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Thursday, November 13, 2003
I checked all the links site-wide today to make sure that they all still worked. I will need to do this every now and again; although the external links aren't completely vital to the site.
And I placed a new link on the begin page to my new web log called << Humanist 2.1 >>. After building a site like Milkbar.com.au I am definitely never going to build a static site ever again.
The new web log engines like Movabletype.org are wonderful simply because they allow you to be flexible with your ideas and change the components of large sites in seconds (rather than days as was the case sometimes with Milkbar.com.au).
I also amended some of the erroneous text in the thesis. Design is basically 98% dog work.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, November 13, 2003
Saturday, August 02, 2003
I am presently redrafting and applying the amendments to Milkbar.com.au in line with some of the suggestions of the assessors. The exegetical-thesis does actually need another redraft as the conclusions are not clear (or well argued) and there is a lot of text that is not germane. I have spent the last week redrafting the exegetical-thesis component and will mark it up again by the 20 August 2003.
Also, the four essays that accompany the global (SMAFE) section need to be rewritten to reflect a greater depth of analysis and a summary of points. The central themes within each of the categories need to be spelt out clearly.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, August 02, 2003
Monday, October 21, 2002
I am very close to finishing this work now and it is now due for submission. I printed and bound the thesis component today and I forgot how long this takes. It took most of the day.
I also linked many of the emails to the site that had influenced it during its writing. However, I only linked about twelve because some of the correspondence on Fibreculture was not worth preserving. When the emails are taken out of the context of the list (that is sometimes within a heated debate), then they look out of place with the considered prose of the thesis. I suppose that this is the true nature of 'the coming into being' of a text (however do we have to revel everything?).
I will burn the CD onto disk ready for submission tomorrow.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, October 21, 2002
Thursday, October 17, 2002
I am finishing the final hardcopy version of the thesis today. I don't think that I will alter the marked-up on-line version, as it does not differ substantially. Will try and submit on Monday 21st October.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 17, 2002
Monday, October 14, 2002
I completed the entries for the SMAFE engine today and ended up with 167. This seemed adequate, although a couple of the categories like 'ideology' is under represented. I also included a brief text annotation at the bottom of each entry as it is not always clear what question is being addressed.
Will circulate for public comment today on Nettime and my own list Globalise This.
Will try and submit the site for marking this week if possible.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, October 14, 2002
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Will make a MP4 version of the movie for the SMAFE engine to store and use at a later date (MP4 is open standard)
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002
I need to do the 'in and out' points again for the SMAFE engine, because I had to recapture the video to recompress. The first time that I compressed, I forgot to include keyframes so the movie did not work for the random access ability of the SMAFE engine. When I recapture, it meant that the time codes change thus I have to do them again. It will probably take about four days, then I will be close to completion (this is the third time I have tried to do the timecodes).
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002
Presented milkbar.com.au at the Electofringe festival in Newcastle. People seemed to like it, but didn't really understand the SMAFE section. This section didn't really work anyway, as I needed to change the MIME types in the QT player on the Macs.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002
I have placed the thesis on-line, but this will perhaps not be the final draft. The final draft will be as a PDF and can be downloaded. The online draft will serve as a draft for comment and I will link the email correspondence to it. I imagine that people will not read it on line anyway, as they will simply down-loads the PDF, however the online version reveals the 'coming into being' of the text and it on-line relationships.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002
I completed the written sections for the Global section today. They are fairly brief, but I am sure if I made a more indepth analysis that people would skip over them and go straight to the SMAFE engine to view the videos. It is probably better to save the analysis for a publishable paper at a later date.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002
Received a bill form Telstra today for $600. Apparently uploads are charged as well as downloads. This doesn't seem to make sense, if Telstra is promoting the use of Broadband, they need independent producers to make content. The moral of the story, don't use Telstra Broadband, use a better service.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002
Monday, September 30, 2002
The final specifications for the movies in the SMAFE engine are.
Captured video size. 130 Gibabytes.
Compressed using Sorenson Video codec 2.1 with Cleaner 5.
