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Searching for Exceptional Multimedia Productions?
ContinuousPark asks: "My local college has asked me to participate in a 120 hour course on multimedia production. I proposed that one of the modules should be called something like 'Multimedia Appreciation'; I will be teaching this one. During this 10 to 20 hour period, I intend to show students several examples of multimedia productions so they can get an idea of what's possible; what's has been done; and what's original or too common, so they can formulate their own projects, later. So I'm looking for interesting websites that could inspire students, that could help them understand what is a good multimedia production, what kind of effort goes into it, etc. In fact, I'm not just looking for websites, I would also like to include videogames, movies, opera productions, and any other work of art that uses multiple channels to convey a message. What are the most effective multimedia productions you've seen through the years? Examples easily available so that I can show it to them are of course preferable, I'm willing to buy any CD, DVD, book or whatever though. Thanks for the advice."
Check out http://www.scene.org to see the winners of past "Demo" competitions. This is may favorite. The most amazing 64k file you'll ever see/hear. ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2000/mekkasymposiu m00/in64/h7-final.zip
http://www.infusionsystems.com/culture/art.html
http://jsteinkamp.com/html/stiffs.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~miho_san/img/
http://www.elkabong.com/
Impress your students with a hands-on demo.
Get yourself an iMac (or better) Mac system (on loan from a friend, or maybe even your local Apple rep--they love this sort of things) and load it with iDVD, some movie clips, stills and sounds. With the built-in library, you'll have plenty material to show them where DVD authoring is going to: the best multimedia support.
Not only can they be viewed on computers, but any home DVD player to. THAT's impressive.
Of course, I'm biased being a Mac propeller head; this could be don on hardware other than Macs, but Macs and iDVD are readily accessible.
Bring a couple of off-the-shelf DVDs to complement what can be done (without having yourself to build something very convincing). The Cell is a nicelly-put DVD, and so is Aliens (widescreen platinum edition).
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Other games: Deus Ex Machina, Starship Titanic (disclaimer: I worked for the company that made it), Shenmue.
Sites: Metababy, Unweb, Heavy, Placing, DIRK, Requiem For A Dream
VR Experiences: Char Davies's Osmose. Probably the most affecting thing you can don a head-mounted display for. If you ever get the chance to try it...
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An *amazing* work of art -- a few years old, but easily one of the best multimedia CD's...
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Have a look at http://reternity.com/
The technology used i probably old, but nevertheless it looks really good.
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That's funny AC. I find that there are a bunch of jobs doing useful (read non-porn) work in the current Internet world. Business still need to be intergrated with enterprise solutions and are still willing to pay for it. Perhaps your skills and/or marketing are what needs work?
Besides, the person posting the requires was talking about multimedia. If you thing the need for multimedia is going to reduce in the future than you are living on mars. As we are more able to Tivo our viewing in a pay-per-view type of ordering, the demand for content will be greater than it is currently.
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Take a look at Animation Master's Site This is a very good low priced animation package that rivals the big boys. It was used to create Alien Song and the unforgettable animations by our own Rob Malda
It is a good example of what your average Joe can come up with.
I spent a summer working with a Swedish Multimedia company (Warning! Cool Hardware Alert!) and got to attend a convention/show. This was in 1991 when I still thought my Amiga could do some very nice multimedia presentations. What these guys did was was something else entirely.
The most impressive display of the show was from Volvo (I am pretty sure Volvo, could have been Saab though) which included a bank of a couple hundred Kodak 35 mm slide projecters, 60 - 80 Hassalblad medium format slide projectors and a 35 mm motion picture projector. To top it all off the show contained some amazing feats of driving prowess!
My whole concept of multimedia changed that week.
Curating a multimedia show is difficult. It tends to "day" rather quickly. Even if the project is burned to a CD which can last for 30 years, the platform it is built on is unlikely to be around in five years. Because of this, all of NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program thesis' are recorded to VHS. Sure, you lose a hell of a lot putting a digital project on video, but its better than losing everything.
A lot of multimedia work falls through the cracks. It disinterests both engineers and traditional artists. It also tends to be installation work. This means that the museum piece is not wrapped up in a form useful in your PC.
As for suggestions...
The Whitney Museum of American Art is featuring a show called BitStreams and Data Dynamics. This is one of the largest showings of multimedia art.
Blue Man Group is probably the only long running theatrical show heavily based around multimedia. Beyond the eye candy, it makes lots of commentary about the art world and the digital world. Oh yeah, they do those Intel commercials as well, but I always figure that they just confuse the average home viewer. : )
Explore NYU'S Interactive Telecommunication Program site. MIT's Media Lab and NYU's ITP are the two top programs in their field. The Media Lab does things because they can. NYU does projects on a much more human level.
Rhizome tends to be a center of net based art.
And there's no way you can pass up the old standard - Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. While it was written well before "multimedia" its commentary on more traditional media is easily extrapolated to digital media.
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That uses both a sound and a video channel.
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They can point you to sites and other projects. They have users groups for multi-media.
Check out MacShowLive.com and contact Shawn@ MacShowLive.com. They'd be interested, I'm sure.
You could make a multimedia project with iMovies and stream with QuickTime.
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Laurie Anderson has a multimedia performance called "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick". She uses various hi tech devices, including some powerful DSP hardware/software that allows her to pitchshift her voice in realtime (including 3 part harmonizing with herself). The show also includes miscellaneous visual effects/props. Two high powered projectors "paint" the set through the show.
It's slightly offbeat, but I enjoyed the show.
The Killer Bean 2.
For style, and improvement over The Killer Bean.
In fact, a comparison between the two would be keen...
