May I collage video – short version

Just made a shorter & faster version of the ‘making of’ video on the “May I” collage, enjoy:

or see it in youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdgaaLfXn_E

And here is the original video & “May I” collage.

New collage – May I – with video

New collage! With video!!

or see the original scanned file on flickr (2302×1780 200dpi)

Title: May I ?
Analog Collage
Date: 2010 / 01 / 23
Size: 30×24 cm.
Magazines: National Geographic – Dec/2009 (0912) and Jan/2010 (1001) Editions.

And here’s the time-lapse video (~10min) on how i did it:

or see it in youtube: Making the “May I ?” Collage or see it in vimeo

Music: silver mt zion – blown-out joy from heaven
Video software: gawker (time-lapse) & imovie09 (editing)

As you can see in the video, my cat Zumi helped me a lot… :-)

New Collages – Explorando & Trail 3

Yep, i’m hopefully back into collage/photomontage!!!
Here’s what i’ve done:

EXPLORANDO

Title: Explorando.
Analog Collage by iuri kothe, made on 100108, size: 17×12 cm. Using only National Geographic – December 2009 (0912) Edition.

See the making off in Youtube:

and this:

TRAIL 3

Title: Trail 3.
Analog Collage by iuri kothe, made on 100108. size: 19×18 cm. Using only Attitude Magazine (may/jun 2007).

note: as always, just click on the images above so you can get it / see it bigger in Flickr.

2 collages exhibited at Araka – Rio – Aug/25/09

Terça-feira agora (dia 25/08/09) vou expor duas colagens na festa Araka aqui no Rio de Janeiro.

Começa 20h no Zerozero.

Entrada R$25 ou R$15 se mandar email para artearaka@gmail.com

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IN ENGLISH:

Next Tuesday (08/25/09) i’m participating at a group exhibition/party called Araka here in Rio de Janeiro. It starts 8pm at Zerozero.

Both collages will be for sale.

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O Flyer

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Ouvir Estatuas

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Feeding

Spreadsheet of all my Collages with Date, Link, Title, Sizes etc.

Two years ago i started a nice spreadsheet (yeah, i like spreadsheets!) to keep a record on some basic info about my collages, like:

• Date
• Title
• Type: Analog or Digital
• Sizes (of the original and the scanned version)
• Observation
• Owner

I’ve finally added this list to my main website, so everyone can enjoy this overview on my artworks.

Have fun:

http://www.iuri.art.br/collage/list

note: i’ll be slowly adding the flickr links…

RIA Sketching and Prototyping Tools

I’m really excited to see this soon-to-be-released RIA ‘Sketching/Prototyping’ apps like: Adobe’s Flash Catalyst, Microsoft’s SketchFlow (part of Expression Blend 3) (try-it here) and the open-source Fluidia.

I’ve just seen this Microsoft SketchFlow presentation and i really liked some ideas that improve what i’m currently trying to do with InDesign:

• [~21min of the video] Easily create a component of anything to reuse on other pages . I like Master Pages, which is pretty standard, but the ‘component’ idea is really powerful. (InDesign does it, but here its faster)
• [~27min] Add states to pages (i.e insert modal popups, etc): That’s a pain to describe and show on static documents, with States you simply create the damn thing.
• [~30min] Documentation: It creates a word doc of every screen and state that you can further describe… that’s nice, BUT this SketchFlow app itself should have this, like powerpoint notes for each page/state [it wasn't shown, but it might have it].
• [~37min] Sample Data handling: That’s nice! it easily creates dummy or sampled databases of anything: photos, addresses, etc. I’m pretty sure that’s easily plugged to the Facebook, Flickr, Freebase APIs or even connect directly to a DB.
• [~42min] Behaviors:  add & reuse interaction patterns (like drag’n'drop) just via UI (although you can edit the code).