Total Data rate 128kb/s (audio 39kbs)
Frame rate 12.5 fps
Audio Qualcomm Purevoice full rate 22khz (mono)
Key Frames ever 15 frame (probably need to be higher for multiple access)
Running on QT streaming server.
Final file size 670mb
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, September 30, 2002
How to make a 12 hour movie!
Successfully uploaded the final movie onto the SMAFE server today. I have enormous difficulty in joining the movie together and encoding it, not because of the file sizes, but because of the length of the movie.
In Premier 6 it is only possibe to make 3 hour movies and although QuickTime Pro 6 does not have a time length, it has a file size limit.
There is an ideosyncratic way to make 12 hour movies which involves making four three-hour movies in Premier, joining them together in Quick time Pro, then saving them as a 'stand alone' movie. Then, you use QT Pro to export from 'movie to hinted movie' (it is not possibe to join large movies together in QT Pro that already have a hinted track encoded, so it has to be done as a seperate process). However, when exporting a 12 hour movie to encode the hint track, export as 'default settings' and not as 'most recent settings'. This is because it will come up with an error 'duration error'. (Also if you try and join two movies together that already have a hint track, then the movie becomes a Zombie scene when streamed.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, September 30, 2002
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
OK, tested and got the video in the categories to work. Will simply use progressive streaming and use the QuickTime streaming server as the backup. I am not sure how many small movies to make, but I will wade through the 12 hours or so of video and see what I can get. I can imagine that 120-200 will be enough.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Have been spending the past two days experimenting with the video to try and figure out ways in which I can complete the 'analysis' section. It is very tricky. One is that the movie is of such an enormous length, being 12 hours, and two; the file sizes are so large that they are difficult to work with (also, using a PC for QuickTime isn't recommended).
The work is becoming far too process orientated, which may detract from the original reason of the work. It is best to keep it simple, perhaps using the SMAFE engine is a bad idea.
I have not been getting any feed back from Norway and it was just a simple task of pointing the engine towards the server at RMIT. There will be a whole bunch of other issues that arise if I put the movie on the server and I am not sure if the communication chain is effective. I haven't even had the chance to experiment and get one movie to work yet. Best to bail on the SMAFE I think. A better option would be just to find a way to continue with what I am doing with the Modem version.
Also,
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Thursday, September 05, 2002
I was going to make two versions of the project, one for Smafe, and one where I simply cut and paste sections out according to the same time-codes as I am using on the Smafe (hand code)
However, quicktime pro is virtually impossible to use this way. It is slow, and the it is too hard to get near the correct in and out points. The second part of the project is 100% Smafe now. The Smafe is actually easier than hand coding, took me 2 days to figure this out.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, September 05, 2002
OK, will start the final stage of the project today. I have about 33 days to do it in. Spent today writing far too many emails. Also, thought of a work flow. Will make approx. 180 smalll movies (and there are two different versions)...one if for SMAFE, the other is for the embedded version. I also need to write four small essays. No fun.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, September 05, 2002
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Finally completed the first good draft of the thesis comonent of this work today. I will leave it for two weeks, then come back to it and look for ways to place it on-line.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Thursday, August 22, 2002
I am very close to completing the first good draft on the thesis to go on-line. I am not sure how to place it there yet as converting word documents to html almost never works.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, August 22, 2002
Monday, August 12, 2002
I decided to replace the "link" sections that were made with blogs with a simple html page. Using the blogs this way was actually more work than it is worth (mostly because of the ideosynctic problems with the servers that I am using at Ozemail).
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, August 12, 2002
Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Completed the 'research flaneurie' section today that shows all the research activities that I have been doing over the course of this study (1999-2002)
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Met Geert Lovink last night for dinner who showed me his new book called Darkfibre. It will not be available from Amazon.com until September 1.
