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Feb 23 2012
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Approach, Autobotography

Approach: Can You Hang?

To follow up on my previous intent, I want design an interactive video program in which the user an manipulate pre-shot footage of a climber on a climbing wall. The idea is that you would designate a section of the wall as your “frame” with a reasonable amount of holds. You would have to then do the math and figure out each possible move within the designated route or path.

Once you had filmed each possible combination of moves, you would then cut the footage up into each individual move. The next part complicates things. In order for this project to work, I would have to design a computer program that would implement hidden buttons behind the footage representing each hold on the wall for the user to choose from. The program would have to recognize the click in relation to the footage required to represent that desired move.

This could be a useful interactive installation because, depending on the user, it could educate someone on the best way to accomplish a route, inspire someone to design a new route or simply button-clicking entertainment for someone stumbling around on a computer somewhere.

Feb 20 2012
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Autobotography, Hacktavism

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Feb 20 2012
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Autobotography, Intent

Intent: Can You Hang?

I enjoy rock climbing very much. I climb about five or six days a week so I would consider it to be a large part of who I am…or at least something that helps define me. For an autobotographical art piece in which I would film myself climbing to a set parameter of holds on a rock wall. I would then have an interactive video program in which a user could hover the mouse over the hold that they would have me go to. Having filmed a move to each individual hold we would be able to write code to show the correlating move.

Feb 20 2012
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Autobotography, Intent

Intent: Visual Memory Reflection

Having been inspired by the ‘wear-cam’ from class I came up with an interesting idea for a new sort of autobiography. The idea is that someone would wear a much more practical recording device,(video or still). The user would go about their regular days, then later would have the option to edit out irrelevant information and situations to bring forward any meaning full or important events from the day, week, month ect. Once the ‘memories’ were edited the user could then add in a reflective segment for anything that warrants a reflection. In this way we would be bringing an autobiography onto many platforms, allowing people to gain a through-the-eyes-of perspective as well as the ability to then understand how the user was feeling, or what was going through their mind during the edited memory stream. A user could choose to keep up with this for as long as he or she cared to do so and would make a very interesting video-journal series.