Hope to try this three apps very very soon…

Reliable Unlimited Cheap Online Storage and Syncing Solution

So i’ve spend some time in the last weeks and months trying to find THE BEST solution for my problem. I have ~500GB of data that need a good damn Reliable, Unlimited Cheap Online Storage and Syncing Solution. Specifying:

• Reasonable price: ~ 100U$/year maximum
• Unlimited storage / bandwidth
• Accepts any file sizes
• Makes Backup of all my files (with versioning)
• Syncs to multiple machines
• Syncs external drives
• Syncs just specific folders in each computer
• Has shared folders (file-sharing with coworkers and friends)
• Shares specific files via URL
• Win, Mac and Linux client
• Web access to download/upload files

I’ve searched many options, including the populars:

• Dropbox
• Mozy
• Syncplicity
• Carbonite
• Amazon S3
• JungleDisk / Rackspace
• Google Drive (not yet released)
• Diino
• SpiderOak

And none of them have at least a big part of my needs. Here is the incomplete research template i did (on google spreadsheet). I intended to finish this list but since there wasn’t a perfect choice, i stopped wasting my time on this.

The big issue is that:

• The ‘Pay by GB’ Solutions (amazon/rackspace) are too expensive for 100GB+
• The ‘Unlimited Backup’ Solutions don’t sync (Mozy etc)
• The ‘Syncing’ Solutions (Dropbox etc) don’t really backup (they sync) and none has unlimited storage

So i decided to wait and keep:

• My Work Documents: Dropbox (a free 2GB account) – which nicely syncs my computers
• My Photos & Collages: Flickr – its unlimited storage, so i still need to upload my older photos
• My Videos: Youtube & Vimeo
• And on the External Harddrive: 100GB of Music and 200GB of Videos (documentaries/movies) – this NEEDS some online backup….

Totally related to this, see Dan Ariely’s presentation (youtube) on this year’s TED, around 11min he talks about our problem dealing with choices…

Wireframing and Prototyping with InDesign CS4 p1

Two years ago i wrote a post about how i used Inkscape to Wireframe & Prototype. Now FF to 2009: while inkscape’s new version (0.47) is coming soon (June 09), it seems that some issues (like Font Styles & Master Pages) are still on the future roadmap. So i made some research on what people were using and found that InDesign CS4 (ID from now on) was getting popular (with Omnigraffle, Visio, Illustrator, Fireworks, Keynote, Powerpoint…). My final decision came with Nathan Curtis presentation: Unify your Deliverables.

Here are the main advantages i’ve seen on ID so far:

• Master Pages and easy Embedding of other files (even indesign files, with the Frame Tool + Place)
• Styles for Object, Paragraph & Character

But on the downside:

• its very, very, veeeerrrryyy expensive – while inkscape is free & open source.
• the file sizes are big and proprietary – while inkscape is a SVG: clean, lovely XML format that even notepads and browsers read

So i’ll try ID out for a while…

Here are some great resources i’ve found so far:

• Dowload the Eightshapes Unify Templates – check out their blog and specially Nathan Curtis’ videos
• Read & Download the files from this Adobe Article on using InDesign CS4 for Web
• Keep one eye on my InDesign Delicious Bookmarks
• And the other (eye) on my Wireframe/IA related Delicious Bookmarks Bundle

more on this soon…

Google Profile URL = username = more spam?

And so i’ve created my google profile:

• http://www.google.com/profiles/112005484203762930233

Terrible URL don’t you think?

So google gives you one only option: use your google account username. Great!

Butt ass they say:

“(Note this can make your Google email address publicly discoverable.)“

Well this will be a great resource for Spammers and Pricks.

Looks like Matt Cutts – from Gmail Spam team – will have some tuff days ahead:

• http://www.google.com/profiles/mattcutts
• hm, wouldn’t it be: mattcuts@gmail.com ??

Thanks, but I’ll stick with my lovely 24 digit number instead…

source: gmail blog

Moondog – Spend dark night with you (musicvideo)

Moondog was the best musician/composer i’ve been introduced to in 2008 (via last.fm’s recommendation engine).

Here’s a musicvideo mix i did yesterday of Moondog’s “Why spend the dark night with you” with a video i got from archive.org. Enjoy below or watch it in Youtube or in Vimeo:

Or download it (from Vimeo) 7.4MB.