I also need to prepare for the fist presentation of Milkbar.com.au at the University of Melbourne next Tuesday night.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Milkbar.com.au Test Interview with Andy Morris
Couldn't find anywhere useful to place this link
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, July 30, 2002
I checked the copyright legislation today to make sure that none of the images that I have used from the Internet break Australian Copyright legislation. They are all fine, and I wrote a diclaimer and description in the 'ethics' section to clarify this. It is better to be safe than sorry.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Friday, July 26, 2002
I started dressing up the site today with a few images as headers. It is imazing how easily the categories of the site can be summarised using a few discrete images.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, July 26, 2002
An interesting thought on design and being seduced by design. I spent the entire day again today tidying up the design of the site. I must be careful of this because I can often express ideas more effectively in other ways. Design is just like status or it replaces status.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, July 26, 2002
Thursday, July 25, 2002
I had another great realisation today, (apart from the fact that I am doing this global/ local thing). The realisation is that this project is really about flanerie, both local and global. It is about flanerie in Fitzroy (a rigerous 19th Century methodology) and it is also about flanerie every where else I have been during this project. However, it is also about technological flanerie, this is where I link the global flanerie of the Internet to my understandings of Fitzroy. The global in this medium is where the person has been before in the medium, this might be the first site they have ever seen like this, or they may have been everwhere, so thus is is banal.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, July 25, 2002
W3C HTML Validation Service
Checked a few of my pages using this service, however I still jave a long way to go.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, July 25, 2002
Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY
Started exploring HTML standards today, such as WC3
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, July 25, 2002
I really need a break from web design for a few days and I will now start writing again. Designing can become very seductive and I keep asking myself does design really matter? I spent another few hours designing a milk bottle, however it does look really good!
I was sent all the emails from a list that I was on within Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT when I first started this project. There is some really interesting stuff there, now I know where all my time goes.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, July 25, 2002
Started testing the site on 800 by 600 and 1224 by 768 screen sizes. I l also tested on Navigator and IE 4+. The site seems to work OK on the various screens, no great dramas except for the splash.
Does design matter? Perhaps I should ask a designer, their knowledge seems to know no boundaries :)
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, July 25, 2002
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Had a coffee with Simon Pockley from The Australian Centre for the Moving Image today. Simon is the Author of Flight of Ducks, one of the first on-line documentaries produced back in 1995.
Simon went to the Electronic Thesis and Disseration conference in LA a couple of years back and is going to help me to present this work in Berlin ETD 2003 next year.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Have almost finished reading Re-thinking history by Keith Jenkins. A refreshing look at history making. History reminds me of cyberspace because the internet is actually the greatest archive that has ever existed.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, July 24, 2002
The SMAFE engine has arrived, just as I had taken another direction. Shall I use the SMAFE or not? It would mean that I get to take it to a few more conferences, but then again, perhaps SMAFE is too much work for the same result. Perhaps SMAFE will be too loud and take over the project. Perhaps SMAFE is technically superfluous. Will experiment with its use and decide by the end of the week.
I still have to write the thesis and have not experimented with placing it on line as yet.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Spent the entire day making a crappy splash page that still looks crappy. Historians are about as close to designers as artists are to curators.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, July 24, 2002
HalfLives
(I wrote a long reponse today to a work made by a colleague of mine, Lisa Gye. I also invited respones from h-ANZAU)
Hello Lisa,
Just having a few more constructive thoughts on your site here. I like it because you have attempted to combine hypertext authorship with historical authorship. This is the exact topic that I wrote my MA thesis on back in 1998 (although it never really developed the ideas thoroughly). I suppose that the question I ask myself is, is it good history?
People often mistake the past with History, because the past is what happened and History is a set of skills that we have developed to figure it out and articulate it (I have been writing about this lately on fibreculture). Historians (and they exist in all sort of social institutions) use various mediums to explore and tell stories about the past. The web and hypertext is one of them. There are limitations in using the web for history-making, partly because of copyright and partly because there are issues in the story of human culture, that the web cannot carry. I too discovered that small histories, unpublished histories, and family histories, are addressed well through the self-publishing mechanisms of the web.
