video: “evident utensil” by chairlift

this seems to be a new motion graphics fad going around.  i’ve seen similar color patterns and designs, but i haven’t seen this worked into a transition like this.

check it out….so rad!

when i was in shanghai last summer there was a show at the moca i wanted to see.  unfortuneately i missed it by one day.  but the title left a lasting impression on me….

Night On Earth – Spatial Constructions and Time based Collisions

I thought it was a very evokative title and pertained to my interests concerning mapping of space and time and the intersection of the two.  I somehow stumbled upon this exhibition title again tonight on a random blog and got to thinking again.  I never saw the show, and there is little in terms of documentation on the web, but this idea still fascinates me.

This idea of where and how we (humans) interact within the spaces we create.  We often forget how small we really are within our networked lives on earth.  Yet we have profound influence on the people and the places we intersect, even if those visits are in terms of seconds.  Through the compression of these seconds new patterns emerge and reveal new realities.  This is the basis of my thesis.

i went to the messa di vocce show at NYU on monday and was inspired by some of the new things I saw.

i’m wondering if my motion detection should be done in OF (open frameworks).  It would be a ‘real-time’ project (which it already is in max/msp/jitter) but i might have better control of the particles or trails than i do in max.

hmm.