|| 12/3/2009 || 2:50 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
15th Street on YouTube || North Meets South || A Game of Locational Awareness [part 2]
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On August 5th, 2008 I made the first version of this mashup, East Meets West and with the newly created contraflow bicycle lane on 15th Street NWDC, I decided to make the second version, North Meets South.
The two videos were taken from one continuous video recording that I conducted while riding on my bicycle from U Street & 15th Street to Massachusetts Ave & 15th Street and back. At home I split the videos into North & South and used the crosswalks as the starting & ending points. The object of this video mashup is to find the exact time when the two recordings pass each other on opposite sides of the street.
A few notes:
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|| 8/23/2009 || 11:15 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
Photographs of a Major Laser in the Hallway [Timelapse Laser Painting]
Saturday night I was on my way over to a friend’s 1990′s-themed house party and when I got to the house I realized that I had left my bicycle lock at my home. Perturbed, I hopped back on my bicycle, pedaled home as fast as I could, and when I arrived at my house, I received a text message from a different friend asking me to bring over his laser that he’d left at my house the previous night. I weighed my options and decided to bring the laser to my friend’s apartment in Adams Morgan. After I arrived, we decided the best place to shoot the laser in the apartment was down the length of his long hallway. I noticed that there was a tripod in the kitchen, so I decided to get out my small camera and take some photographs of this major laser in the hallway.
The following photographs were taken using my Canon SD750 and the aforementioned tripod and laser using long exposure settings to capture the geometric designs the laser created:
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|| 7/17/2009 || 7:16 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
Revisiting the Dupont Lenz Quilt Animation
In August of 2007 I posted the Quicktime Movie of Dupont Lenz Quilt Animation on this blog. I had not joined YouTube yet, nor had I released the contents of this website to search engines, so only recently have I begun to port some of my animations to other websites. Today I decided to upload the animation to Facebook and to YouTube.
The animation uses same layout from my map “Dupont Circle Quilt 2005.” The 30 second animation features two 15 second segments of the same imagery shown from two different perspectives. The modified aerial photography of Dupont Circle in Washington, DC is magnified using transparent glass spheres to create unique cartographic perspective.
Related Animations:
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|| 12/16/2008 || 1:08 am || Comments Off || ||
The American Flag in a 51 Star Configuration with One Star Removed
Lately I’ve read a couple articles related to DC becoming America’s 51st state. While I’m wholeheartedly in favor of this prospect, two nights ago I decided to make an American flag showing my frustration with the fact that this route is not currently being pursued.
Above is a static public domain flag I found on WIkipedia by Gunter Küchler that I decided to modify showing what an American flag could look like, but with one star (New Columbia) removed.
Below are the animated versions of the flag that I produced to highlight the lack of the 51st star on America’s flag:
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|| 5/12/2008 || 12:25 pm || Comments Off || ||
Exhibit Fly-Through in Reverse Slow-Motion @ Artomatic 2008
Last night I took a 42 second fly-through of my Artomatic 2008 exhibit that I recorded on Friday afternoon and stretched & reversed the footage into a 3 minute and 30 second abstract animation. The video starts at the RECORD book, then pans & zooms into Freedom Plaza on Federal Triangle Quilt #4, pans across Nova et Accvratissima Totivs Terravm Oribis Tabvla [2008], zooms up close to Charlotte Spheres, and pans back over to Nova et Accvratissima Totivs Terravm Oribis Tabvla [2008] and ends.
Audio is from two tracks on disc one of Cold Krush Cuts by DJ Food & Coldcut (Ninja Tune 1997). It features a sermon I believe to be from Rev. Billy Graham about the Bug’s eye view versus the God’s eye view.
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People who fly have a different view of the world than those who spend their lives on the ground. A very wise man once wrote a poem while he was flying, and he called this poem “The God’s Eye View,” and he said that this view was entirely different than the view he always had on the ground, which he called “The Bug’s Eye View.”
Out there, somewhere, in the air we fly through, exists an old Persian legend much like this poem about a bug who spent his entire life in the world’s most beautifully designed Persian rug. All the bug ever saw in his lifetime were his problems. They stood up all around him. He couldn’t see over the top of them, and he had to fight his way through these tufts of wool in the rug to find the crumbs that people had spilled on the rug. And the tragedy of the story of the bug in the rug was this: that he lived and he died in the world’s most beautifully designed rug, but he never once knew that he spent his life inside something which had a pattern. Even if he, this bug, had even once gotten above the rug so that he could have seen all of it, he would have discovered something – that the very things he called his problems were a part of the pattern.
Have you ever felt like that bug in the rug? That you are so surrounded by your problems that you can’t see any pattern to the world in which you live? Have you heard anybody say lately that the world is a total mess? That, my friends, is the Bug’s Eye View, and seeing only a little of the world, me might be inclined to think that this is true.
A better quality version of the video is viewable on Facebook.