There are a couple of your ideas that I have trouble with though. History has a history and way back before I was born there was perhaps a time when the old-farts of the Empire wrote histories in their own image. I am not sure, I haven't engaged with many of their texts. One of the seminal texts' that addressed this imbalance was EP Thomson's The Making of the English Working Class (1968). It was seminal because it was one of the first histories of working people and was a difficult study because their wasn't much evidence of working people's lives.
I could probably argue that most 'official' histories in Australia since this time has been labour histories or of marginal people. Few historians that I know actually deal with middle class lives, Martin Crotty in Newcastle perhaps (Private Schools and the making of Middle Class Masculinity) or Lisa at the Napier Hotel here in Fitzroy is dealing with 300 Collins Street and using the Crockery to write a middle-class family history of the 19th Century (crockery says it all really). So the point I am trying to make is to separate the past from history because historians write history but what actually happened ain't our fault. Historians use evidence and if the evidence ain't there it probably is not our fault either.
The other point I suppose addresses the Greg Almer quote that you use. I understand that the process of new media is important, but does this mean that the process' overrides all other concerns? There is a balance there, Almer doesn't have it, but you perhaps do. Objectivity is still an important concept because this is how we develop empathy, trust, essence, essentiality, and are able to recognise what is important. Truth is an important concept is history, but I never really go there. I prefer to subvert lies.
Anyway, hope this helps, hearty congrads on writing the first decent hypertextually-authored histories that I have ever seen and good luck with your exam. More people should write histories in this medium, and I still think that it is the greatest archive that has ever existed.
take care,
Craig
(PS I will tailor what I have written here and post it on h-anzau)
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Saturday, July 20, 2002
Wrote a 'manifesto' and placed it on the site today. Somehow this stye of soapbox-ing seems neccessary in a medium that is often a mine field of mis-communication. A least a manifesto clarifies an academic self-definition.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, July 20, 2002
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
I added a new link-section called ETD (electronic theses and dissertation). I had the crystallisation that although this model does not really exist within Australia, this is pretty much what I have been doing all the long. I like the ETD model because it is a more effective means of building bridges between academic knowldedge and the process-based research approaches common in I.C.T (information and Communication Technologies).
There is supprisingly quite a large movement of ETD's world-wide. All the projects (except the Australian one) are supporting the innovative uses of ICT and new models of scholarship for the next generation.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Monday, July 15, 2002
Re-named the 'people' section the 'local' section. And I than addded a new 'global' section that links to the four categories of globalisation. This way the juxtopositions between the two areas of analysis that I am trying to explore will become a lot clearer.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, July 15, 2002
Sunday, July 14, 2002
I finally completed the 'people' section today. I placed within this section an introductory caption and quote from the person being interviewed.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Sunday, July 14, 2002
Experimented with a new interface for the categories section, however the results were not that pleasing. It will be just as effective to incorporate the globalisation categories in the existing section.
Also, decided not to use the Quick Time Streaming server for this project. Progressive streaming is adequate because it not only loads more quickly than the streaming server, but it will save a whole lot of work in terms of having to re-capture the whole fourteen hours of video again. As I am not using reference movies, there seems to be little point.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Sunday, July 14, 2002
Friday, July 12, 2002
vog blog::vlog
Still not sure weather to use reference movies with child movie. Although it is usuful to learn this stuff, for this project it may actually mean alot more work for no great gain. Here is what Adrian Miles had to say about them in his SMAFE research experinece.
(snip)
::reference 2::
the problem with reference movies via http also accounts for why my searchers movie only works for me. rather embarrassing admission really. i'm using a sysem of 80 movies within a movie (quicktime lets you have a parent movie which contains child movies, the child movies are only loaded if and when they're requested), and so what i did was have the entire file that is all my video material, then i built a series of quicktime reference movies to be my childmovies. this works great locally and even works via http for me, though funnily enough no one else. and that's because they're reference movies and so they're able to resolve the local pathway off my hard drive, which i never quite realised! so, now i need to redesign the entire thing, and after our experience with smil i think i'll move the video to a qtss server and use timecode to call up all the childmovies. since i'm going to have to start from scratch again what i should do is change films. the problem with using "the searchers" is that i need to use so much of the film that i can never publish it because of the copyright issues involved. it's a great project but it won't achieve much in showing ways of doing things if it can't be shown or published anywhere.
