I found this in a german movie magazin that I always loved reading, back in Austria:
Translation of paragraph in red letters: "Sometimes you meet people on the set that you get quite close to - then you pack your things and maybe you never see each other again, sometimes without saying a last Goodbye."
A free open-source, cross-platform 2D physics simulator, makes you want to pick up blocks, or maybe crayons, and learn more about the way things fall and move under pressure.
Written by a Swedish graduate student, the program teaches concepts of restitution and friction, so it's great to load up with the kids, but you'll probably find yourself sneaking a few turns by yourself at creating, and knocking over, shapes and lines.
Phun is a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems; hit the link for instructions on using and having, well, fun in Phun:
Tikatok™ is where kids channel their imagination into stories – and publish those stories into
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Wii Projekt
Diesen Sommer werde ich mich definitiv mit der Wii vertraut machen, aber hauptsaechlich damit experimentieren!:
Fuer $2000 kann man teilnehmen, man muss allerdings sein eigenes Equipment beisteuern. Also, habe ich denen mal ein email geschrieben was so an Equipment notwendig ist. Sie haben mir folgendes geantwortet:
Software:
We use Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express on Macintosh laptops (MacBook or MacBook Pro) for the course (link).
Hardware:
We require a DV or HDV camera that can connect to the computer via Firewire and although equipment purchases are completely up to you and your budget, here are a few of our thoughts:
If you are trying to spend as little as possible, you can get the Sony HDR-HC5, which is the camera we use in the course, for about $800 at www.bhphotovideo.com. But it lacks mic and headphone jacks, although Sony offers some options which plugs into the top of the camera. The HC7, available for about $1000, has mic and headphone jacks. Another camera that students have been fond of and which has received high praise from many consumer magazines is the Canon HV20.
For prosumer/pro cameras, Travel Channel uses Sony HVR-Z1U and V1U on some of our production and marketing shoots. The biggest reason to buy a "prosumer" vs a consumer camera is for the audio. The small cameras dont have professional audio inputs (XLR) for external microphones so you have to rely on the built in mic or add an audio input box to your kit. Beachtek makes a good one but not all cameras work with them. Also the price difference is some thing to consider, around $1000 for consumer and around $3000-5000+ for the prosumer.
Rather than just taking "our word" for it, I would suggest that you look at several different cameras, as each one has its advantages and disadvantages. And if possible, see if you can use it for a day or two.
Another factor to consider, at Travel Channel, the minimum quality that we require for anything that has the potential for on-air use is HDV (1080i)*, online use can be pretty much anything. Although we cant guarantee anything that a student shoots will end up on-air, it is always best to shoot at the best quality you can afford.
Ich denke, da nehme ich wenn dann das $2500 Angebot, wo mir das gesamte Equipment zur Verfuegung gestellt wird. Allerdings, geben die einem nicht die HDV Kameras(*), glaube ich und das Ziel waere schon, dass der Beitrag dann im Fernsehen hier gezeigt wird. Naja, mal sehen!
2. 11th Hour - A FREE Screening and Lecture
Mit Freude habe ich mir letzte Woche am Freitag den Film The 11th Hour am MIT angesehen:
Mir war ja schon vor dem Film bewusst, dass es um unsere Welt nicht sehr gut steht. Ich hatte mir auch schon vor einem Jahr The Inconvinient Truth angesehen. The 11th Hour, sprach mehrfach ueber die "noch" bestehende Moeglichkeit das Rad herumzudrehen, ein Wissenschaftler im Film sprach es allerdings aus: "Wir befindens uns nicht in der 11. Stunde, sondern es ist 11:59 und 59 Sekunden!"
Unglaubliche Themen wurden angesprochen, wie zum Beispiel, dass wenige Grade Temperaturunterschied das Meer zu vollkommnen Stillstand bringen koennten, was schon einmal passierte und das Austerben von 99.9% aller Lebensarten auf dem Planeten verursachte.
"Das beruehmte Foto von Al Gore, in seinem Film The Inconvenient Truth, wo er den geschichtlichen Verlauf von CO2 (rot) zeigt. Es ist klar zu erkennen, dass die Temperatur den Verlauf des CO2 nachahmt, was wird also als naechstes mit der Temperatur passieren!?"
Die Zeichen sind unwiderruflich! und Wissenschaftler verstehen in keinem Zusammenhang mehr, wenn Politiker sagen, dass diese und jene Ereignisse "vielleicht mit einem Klimawandel" zusammenhaengen koennten"! Die Poliitik und das vor allem in den USA ist allerdings von Maerkten, wie der Oelwirtschaft angetrieben und die ist staerker als die Wissenschaft, im Moment.
