Monthly Archives: October 2005

In our team we have now completed stage one to disassemble an XBOX controller so we can use it for our new controller. We now know what a solder sucker is and we have developed only MLA(Media lab Arts) style of using it. It was certainly an experience. Well done team

In researching the ergonomics of a controller i came accross this site: Playphoria it has some info on the ergonomics and what actual gameplay the controller gives. Although the bit about the PS2 controllers is a bit harsh as i think that the controller does actully work.

I have been looking at different design styles recently and i really liked the work of a guy called Niko at www.weareaiko.com his main site is this site which has really cool video work on www.abnormalbehaviorchild.com and also Ubi at www.twothings.net/ they together did the work for the Greenspace site i mentioned before. They seem …

Whilst reading Digital Storytelling it mentioned a film called Uncompressed. This movie is really good it gives you the control of the movie, you get to choose who you follow in the story and if you want to change your mind when your character meets one of the other character you just click them. Uncompressed …

Here is a quick attempt with rotoscoping a footballer doing Keep Ups. With this technique I plan to develop it so i can use it with my4D project.

What is S.E.O ( Search engine optimization)? The easiest way to explain it to say it is making your site good for search engihnes to read and to be worded in a way to be on the first few pages so that a user might be interested in looking at the site.

Research indicates that adhering to the principles of web page accessibility, when designing a web site will give access to nearly 48% of the UK population that would previously potentially have been excluded. In simple terms, making an accessible web site via accessible web site design techniques means that 48% more potential customers can use …

An example of David Hockney’s photography that I really love. I want to experiment and see if I can move this forward using video. This will be quite a challenge as this is using photography and you are only using a frame where as video will be constantly moving.

Whilst researching on the web i came accross the history of the game controller. It has some old old controllers on there and it has been updated to have the very latest controllers too. Here is a more in depth feature on the new Nintendo controller: Game Spot

Ive been formualting many ideas for this module, one of them is to explore the idea of communication to think in technological terms of what happens when for instance a phone call is made. Whilst browsing the web i came accrss the Heineken Greenspace web site and I was very interested in the Two Things …