More gorgeous flash work
Blog mad today but had to share this.
Lovely visuals. Simple, elegant. Putting the Art in Communication. This cute site from Sintesis + SPC really did it for me.
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Olympic Interactive Inspiration
March 1, 2010 - 7:16 pm
Tags: digital art, interaction design, interactivity, IxD, Social Media
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I’m currently working on the Virtual Culture and Network Practices module and have come across these AMAZING interactive artworks. Timely discoveries as we’re working on an Olympic inspired group project. Will I ever be able to achieve something like this I wonder?
Zygote Interactive Ball with the world for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Closing Ceremony. – [...]
Zen Bullets Brighton: Deterministic Generative Art
March 1, 2010 - 6:46 pm
Tags: Brighton, digital art, Inspiration, processing
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Frosti from zenbullets on Vimeo.
I’ve just discovered this gorgeous generative art piece ‘Frosti: Deterministic Generative Art’ (music from Bjork) from Zen Bullets aka Matt Pearson, based right here in Brighton. Check out his blog and other sites including 100 abandoned artworks, featuring some processing experiments with source code included. There’s also some articles worth reading [...]
V&A Talk on the Digital Pioneers: ‘Chance V Control’
February 4, 2010 - 9:37 am
Tags: decode, digital art, digital media arts, generative art, v and a
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The MA DMA students were treated to a talk at the new V&A Digital Pioneers Exhibition with Honor Beddard, last week. Digital Pioneers celebrates the impact of the computer in art in the last 50 or so years.
Digital Pioneers is one of the outcomes of The Computer Art and Technocultures Project, which is a major [...]
Generative Flash Experiments
January 18, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Tags: digital art, flash, generative art
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Finally got around to producing some basic generative pieces using Flash ActionScript 3.0, the paintbrush tool and the fab Kuler for colour palettes – my first digital painting of sorts. These are the first results in mark making using the brush tool. The idea is simply to use shape, colour and tints to produce a [...]
Believe the HYPE: Actionscript for beginners
January 11, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Tags: branden hall, flash, joshua davis, Tutorials
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If you’re like me, the task of learning Flash and ActionScript 3.0 from scratch is pretty daunting. I keep hearing about how amazing Actionscript 3.0 is, but so far it’s novelties have alluded me. In fact I’ve been trying to turn my hand to Processing as a result. The coding seems to make a lot [...]
Decode: The Importance of Interactivity
December 28, 2009 - 3:41 pm
Tags: decode, digital art, digital artists, digital media arts, flash, interactivity, kids activities, processing, science museum, v and a
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As a Christmas treat I took my 7 year old son Zac to visit the Decode exhibition at the V & A in London. The V & A is one of my favourite museums and all the exhibitions I’ve seen there have always been really well executed. Kids go free and as a student the [...]
More Flash Inspiration
November 4, 2009 - 8:43 pm
Tags: digital art, flash, pen and ink
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Just lovely…
Flash Reactions
October 28, 2009 - 8:32 pm
Tags: digital artists, flash
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Patrick Gunderson’s experiment in Flash. Images reacting to real time music, ‘Summertime’. Nice.
Gunderson was inspired by this: ‘Spa by Deco’…truly beautiful (click link below)
SPA from DeKo on Vimeo.
Flash Research
October 14, 2009 - 1:01 pm
Tags: digital art, flash, painting
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I’m working on ideas for the MA website brief to be completed this semester. I’ve been using HTML & CSS for some time now mainly with WYSIWIG editors like Dreamweaver but have never had the opportunity to use Flash. Taking the opportunity bull by the horns I’m working on some ideas for my very own [...]
Missed Opportunites
October 14, 2009 - 12:06 pm
Tags: algorithms, digital artists, digital media arts, pen and ink
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OK, so here I am looking forward to throwing myself in the MA in Digital Media Arts…I’m raring to go. Our first lecture is at the Lighthouse, with Roman Verostko a digital art pioneer who recently received the ACM SIGGRAPH distinguished Artist Award for a lifetime achievement in digital art. Except, as I was about [...]
October 29, 2009 - 11:50 am
Wonderful stuff…