UBU WEB Report #1 (click title for link)

Laurel Beckman - USA

“BEATBOTS-Blavatsky” 2006-7

Found in the “Contemporary” section of UBU WEB based on something called concrete poetry, Blavatsky along with two similar pieces are what seem like moving and slightly mouse augmentable mandalas. They are created with an open source interactive programming language called Processing. Using text of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Beckman scripts Processing to “extract punctuation marks in relation to their appearance in a text, translate them into symbols on spokes that appear in a loop with rotational shaking. Mouse activation further rotates the spokes/symbols in 3D space.”
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was considered a founder of Theosophy and was known for her physical and mental physical capacities including materialization, clairaudience, out of body projection, telepathy and levitation.

Laurel Beckman's website:

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/beckman/

mycourses

hey guys i cant access judith's mycourses cos i switched from doug's class. can someone like gimme their password and login name to use and i promise/swear on my unborn children that i wont print off your account or f*** with any of your sh**????

the older loops

p.s

hey I'm just getting used to online hosting applications, if the image I posted does not load directly on the blog, then click the

image alias and it will bring you to a monster view. This is the first piece of my idea of using this style of animation in a more

polished manor. I'm trying to do more, I actually found an interest in a school project for once in a long while but they take sooo

long to do.

as for my artist statement, I am trying to capture motion from memory into single frames. The memory part gives for a more

interesting and stylistic end product and more enjoyable approach. I have been drawing with this sort of style on and off and

thought it would be the next step to actually see what each individual drawing looks like when put together into real motion.

First flash video

wfmu beware of the blog page

Here's an album jacket I found on a blog I found through ubu web. I posted it just so you know -- it's easy to upload pix to the blog, as long as the file size isn't too big. When you're in "post" mode, you will see a little landscape picture icon on the upper left of the compose post window. Click that, browse to select the picture file, upload and it's there.

There's a link to the ubu-related blog -- click my title above.

WELCOME - post links to your loops here

A brief outline of your loop projects, along with links to online files if possible, should be posted here. Please include a written description summarizing your presentation in class.

Also, this is where to post links you think the class will find of interest, including the materials you've found on ubu web.