Es war allerdings erfreulich zu sehen, dass auch in den USA ein Oesterreicher gute und genau die richtigen Schritte setzt, naemlich Arnold Schwarzenegger. Er war nur kurz bildlich erwaehnt, aber im Zusammenhang des langsamen Erwachens der Menschheit, v. a. in den USA.
Wir haben allerdings auch die notwendige Technologie um den Fussabdruck des Menschen zu einem Grossteil wieder zu entfernen, nur wird diese Technologie noch klaeglich eingesetzt. Naja, eine Sekunde haben wir ja noch!
Wir sind die Generation, die noch alles aendern kann!
Wir haben ja schon frueher gepostet (siehe Scrapbook unten), aber mit dem neuen Blog feature koennen wir unsere Posts jetzt so sehr schoen praesentieren! Gleich zu den News dieser Woche:
1. The Alps
Letzte Woche hatte ich das Vergnuegen mir den Film THE ALPS anzusehen. Der Film stammt von den Machern von Everest und wird nun im IMAX im Museum of Science, in Boston, gezeigt!:
Do you want a chance to share your experiences with people around the world?
Are you passionate about places you've been or things you've seen?
Do you want to learn filmmaking from people who actually make a living doing it?
At Travel Channel, we share our stories with more than 88 million households across America.
Now, it's your chance to get involved with us - to learn the art and science of digital filmmaking, and open up a possibility to share your stories on our television, online and mobile platforms. We'll teach you how to produce your videos in just 4 days.
Introducing Travel Channel Academy - the only professional-grade, travel-focused digital filmmaking bootcamp on the planet.
Students who sign up for our course will receive:
Valuable filmmaking skills that will propel your creative and career ambitions
Hands-on training from industry experts with decades of experience teaching the art of storytelling, production and editing
Direct contact with the executive producers of such hit shows as Bizarre Foods, 1000 Places to See Before You Die, Most Haunted Live, Trauma: Life in the E.R., Police Force, Made in America and Flip That House
A chance to share your work with millions of viewers on Travel Channel and travelchannel.com
An opportunity to get paid for your work after course graduation*
The chance to be discovered...as a Travel Channel on-air personality. It's happened already to people such as Tiffany Burnett, Shane Reynolds and Ronnie Miller.
$2000 fuer die erwaehnten Moeglichkeiten sind es mir glaube ich wert. Zuerst muss ich mir aber professionelles Equipment besorgen (jeder Tipp ist willkommen!),... ich halte euch auf dem Laufenden.
3. 11th Hour - A FREE Screening and Lecture
Mit Freude werde ich mir diese Woche am Freitag den Film The 11th Hour am MIT ansehen:
The film screening will be preceded by a brief introduction, and followed by a Q&A session with representatives from the film. Refreshments will be provided.
Drought. Famine. Severe flooding. Record rainfall. Hurricanes. Acid rain. The highest average temperature in recorded history. Catastrophe is reported on the nightly news as isolated incidents. But are these incidents isolated, or pieces of a larger global puzzle that could unlock humanity's future?
In the history of the planet, humanity's time on earth has been short but powerful. The human drive to ensure its own survival and quality of life has revolutionized industry, science, nutrition and medicine. But it has also effected unprecedented changes in the delicate balance that makes life on earth possible.
Shaped by oceans and rainforests that generate oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide, govern climate, weather and temperature, the planet earth is under siege. The alchemy of natural greenhouse gases that enables life has been augmented with chemicals from tail pipes and smoke stacks. For every truckload of product produced, many more truckloads of waste are created. The oceans have been flooded with mercury, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals. The forests are disappearing, deserts are widening, the arctic sea ice is melting, the permafrost has begun to crack. The earth has grown warmer. Not since a meteor hit the planet 55 million years ago have so many forms of life gone extinct.
But are these changes to the earth permanent? Or are they puzzle pieces that, if connected, reveal a larger story that needs to be told; a human story that takes into account who we are and the state of our relationship to this planet, our only home. We are in an environmental age whether we like it or not.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, written and directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. The 11th Hour is produced by Chuck Castleberry, Brian Gerber, Conners, Petersen and DiCaprio. The 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment; how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. The film features dialogues with renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who present the facts and discuss the most important issues that face our planet. [wip.warnerbros.com]
An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity [that] is such essential viewing.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York TImes. Read this review.
Wieder (siehe voriger Bericht ueber Be Kind Rewind) wird man die Chance erhalten mit den Machern des Filmes zu sprechen. Ich freue mich schon sehr auf die Vorstellung und werde euch naechste Woche davon berichten.