reference 2
::Wed 31 Oct 2001::
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::reference movies::
with our smil project of the odessa steps sequence from potemkin. we had the 6 minutes or so of the film as a single quicktime clip, and then we have smil scripts that pull out content based on timecode. but via http this doesn't work well since http can't send the end of the clip before it's sent all that goes before. so i thought reference movies would solve this. reference movies are parts of a whole quicktime clip that you can make which only refer to part of the parent clip. the advantage of this is that you can reuse your video as often as you like in a project without having to duplicate all of your video. and i had thought that you could make reference movies, and serve these via http (as long as the parent is still available for the actual data). but it turns out you can't. luckily i remembered that the old osx 10 server that is doing much for me in melbourne at the moment is actually running a quicktime streaming server, so we moved our content onto that and hey presto. it works. last time i'd looked at rtsp and qtss i was concerned about packet loss, since a rtsp stream only goes for as long as clip - no resent lost packets (not good for aesthetic objects like movies). but networks have improved enough that i can stream a 50kbs movie out of melbourne, into bergen, with trivial packet loss. brilliant.
we'll move the first prototype of this project off the test server and onto a production server shortly. it's looking very good and is going to suggest a lot of possibilities for other projects.
reference movies
::Wed 31 Oct 2001::
(snip)
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, July 12, 2002
Experimented with using refererence tracks today for the categories section. This may not be the easiest solution as it may be just as easy to create sepetate movies by simply cutting out sections of the movies.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, July 12, 2002
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Went to visit the "Memory Grid Project' today at the new Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square. The project is a community-centred project whose aim is to collect and represent the various community voices within Melbourne and Victoria. The project will be shown in a booth at the centre on a large plasma screen.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, July 11, 2002
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
I figured out how to use a quicktime streaming server today. Will simply have windows that open (when face clicked on) and play the particular part of the interviews within the four contexts.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Tuesday, July 09, 2002
Had to cease all hopes of using the SMAFE engine developed at the University of Bergen today as there are only twelve weeks and six days left until my candidature expires. I have been waiting since January for someone to write three hours of Perl scripts, which did not eventuate (even after a substantial sum of money was offered to be paid). This will mean that I will have to hand code all the interviews into the four categories, which will be enormously time consuming, but may offer alternetive opportunities.
An interesting lesson learnt is that concept of 'collaboration' always boils down to human elements: this is, always take an alternative path if a project can be critically disabled by small tasks that are crucial to you, but are of little priority to the co-collaborator.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, July 09, 2002
Sunday, June 23, 2002
Placed the Chronology of the convict Francis Fitzmaurice in the 'about' section. This chronology was kindly donated by Peter Richardson of the Launceston Library in Tasmania.
Placed Peter's correspondence in the 'visitors book' section. This section now has individual comments under each post in the hope that it will create discussion threads.
Placed some scrip on the 'mailto:' tag so that the subject line of the email will alert me as to what part of the site email is coming from.ie. 'comments' section.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Sunday, June 23, 2002
Friday, June 21, 2002
Have some isssues with using the SMAFE engine. The servers at Bergen in Norway are down and the guy who has to write the PERL scrip has not given a firm date as to its completion. Will take approx 3 hours. May have to code site by hand if it does not eventuate.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, June 21, 2002
Friday, June 07, 2002
PostNuke.com :: Rogue Content Management
Had enormous problems with the blogger and creating another archive section on the comments section. Not sure if using blogger as portal software is a good idea. There is better free software aroudn that uses PHP.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, June 07, 2002
Saturday, June 01, 2002
Fitzroy gets set for a new development battle - theage.com.au
An interesting anti-development lobby has started in Fitzory in relation to a large block of appartments that is being proposed to be built on Napier Street.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, June 01, 2002
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Went to visit the new Australian Centre for the Moving Image Today. I am interested in the amount of history projects that are being built. This could be either a good or a bad thing. One it could mean that people have finally discovered that cyberspace was a capitalist plot, or two it could mean that as the world comes to the brink of a nuclear war, that the future has become all to difficult.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002
YACCS: Commenting made simple.
