Blog – Page 27 – Karyn Easton

Nov 20

by Karyn in Experimentation, My Learning, My Work, Patterns, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: Experimentation, My Learning, my work, Patterns, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos

Amazing!

The Best Tutorial Yet! – This has to be my most challenging and rewarding tutorial so far. Apart from the complexity of the node network the instructor was speaking in Chinese which sadly I can’t understand. To work my way through such a complex node system I feel that I must be learning something. Just for the record, I wasn’t actually wearing my pyjamas, I was wearing a huge baggy fluffy top with a fluffy blanket. This is because we are currently renovating our property and our central heating is broken. It was a very cold day! I may look strangely dressed, but I was really nice and warm. Below is the usual time-lapse of my journey and also the results from the work. I certainly think that the addition of the clock was a good idea. It really helps to visualise the passage of time. Flying Box and Lights – Tutorial Time-lapse Flying Box with Lights Here is the result of my 3.5 hours work. The video is best viewed with the sound turned on. I particularly liked the fluid motion of the box and lights. The resulting network and nodes are also highly customisable. […]

Nov 19

by Karyn in Experimentation, My Learning, My Work, Patterns, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: Experimentation, My Learning, my work, Patterns, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos

Coloured Waves

Further Investigation into Generative Art – My Touch Designer Journey continues. I am continuing to log the time that I spend on this via time-lapse. I decided that by adding in a clock the passage of time became more noticeable. Below is the time-lapse video and below that, is the resulting video from tutorial. All of these generative art videos work from node networks which I save. These networks can then be tweaked and changed to my liking at a later time. Currently I am just getting together some solid foundational programs. I feel less bothered about following the tutorials now because I know that I can tweak my tutorial programs to such a degree that the resulting work is completely mine. Unfortunately I need to keep going through this process if I am to learn to build networks of my own. Since reading my book about the Ai Superpowers, China, US and the New World Order, I learned that this is not an unusual process in the programming world. People create, share and borrow bit of code from each other and this accelerates the learning process. It is quite a risky strategy that I’m pursuing here, because if I […]

Nov 18

by Karyn in Experimentation, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Patterns, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: Experimentation, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Patterns, Timelapse, Videos

A Tiny Breakthrough

Is it Slowly Sinking In? – I am trying to learn the software program Touch Designer. The reason is that I believe it will help me change my art in new ways and allow me to produce light reactive light installations. Unfortunately I have never been able to write code which I feel is a massive disadvantage. I was heartened by the book I read about Ai for my presentation. The author stated that the Chinese learned much of their early social media app programming skills by copying from Silicon Valley. This is exactly how I’m attempting to learn. I watch tutorials and I try to understand why I am building my network nodes in the way that I’m shown by the video tutorials. Over the last week I feel that I’m gaining a little more confidence. When things don’t work I’m finding my mistakes easier to correct and I feel much less lost while navigating around the TD (Touch Designer) interface. I’m still somewhat bemused as to why I build the nodes in the way that I’m instructed, but I’m starting to feel that the understanding of this will eventually happen. Last week I was pretty sure that this […]

Nov 17

by Karyn in Books, Drawings, Ideas, My Work, Patterns, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Books, Drawings, Ideas, my work, Patterns, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 7

A Little Confession – Before I begin to document our zoom session from this week I have a little confession to make. I heard someone say that this was zoom session six. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that this week’s session was zoom session seven. The reason I’m so sure is because each week I take the time to draw myself a little zentangle. I counted up my zentangles and I have seven. Therefore I think this week is week seven, but of course I may be wrong. As we were discussing ‘active listening’ I thought that now was probably a really good time to ‘fess’ up to my little ongoing drawing activity. I thoroughly enjoy our zoom sessions, I feel it’s a time for me to learn as opposed to teaching, which as a lecturer is a nice concept. When I’m listening I enjoy drawing. Since I seem to be mainly locked in a digital world at the moment, it brings just a small dose of the physical into my weekly meeting. I also find it very relaxing and for some strange reason it seems to help me concentrate more. I set myself a few […]

Nov 14

by Karyn in Ai, Experimentation, My Learning, My Work, Patterns, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Experimentation, my work, Patterns, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos

Liquid Glass

A Touch Designer Tutorial – I know that time is against me if I want to become proficient at ‘Touch Designer’. Therefore, whenever I have an opportunity to experiment with a new tutorial I take it. I also like to give a time-lapsed visual record of the time that I spend on projects like this. I am particularly interested in time and I’m hoping that these time-lapse videos will make an interesting addition to my project work. A 35 Second Time-lapse of a 1.5 Hour Tutorial The Result of the Tutorial Now that the network design has been finalised, I am able to tweak numerous parameters in order to arrive at a result that I’m happy with. Below is the final result once I made all of my adjustments. Variation of a Theme Once I have created a base video, I always like to experiment further. Below is a variation on the video above. However, I do prefer the original above. The liquid glass effect is much more vibrant and there are less distracting elements. I still think that the experiment below was worth a try even though I don’t think it […]

