Jeremy Deller links to playful Bristol, deadline looms

Over the weekend I edited an mp3 from the Wild Show last week into clips for YouTube.

found on "neorepliucants" though lots of Bladerunner also. Should get better search on NeoReplicants as more stuff  turns up.

This set also helps raise questions around copyright and social media. Video for Rougemont Global Broadcasting and other channels is usually limited to mostly music as clearance is more likely. Graphics from art venues is much more protected. The conversation on the Wild Show includes why we can select bits of sound for a show but normally cannot link to graphics of video on Facebook. Maybe this is changing, the blog form is intended to test this.

I have started to check out blogs relating to previous topics. I tried some collage on the bouncy Stonehenge, shifting it to Totnes and Sidmouth. Recent post about Jeremy Deller quotes his support for play in art, in particular the Bristol project for a playful city. Turns out there is a £30,000 budget but the deadline is this week. So my thinking so far is around moving bits of city to another one. I realise many other people already knew that it is possible to import a 3D object into a virtual world. But for me this is recent, as something I can do. Video is possible in Twinity but I am just doing 3D photos, sometimes with elements pasted in from an actaul photo.

Exeter seems to be just big enough as a city to have the essentials to complement the web - minimum of a cafe and a tech shop. I have also recently visited Lancaster and Taunton. Both work pretty well. A model virtual version works best for a city that can be walked across as far as the central bit is concerned. Bristol is now on far too many sites as I remember it. There is the waterside area around where the docks used to be. There are shops near the motorway exits way to the north. I know there is a shopping area closer to the centre but have not been there recently.

A quick search on Google Maps tells me there is a Castle Park but I can't see much of a castle. Scan somewhere else and move it in, maybe as a projection or through some form of goggles. There are several ways to add something to a screen based on recognising a barcode or image. As explained above, stills and video can be produced through compositing.

In Exeter we could check out which aspects of a university campus could be moved back to the centre. The Phoenix and the area near the museum were once a base for Exeter University. The Arts School moved out beyond Barrack Road and then to Plymouth.   Recently the new Forum project happened to eliminate a bookshop from the university resources. It may turn out that this is very sensible if mobile devices replace the functions of a printed book. But it raises a question about other aspects of the site such as the library and the lecture spaces. Could video conferencing have a role? Bristol still has a university in the city so this is a useful comparison.

More later, still a couple of days.

I think most of the budget should be used for scans, both objects and buildings.

I wonder if Volkhardt Mueller would contribute? His work on Any High Street seemed to me to be more about Any City. When he was on the Wild Show I think he was genuinely interested in an app or some way of distributing images through a digital system. Not sure what the business model would be. The Bristol funding assumes creative commons but this might be combined with something else later.

Creative Commons attribution on previous post #mtw3 #mosocoop

Sorry, forgot to credit the original of the photo in previous post about moving sculpture from the Work Foundation to near the Chartered Quality Institute.

Photo by Ewan Munro on Creative Commons basis so I think adding something in is ok.

original title

Blue Anchor, Holborn, EC4

The actual CQI is round the corner.

By the way, as memory serves the office block that the Blue Anchor moved into was once a mainframe bureau and the basement included a pool table, a modem and at least one personal computer, regarded as slightly off topic for the rest of the building.

Two photos shifting the Work Foundation through space #mtw3 #mosocoop

Next week there is an actual meeting of the Deming SIG at the CQI in London. Details on request. It is likely to be a planning meeting for next year so not putting you off but there may be something more interesting later for a wider audience.

I don't know how issues around Deming will be part of a face-to-face #mtw3 but this may become more clear in the new year. Meanwhile I am moving the sculpture outside the Work Foundation to other locations. Twinity continues as a base for conversation and social media. "Beach For You" has potential as a sculpture park but there is no scan yet or permission for such.

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3D diagram of design as a design brief #mtw3 #mosocoop

The Wild Show is going well for my interests. The mp3 from yesterday on the current NeoReplicants show is ok but will take a while to edit. Meanwhile I am thinking again about a previous discussion turning the studio into a 3D space with the four walls used for sensibility and analysis, part of or apart from nature. The floor for sediment, ceiling for disruption. Not sure I have remebered this exactly. the book is out next year.

I am finding out more about 3D worlds such as Twinity and objects through scans and Sketchup. I think it should be possible to have a 3D model of a radio studio. So it has about 4 or 5 chairs, various sound inputs and a mixing desk. The walls, floor and cieling each have textures or images to indicate something. Avatars can be described on three scales depending on where they are. The chairs need some sort of feature that adjusts the height.

More detail may emerge during next year. Prototypes welcome. 

Folk songs and CMS #mtw3 Wild Show Sidmouth

Looking at YouTube for an update on the Design Envelope ( see next post )

Found this, also uploaded by CMSorg

The book is out in April, no date shown for paperback, the hardback is about £50 so head for your nearest academic library.

No video on the performance that I can find but this is from Sidmouth

from the CUP info-

The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical silence reigned with industrialisation, until the carefully controlled introduction of Music While You Work in the 1940s. Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labour explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on the radio in desperate and creative ways.

Here is a video on Music While You Work

During next year the Wild Show on Phonic FM may look at this sort of thing. Anyone can phone in or email with a request. 10- 12 on a Thursday morning. I usually do the first half hour but Chris is often open to suggestions on content. Links will turn up on this blog, some of the previous stuff is on YouTube. 

OTT means something new but #EX1to4 still not working

Found this, a new way to describe web and tv - OTT

so lots more video / television content could be coming online or through search. Something like #EX1to4 could define a locality.

The only tweet search tag I know of is SE1. any other examples?

The Consumer Electronics Show will probably have more about this. The Winterlude has definitely started as I am sampling mince pies trying to work out which brand I prefer. Expect quite short posts with a full analysis sometime in mid Jan.

Is Twinity in Berlin or San Francisco? clues please? will it matter?

Still trying to find clues. Story about Europe competing on tech.

but wait, I thought Twinity was now part of Exit Reality.

And if Linden Labs is headed to mobile devices maybe things will change sometime soon?

I'm quite happy in Twinity but bring back the maps and the streets please. Otherwise people will wander and mix with something else.

Exit Reality has a service for local authorities to build a world around a map. Surely some economic development outfit can get the map data needed by Twinity or find a sponsor or something?

Exeter and Lancaster are probably not on the list of tech hotspots but the city centres are quite small so something like a Twinity model could be possible within a budget. 

Facebook source for convergance Games and Virtual Worlds #mtw3 #mosocoop

Found this is in Facebook, not sure it will reach LinkedIn so repeating it.

This blog a place to collect the links and the diagram

this blog explains a lot.

I'm not sure how this will work out in the situations I am relating to. So far conferences and meetings have not made as much use of online as they might.

Dec 6th another walk on the edge of Twinity #mosocoop #mtw3

Still thinking about Dec 6th and Deming meeting.

When I think about virtual worlds I often realise there is something repeated. Maybe this is not unusual, but the evidence accumulates.

The Work Foundation is still the venue for #mtw3 , even if Twinity Berlin is used as a location for online stills. So the walk from around the time of Deming Secrets could still work.

Very general,

Assume a space with an HR Building and a QA Building, both some way apart. Groups form and talk at each and closer to one or the other.

Previously

#mosocoop

deming secrets

london walk

So during December I will try some more Photoshop and story boarding. There may be aqctual video to refer to, but the avatars can  represent something with some sort of basis.

Probably I will be back to Exeter on a coach from Victoria so the "HR Building" will turn out to be the Wetherspoons on the other side of the station.