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MadPad for iOS

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What if you could record short video and sound clips of your everyday world and put it all together so you can make a new sound, or even make music?

MadPad is an app for the iPhone/iPad by Smule and the app description says ‘CREATE VIDEO SOUNDBOARDS FROM YOUR LIFE’.

Actually I did not know about this app until it was shown in class yesterday. Immediately, I recognized it because, although it was released in 2011 and MysteryGuitarMan (on YouTube) has already released something over a year ago, just last week a video called ‘Sampled Vancouver’ caught my attention.

‘Sampled Vancouver’ takes sounds from around the city (specifically, transportation) and remixes it into two songs. After seeing the MadPad app, I see that ‘Sampled Vancouver’ added an special touch to the video because it doesn’t make you look at the soundboard the whole time but transitions in and out of larger video clips. I found that both visually and aurally pleasing. People take the skytrain and the bus every day but never has ‘This train is for Waterfront’ sounded better than it did in this video.

Enjoy!

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Kinetic Typography by Chris Silich

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Today is the fifth of November so I’d like to show you a 2 minute video that connects one of my favourite movies (V For Vendetta) with typography and vocabulary and digital media.

This is one of the way in which digital media can help you visualize words. The way the words transition on the screen allow the text to portray emotions.

Take a look.

V For Vendetta Typography

 

Creative Leaders

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TED Talk by John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design
Talk: How art, technology, and design inform creative leaders.

Thought this was especially fitting for this class on ‘digital media and education’.

Favourite parts
1. The influence of font on feeling (FEAR)
2. Combination of ‘old and new’ (when he starts talking about antiques)

Link to talk here: John Maeda: Art/Tech/Design for Creative Leaders

Term project proposals.

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Tomorrow, a proposal for our term projects will be due.

My hope is to work on video editing through iMovie and Vegas Pro and the only way to do that is to try my hand at shooting video as well. Since this class emphasizes not on ‘how much you know’ but on ‘how much you learn/improve’, it seems now is an opportune time to try these things out, especially since we have access to both video cameras and editing software!

As well, two presentations from classmates will be held tomorrow, one of which I know to be about ‘How To Make Flash Games Without Knowing How To Code’. It should be interesting.

Hello world!

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A portfolio of completed and in-progress projects will be stored here.

Although this begins as a progress report for a ‘Digital Media in Arts Education’ course, it will also undoubtedly be a personal progress report as I learn to use various technological programs to express my ideas. Currently in my last year of psychology undergraduate program, this course which promotes creative thinking and encourages taking risks to experiment with media, digitally, is a good balance for the other analytical, precise courses.

I invite you to share your feedback and suggestions, encourage me, and to enjoy! Thanks for dropping by.

– Ephra