This is another very good commenting system, althought they only take 100 new subsribers a day.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Monday, May 27, 2002
blogKomm: comments no popups
This system is a great way to add a comments section to a blogger site.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, May 27, 2002
The right-click publish system does not work with Version 6 of explorer and blogger. Had to uninstall version 6 IE and return to 5.1 which works fine.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, May 27, 2002
Ikonboard 3.0 Services
Spent the entire day trying (unsuccessfully) to install this message board onto 2 different servers. Not sure why it wouldn't work, but decided to use the blogger system instead which is much more reliable and much less intrusive.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, May 27, 2002
Friday, May 10, 2002
Completed the first draft of the exegesis/thesis today.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, May 10, 2002
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Decided to incorporate the entire thesis on-line and simply refine the top-layer catagories to reflect the thesis chapters and sub headings.
The top half of the thesis will include the sub-topics of the monologue whilst the bottom will have links to the other sites that further contextualise the work. In this way the site acts as a focussed academic monologue as well as a portal for other reseachers.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, April 11, 2002
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Completed the first draft of the introduction to the thesis today. I am still not sure how to incorporate the writing into the web site. Perhaps only use parts of the thesis on-line and then distribute the complete thesis simply via .pdf
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, March 28, 2002
Thursday, March 21, 2002
This is a comment from Andrew Garton from ToySatellite in January of 2001.
Towards the Interactive Documentary Online
Interactivity can often make significant demands on both the web user and bandwidth available to them. This of course depends on the size, file type and programmability of linked assets.
The notion of an "interactive documentary" suggests hyper-linked video, text, graphics and sounds that both inform the user and provide depth of content not necessarily possible within conventional formats.
The challenge for the interactive documentary producer is to address both the limitations of the web with the boundless possibilities offered by interactive technologies. As such, it is proposed that Milkbar.com.au will address bandwidth and time-lined asset management issues with the implementation of Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).
SMIL is a World Wide Web Consortium approved subset of HTML that has been integrated with Real Networks G2 Streaming Server.
Time-line triggers such as captions, Flash 3 animations/vector graphics, audio and video can be linked to more standard web browser features. In addition, bandwidth intensive assets can be time-lined to pre-load serving up an appropriately compressed product according to the users network connection.
In addition, the SMIL/RealG2 combo provides bandwidth negotiation, cued pre-loading, multilingual capabilities and embedding techniques. These are just some of the options available to the interactive online documentary maker.
Third Party production tools are available to assist with the scripting of on-demand SMIL products. However, familiarity with SMIL code is essential to ensure consistent and reliable delivery of these online products.
