degrade 2_1
This is a skretch based on a gradient concept.
I’ve built a first skretch to produce a simple gradient between two collors.
Degrade animation here
Degrade source code: here
Built with Processing.
Then mixing up with numbers and variables (in an intuitive way) I’ve arrived in this strange result… I still will try to understend how it happend… And I will guive an explanation once it’s done…
Degrade 2_1 animation here.
Degrade 2_1 source code: here.
Built with Processing.
Finally, I’ve discovered that Safari and WordPress post write and edit tools seem not to be really friendefull together… I had some layout bugs editing my post on Safari… Another thing to check…
Free music and free culture… Legally…
Everybody knows that music and film industry are controlled by a few big and complex corporations, we call this an oligopoly. In a structure like the one of music industry, a few persons control what gets access to public and how much it costs. Most part of the benefits go to the same persons that have decision power, artists are under-payed (or less payed then the corporations’ declaration).Many Internet users download in an illegal way using Peer to Peer software or Torrent servers. The problem downloading illegal content is that it gives legal legitimacy to media industry. If the big bosses (that are sharks and money addicted) decide to put every illegal media user in a tribunal, they will have legal tools and power to win.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that the artists and authors don’t have to win money and that everything should be free, in a money point of view. I’m saying that culture shouldn’t be managed by a few business men that think more about capital values then cultural values. Business men are necessary in the music creation process, but not in the position they have now.In order to fight against media oligopoly and illegal download, we should prefer to use legal services like radios or web-radios then doing illegal stuff or buying a CD (both actions give more power for the corporations)…Based on this reflexion, I’ve put a small selection of web-radios in my blogroll in order to give ideas…
Another interesting link is the Pandora website, where you enter a music or a band name and the site shows you more musics with the same music characteristics. So you listen to free legal content with a style chosen by you and you get to know more and more bands…. Isn’t that awesome?
Projects like Pandora, or web-radios need users to keep alive…So, now you have the tools to fight against music industry, enjoying nice legal content…So feel free, have fun and use it…. And no more excuses… :D PS: If you have a nice web-radio, don’t hesitate to send me the link… If I like it I’ll put in my selection in the Blogroll :D
Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinéma
This afternoon, we had a presentation about the festival “Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas” directed by Serge Dentin where 34 films are projected. This festival makes an approach between Cinema and Science, showing mostly films talking about science in a non conventional way.
After the presentation, we watched some short films :
Prof Nieto Show by Luis Nieto (France, 2007, performance, video, 3′50″)
L’expérience de Milgram by Nicolas Bruneaux (France,2007, documentary, video, 23′)
00H17 by Xavier by Choudens (France, 2005, 35mm, 10′)
While Darwin Sleeps by Paul Bush (England, 2004, video, 5′)
Image de Ville – November the 13th 2007
This morning we had a conference held by Till Roesken, a German artist graduated in 2003 from the Strasbourg Arts Décoratifs Art Academy. His work, called “les plans de situation”, has as central topic the map theme. He treats maps incarnating local habitants’ and personnages’ point of view. He makes theatrical performances where he speaks about the neighborhood with a sort of schizophrenic personality representing several locals.
His most recent work, still unreleased, is a film about la Joliette, a neighborhood in Marseille (you can find a nice blog about Marseille here) that is being restored to be transformed into a rich business center called Euromediterranée. Roesken speaks about a block where inhabitants are being legally expelled by local authorities. The film is still in production.
