Stop Motion: Final Film

This video was inspired by googles' "Project Glass" and was created entirely in Photoshop, each frame after 00:6 (460 JPEGs) was edited by itself, there is no animation in this clip. It took about 20 hours of editing in total to complete.

The original video can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgvn2TPOJPA

Investigate: Glasses

For me the most interesting part of modern society is the progression, and increasingly growing significance of digital media. Images, Music, Videos, Messages, Movies, Games, e-Books and Comics have all rose to become integral in the modern lifestyle and modern technology is constantly adapting to compensate for this by integrating it as the demand grows. Mobile phone companies manufactured cameras into their models at the beginning of the last decade, mp3 players soon followed. Nowadays phones can do nearly everything including access the internet, so can TVs. Computers are used as central hubs for nearly every peripheral device you can own and video game consoles can stream movies, TV shows and music from the internet thanks to services like Netflix and Music Unlimited. I believe that digital media is the future of our modern society, and that one of the best ways to continue to push it forward is to make it more accessible for people, and more significant to their everyday interactions.

My inspiration for this assignment comes from Googles’ ‘Project Glass’ a set of augmented reality glasses that will run on Googles’ Android operating system. The idea that someone could use a pair of glasses to interact with the world is one that I find extremely exciting, and its applications in the consumption of media are more varied than any other device currently on the market. The idea of imposing information on someones vision means that it is no longer necessary for screens to exist, meaning that the person doesn’t even really need to be holding the device that they are trying to use. Imagine sitting in your lounge and receiving a txt from your phone in the kitchen, or listening to music streaming from your laptop in your bedroom, imagine skyping someone while cooking dinner or watching a TV show while on the toilet. All of a sudden media would become omnipresent in out day-to-day lives, with us at all times and accessible in the easiest of ways.

Stop Motion interim hand in

Storyboards

Stop Motion: Update 2

I have decided against the old UI design that i had, the contrasting colors made the information stand out, the major colour contrast didn't look as professional as i would have liked. i have decided to change it.

Blog 5: Locovisual

Catholic Church of St Gerard

 In his three part critique on architecture ‘The Stones of Venice’ John Ruskin tried to recuperate the general publics and the design and architecture communities respect for the Gothic style of architecture. He claimed that its flaws (it was commonly referred to as a barbaric and simple form of design) were one of its most redeeming qualities. He believed this was because it meant that the workers had freedom to do their work how they wished, and that this was a timeless metaphor for the social conditions of the era. He believed that the uniform design of his time (nineteenth century) represented the exact opposite of this and wished for a social change, sparking the beginning of the gothic revival period. This is a perfect parallel to St Gerard’s Catholic Church and Monastery in Wellington. This church was built in 1908 during the final years of the Gothic revival period and shows many of the standard Gothic motifs of the time such as high pointed arches, oak and other floral themes and high ceilings. It was built for the Redemptorists, a Christian sect that took Jesus’ message of “Love one another as I have loved you” to action and wished to lift the social conditions of not just third world countries but also the poorer parts of developed societies, just as John Ruskin did. In the book ‘Living Architecture: Gothic’ the Author Hans H. Hofstatter claims “we now understand the Gothic as a mighty synthesis of the new attitude of the Christian faith and architectural technique” further supporting the idea that Gothism was the face of ‘good’ ‘honest’ Christianity and 'good' 'honest' design.

John Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic." excerpted in German, C. (2003) The Industrial Design Reader (pp.18-20). New York: Allworth Press.

Hofstatter, H. H. (1970). Living Architecture: Gothic. New York, USA: Grosset & Dunlap Inc.