youtube Annotations A Hunter Shoots a Bear

This is a really nice use of video annotations. Explicit language.

The Wilderness Downtown

This is a very nice approach using multiple screens and personal data from the user. Click on the image below. Thanks to Jamie Milligan for finding this.

The Art of Studying

Check out the new AUCB web site ‘The Art of Studying’ for help in all aspects of your learning. You can get help with your written work, how to research, independent learning, planning, presentation skills and much more click the image above.

Real Barcelona

Nice Extended Major Project film from Mike Simpson. Shot with a Panasonic Lumix GH1 Digital SLR.
http://www.vimeo.com/11814552

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

I love this performance piece, it’s one of those pieces that is so blindingly simple that you wish you’d thought of it yourself.

French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.

For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

27 February 2010 – 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/thecurve/blog/index.html

Touchable Holography

Touchable Holography: New projector lets you “touch” 3D objects with your hands (video)

Thanks to Phil Andrews for finding this:

“As if looking at floating images in free space produced by mid-air displays isn’t cool enough, a research team from the University of Tokyo now makes it possible to even touch (kind of) those images with a newly developed projector system.”

The World’s Most Useless Machine….Very apt!

http://www.switched.com/2010/01/06/worlds-most-useless-machine-does-nothing-but-creep-you-out/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl7%7Clink6%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.switched.com%2F2010%2F01%2F06%2Fworlds-most-useless-machine-does-nothing-but-creep-you-out%2F

Three Cases of Amnesia

This could be a really interesting event for second years studying the Performance Video unit. Apologies for the short notice, just picked this up.

Award-winning choreographer Jonah Bokaer is bringing his unusual performance Three Cases of Amnesia to Alllesbrook Lecture Theatre Bournemouth University on Friday 27th 6.30pm.

The solo piece incorporates dance, 3D animation and video art and is both choreographed and performed by Jonah. It’s part of a programme of events to promote Pavilion Dance – the world-class dance centre under construction in Bournemouth Pavilion.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in dance or digital media to see something very unique. Jonah has performed worldwide and worked with Merce Cunningham – the founding father of modern American Dance – so securing his talent here is a real coup.

sparkz iPhone dock doubles as a pico-projector

We may have to wait some time before pico-projector technology finds its way into mobile phones as a standard feature, but until then products like the sparkz iPhone/iPod dock projector will help fill the gap. The handheld 4.5” x 3” x 2.5” unit uses a 3M LcoS projection engine to throw a 640 x 480 (VGA) or 1024 x 768 (XGA) at a brightness of 15 lumens – so you’ll need to draw the curtains and dim the lights before the show starts.

The Prince’s Rainforest Project

THIS IS IMPORTANT – WATCH THIS – THEN SIGN UP ON THE LINK BELOW – THIS IS YOUR FUTURE

http://www.rainforestsos.org/