On the 4th of February I got to see a preview screening of BE KIND REWIND, at MIT. It is Michel Gondry's newest creation and will come into a cinema near you, tomorrow on the 22nd of February. Michel Gondry was also at the preview screening for a Question & Answer session.
The movie was a blast (you can read a previous article about the movie on my blog here)!
Be Kind Rewind Footage
Continuously thinking about my project CINEATRIX, while already standing in line for the preview screening of Be Kind Rewind, then obviously during the movie and then looking forward to the Question & Answers session, I was quite nervous when it got to the point when the following happened:
"Well, that sounds like a great idea!" ~ Michel Gondry on CINEATRIX
I had a minute to explain over the microphone that was put up near my seat after the showing to explain to Michel Gondry what CINEATRIX was all about. In the end I asked him if he could give me some advice, his answer was:
"Now, just stay motivated and let things happen in front of the camera, without taking to much control from behind the camera." ~ Michel Gondry on CINEATRIX
To see Michel Gondry's new movie Be Kind Rewind and to then hear him talk about his works and life was quite amazing. The lecture hall was packed and there were some good questions being asked during the Q&A session. Michel Gondry also said that he loves coming back to MIT. Through my research for this article I found that he was actually a so called "artist-in-residence" at MIT! Here is a little excerpt of a recently published WIRED article about Michel Gondry:
Gondry spent 2005 as an artist-in-residence at Nerdland. That's the name his 16-year-old son bestowed on MIT, which invited Gondry there to pursue his interest in neuroscience. "They understand the connection between science and the arts," Gondry says of the school. "It's very blurry. It was brainstorming all the time." At MIT, Gondry tried out some unusual notions about special effects. His idea was to combine digital technology and chemistry. "People are always thinking to make everything digital," Gondry says. "The key would be to do an interface between the digital, for the control, and the chemical, for the reaction. If you can get the two worlds together, you can make the best effects ever." In one experiment, for instance, Gondry mixed up a paste of cornstarch and water. He placed the paste on a plate and wired it to a speaker, then added a strobe light. By changing the speaker's frequency, he created reverb on the plate, and the concoction bubbled and spewed into strange and beautiful shapes.
Sounds like an eighth-grade science project. But keep in mind that this same mad scientist pioneered the technique known as bullet-time four years before The Matrix. That bit of inspiration happened after Gondry saw computerized morphing (think of the T-1000 robot in Terminator 2). Instead of merging one person into another, though, Gondry wanted to morph shots of a scene from different perspectives into one take. He placed cameras around the studio to "freeze" the action, then had the shots digitally composited so that the environment appeared to revolve around the center. It took three weeks to complete six minutes of effects, incorporating more than 1,000 digital morphings and several freeze sequences. The result was an award-winning 1995 Rolling Stones music video, "Like a Rolling Stone." "Michel has this technical side," says his brother and collaborator, Olivier Gondry, who helped him develop the effect. "He is not especially good with a computer, but he is very good at imagining what a computer can do and then finding the person who can do it."
I wish I could have talked more with Michel Gondry about CINEATRIX and his work and future projects, but of course that was not possible. As a sidenote, the room was also packed with bodyguards that filmed he audience with infrared cameras during the viewing, for any recording devices that might have been smuggled in (if they had made it by the security check at the entrance of the classroom). Anyways, I was very glad and honored, which I told Michel Gondry at the beginning of my question, to have been able to speak with this amazing artist for at least about a minute!
Deb Roy, Professor am MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, setzt auf geballte Technik. Und auf die Video-Beobachtung seines zweijährigen Sohnes: Ganz gleich, ob Roy Junior Bauklötze stapelt, mit seiner Mama ein Buch anschaut oder trotzig herumspringt - in den Zimmerdecken installierte Kameras halten alles fest, rund um die Uhr. Mikrofone zeichnen jeden Ton auf, den der Knirps von sich gibt. Dies alles ist Teil eines wissenschaftlichen Projektes zum Thema Spracherwerb. Aus den Aufnahmen - rund 400000 Stunden in drei Jahren - soll eine riesige Datenbank entstehen. Ziel: Entwicklung von Robotern, die die Sprachentwicklung von Kindern nachvollziehen lassen. (quellegeo40/D/EU)
Cyberschool ist der größte, österreichweite SchülerInnen-Wettbewerb im Bereich Internet, Mobile und Multimedia, in dessen Rahmen man Know-how in Form von praktischen Projekten umsetzen und präsentieren kann. Mehr dazu...!
A lot of the content on the site is aimed at the 11 – 19 age group. Some really cool software for kids!
