RE: “Brinstorming time! Yay!”… –> The videos in the last post that I wrote on 18th Oct 2007 are actually best viewed simultaneously. Play them both at the same time and the effect is surprising and the contrast of colours and sounds and movement actually work really well. Although they are somewhat opposing images streaming at the same time, they compliment each other the result is one that exaggerates the qualities of both of them. This kind of dialogue is an idea for my final visualisation for my application. The interaction of the visuals to try to mimmick the abstract interaction between the user and their environment in the real world while they are ironically plugged into their iPhones and mentally disengaged from their immediate surroundings.
After talking to Petra, I have been filled with motivation and inspiration for my visualisations. We talked about representing the relationship between the user’s weather and the actual weather as more of a conversation of interacting projections. Following specific rules and ideal conditions would dictate what would be seen by the user. We talked about the music in the iPhoe being the driving force for the user’s emotions and I was already thinking about colour – in particular, primary colours and colour rules that applied in creating secondary/ tertiary colours. but Petra suggested – referring to her work Uzume, that chaotic patterns would be a better metaphor for emotion an weather since it cannot really be defined by set rules.
Another suggestiong was that instead of using iEatBrainz or some other Meta Music database, that the user input their own colour choice or emotive reference to a song. It was pointed out to me that music selection and what we feel like when we are listening to songs is extremely personal. When a love song may remind one person of their wonderful boyfriend or girlfriend that they love to bits, the same song might remind another person of their ex partner who they would sooner slap in the face than say hello to. So the song would have exactly polar reactions. By allowing the user to input their own song info, the visualisation would be more meaningful to them and more meaningful in general since it would not be based on generalisations.
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