an impression of what went on, including how easy it is to get to the big screen from a digital input. in this case a Wii machine but it could be a web link in theory. So the demoscence material could end up in the Phoenix one day.
Here again is a previous video from Sundown 2006 in Budleigh. Expect another one in 2007.
Not sure what has happened to the idea of intros or idents for Ubuntu. Maybe there will be an update out of sequence. Things move fairly slowly so one year being much like previously the breaking news could be at any time. At least now there is at least one video from Animated Exeter and one from Sundown on the archive for Exeter Television. Several others on YouTube for Sundown.
Debris, looks even better on a big screen
It shows an impression of what went on, including how easy it is to get to the big screen from a digital input. in this case a Wii machine but it could be a web link in theory. So the demoscence material could end up in the Phoenix one day.
Here again is a previous video from Sundown 2006 in Budleigh. Expect another one in 2007.
Not sure what has happened to the idea of intros or idents for Ubuntu. Maybe there will be an update out of sequence. Things move fairly slowly so one year being much like previously the breaking news could be at any time. At least now there is at least one video from Animated Exeter and one from Sundown on the archive for Exeter Television. Several others on YouTube for Sundown.
Debris, looks even better on a big screen
Friday, April 13, 2007
Video web possible in Exeter
A couple of things have happened recently to make me think that a video web is getting closer. People at Life Bytes on Sidwell Streeet opposite the Odeon are expecting a plasma screen sometime next week. Apparently this is funded by advertising and will be one of several in Exeter. Not sure how this will work. Will there be enough content to make it interesting or will the ads just be annoying? But at least the idea of display from web will get over. There may be wireless access at some locations. The content is all supplied over the web. More on this later.
Also I am finding more video from Exeter on YouTube. For example, this about the cathedral. Not sure what is being said as it is in Italian. Still, it means that a guide to Exeter can be made up from various sources.
Also I am finding more video from Exeter on YouTube. For example, this about the cathedral. Not sure what is being said as it is in Italian. Still, it means that a guide to Exeter can be made up from various sources.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Future Shorts arrives at the Phoenix
Last night was the first occasion Future Shorts showed at the Phoenix. There is usually at least one animation. This time 'Last Train Ride' directed by Gokhan Okur from Turkey. Apparently illustration, maybe computers were in there somehow. Well integrated with the soundtrack from Jigsaw Soul. Many of the Future Shorts are online at full length. This one is hosted by Atom Films
You may have to wait for an ad
Or here if you have Quicktime.
In my opinion not much is lost by putting content online. It is a bit obvious that the Phoenix screen is a better place to view something. Online is ok but is mostly promotion for something else. There may be a short pause for discussion on this next time before the 8pm film. I will be in the bar somewhere. Meanwhile please leave a comment unless this is just obvious for most people and I am going on about it out of habit.
You may have to wait for an ad
Or here if you have Quicktime.
In my opinion not much is lost by putting content online. It is a bit obvious that the Phoenix screen is a better place to view something. Online is ok but is mostly promotion for something else. There may be a short pause for discussion on this next time before the 8pm film. I will be in the bar somewhere. Meanwhile please leave a comment unless this is just obvious for most people and I am going on about it out of habit.
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