VII. Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. Scratch is available free of charge, go to Download. Currently available for Mac OSX and Windows To find more about the ideas underlying Scratch, visit this page for Educators.
VIII. Khronos Projector
Khronos Projector [a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen] by Alvaro Cassinelli The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames.
The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate "islands of time" as well as "temporal waves" are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that "cuts" the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.
IX. Diesel Show: Underwater Magic Fashion show of SS'08 Preview Collection at Pitti Uomo. Journey through time and liquid space to a futuristic world of bioluminescence, giant mechanic cephalopods, futuristic aquanauts and mysterious galactic polips. Witness the first catwalk show with real models showing with holographic models.
PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - After highly imaginative explorations of man's natural instincts ("Human Nature") and the interplay of memory, dreams and personal relationships ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep"), Michel Gondry has turned his playful gaze to film itself.
"Be Kind Rewind" wants to probe the interplay among films, their audience and the people who make them. It's an exuberant, fanciful fable set amid the scruffy outskirts of American society, where people's need for escapism coincides with their desire to participate in its creation.
Synopsis:
Jack Black and Mos Def star in Be Kind Rewind, a unique comedy from Academy Award-winning writer/director Michel Gondry (Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Black stars as a loveable loser stuck in a life that's too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend (Mos Def) works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store's few loyal customers by re-creating and re-filming every movie they decide to rent. Be Kind Rewind features a cast that also includes Danny Glover, Melonie Diaz and Mia Farrow. It is scheduled for a February 22, 2008 release.
at the Edgerton Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT, Edgerton Center. Isaac and DI Daniel Pressl are analysing the movie.
In collaboration with the Edgerton Outreach program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and KIMEKI, iPressl (Austria) is working on a new project: CINEATRIX.
The original idea stemmed from the knowledge that there is a new generation of children who are digital natives, kids who haven't known a world without iPods and digital cameras, let alone a comfort level with computers.
With his project CINEATRIX, Dipl. Ing. Daniel Pressl, MIT student from Austria, is working on combining film, theatre and comics/animations and teaching these media to children through learning by doing. There are two main thoughts to this program:
CINEATRIX: First and foremost, as a means of story-telling, children will be able to take movies, add special effects to the movies and be able to tell their stories in never imagined ways. The goal for the end of the course is every child will be able to bring a DVD home, to which they have contributed through filming, editing and storytelling.
KIMEKI: The second aim is that children, between 10 and 15 years old, get to teach their technological know-how in media and videography to children between 5 and 10. This extraordinary, media-pedagogical concept has proven to show great possibilities and a new way of learning for children and has been running for the past 4 years, in Austria.
We run parallel sessions in which the older children are trained on our particular hardware/software to do the filming, editing and other finishing stages, and have the older children then turn around and teach these same skills to the Storytellers, the younger children.
Kimeki initiiert Projekte zur Enkulturation von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Die Workshops verfolgen das Ziel, die Kindliche Fantasie zu inspirieren, das Zutrauen zu schaffen, Geschichten mündlich, schriftlich oder visuell zu artikulieren und nebenbei kritischen Umgang mit Medien zu erlernen. Das kreative Tun von Kindern - gemeinsam mit Jugendlichen - zeitigt außergewöhnliche Ergebnisse und weckt beiderseits enorme Potentiale.
Geschichtenvon Kindern in Worten, Schrift und Bildern bildeten den Ausgangspunkt dieses neuartigen, medienpädagogischen Projekts für Kinder im Alter von 5 – 10 Jahren.
Die Grundidee:
Jedes Kind hat (s)eine Geschichte zu erzählen. Diese in verschiedensten Mediendisziplinen umzusetzen, ist ein Ziel. Die Wissensvermittlung erfolgt innerhalb einer Mediengeneration. Das bedeutet: Als Lehrende werden 12- bis 16-jährige Schüler aus fachspezifischen höheren Schulen herangezogen.
iPressl wird eine neue Technik fuer das Erzaehlen dieser Geschichten zur Verfügung stellen. Kimeki war begeistert von dem Medium
"GERÄUSCHFOTOGRAFIE":
Angela, aus Österreich, beim Zerstechen eines Luftballones bei 2fast4u (April 2007, Wolfsberg).
Loren Winters (Gastfotograf bei 2fast4u in Wolfsberg und Professor in North Carolina), wie er in die Luft springt und im Sprung durch sein Klatschen den Blitz auslöst.
iPressl wird ein aehnliches Medium (Photographie oder Videographie) erfinden und bauen, womit es den Kindern moeglich sein wird deren Geschichte, in ungekannter Weise zu erzaehlen.
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