Current Projects
Below are a list of current projects in the works, some are purely for research purposes and others are "live" projects.
Actlab Project: A Tear Down of the Cyborg
A look at Personal Multimedia Production
The objective of this project/report is to take an in-depth look at how multimedia production is implemented within the confines of ones own "personal media system". A personal media system loosely consists a way to input media, process media and export media. This website contains examples of such systems in an effort to help the independent multimedia production community think about new and innovative solutions to current limitations we face. Examples of current limitations vary, some view the fact that current broadband connections do not offer comparable upload speeds as download as a limitation, others might feel that the current non standardization of HD technology is a limiting factor. Barriers to entry of multimedia production will be looked at such as technological knowledge base, computer technology costs and other issues.
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Gallery: a working image database Started in the winter of 2005, the "Blackbox Gallery" is a project to preserve and share my own as well as friends and families photo's and videos. It has been a huge success with thousands of visitors each year. The core of the system is Gallery, an opensource php based photo management system. Like many of my personal multimedia initiatives, this project is run off my personal debian server from home. This allows me to not only administarte the system easier, but manage space issues in a more dynamic way then other hosting solutions. |
Gallery2: a search for a movie database system Gallery2 is an initiative started in the spring of 2007, using the latest version of Gallery, I have created a database of videos searchable by keywords and other dynamics features. It is currently in a testing mode. |
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Joseph's Multimedia Jukebox: a look at multimedia technologies on the web Joseph's multimedia Jukebox is a project that took place in the fall of 2006, it was created for an Audio for the Internet course I took, I used it to host multiple audio/video formats, again off of my own home server. In order to make this project work I had to install debian "testing" an experimental version of Linux.
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Praveen and Friends: a working example of glocal distribution Praveen and Friends is an effort to change the way people think about media distribution. Along with Praveen Ayyagari I setup a CD relase of his greatest hits that would be under creative commons licensing. The release was not only over the web, but also in local stores. We used our own home tools to design, test and produce a CD design. Over all we released over 200 CDs and have had requests for even more.
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ACTLab.tv is an effort by Brandon Wiley and myself to bring copyleft media together with opensource software in such a way as to bring awareness to the way in which media distribution can be put back into the peoples hands. With the release of not only software, but how-to guides, film festivals, CD releases and other activities, ACTLab.tv has played a big role in the rethinking of media in the 21st century.
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Personal Multimedia Production Video This video was created for a Multi-Media course I took in the spring of 2007, it documents a couple of projects I have under taken using my ideas of personal multi-media production. Specifically it looks at the Praveen and Friends CD release, a KKK protest and using Skype for communication over large distances. Run time: 7 minutes.
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Masters Report This report contains my first attempt at exploring the idea of personal multi-media production in academic/written form. While admitidly crude, the report contains an excitement I hope many people share about the possibilities of what we are capable of in terms of creating social change.
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