Technoscience / Ecomateriality / Literature

Author: Amanda Starling Gould

Animation & Gif Tools to test

Want to animate an image?

Perhaps give these a try:

  • drawisland.com Drawing Tool (this is the one we used with our Makey Makey device collaboration)
  • https://www.mixamo.com/ “Create, rig, and animate 3D characters in minutes, not days”
  • gifmaker.me “GIFMaker.me allows you to create animated gif images online freely and easily, no registration required.”

 

Illustrated Notes

On Friday the 14th, we watched this video of Duke’s Dr. Peter Haff (Environmental Engineer) in conversation with media philosopher Erich Hoerl. The students were asked to shutter their devices and instead take notes, in the style of RSA Animate, using marker and paper. I sketched notes too…

Infinite Twitter Poem

Here it is!

http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/

 

 

Makey Makey

Last Friday, Augmenting Realities entered the Makey Makey Makerspace…

 

Using Makey Makey, with each student as a unique directional keyboard input, they together created this gif using only the Makey Makey device and coordinating hand-touching.

image

Click to Animate

 

 

 

 

William Gibson Retweets us!

william gibson RTs us

There is nothing. Solve.

Drowning in Problems – Notch

http://game.notch.net/drowning/

There is nothing. Solve.

 

For a review, see BoingBoing’s Drowning in Problems: Notch’s surprisingly moving text game

 

 

#Augrealities @Personas tweet!

Futurescape Season 1 Episode 2 – Robot Revolution

From Pooja: “My favorite documentary about future technologies and how they affect what we do: Futurescape: Robot Revolution”

See full episode here: http://watchfullepisode.com/futurescape-season-1-episode-2-robot-revolution/

Thanks, Pooja!

 

 

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