plenty of templates at these sites:
http://www.dotcomwebdesign.com/?Home
cmsimple forum template request thread
another i came across - nothing special, but stretched across the screen, rather than as a central block
Soundlab
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
is preparing its 4th edition
to be launched in October 2006
.
—>Call for submissions
VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
videochannel@newmediafest.org
organiser of
1st Cologne Online Film Festival (CologneOFF)
http://coff.newmediafest.org
featuring film & videos on the theme “identityscapes”.
is planning the
2nd Cologne Online Film Festival (CologneOFF)
to be launched in October 2006
Call for propsals
extended deadline 31 July 2006
Pursuing a suspect through an underground tunnel or cave is dangerous work for the police or military. But a system being developed at the University of Denver, Colorado, US, could make their lives a whole lot easier. Revealed in a recent patent finding, the system uses faint sound resonances to build a map of a hidden chamber and locate anyone hiding inside.
Low frequency noise – between 1 and 200 hertz – is fed into the tunnel from a loudspeaker placed at its mouth. The cavity will then resonate at different strengths and frequencies depending on its shape. A microphone detects these resonances and a connected computer converts the audio information into a map showing the size and shape of the chamber on a screen.
If anyone is hiding inside, their movement should alter the reflection pattern and thus changes the resonant spectrum. Tests show that the system works even when the person hiding is just 1/500th of the volume of the entire chamber. And the system should get more accurate with the creation of a database of resonant patterns relating to different cavity shapes.
Read the cave mapping patent here
via http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2005_11_01_archive.html
neoscenes.net is a travelogue website (and also the pseudonym of John Hopkins), that states its goal to become “a holistic examination of nomadic movement at the turn of the millineum.”
Apparently, I use some neoscenes content in my soundtransit composition….
“…a neoscenes sample starts things off, and there are several other neoscene samples mixed into the 40 minute broadcast made on 23 April. nice!”
Time Lapse Family Photo (1976 - 2005)
idea: take daily self portrait. make some rules regarding the photo that will enable flexibility of location, lighting, camera gear, etc, so that the photo can be taken within a reasonably tight specification regardless of time or location, every single day… also make rule regarding the timing of the photo - e.g. at least 12 hours between photos, but not necessarily every day on the day. a rule for logging the photos should also be made. maybe also a rule for GPS logging? One year of photos at 25 fps gives you 14.6 seconds of video. 50 years of photos at 25fps gives you 730 seconds, or just over 12 minutes.
There is also the film Time Piece (1980 - 1981) by Tehching Hsieh, which I first saw at Camera Obscura film night curated by Daniel Heckenberg and Kier Smith at Lan Franchi’s in Sydney.
Not too long after seeing this, I had a minor bicycle accident where I grazed my hand, taking a large coin-sized chunk of skin off my palm. I took photos as regularly as possible while the wound was healing, and came up with 20 or 30 seconds of video, but unfortunately I lost the results due to a hard-drive crash.
other cool vaguely related links resulting from a quick google for time lapse video
Étienne-Jules Marey used photography to study human movement
Tommy’s Beard is a flash site where you can watch or control the timeline to see Tommy’s beard grow, and also turn his head using a slider.
update: Mark Reid sent me a link to Jonathon Keller’s daily photo project, where he has been taking a photo every day since he was 22 in 1998! great work. and yes, he tried making video of the photos, but it took too long to align his eyes as a focal point. Maybe that task could be automated.