Project Choices

So I've thought of something. It came to me during todays lecture. It requires a bit of history though. It's all about some Not So Impressive Entertainers.

Back in early July I needed something to help keep me sane over the holidays. So, inspired by one of my favourite artists ( Scott C ) I decided to create a "series" of images. And so I came up with the "Not So Impressive Entertainers". A collection of the worst, most pathetic, and unusual entertainers that one could think of. Ideally I wanted to come up with about 100 of them, get them all printed out and displayed somewhere.

So, During todays lecture, it came to me. I could do these as my project!

To give you an example, here are the first 6 NSIEs ( and the blogposts that accompany them, ensure you read the comment reply from "wonko" as he's been providing little biographies as they come :

I. Pretty Ordinary Hat Man
II. Squid Man
III. The Pied Piper of Greater South-East Queensland
IV. Charles and his Amazing Performing Pancreas
V. Lionel the Brussel Sprout Tamer
VI. Sicko the Clown

So I'm mainly posting this here so you can see my thought process and the options I'm going through. Both projects have pros and cons. However I think the way I'm leaning at the moment is to keep NSIE as a side-project, a more personal thing - and focus all my efforts on my sound-based project.

Any thoughts ?
To quote a friend , "Tap tap, is this thing on ?"
- Anthony

Project Extrapolation

So I thought it was about time I actually posted here explaining what it is I intend to do for my project this semester. As it still yet stands, I am not 100% sure on what I want my project to become, all I know is what I want to work with, and how I want to work with it.

1 ) I want to work with sound and video
2 ) I want to work in processing
3 ) I want to work in 2d and 3d

Using those three parametres, I think currently what I'd like to make are sound-reactive dynamic 3d visuals. Or a least one set of visuals.

Ok, so that's a lot of work. The first question many people would ask is am I capable of achieving this ? Yes. I think I am. I've spent the holidays and last few weeks brushing up on my programming skills ( I've still got a bit of a way to go, but that's what the next few days / weeks are for ), and I've started doing sound experiements in processing.

I'm going to bring a copy of my very simple version 1 beat detector into class tomorrow to see what the tutors and lecturers think of my idea and possible venues for project ideas. Tomorrow I will look into getting web hosting for the .java files and videos. I may end up using vimeo and my optusnet hosting space, but we will see what becomes available to me.

I'm looking forward to this semester, it will be good to have full control and not have to rely on unreliable group members. Let's hope things move smoothly from here.