The producer of The Global Milkbar have investigated the use of these technologies within Australia and have found little up-take in the variety of options possible with the SMIL/RealG2 products. It is envisaged that The Global Milkbar would not only provide for an in-depth, informative online documentary product incorporating these tools, but could additionally be seen as a production and development model for the emerging genre.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, March 21, 2002
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
hi craig (this is an edited post on the hypertextual structure of the site from Adrian Miles of RMIT University)
I think some things need to be clarified. my approach to hypertext, which is consistent with the field, is that a hypertextual structure is emergent and that it ought (and that is an ethical/ideological claim) to support multiple forms of access/structuration/reading practice. In practice this usually translates into at least 3 'rhetorics' or whatever term you want. 1 is the literal sort of menu architecture, this must be transparent or at least thematically solid enough so that the instrumental reader can do whatever they want to do with your work. the 2nd is thematic, and is where you have thematic/associative/otherwise links embedded in the work. At the moment most projects that do this tend to do this by embedding these links within the content of the project but 'outside' of the instrumental architecture. the 3rd way is using metadata and a search engine over your own content so that people can roll their own access and pathways.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Thursday, February 14, 2002
Electronic Essays on Artifice and Information
Presently I am writing-up the thesis component of the work. I am experimenting how to incorporate this within the on-line document and will probably settle on something similar to Matt Kirchembaum's digital essays that he submitted as his PhD dissertation. I particularly like how Matt has password proteced the essays so that he could include digital images from a broader (copyrighted) visual culture in his work. Copyright laws limits critical on-line scholarship, unless it is (theoretically) not 'published'.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, February 14, 2002
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
SMAFE Video publishing Engine
Will experiment with using this video publishing engine at the University of Bergen in Norway. It seems to be a reasonably simple technological solution to a complex theoretical problem ie. creating qualitative analysis of collected historical data through an interactive archive.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Placed Generic Meta Data On the entire site today. Will individulise each page at a later date.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Thursday, November 15, 2001
vog
Here is a very useful tutorial on streaming video data rates from Adrian Miles, recorded from the University of Bergen in Norway
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, November 15, 2001
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
The feedback from most 56K modem users is that the streams work fine at 40kb/s. There may be some issues with the quality of the sound though, especially for interviews taken in difficult situations where the quality of the recording is not as good.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, November 13, 2001
Monday, November 12, 2001
I am trying to complete interviews by the end of November (so far at the half-way mark). There is a need to place all the interviews within the archives section by this time, so that I can move onto the more challenging analysis section in December.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, November 12, 2001
Saturday, November 03, 2001
Decided to experiment with embedding QuickTime moviews within flash for the four “essays” (analysis) section (ideology, ecomonics, ethnicity, culture).
posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, November 03, 2001
Friday, November 02, 2001
Decided to include as part of the 'analysis', four hyper-video essays using the embedded h-ref feature in Quicktime. The four 'essay' will be within the themes of Culture, Ideology, Economics, and Ethnicity and will include four brief textual introductions.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, November 02, 2001
Thursday, November 01, 2001
Decided against using Arjun Appadurai's basic frameworks on globalisation (Technology, Ideology, Media, Ethnicity, and Finance) on the site. The catagories haven't been that well developed by Appadurai himself, and I couldn't see how I could communicate these frameworks without resortning to five long, dense academic narratives (and would have difficulties incorporating this with the video). It is much clearer to keep the videos in one category, and create the globalisation context and analysis through the embedded h-refs.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, November 01, 2001
Decided against dividing the "project" part of the site up into an "archive" section and an "analysis" section. For this project, demarcating the two did not make a lot of sense because the entire site is designed to be analysis (with much "author-ity" give back to the user).
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, November 01, 2001
Issues with bandwith. Got advice to do the following...
a) if you ensure quicktime is the plug in (there's a trick to doing that) then there is a qtrchokespeed tag which means any client can only get as much bandwidth as you nominate (tell that to Cinemedia: bandwidth management without a rtsp server, straight off their http server, it is brilliant)
b) this prevents the issue of 10 people on cable requesting your content and then all of cinemedia's bandwidth being swallowed.
50k is serious broadband, but if you claim that the clients need to be in universities/on cable, it will work well enough. if you want a 56k version for political reasons (access) then that's why it should be done, and that is a very good reason to do it (the people you interview probably would like to be able to see it).
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, November 01, 2001
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Milkbar.com.au (Begin)
Started a milkbar photo archive that may turn into another project: an archive of Australian milkbars!
