The Outside Cover
The Inside Cover
The CD LabelWednesday, July 15, 2009
Packaging
As a final touch, I was asked to make a simple packaging for the final product - A printed CD and a CD cover.
The Outside Cover
The Inside Cover
The CD Label
The Outside CoverThe Inside CoverThe CD Label
Bartificial
Lounge
Bartificial is an artificial bar where customers can come to have a private time with themselves and get away from their daily activities that are often stressful. Our purpose is to provide virtual private lounges so one can imagine himself being in there and have a relaxing time after a long and hard day. It is an alternative resort for the busy workers who do not have the time to go outside and have a descent meal and drinks. Bartificial is meant to create an imaginary space where one can detach himself from the real world and enter this virtual world where anything can happen.
Unfortunately the server in my University has erased all the projects so it is no longer published on the net. But I will Provide some screen grabs to illustrate the idea.
The Flash Version:
Non Flash Version:
Bartificial is an artificial bar where customers can come to have a private time with themselves and get away from their daily activities that are often stressful. Our purpose is to provide virtual private lounges so one can imagine himself being in there and have a relaxing time after a long and hard day. It is an alternative resort for the busy workers who do not have the time to go outside and have a descent meal and drinks. Bartificial is meant to create an imaginary space where one can detach himself from the real world and enter this virtual world where anything can happen.
Unfortunately the server in my University has erased all the projects so it is no longer published on the net. But I will Provide some screen grabs to illustrate the idea.
The Flash Version:
Non Flash Version:
Baudrillard and Delilo
Another Collaborative work that is a response to Baudrillard's and Delilo's Text. (Read the text here).
This was actually a collaborative work that went a little south. A lot of drama involved in the production and as a result the outcome was not very satisfying. However, I did pull an all-nighter just to create few minutes animation, so I guess it might worth to show (or maybe not). The downfall part was the main idea basically. We slightly misinterpreted the text (as of many of our fellow students) and just followed the general idea that was already out there. This and added with our lack of group work in creating this piece of work, thus this video.
Rotoscoping
A collaborative work with Roger Merzian, a fellow media student in UNSW. This is a response to a text by Toop.
The Idea
Text four speaks of memories spurred from certain sounds and images. It was difficult to find a method in which a memory could be animated and a message could be given clearly. The decision rested on a guy dealing with dishes late at night. The sound of the water running and the pouring rain outside reminds him of walking in the city with his girlfriend. One aspect clearly defined in the text was the fact that these memories were not specific stories or extravagant in any way. Therefore the walking in the rain with a girlfriend was the memory which spurred from the sound and images of water and rain.
The Animation
With the animation, I was using rotoscoping technique to trace the couple in his memories. This was meant to emphasize the ‘imaginary’ or ‘past’ part of it. The water from the tab and the rain are rotoscoped because the sound that came out of those is part of the trigger for the memories. In the beginning part, the man is outlined by a simple rotoscope with a line that has a same colour with the water, with this, I was meant to show that the water (represents by the blue colours) ‘triggers’ the man and similar method was applied for the rain.
Screen Grabs:
Click HERE to watch the full video.
*I tried to upload it in Youtube but it messed up the quality of the animation so I uploaded the .swf file instead.
The Idea
Text four speaks of memories spurred from certain sounds and images. It was difficult to find a method in which a memory could be animated and a message could be given clearly. The decision rested on a guy dealing with dishes late at night. The sound of the water running and the pouring rain outside reminds him of walking in the city with his girlfriend. One aspect clearly defined in the text was the fact that these memories were not specific stories or extravagant in any way. Therefore the walking in the rain with a girlfriend was the memory which spurred from the sound and images of water and rain.
The Animation
With the animation, I was using rotoscoping technique to trace the couple in his memories. This was meant to emphasize the ‘imaginary’ or ‘past’ part of it. The water from the tab and the rain are rotoscoped because the sound that came out of those is part of the trigger for the memories. In the beginning part, the man is outlined by a simple rotoscope with a line that has a same colour with the water, with this, I was meant to show that the water (represents by the blue colours) ‘triggers’ the man and similar method was applied for the rain.
Screen Grabs:
Click HERE to watch the full video.
