So Twine’s a game building hypertext tool that freed people from mass quantities of coding. Games but also interactive stories and other species of e-narrative, which includes potential image narratives. And possibly dreaming the semantic web into place, since its based in part on RDF resource description framework tools.
Irresistible and accessible, although it would be great if WordPress would give us a plug-in option to host Twine builds instead of having to cross link to another site.
Anywho, I used Twine to contain some raw ideas for a project I’m building. Here’s the roughout: http://www.philome.la/DriftlessWorld/301-roadtrip
Thoughts and reactions invited, it’s one of those: “this is an interesting tool, now what?” moments.
Archive for the ‘collage’ Category
Twine story project: testing trajectories
Posted in Art, collage, gaming, influences, photography, roadtrip, Topography, Travel, tagged documentary, gaming, history, landscape, nostalgia, photography, tools on November 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
It All Just Happens Right In Front of You
Posted in Art, collage, influences, mixed media, people, photomod, Poetry, portrait, roadtrip, Topography, Travel, Urban on November 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Quick lab video as i work out using Vine. Wrapped around some raw ideas from recent exposures in Madison to PhotoMidwest, LBM, FrakPhoto & PaulVanderbilt. Orthophonic Joy the 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisted soundtrack sampled in the background.
I used YouTube for the full upload & embedded (since WP doesn’t support unpaid video hosting), and will sample that on Vine. Supporting social media as part of the workflow can seem like a time suck, almost equal or even exceeding the creation/ producing the original material. BUT, the mix-in, cross-inked end results that SM can generate reframe, re-state, & adhere the original work’s ideas in a mashup of free associations. Which, stripped of intentions reveal alternate narrative, subtext or archetypal surprise. As if the artists’ work turns on its creator to introduce itself as a product not so much of that one person, but of all the raw materials & circumstances exploited to produce the work.
In Everyone’s Backyard
Posted in Art, collage, influences, landscape, phonography, roadside, rural industrial, Topography, Travel, tagged documentary, landscape, man-altered, photography landscape nature Wisconsin, rural, rural industrial, topography, Wisconsin on June 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Evening walk down Airport Road, a residential, light industrial, verge of Wisconsin River wetlands mixed use landscape. Wilderness, industry and family homes collide in a kind of rural, blue collar pastoral. Which vista is sublime, which ridiculous? My beautiful cement factory, illuminated like a Byzantine icon. Where do we even begin to draw the distinction, when everywhere is altered and nowhere pristine, not even Yosemite Valley.
Because I see it everyday even the factory parking lot has gained meaning; for me and also for all who have worked/ work there- does our constant regard lend it an aesthetic also?I’m becoming obsessive about these kind of visual questions. Maybe it’s not healthy 😉
These flat shots are all preliminary study done with a Samsung G4 phone, of subjects I’ll revisit to build out with the DSLR. Under the influence: Reframing the New Topographics
Toast for William Eggleston
Posted in Art, collage, influences, photography, Urban, tagged art, bauhaus, candor, collage, displaced, documentary, pattern, photographers, street, surreal on April 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »
East meets Midwest
Posted in Art, collage, landscape, photography, Wisconsin, tagged #nature #foundart #wilderness #hiking #treehugger #wisconsin #beach # ecology on August 4, 2013| 4 Comments »
Nature is my jewelry store; so many beautiful things can be found walking through the woods or along the beach or riverside. Composed here: A fractured Atlantic moonshell from Assateague Island, VA, crayfish claw from Saunder’s Creek, Boscobel, laid atop the bottom half of a painted turtle shell discovered along WI river bottomlands. Each item so meticulously designed in the wild.
Shorechild running wild; how many days do beachcombers come home with an assemblage of treasures like this jewelry box of shells from Assateague Island, VA {NOTE: please never take live shells and be aware of shore animal nesting and breeding seasons, from birds to horseshoe crabs our curious but ignorant human actions have a massive collective impact on the lives of wild things when we interfere, destroy and disrupt their homes. Honor and respect all living things.}