McTweet Dress - Photoshoot

Projected Tweets create texture - dripping blood.

Progress - testing

And here is (almost) working example.

Kate Moss hologram

An Associated Press article describes the virtual appearance of Kate Moss as a "symbolic resurrection for the supermodel, who lost several advertising contracts after she was pictured in London tabloids last year linked to drugs."

The apparition of Kate Moss is not a holographic image as the MIT Advertising Lab points out. The 3D image is actually an example of Pepper's Ghost, which was first used, as The Independent explains, in the 19th Century by John Henry Pepper in a production of Charles Dickens' "The Haunted Man."

As the Wikipedia article explains, the Pepper's Ghost effect uses plate glass, special lighting techniques and a hidden room to create ghost like images that can appear and quickly disappear or morph from one character into another. The set-up at the Ready-to-Wear fashion show was an updated version of this technique that used pre-recorded video and a projector - and, I'm guessing, a transparent screen of some type but there is no further explanation.

As I was watching the video clip of Kate Moss I was wondering what types of applications there could be in the dance world for this updated version of Pepper's Ghost. It would be especially intriguing if this ghost-like effect could be created in real-time so that an apparition of a dancer at one location could be dropped-into the middle of a dance performance at another location.

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Elise Gug - Danish fashion installation

In August the 6th 2008 in Copenhagen Elise Gug a Danish fashion brand specialized in feminine and elegant women's wear. As an exception in Danish fashion Elise Gug is entirely made in Italy to the higest quality stadard.

FASHION Installation

FUNCTION FORMING FASHION: Installation to celebrate one hundred years of architectural education at Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and was among the first state universities to offer an academic program in architecture.



“This is our time to flaunt the great pride we have in the talents of our alumni and in our remarkable history,” said Alan Balfour, Dean of the College. “And in the spirit of awe-inspiring design, we wanted to create an experience that would properly launch the next century of architectural education at Georgia Tech.”

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font, color and the atmosphere of the installation

Font - Baskerville (all caps)







Color - white, black, dark red, dark grey, dark blue.







Atmosphere - Gothic Anorexia.

Building the spin wheel

Progress - making the dress

Dress Fabric

Music

Music I would like to use for "McTweet Dress" installation.

• Mozart - Concerto No. 23 For Piano and Orchestra
  
• Schindler's List by John Williams
• Elfen Lied - Lilium (music box)
  

Quartz Composer

Quartz Composer is a groundbreaking graphics development environment that allows you to explore the incredible power of the graphics stack of Mac OS X Tiger. With Quartz Composer, you can easily combine the capabilities of Cocoa, Quartz 2D, Core Image, OpenGL, and QuickTime, all using an approachable visual programming paradigm. Use Quartz Composer to prototype Core Image filters, build engaging screen savers, create custom user-interface widgets, make data-driven visual effects, and even perform live performance animations.

1. Great Quartz Composer examples and downloads by Jack Withsitt
2. Amazing piano example:Webcam Piano with Quartz Composer
3. interesting way of using Fire Drips by

   Matthew Parrott

when you need...

to get some inspiration...











make art in your backgarden

Weekend Idea - SWITCH

In memory of Alexander Mcqueen I decided to created a lifetime switch.

What do I mean?

A still projection is displayed on individual, when the person moves their head to left, video from latest A. McQueen collection appears. When the head is moved to right, fuzzy tv signal appears.

... switch between Life and Death, in between - memories...


Static signal symbolizes Death..


Interesting imagery


Spring Collection 2010



Photos from the video..

Shutterbug

Original Memo:

Use the Gallery Space as a Narrative Tool

Visitors are photographed at a regular interval. Once captured in an image, a visitor can see their own image in the context of those who occupied the same space in the last 24 hours, seeing themselves in a ghost presence of strangers.

Add a common object (chair etc)?

Time Travel

Furthermore, visitor can choose to go back further in and see their own self situated among strangers from even farther past.

Companion Website

Bonus point: Run a website that continuously updates with recently added photos.

WHY:

The older I get, the more do I perceive myself as a phenomenon that occupies a tiny portion of space and time. And sometimes I feel connected to my past and future self with specific spaces as a medium.

Having lived in multiple cities including Seoul, New York and San Francisco, I have formed a mental pattern of associating places with specific times in my life. As I visit more places, especially those where I lived before, I sometimes feel the sensation of seeing myself from the past or the future co-existing in the same place.

Based on this sensation, I wanted to show people and memories from various times pertaining to a same space, and designed an interactive space where one can mix and match memories from different time spans as well.

WHAT:

Visitors are invited to take one or more snapshots of themselves using a time-lapse shutter control. Their images are then overlapped over time, sometimes with the ghosts of strangers who co-occupied the same space in a different time.

Using a proximity sensor, visitors are then encouraged to rewind time and see themselves occupying the same space with the ghosts of the people who existed there days ago.

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Arduino Change Color of Processing

Arduino Project to Change Color of Processing Application

This Arduino project reads in voltages that can be modified from basic potentiometers and write those values to the serial port. On the Processing side, the values are read back in and then converted to red and blue values to dynamically update the application's background in varying shades of violet.

Processing-test

Amazing Arduino project

litstudios.com

144 characters statement

Project AIM: Develop an interactive, twitter generated virtual dress.

"McTweet dress" is a visualization of twitter messages designed for display in public space.

To develop twitter generated dynamic dress Arduino and Processing software would be used. Twitter messages would be projected on several surfaces such as: mannequin, white board, boxes, etc. Possibility of using images and videos from Alexander McQueen collections may acquire.

Scope of work

Software: Arduino and Processing.

Location of work: B120 (Monday, Tuesday), B132 (Thursday), home.

Period of Performance:

• Class work (3.5 hours)
• Homework (3.5 hours).
• Project delivery: Week 13. 30th April 2010.

Displayed information: review presented data

Identify surface: appearance of artifact.

Research for public space: where artifact would be exhibited.

Testing artifact: week 11-12

Arduino + A. McQueen

In memory of Alexander McQueen I have decided to create tweet dress.

How it's going to work?

• Getting Twitter messages designed to display in public space.
• Each Twitter message containing famous fashion designer name will be projected on mannequin, which will create the virtual dress.
• You Tweet = You design

Similar project: Twitter to Flash

• visibletweets
• christmastweets