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|| 4/8/2008 || 3:46 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
Saint Louis Lenz Animation
Using the same tessellation that was used in Saint Louis Quilt #5, I created this animation featuring a fish-eye-like glass sphere hovering over the imagery (see Lenz Projection). The sphere’s optics create a +200% magnification of the imagery, so as the sphere moves around in the animation the abstract geography is revealed below in close-up detail. There is a new on-line mapping service in Japan that features this visual element, but I am proud to say that I’ve been making similar maps for nearly 5 years now. My animation’s style features more angular refraction within the sphere to give a sense of roundness to a flat surface. My animation also slightly suffers from over-projection within the sphere but I personally like the pixilated effect that is created.
Click here to watch / download the animation.
|| 12/17/2007 || 1:43 pm || Comments Off || ||
Birth of a City [Rochester,NY]
link to 3mb 10 second animation of the Inner Circle of Rochester, New York
So late last night I read Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGblog entry about “the City of Retroactive Mathematics,” and made the above animation. It’s composed of three elements: a light source, two spheres of different sizes, and the imagery. Prior to reading his article I was about to make the next Rochester map, so I continued using the Rochester imagery to create what looks like a urban molecule giving birth to a smaller version of itself. Would that be an asexual city?
|| 8/7/2007 || 9:46 pm || Comments Off || ||
Dupont Lenz Quilt Animation
Click on the screenshot above to watch the 30 second animation of Dupont Circle. [12 mb download]
|| 8/6/2007 || 1:33 pm || Comments Off || ||
upcoming: Lenz Quilt Animation
Currently working on an animation. It should be finished in a day or two. Above is a screenshot from the first 15 seconds.
|| 6/11/2007 || 12:40 pm || Comments Off || ||
Google StreetView I.E.D. – Blowing Up The Spot
So the other day I mentioned I was working on a mash-up for Google’s new Street View feature.
The result is the first google bomb for Street View— an improvised explosive device, with a message called Street View I.E.D..
Check it out: www.StreetViewIED.com
Tune up the volume!
|| 6/23/2006 || 12:54 pm || Comments Off || ||
Starscape Animations
Inner Harbor Fly-Around
 Made in the summer of 2005 for a client, this geospatial animation is a fly around of a Lenz projection centered on a high resolution aerial photograph of the Inner Harbor in downtown Baltimore, Maryland |
Fort Armistead Park Fly-Around  Created for VJs at the 8th Annual Starscape Music & Arts Festival on June 24th, 2006. This animation uses high-resolution aerial photography of the area around the location of the event and creates a synthetic fly-over similar to Google Earth. |
|| 6/18/2006 || 12:44 am || Comments Off || ||
Animations for Starscape
I got a call today from my friend Robin about helping make content for the VJs at the Starscape Music Festival in Baltimore next weekend. I told him I’d love to make some animations for the event. He used my Washington Monument Zoom during Thievery Corporation‘s set at Operation Ceasefire, so I’m excited to have opportunity to have more of my work played at another concert. I made one of the inner harbor of Baltimore last summer for a client, but it’s short and I’d like to give the VJs a good minute clip to use.
|| 12/30/2005 || 6:40 pm || Comments Off || ||
Salt Lake City Quilt with Clouds – Animated
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For the last 12 hours I have been rendering my first animation using moving clouds. I didn’t modify the quilt structure from the previous rendering, but I zoomed in closer to the center.
There are 3 pieces that are animated:
1) The Clouds – which were created from an elongated sphere and textured with a pre-made cloud alogorithm. These fly north to south across the left side of the scene.
2) Infinite plane that moves 180 to the right textured with a geographic tessellation of Salt Lake City.
3) Infinite plane that moves 180 to the left textured with a geographic tessellation of Salt Lake City.
|| 8/23/2005 || 8:45 am || 2 Comments Rendered || ||
Washington Monument Zoom
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I made this animation for one of the main projects I’m working on right now, Operation Ceasefire. I’m going to make sure it ends up in the right person’s hands and hopefully it will be seen on a projection screen during the concert. I think the only real error in this rendering is that most people will be expecting to see the White House as it zooms out, but the tessellation only contains the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and some of the mall. Regardless, I think it looks pretty cool. If I had more time, I’d make a few more animations using this same imagery, but I’m not in the mood right now to do so. I’ve got a lot on my plate right now, and I’m not sure if I’ll have much time to render anything for the next few days. But I guess, as I tend end my postings, we’ll see :-)
|| 8/19/2005 || 5:33 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
White House Warp – geospatial animation
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Wow. This is probably my favorite animation yet. Its not technically special, it’s just fun as a hell to watch. Using Quicktime Pro, I can set it loop back & forth and I’ve spent the last few minutes marveling at my latest creation. If you look closely you can see the White House replicating into a perfect circle.
Up next, I’ve got some imagery of Prague, Sioux City, Iowa, a few topographic maps (a new dimension to Geospatial Art!), and even a subway map of Moscow I want to geographically exploit. Fun.
Yeah for the 9 day weekend- I took next week off!
