Found some time to do development on the initial JPEGs i uploaded a while back. I’ve taken a bunch of video streams (youtube, bittorent, stuff streamed from static sites etc etc), images (JPEGs and PNGs mainly from all over the place. -Flickr was too easy in the end) and RSS text feeds (from all over) and thrown them together in a really simple way using a minimum of filters and timing structures.

The result is quite loose but kinda nice i think.

I’ve also added a “queueing-playing-played” device to the bottom, to allow the user to orientate themselves to the content. i guess you could click on these to go to the source or something. Ultimately it would be nice to have the whole thing interactive, clicking through from or playing with items on the screen.

Let me know what you think.

Jody

http://www.jody.nu/datama/

Apart from being a lovely combination of constants and vowels, it’s functional too.

I’ll be using it to document the prototype development including the upload of vvvv patches.

Some late night screen grabs from the video mixer prototype

Full details tomorrow, just enjoy the visuals for now..

I’ve been talking to artist/coder Gavin Baily about Datama and showing him around vvvv. He produced with Tom Corby a really fascinating project called CYCLONE.SOC, which described in their own words is:-

A bringing together two contemporary phenomena:-

• severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes.
• the polarized nature of debate that occurs in certain online newsgroup forums.

The CYCLONE.SOC application is available to download from here. Videos of the application in action are here.

Gavin’s interest is in Datama is based upon the repurposing of RSS/API feeds and how that data can be re-used/re-read/re-thought for social and political commentary. He’ll be chipping in words of wisdom and a possibly a few prototype ideas to this blog.

Gavin – stand up to the ‘blog mic’ when you have a chance and say hello.

RSS feeds aren’t just for reading ;0′

Here’s some grabs from a little vvvv patch that grabs the RSS of my most recently played tracks (according to last.fm) and throws them around the screen in a votex kinda way…

The patch..

Joreg has fixed support for vvvv to read video files via http:// and mms:// protocols.

Damn that was fast.. Thanks Joreg.

Some idle playing with video spreads in vvvv; just patch practising really, but interesting to see the effects of mixing two video steam and judge the readability. Videos (here and here) are from the Internet Archive and ran locally on the client machine.

More screen shots from the patch are here.

Another grab:

The vvvv patch (video spread2-1.v4p):

There’s a couple of videos of the patch in action.

They’re a little jerky as the capture was done straight out of vvvv to the computer and the frame rate just cant keep up with read and write happening at the same time.

Render 1

Render 2

Joreg at meso.net has looked into the video request and looks like it may be included in next release of vvvv.

I’ll proceed with working with local files for now..

I’ve had a stab at building a basic prototype in VVVV. It’s been a while since I’ve vvvvooled around, but it’s so nice to be ‘making’ again.

Right, the basic application pulls an RSS feed, playbacks video (locally) and pulls in a website, puts each piece of media on a quad layer, animates them and renders in a single screen. Doesn’t look very pretty at the mo, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Having a nightmare trying to work out how to pull video off the web and play within VVVV. I’ll post a shout on the vvvvorums about this.

Here’s a few screen grabs of what the application generates at present:-

Automated mixing of video, RSS and HTML. #1

Automated mixing of video, RSS and HTML. #2

Automated mixing of video, RSS and HTML. #3

Okay, so i’ve been working on some visuals to flesh out the schematics we have in place…

They’re just some stills for now, basically grabs out of After Effects from a bunch of video streams i’m trying to weld together. Hopefully they should help demonstrate the datama principle, maybe even spark a bit of inspiration.

Trying to keep it really simple for the moment, using a minimum of filters and concentrating on working up a system approach to layout that might spark an idea somewhere down the line.

Feedback would be great. -A journey of a thousand miles and all that…

Jody. x

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