Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0511060140180.6487@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [webartery] Re: fresco
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 01:42:08 -0500 (EST)
I think this is brilliant; you're working in uncharted territory. As far as broadband's concerned, this is pretty small; my stuff has loaded up to 30 megs at one point. What amazes me is the resonance of this with 'experimental film' - the fact that a new piece emerges out of each run is amazing, especially since all the aesthetics are there, perhaps dialectically in negotiation with our own predilections - Alan On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, mldeed1 wrote: > Michael -- > > I enjoyed this immensely. It's one of those compositions that makes > me wonder how imagination works anyway, because I could never think > this up, yet I am delighted by the lines, the motion, the colors. And > -- of course -- the music. > > I think a musician should not apologize for a large file for his > music. For you to restrict yourself to smaller file images would be > like a writer deciding only to make art with stick figures (who do not > speak). > > Some day when broadband becomes affordable in my region, I will be > able to watch these large file pieces without planning ahead. For > now, I can open a second browser tab and then wait -- this piece took > about 15-20 minutes to load. > > I know I am missing some wonderful work this way -- and especially I > am missing some of Alan's work -- but (even though it hurts) it does > seem to me that broadband is almost mandatory at this point for anyone > serious about web installations. > > There is always the question of audience outside of the web art world, > but broadband is becoming more common among the non-techie audience -- > partly I think because there are so many commercially-based options > now, such as getting live or on-demand newscasts from your home town > station, etc. > > Anyway, I ramble. Thanks for this, Michael. I plan to look at it > again now that it's cached on my machine. > > Martha > > >>> --- In webartery@yahoogroups.com, Michael Szpakowski >>> <szpako@y...> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> 'fresco' - a generative movie >>>> >>>> *allow pop ups >>>> *sound on >>>> * 2.5 Mb - most of that sound.. >>>> >>>> http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/fresco/ >>>> >>>> best >>>> michael >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> webartery-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webartery/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > webartery-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05