*I tried to upload it in Youtube but it messed up the quality of the animation so I uploaded the .swf file instead.
Scratch Animation
A scratch animation response to A text by Aden Evens.
"It is true that there is always a point at which the signal is masked by noise. variations of a certain subtlety are so small as to be absorbed into the background of fluctuations of pressure, the constant movement of the air, the vibrations of the earth. What is this noise but cosmic vibration, the fused sum of all the vibrations to reach this point in time and space? Vibrations do not disappear, but dissipate, echoing all the while, for energy is conserved. Every vibration, every sound, hangs in the air, in the room, in bodies. Sounds spread out, they become less and less contracted, they fuse, but still they remain, their energy of vibration moving the air and the walls in the room, making a noise that still tickles the strings of a violin playing weeks later. Every sound masks an entire history of sound, a cacophony of silence. Even our bodies hum along with the noise of universe. (At its most disparate limit, noise dissipates eventually into the tiny motions of individual molecules, which is to say, heat.)"
Screen grabs:
Click HERE to watch the Scratch Animation.
"It is true that there is always a point at which the signal is masked by noise. variations of a certain subtlety are so small as to be absorbed into the background of fluctuations of pressure, the constant movement of the air, the vibrations of the earth. What is this noise but cosmic vibration, the fused sum of all the vibrations to reach this point in time and space? Vibrations do not disappear, but dissipate, echoing all the while, for energy is conserved. Every vibration, every sound, hangs in the air, in the room, in bodies. Sounds spread out, they become less and less contracted, they fuse, but still they remain, their energy of vibration moving the air and the walls in the room, making a noise that still tickles the strings of a violin playing weeks later. Every sound masks an entire history of sound, a cacophony of silence. Even our bodies hum along with the noise of universe. (At its most disparate limit, noise dissipates eventually into the tiny motions of individual molecules, which is to say, heat.)"
Screen grabs:
Click HERE to watch the Scratch Animation.
Signal and Noise Website
A few screen grabs from my web based project on Signal and Noise.
*Intro page.
*Music page.
*Signal Page.
*Semiotics page.
The video, as it is shown on the semiotics page:
Brief:
Outcome:
*Intro page.
*Music page.
*Signal Page.
*Semiotics page.The video, as it is shown on the semiotics page:
Brief:
Produce a web based project that uses a CSS/XHTML based website and which includes embedded video that explores how informational concepts of signal and noise operate or have operated in relation to a media event/object/platform of the contemporary mediascape.
Outcome:
A band called Khuruksetra is used as the basis of this project because this band is experimenting with instruments and try to produce noises that later used for recreating the atmosphere of Bharatayudha war. There are various signals and noises in the music, which is perfect for this project. The music is used for signalling the reality and the representation of feelings, things and emotions, so the signals are in the instruments noises. Yet, there are noises that interfere the signals to get through the audience such as the semiotics of sound that accommodate range of ways to interpret the signals, the audiences’ knowledge about music and the regular kinds of music that have been circulating and creating a stereotype of what is so called music (which is something that has musical notes and arrangements). Therefore, to help understanding the meaning of the signals in the music, this project focuses on the intonations of the music from its pitch and the human body presentation codes that include physical appearances, facial expression, gestures, postures and non-verbal aspects such as tone and volume. This is because each of these represents different meanings. In addition, Khuruksetra’s music seems to redefine the idea of music and blur the boundaries between music and noise. As research materials, some readings are used as the basis of this project including, Speech Music and Sound by Theo Vanleeuwen, The Art of Music Luigi Russolo, Codes by John Fiske, Semiotics by Roland Barthes, Ocean of Sound by David Toop and Text and Textualites by Thwaites et al.
Tribe Character
Brief:
Create an animated single character interface that represents a cultural
tribe of your choice.Your character interface needs to include two rollover animations. These rollover animations must express something about your chosen cultural tribe in relation to three out of the following four concepts:
• Hybridity
• Difference
• Gender
• Cyborg
Outcome:
The character is an IT worker who works 24 hours a day because he is part of the IT emergency team in a telecommunication company. This means he is very attached to technologies, which explains the headset, laptop, computer, cell phone, flat screen TV, robotic dog and the multifunction remote in his desk.
