Did you see the “DejaVu” Movie with Denzel Washington, where they took photo- and videodata to construct a complete 3d view of a crime scene? Sounds like Sci-Fi? Then check out the demo of the photosynth-technology. They scan photos from any given database (e.g. Flickr) and ananlyze them for similarities to construct 3d models of any given space.
You can even test the application live on the web here.
www.cicatriz.se has been released!
This is the first broadband project by www.mocoro.com
Cicatriz web shop showcases Cicatriz Clothing spring collection using a LO-FI video interface, minimal sounds and a Mac friendly mouse wheel “jump-to-product” / scrubbing feature.
Cicatriz products are displayed using entirely video. Click “View details” to get a higher resolution video with product close-ups.
The shopping interface comes on top of each product’s video, making the add-to-cart process very intuitive. The web shop has been fully developed in Flash and PHP, delivering an integrated solution and avoiding external links such as PayPal.
Finally, I would like to mention the great sound design by Olle Cornéer, www.dibaba.com & www.dadalife.com
Nice idea for a video e-card!
Yugop developed the Eye Project for japanese telecom company KDDI. Customers can send videos or pictures from their mobile phones to the website, where they become integrated into a moving mosaic.
In the Archive section, they used Papervision 3d to map the mosaic onto a threedimensional shape. Papervision 3d is a open source 3d engine for Flash.
As I just was speaking about media theorist Lev Manovich yesterday, today I stumbled about one of the new moving media forms he describes in his works - Spatial Montage. Spatial Montage basically means multiframe applications, and the site of visual effects artist Nastu Abootalebi is a perfect example for the possibilities of this technique. You can watch the pre- and postproduction versions of his works in two screens nex to each other.
Nastuh’s side also shows the limitations of Spatial Montage. Although its only two screens, it’s sometimes very hard to follow the action in both frames.
The side was created by Scholz&Volkmer.
Lev Manovich’s “The Language of New Media” is the most detailed theory on the new media available up to date.
Being a close observer of both media, the computer and cinema, he explores different aesthetics and functionalities of today’s media like Remixing, Interaction, Montage or Compositing. He connects those phenomena with their cultural effects. What sets him apart from many of his scientific colleagues is his deep knowledge of progressive technologies. Therefore you can find enlightening articles on subjects like Flash, After Effects or database technologies on his website.
If you would like to read some of his papers in German, buy his book “Black Box - White Cube” with articles from 2000-2005.