funky

I printed this image off the reciet printer at work, i thought it was a different way of approaching image printing- arty.

tourist weekend #2

One specific part of my trip (should I say) was reccomended by su. It was a eXtremely immersive cinematic tourist snap taster of the whole of New Zealand in 7mins. The ride at NZ's national museum Te Papa was called:

The High Ride – Te Ekenga Teitei
Imagine the most exciting clips from the Our Space media bank.The thrills of extreme sports, free running, flying foxes.
The nostalgia of trundling over cattlestops, sliding down grassy hills.
Clips that ride back in time.
Clips that go all around and under New Zealand.

Now imagine you enter the Wall and live these scenes first hand.

That's the High Ride.

Te Papa link


..... So i thought that it was a well rounded take on stereotypical tourism NZ. It covered all areas of perception or as how nz is presented to the tourism market overseas... bungee jumping, adventure, bush land, clean, grren, nature, animals....and then out of left field the viewer takes on the point of view as a maori warrior batteling the early settlers in a brutal war- nutty!



There were so many things and ideas going on with this ...installation? interactive cinema? tourist information booth? roller coaster?

some of these ideas I thought related closely to a theory class i took last year called 'cinematic issues in contemporary art'..... some key ideas were the crossing between modern media such as film and video from cinema space to galleries. The notions of bodliy awareness were/are said to be present out of the blackened cinema and in galleries where your body is more involved in the work or one is conscious of the space you are in.. in this case being tossed around infront of a screen you were defenitely aware you were there but was not comfortable or more importantly immersive.




Bruce nauman's video corridor is a classic example...

tourist weekend

I took a trip to Wellington, the capital of Aotearoa. I have only been once before so I there were a lot of new things and aspects of the city to explore...and document.

the last time ivisited was on a summer trip and i was equiped with my little HDV camera(not that I got much video within wellington city). I recorded a strong realistic perspective(sound and vision, colours) documents which reflect the experience through high quality digital devices. Being digital and having long (virtually unlimited) video tapes I could record for long periods.


This time I lugged up an old medium format camera which i borrowed from Allan in the photography department. I only took up one film- 12 shots- because i'm a bit cheap, and i thought by time i take a picture and get around to developing etc, i wont really have the energy to do it on mass. so 12 shots were enough.

...............I've included in this post the test strips from a few photographs on this roll...........

update

I have been chipping away slowly with my web page, a lot of trial and error testing and now more design based CSS work.

I have been thinking a lot about the presentation of the web site and how it should look from a tourist/ professional perspective, and also from a creative/ artsy perspective. I want to website to look slick and 'trustworthy' (but its function is still to inform sites in Dunedin).

This also goes with the name of my website and the logo. at the moment it's Explore Dunedin with a silhouetted albatross. Cheesey, yes. I think i have to get over every cheesey thing about this website because tourists and or the GENERAL public will be able to relate better to a neutral website, but I still want it to grab the viewer visually.

things still to do!!!

-find a server to launch website with
-make a decision on the video player for the website
-decide whether to persue changing the google markers to my own icons.
-tweak general design, make nice buttons .
-make a couple more info type pages.
-include meta tags to increase search engines.


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and a few other things maybe (apart from the videos themselves).

so far....

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flat_earth.html


nice google art project

installing work

I have been thinking of my work and its context in relationship to a gallery presentation.
My work has its own site specific space which is in the world wide web, in a gallery it wouldn't be in its true element. Although it would work it wouldnt portray the idea and intentions.

i've just had the idea of installing a kiosk style plyth, monitor, mouse object in the gallery.
This would give a clearer idea of tourism and pre-knowledge for future experiences. The Kiosk would create a less cinematic work than a large projection and create a more intimate interaction.

The idea was had a glimse of realisation after I saw an old letter box/ clothing bin styled box at the tip yesterday.

Andrew Clifford-google project

About the Project

Art from Space is an exploration of art-related phenomena that manifests in interesting ways on Google's aerial maps. Although it is an urban myth that the Great Wall of China is visible from space, there are a great deal of other man-made structures (culture) whose occupation of the landscape (nature) becomes significant when viewed from the distinct perspective of a digital, extra-terrestrial view. In this virtual representation of the world, time, distance, scale and verticality are all telescoped for the electronic tourist who can travel anywhere on the planet, unimpeded by the usual barriers of accessibility. Art from Space is also an experiment in curatorial practice, collecting, presenting and contextualising items in ways that users can explore, free of curator-imposed framing and sequencing.

"...the electronic tourist who can travel anywhere on the planet, unimpeded by the usual barriers of accessibility."

http://windowproject.dreamhosters.com/

getting hits on search engines

This is a very old basic low down on getting hits on search engines such as google, yahoo...etc.



http://www.webquarry.com/~raditha/search/ranking.html

searching space

today team BFA3 are searching for a suitable place to exhibit for our November show.
We have thought about getting an unused shop/ retail space.
there have been some which look.




.....so after having a look at none i think it will be more suitable and easy to construct a show. Although it is a dream of mine to rent retail space for very short amounts of time( 3-5days of a one off gallery).

none was looking good to incorporate the 4 of us, maria needing a dark room, alone and noise cancelling, but i think we're pretty flexable. good space and i got a 35mm film from the basement

update

ok so This site is getting a bit of progress. I now have learnt how to ;

embed a google map in html
set the map to satellite,roadmap etc,
adjust the zoom,
crop map image,
plot markers,
customise marker image,
add info window to multiple markers,

...but i cant add multiple videos to these info windows!
grrrr

edwina has been of some help.



i must continue to think about these videos, sounds...i intend on including in the site which will ultimately be the content of my work.

portraying the ideas of- Dunedin city in the foriegn internet perspective, an informative view, interesting, cultural, anthropological, historical.



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