Click HERE to see the character
*I uploaded the .swf file because it needs to have an interactive interface to see the whole animation. Point the cursor and click on the lamp for gender, the window for difference and the robotic dog for cyborg.
Here are the screen grabs to get an idea of how it looks like:
Gender (Lamp)
In this scene, the character is given an order by his boss at night but then he passes it over to the woman employee, while he then back to enjoying his day by drinking and listening to music. This scene tries to show that women often get unfair treatment and have lower position in IT work field due to the minority of women’s involvement in IT job and men are the majority in this field, therefore they are considered to be more skilful. So women’s skills are not counted. I think this scene works fine as this situation happen a lot especially where the skill of women are hidden behind the men domination. In addition, the picture of opera house is a painting that tries to stress that he is a Sydneysiders and the robotic cat shows the attachment to technologies.
Differences (Window)
In this scene the character is compared to the regular worker/IT worker who works on regular time. The character uses more high technological gadget (computer, headset, phone) and looks unhappy because all his time is used for work (spend lunch time at the office [smoking and drinking coffee], while still paying attention on the system and must work at night), while the other uses paper and pen on his work and happier as he can have more leisure time (listens to ipod, has lunch with his girlfriend outside the office and sleeps at night). The scanned text is a text from computer system from a magazine, which tries to show the character’s skill identity, which relates to a complex computer system (same thing for same text in the gender scene). I think this scene is a bit weak, as it seems there are other worker that do similar things as the character but are not working in IT area.
Cyborg (Dog)
In this scene, the character’s car is shown to have high technologies system that helps him on doing his job as he might/must work while he travels. The system works as he presses the button on the wheel and as he mentions the key words for the actions (the screens that pops out and the phone that dials automatically) since the system uses a voice censor that is connected through his headset. This also shows his cyborg identity as he technically ‘wears’ and is dependable by those.
Create an animated single character interface that represents a cultural
tribe of your choice.Your character interface needs to include two rollover animations. These rollover animations must express something about your chosen cultural tribe in relation to three out of the following four concepts:
• Hybridity
• Difference
• Gender
• Cyborg
Outcome:
The character is an IT worker who works 24 hours a day because he is part of the IT emergency team in a telecommunication company. This means he is very attached to technologies, which explains the headset, laptop, computer, cell phone, flat screen TV, robotic dog and the multifunction remote in his desk.
Click HERE to see the character
*I uploaded the .swf file because it needs to have an interactive interface to see the whole animation. Point the cursor and click on the lamp for gender, the window for difference and the robotic dog for cyborg.
Here are the screen grabs to get an idea of how it looks like:
Gender (Lamp)
In this scene, the character is given an order by his boss at night but then he passes it over to the woman employee, while he then back to enjoying his day by drinking and listening to music. This scene tries to show that women often get unfair treatment and have lower position in IT work field due to the minority of women’s involvement in IT job and men are the majority in this field, therefore they are considered to be more skilful. So women’s skills are not counted. I think this scene works fine as this situation happen a lot especially where the skill of women are hidden behind the men domination. In addition, the picture of opera house is a painting that tries to stress that he is a Sydneysiders and the robotic cat shows the attachment to technologies.
Differences (Window)
In this scene the character is compared to the regular worker/IT worker who works on regular time. The character uses more high technological gadget (computer, headset, phone) and looks unhappy because all his time is used for work (spend lunch time at the office [smoking and drinking coffee], while still paying attention on the system and must work at night), while the other uses paper and pen on his work and happier as he can have more leisure time (listens to ipod, has lunch with his girlfriend outside the office and sleeps at night). The scanned text is a text from computer system from a magazine, which tries to show the character’s skill identity, which relates to a complex computer system (same thing for same text in the gender scene). I think this scene is a bit weak, as it seems there are other worker that do similar things as the character but are not working in IT area.
Cyborg (Dog)
In this scene, the character’s car is shown to have high technologies system that helps him on doing his job as he might/must work while he travels. The system works as he presses the button on the wheel and as he mentions the key words for the actions (the screens that pops out and the phone that dials automatically) since the system uses a voice censor that is connected through his headset. This also shows his cyborg identity as he technically ‘wears’ and is dependable by those.
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