Documenting the research and production of interactive network based media. By David Wolf
Ok, this version (Vidget 3.5) follows on from previous versions:
Vidget 1
Flickr Image Viewer (Vidget 2), and
Vidget 3
Vidget 3.5 is an experimental interactive audiovisual performance device which allows the user to manipulate video in real time online. As well as mixing a number of video clips together, the user may search for still images from the Flickr photo sharing site and mix them together. For a instructions on usage see previous versions above.
This is the latest version of my Quicktime vj/image search app. It now works as two separate movies which talk to eachother. Click on each of the images above to load in Quicktime Player.
More details, instructions etc soon (i’ve gotta race to the library to return some very overdue books!).
I arrived in Brisbane this morning VERY early, caught the 6am flight from Melbourne which (due to regional time distortion fields) arrived around 7am local time even though it took just over two hours.
I’ve been battling with my latest revision vidget over the past few days and the saga continues. To get photos from flickr I use the site’s RSS feeds, only they keep changing on me! On Tuesday I had everything sorted, they started using the
On the plane I accidentally opened my LiveStage Pro project in an old version of the app (4.5 instead of the latest 4.5.4) and saved and now while the flickr search works - I can’t get it to load any movies. D’oh! I have, however got inter-movie communication working really well so that I have a separate movie for output and controls. This means I can resize the output to 640*480 really nicely to go to a second monitor.
BTW, I’m writing this from a very cool cafe called The Alibi Room on the corner of Brunswick St and Annie St in Bris-vegas. It has yummy food, good coffee and FREE WIFI!