The Documentary New Media Group Project

when and where?

lindsaymaynard — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:53:53 +0000

when and where are we meeting today???

Tag shortlist

mlaurie — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:48:30 +0000

Hi, we are trying to finalize the tag shortlist. We have altered some tags for appropriateness. Please check over the list and register your concerns in the comments by 6 pm, because I need to draw up the final list. Thanks and see you all tomorrow.

Verdancy

Guardian

Amusement

Ruins

Sign

Net

Waves

Speed

Machine

Noise

Tower

Voyage

Chaos

Plant

Metal

Rhythm

Trail

Bridge

Islander

Sanctuary

Barrier

Graham’s Tags

Graham Runciman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:46:52 +0000

Some tag free-association and near-binaries to fill in any gaps should they arise:

lost / found* / missing
direction* / destination
signal / marker
flow* / float
barrier / connection
communication / reception / response
monument* / landmark
utility / purpose
observer / observed
lack / excess
sanctuary / chaos
visitor / local*

*favourites

Could the lighthouse, with a little context, not be tagged by any of these?

hey guys

morrislum — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:02:05 +0000

when, where, and what time should we meet???

Meeting before shooting

lindsaymaynard — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:48:26 +0000

What if we meet before we shoot on Sunday in the morning sometime? Then we can look at some platforms and finalize our tags?

Yahoo pipes etc.

mlaurie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:49:36 +0000

We’re still struggling with developing a suitable interface for our new media project. Alex Bal recommended a service called Yahoo Pipes that allows you to manipulate/filter/visualize streams of data such as RSS feeds from Flickr. It is possible to embed the pipes’ output into blogs such as wordpress and blogger. But as of yet, I don’t think Pipes allow you to randomize the data; if this is indeed the case, I still think Pictobrowser is more aesthetically flexible and elegant.

I have experimented with both platforms here (this is just a sandbox for developing forms – the content is just dummy text and images): mfataghunt.blogspot.com

We need to reach a consensus on this interface issue, and on the tags as well (see post below). I plan on being at school sometime tomorrow, in case people are available.

Ken’s Tages

kennyyyy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:58:19 +0000

Noise, Round, and Closer?

Updates: please read

mlaurie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:52:54 +0000

Hi Group

[Edit: From home, I realize that the photos on the blogspot page I made do not look correct on my laptop screen (they looked fine in the MFA lab.) I have removed the link and will try to figure this out tomorrow.]

Graham, Morris, and I met with Alex Bal today to discuss the design of an interface. For several hours, Graham and I experimented with some Flickr add-on widgets that allow you to embed and visualize Flickr content in various ways. In my explorations I found a nice, customizable slideshow tool called Pictobroswer; you can fiddle with the html code a bit to get a fairly clean looking effect. The top Pictobrowser window could be fed with the tagged images from a Flickr set, and then we could turn the captions into JPGs in photoshop (say, in white text against a black background), and then feed them into a second embedded Pictobrowser below. Thus, we can cycle through the like-tagged image-text combos for an effect similar to the one agreed upon. One issue that arises is that WordPress will not allow this kind of embedded code; thankfully, Blogger will.

On another note (with no intention to cause offense), I think I should note that while some of the tags proposed are very good, I think a few of them are a little too open-ended, and do not conform to the parameters established (albeit vaguely) at the meeting. The thing is, we want there to be a likelihood that many of the captions will correspond in some way to the photographs, striking a balance in documentation between individual expression and a collective understanding of a public space. To ensure that at least some of the image-text relationships are subtly ambiguous rather than patently obvious or non-existent, I think we need to agree on a few more concrete tags referring to objects/phenomena (but esp. objects) likely encountered on the island.

lankyone — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:00:56 +0000

Here are my three:

Mayhem, Sand, Metal

morris’ tags

morrislum — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:43:26 +0000

speed, simultaneous, waves.
sorry i missed the meeting yesterday guys.

morris.