I’ve been having fun with the ageing image transformer from St. Andrews. You can start with an original clean front facing portrait, and then turn it into an aged or younger version.
Combine this with the Hybrid Portraits approach and I think we might be able to have the real-time creation of Hybrid portraits, composed of two versions of yourself, one younger one older. This portrait will age, Dorian Grey style as you walk towards it.
Below are some simple example images with slightly different compositions (transparency etc). Click on the thumbnails to see them larger. When you are at a distance Katya should look younger. When you are close up she should look older.
This is of course a work in progress. I need to do it with much higher resolution images to really get it to work like the Dave/Adriana picture. If you want to mess with the source it is here
Hello - the One Pixel Webcam is a project I’ve been working on for quite a while now and I’d now like to see what you think.
It’s an application that samples a single pixel from a webcam you select and creates a image for your desktop, so that your desktop can be the same colour as the sky outside.
The desktop images also show how this pixel has changed over time, for example this is how the skys in Boston changed at dusk last weekend:
I’m really interested in the natural cycles of different areas of these images. The sky changes minute-by-minute and keeps a daily cycle, the cycle of the leaves of a tree are follow the seasons on a yearly cycle.
Please let me know what you think - you can download it and give it a go from my page. I’ll be showing this at the Curious Christmas event this evening.
Hi - there’s been quite a lot of talk in Make Magazine about the CVS Disposable Digital Camcorder. It’s a “single use” digital camera that costs about 15 quid and can record 640 x 480 movies at 30 frames a second.
You’re supposed to send it back to CVS (the US equivalent of Boots) who send you back a DVD. However, people have hacked it and with a little soldering you can attach it to USB and download the movies! Once its stripped down it’s pretty light - just over 30 grams - so people have been using in toy rockets and kites.
As I’m in the States at the moment I’ve aquired myself one and I’m wondering if this would be the ideal thing for the “Ipswich at Odd Angles” project or Matt’s backwards video. If anyone would like one drop me a line before Friday.
Aram Bartholl’s Random Screen is really great - I want to build one right away! On first inspection it’s a random pixelated display, but there’s no electricity - all done with candles - great!
Reminds me of our discussions of sheds a while back - installations in a forest without electricity - I suppose there are issues with flames and trees…
Wide games involving random acts of kindness. Seems to link together some of the wide area stuff that Matt Iles has done, with some of the ideas for engaging people with Question Mark cards which we were discussing at the last meeting.
There are a lot of amazing things you can do with strobes.
Have a look at The Time Fountain (thanks Tom) - you can make a drop of water apparently freeze in midair or even flow backwards. It also reminds me of Jeff Lieberman’s Slink - where a vibrating spring to looks to be stationary, move or even split into parts.
