Friday 14th July – Day two of my challenge and I was looking forward to diving back into the Meta Spark software. Unfortunately as I have so often come to understand, nothing is ever straight forward. Instead of opening up the software, I was greeted with a message saying that I needed to upgrade. It took around 10 minutes for the update to complete. During this time I could feel myself becoming increasingly frustrated and disillusioned with computer software generally. Luckily, once the update was complete everything still worked and I was able to continue with the online tutorials. Yesterday I had explored face tracking and today I wanted to explore ‘trackers’. These are images programmed to be recognised by the software which in turn launch or initiate the desired augmented reality experience. Of course it couldn’t be ‘plain sailing’ could it?. The mandatory update which had gone relatively smoothly had now caused subtle changes in the user interface. This meant that when the online tutor said click this icon, unfortunately said icon wasn’t there. I found this really unhelpful because it was now really difficult to follow along! However, I persevered and using my new Barcelona Graffiti book as […]
Thursday 13th July – Today is the start of my 21 day challenge! I have decided to focus mainly on three activities that will help with the overall aims of my project and guided by my study statement. My key areas of focus are as follows: Explore ‘The Art of the Fold’ – Bookbinding Explore augmented reality Continue Research Paper So How did it Go? I started the day full of enthusiasm for diving into augmented reality in order to produce something really amazing! Unfortunately both the universe and my MacBook Pro had other ideas. I decided to start my day by exploring augmented reality with Meta Spark. This is industry leading software and I found it to have lots of functionality. Challenges The first challenge I faced was to free up resources on my MacBook Pro. I reluctantly got rid of Cinema 4d which I just haven’t ever had the time or inclination to explore. Sadly this wasn’t enough and the Meta Spark software still wouldn’t download. So unfortunately Microsoft Excel was next on my hit list. Luckily this gave me the space that I needed. Already I had wasted 20 minutes simply trying to free disk […]
What Gives…? – In Zoom Session 29 Jonathan suggested that it might be interesting to try something consistently for 21 days to see what happens. On the face of it this might seem like quite an easy task and I’m really excited to try it! But, and there’s a big but, for someone like me, how on earth do I pick something to do? I love everything! There’s just so much to explore! The real challenge for me is not actually completing the task – the real issue is deciding what to do? I was already asking myself questions such as: Do I paint? Do I draw? Do I make something? Do I sculpt? Do I knit? Do I embroider? Do I play with paper sculpture? Do I try origami? Do I try my hand at printmaking Should I try some analogue photography? Should I try more Luminograms? Should I shoot some landscapes, portraits, interiors, fashion or macro images etc. Should I try some 5 minute crafts? should I try macrame? Should I try sewing? Should I try some metalwork? Should I try some woodwork? Should I try playing with recycled materials? Should I try some paint pouring? Should I […]
