When I was working on The Shape Of A Note I was assisted by the Penrith Regional Gallery in trying to find works that could be described as musical. Obviously it’s easiest to do that in the era when painters themselves used music as a guide – Kandinsky and Mondrian are the obvious references but [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General Research'
Make ProRes video on a PC.
March 31st, 2012 · Comments Off · General Research
First of all, I made a start on a dedicated HH sub site. It’s pretty bare right now and will be until a few more things get built. Over the years most small to medium video producers adopted Final Cut Pro on the Mac as the standard for editing. It was the best choice, but [...]
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The Academic Industrial Complex
March 24th, 2012 · Comments Off · General Research
Right now: Work is renovating our curriculum. Fan shen is not the stated goal but you’d be crazy to miss the chance to scorch earth and build a new church you’d be proud of in 2016, when the first graduates come plopping out the other side. Years of frustration are bubbling up along with the [...]
Software! Feck! Arse! Part 2.
August 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · General Research
(In which your host visits Apple and finds Enlightenment.) I went to Apple. Despite the presentation, I found out what I needed to know. Before we go any further they want to dispel some rumours. I am now sure that they are not abandoning the professional market. They are not dumping Logic. The new look [...]
Software! Feck! Arse!
August 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · General Research
(In which your host is summoned by Apple to answer for insubordination, and learns how little he knows about Ableton Live.) So the various imps and demons of Kunst Kamp finally got together and debated what to do about this Final Cut Pro business. No one was particularly interested in ‘upgrading’ to the new version, [...]
Detecting ghosts using Picasa
February 19th, 2011 · Comments Off · General Research
The family home having been put on the market all the children have taken their burden of the artefacts that filled our parents’ lives. As the parents were in competition with the British Museum to pillage the planet for statues, carvings, parts of UFOs and weapons of mass destruction, I haven’t been able to fit [...]
Death Star remains Supreme
January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off · General Research
Universities are odd. They are filled with students; at the larger campuses you might have 40,000 – 50,000 of them rolling up and down the aisles. A Sensible Person would look at the place and decide that teaching was the main business. But a university is kind of like an Evil Genius Island – the [...]
Three Generations of Three Dimensions
January 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · General Research
Grandma Ellard’s Stereographoscope. According to ‘the internet’ there were many of these made, most are French and ‘of poor quality’. This one doesn’t seem to take the oldest kind of stereo card, but is quite happy with cards made in the 1960′s – I would think it was made around 1920. The cards I have [...]
John Lennon’s toilet
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · General Research
A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) – nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said. How may we best position art in the dynamic forces of creative genius and social construct? Lennon used the porcelain lavatory, which is painted with blue flowers [...]
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I’ve got a really big one
July 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Advertisement, General Research
Actually my students have a big one that I’m working on. Don’t think too hard about that – think of this: you are making an animation that pulls back from a single image to reveal it is the middle of a larger mosaic of images, 39 by 39 in fact. The screen is 768 pixels [...]
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