Nov 12

by Karyn in Experimentation, Ideas, My Work, Patterns, Problem Solving, Research, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: Experimentation, Ideas, my work, Patterns, Problem Solving, Research, threats, Timelapse, Videos

Chladni Patterns Revisited

Further Experimentation with the Chladni Kit – As I’m interested in hidden phenomena such as sound vibrations I wanted to shoot some footage showing how these could be visualised. I purchased a Chladni kit, but I had missed some fundamental assembly instructions in the manual. This was probably on of the main issues holding me back from making more sound patterns. The creator of the kit on seeing my time-lapse videos kindly pointed this out to me and I made the necessary changes. I believe that as a direct result of these changes I managed to make another pattern. While making the new pattern it was fascinating to watch the grains of sand as they vibrated up and down on the plate. I tried to capture this as best as I could, but unfortunately my light levels were too low. The video piece I created is below. Please note this is a very early experiment and I shall be re-shooting this with greatly increased light levels and a much higher frame rate. The increased light levels will allow me to increase my depth of field so more grains of sand appear sharp and in focus. The higher frame rate […]

Nov 11

by Karyn in Ideas, My Work, Opportunities, Patterns, Risk Taking 0 comments tags: Ideas, my work, opportunities, Patterns, Risk Taking

Network Patterns

Surprising Results – I was quite pleased with the results of my Blender computer generated Chladni Patterns. However, just as the title to this blog suggests the end results may not necessarily have been the most interesting part. In order to generate the patterns in Blender I needed to create a network. I found this tentacle-like network (almost like neurones) quite fascinating. I cover the network diagram in my post ‘Blender – Who Knew?’ Following on from this I decided to ‘stylise’ the network and from there I created some patterns. A Stylised Network Patterns Created From The Stylised Network A Collage of These Ideas Below is a collage of these images together with the original stylised image at the top. This is purely an experiment and I will save these designs for later as they may prove useful in future projects.

Nov 11

by Karyn in Ai, Books, Food for Thought, Tasks, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: ai, Books, Food for Thought, Tasks, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 6

Elusive Taxonomies – As always, I thoroughly enjoyed this week’s zoom meeting. I was introduced to the term ‘Elusive Taxonomies’. This isn’t a term that I was familiar with, but it has provided much food for thought. Our breakout group felt that the language was very formal. We discussed how the word taxonomy suggested the pigeonholing or categorisation of things. We found the word elusive in this context somewhat harder to define. We wondered if this may have been a word used by Darwin. Jonathan gave us some interesting pointers and interesting reading material. I screenshot some of the main points for future reference including some of the recommended literature from the session that I would like to read. Elusive Taxonomies a Discussion Task for Week 6 This week we have been asked to explore some reading material and present back to our peers. Early indications from my ‘Tag Cloud’ is clearly showing that I have an interest in Ai and it’s relationship with art. For this reason I decided to choose the book ‘Ai Super – Powers – China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order’ by Kai-Fu Lee. Key Discoveries from the Book Below […]

Nov 10

by Karyn in Reflection 0 comments tags: Reflection

Reflection Part 2

Week Six Reflection – I think that it is really important to take time out to reflect. The questions I am using for that reflection are the ones from my first reflection. These are as follows: What have you done so far? What have you discovered so far? What will you change because of what you have discovered? What will you do next? Before I answer these questions, I think that it is important to look at the goals that I set myself last time and see how many I achieved. There is a ✅ next to those I achieved. The goals that I set myself were as follows: Continue my blog ✅ Document my new found artist David Spriggs ✅ Ensure my blog is adequately backed up – (a backup has been taken but still requires investigation) Film an unboxing of my CHLADNI kit ✅ Film an unboxing of my sand pendulum ✅ Document my idea links (masses of these) ✅ Start the mind mapping process and film it’s development – (still to be done) Start formulating my ideas – (still to be done) Begin more formal research – (an ongoing process) Start experimenting and shooting with my […]

Nov 08

Blender – Who Knew?

Using Blender to Simulate Chladni Patterns – In order to make a successful Chladni Pattern, it is important to generate a strong tone. Where fingers are placed on the plate is also crucial. I have discovered that to produce a tone and beautiful pattern is not a quick or easy process. It takes both practice and patience. Jokingly, I feel that at the end of this process, I may not have great Chladni patterns, but I’ll probably manage a grade 8 in the violin! Joking aside, this is a real and fundamental problem that I need to solve in order to move forward. In order to help me work with my bow and plate I looked for a number of YouTube tutorials of which there were a few. The people in the videos made the bowing and Chladni pattern generation look so easy! I spoke to the maker of my kit and he explained that actually it’s not that easy and practice and patience makes perfect. Below are a couple of videos where pattern generation is made to look really simple. Chladni Plate with Violin Bow Chladni Patterns – Aluminium Plate and Violin Bow Time is Not […]