Wednesday 10 November 2010

Wednesday 27 October 2010

Some interesting work from these artists:

Kazuhiko Hachiya 's homepage 八谷和彦 
Psycho Communicator System (2005)
To read someone's mind and control his/her physical action with the aid of technology. 

stahl stenslie
Suicide Fashion International

Stelarc
PARTIAL HEAD
See why this head is "partially"  living~ An interesting combination of organic and inorganic materials.
(not visually pleasing though)

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Youtube --- Participatory Culture

Jenkins, Henry
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2009.

Jean Burgess, Joshua Green, Henry Jenkins, and John Hartley
YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture
Cambridge : Polity, 2009.

Michael Strangelove
Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.

Conference paper written by Burgess, Jean E. and Green, Joshua B.
Agency and Controversy in the YouTube Community

Conference paper written by  John Hartley
YouTube, digital literacy and the growth of knowledge.

Wednesday 22 September 2010

Using Digital Photography Tools: handcoloring a black and white photo

Here's my original photo - I then followed the instructions (see webct link or the videobar tutorials to the right) to change your photo to black and white and then "handcolour" it.


Here's the photo after converting to black-and-white and then "handpainting" with Photoshop