Multiplicity
Well 2nd week back..and routine is back to normal. This week was all about multiplicity.
Unfortunately I wasnt able to follow too well during the lecture as I had a rough night sleeping and early morning start for work. However I found when Nathan went over the topic again in class I was able to understand better.
Nathan showed some cool sites which was really helpful to follow and understand multiplicity.
My favourite site he showed was of an photographer Peter Funch. This site
displayed some of Funch’s work. He would set up a tripod and take numerous pictures and then use seperate peices from each photo to create 1 image with a certain theme. This explained how multiplicity can be used from many different images to create a 1 simple image.
This was one of my favourite images from Peter Funch:
Other sites included one called Bicycle Built for Two Thousand. This was a project created by Aaron Koblin & Daniel Alfonso. This project used multiplicity to recreate a song “Daisy Bell” with thousands of samples submitted by internet uses. Bicycle Built for 2000 gathered 2,088 voice recordings via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. The participants were given a sound sample and they had to replicate that sound themselves and submit it. Aaron Koblin & Daniel Alfonso then used these samples to recreate the song.
And the last site that I really enjoyed was a video created by a video game. It is called The 1k Project II. This video shows a car going through the a track 1000 times. This is similar to Peter Funch’s work, were the creator has used many images to display at once.
That is pretty much it for this week. I kept chipping away at my assignment which is due in another 4 weeks. All the content is pretty much done. Now its just a matter of proof reading and making it fun for the teacher to read in the end.
Next week is the final lecture, its called Data Everywhere. Will let you know about it next week.