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Test Stream for Cable
This is the test stream for cable. files size is about 14mb and 140mbp/s It is not really feasable to stream extended "talking head" interviews for cable.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Test Stream for 56k Modem
Experimented with two streams, one for 56k modem and another for cable. The first was 50kb/s the second abiut 140kb/s. Can't see any reason why this project needs to be encoded for cable. From the outset, project was designed with file size in mind.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Monday, October 29, 2001
Broad production Specifications
1) Shoot using Panasonic NV-DS11 Mini DV camara using Sony Premium DVM60 Tapes
2) Capture Using Premier 6 and IEEE (Firewire) capture card
3) Cut/ not applicable for this project
4) Compress using Discreet (now Autodesk) Media Cleaner 5 with the Sorenson Pro 2.1 Codec
5) Author using Quicktime Pro version 5
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, October 29, 2001
The wonderful thing about using the PC for video (and especially Quicktime) is that the technology is never in the background.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, October 29, 2001
Sunday, October 28, 2001
Captured and compressed first 10 interviews. Average size of file is 6gb uncompressed at 320x 240 at 15fps
posted by Craig Bellamy at Sunday, October 28, 2001
Thursday, October 25, 2001
Experimented with video files sizes and frame rates today. 4 frames per second seems OK, and it is easy to make two movies in the archive for both 56K and broadband.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 25, 2001
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Tried using a simple matrix of faces as the index to the archive section of the project then joined this matrix with 50 html pages. The pages will contain the full-length interview as well as two contextual still images. As the footage was shot using a simple talking head methodology (because of present delivery considerations), some contextual images are needed.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
*experimented with sorenson pro 3 codec with media cleaner 5
*experimented with design frameworks for the archive section and the analysis section.
*decided to break site up into 3 sections being A) Analysis B) Archival and 3) Documentation and pointers.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Archived old site for posterity. Backed up entire new site. Added a number of new links to links page
posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Saturday, October 20, 2001
Had to place the blogger files on the Ozemail server because of the security measures in place at my own server made web-based ftp upload far too difficult.
Had enormous problems with the archive feature on the blogger pages as the ftp client would place the files in an archive sub-directory, but would not retrieve them from the subdirectory. Had to remove the sub-directory and simply have them on the top-lebel.
When using dreamweaver and importing files back onto the home computer from the server, dreamveaver has an annoying habbit of removing all the blogger tags. To prevent this, only upload from the blogger ftp and never retrieve the blogger files from the server to overwrite local copies.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, October 20, 2001
Friday, October 19, 2001
Contacted Simon Pockley of Cinemedia to see if there is some server space available.
Simon Pockley
Collections Manager
3 Treasury Place
East Melbourne 3002
Victoria
Dear Simon,
As per our conversation earlier this week, I am seeking assistance with server-housing of my project milkbar.com.au. The project forms the major component of my PhD dissertation within the Centre for Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT University. The main feature of the project is fifty oral-history interviews with selected residents of Fitzroy in inner-city Melbourne. The participants have been questioned in relation to globalisation and local identity with particular focus upon the local cause-and effect scenarios of globalisation. The “networked neighbourhood” will be explored using some of the advanced features of QuickTime (such as embedded h-ref tags) within a number of contextual frameworks. As the movies are encoded in QuickTime, there are no particular server-side issues to address. The interviews are between fifteen and thirty minutes in length and can be compressed to approximately 30 megabytes per movie. I envisage that the site will need about 2 gigabytes of storage space.
I was hoping if at all possible, that I could house this work on a Cinemedia server. I do not have access to the server space of this capacity anywhere else, and was hopeful that some sort of collaborative arrangement could be arranged with Cinemedia. Cinemedia could perhaps place credits on the site or it could be promoted through one of your programs.
I very much thank you for considering my proposal and look forward to talking to you.
Kind regards,
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, October 19, 2001
After thinking about using the MEGGI sofware found in the 'From Lunchroom to Boardroom" project, I decided that this oral history project didn't lend itself towards construction a database. Most databases are for information that needs to be constantly updated, not static and complete such as this project. Contacted Jane Hunter of the DSTC (Distributed Systems Technology Centres) about getting a copy of MEGGI. More detailed information about Jane Hunter can be found at the project SuperNova
Also see the MetaData search engine HotMeta that they are developing.
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, October 19, 2001
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
hi test to see if this is working
posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Sunday, October 14, 2001
OK, figured out how to use Blogger
posted by Craig Bellamy at Sunday, October 14, 2001
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