Warriors Of The Net.
For an example of how to convey the general idea behind technology in an easy to comprehend format.
And finally, 405.
As an example of how computers don't have to produce things that look like they were produced on computers.
Later,
Blake.
I saw this cool flash video based on an old video game called Zero Wing once, but I don't think anyone here has heard of it or mentioned it to date. Anyone remember this oldie?
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I'm not sure what multimedia means anymore. It used to be cdroms, and while there certainly was a 'bad games' component, most of them were very interesting, back before we had the world wide web.
Now apparently multimedia means 'flash' to most people. Fair enough, though I've not seen much that really exploits the medium in the original sense of 'multimedia'. Flash's heritage is of course as a tool for multimedia cdroms, but most designers seem wrapped up it its vector and animation capabilities. That's great and more power to them. OTOH, that's a new medium, not multimedia.
No doubt the lack of reasonable open standards for audio and video compression isn't helping with this. And of course the advantage of vector graphics are their miniscule bandwidth requirements.
Rants aside, I've seen some interesting work content-wise out of amateur film sites--a sort of online version of the bonus materials. crewoftwo is a good example: they made a short film, but most of their website is background and behind-the-scenes material. Everything a fan could want. Some friends of mine are working on a project (blaze xpd) to produce video, audio, and prose fiction serials all set in the same universe, and tie them together as seamlessly as possible through their website. I wish movie and tv websites were as free with their content.
check out www.nosepilot.com. I recommend the englis' version, cause english is hard.
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Underworld, one of the most well-known House/Techno/Electronica groups, is often considered to be one of the best performers in the genre because of their concerts are such intense, high-energy multimedia experiences. They recently released a highly interactive DVD entitled "Everything, Everything" to coincide with their incredible live CD of the same name, intended to recapture the concert experience. Not only does it manage to bring the essence of their shows to a new medium, but it's also an impressive interactive multimedia experiment on its own.
-spc
This is some really impressive flash work...
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Take a look at http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
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He did an exhibit at the national museam of art when the van gogh exhibit was there. It was called exploring edo. They had touch screen computers that allowed you to go throught a 3d representation of Japan during the edo period where you could see a gesha show and more things like that. They also had artwork from that period in other parts of the exhibit.
Lastly look at blaxxum.com. They do 3d worlds as well look at pulse.com. They also do 3d multimedia. pulse does some really cool things.
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One of the better uses for multimedia I've seen is interactive training applications. Back when I was at school TA'ing a course on the net, we invited a doctor from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med School's Interactive Media Lab to show some of the work they've been doing.
The first programs at the time (1996ish) was a disc for doctors on decisions and interactions with AIDS patients (from initial visits to test for the disease to advanced stages and treatment). The disc used live actors, branching decisions, and other media to help teach doctors how to deal with patient interaction and decision making.
The second disc I saw less of, but was made for treatment and actions in combat medical situations - stuff like setting priorities, setting up mobile hospital areas, limited resources. Again, a mix of live actors, commentary, decision branching, and other presentation tools.
I think these are great first stage tools for jobs where people tend to get thrown into new situations - the use of live actors and decision making pulls you into a continuing story, letting you learn from mistakes and obtain a bit of the benefit of live interaction at reasonable cost. Better than class lectures, less risk than being tossed into real life.
Triton Films, a group of machinima/CGI artists, have made several movies already and are now working on their Magnum Opus--a fully CGI piece called "Quake: The Movie". They've got a couple of trailers out already, and they're really something to see!
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The wierdest and most interesting webpage I have ever seen is for the movie Requiem for a Dream (great movie by the way). It is a long interactive flash animation that is very trippy and quite creative. check it out here.
Probably the only really good use of flash for a webpage I have seen, usually it just gets in the way of finding the information.
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check out the1thatgotaway
Lots of tasteful flash work.
Two thoughts spring to mind as far as recongized well-done stuff goes.
1) You may want to check out the SXSW Interactive Winners. Some of them won awards for interesting design/good flash usage. Some of them won for just being creative or having a whole lot of chutzpah.
2) I was once dating a graphic designer, and she had a bunch of books called "Design Annuals". They were collections of well designed ads (radio, television, print), presentations, sculptures, and later, web pages. I can't remember what they are or how to find them, but they exist. Maybe another slashdotter will add the info.
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I second that. BMG has some really great multimedia presentations, which unfortunately are only available in the live version (New York, Boston, Chicago and Las Vegas). They do have a DVD available on their website, but it is meant for surround sound only (which would still not be bad) plus includes some photos and interviews. I haven't seen the video myself, so I can't comment on its possible effectiveness in your course (especially since to really experience it you'd have to have a surround sound auditorium of some sort)
Really what type of presentation of any sort can't be considered "multi-media"? There's really nothing terribly exciting about most DVD's videogames, etc. The real interesting phenomenon is media convergence, or using different mediums simotamiously to complement each other without a set script.
Unfortunately this is just beginning to take shape now. For instance, being able to access the IMDB on your TV based on information fed from you DVD or DSS would be Media Convergence. The article yesterday about "Who Wants To be A Milloinaire" actually allowing people to compete at home for prizes is almost there.
Its about different mediums being able to send hints to each other on what content to display, and not the packaging of pre-defined content.
In my opinion its a lot more exciting than "Multi-media" which really, everything is. Sight, sound, and words nothing special about that.
its a design firm, but some fairly impressive DHTML stuff going on... only the very intro is flash the rest is all javascript and Divs... http://www.hadw.com
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Yep, definitively. I saw 'tubes' in NYC and it changed my life. I gues you have to be there to experience it. The music is fantastic also.
Recent productions in the demoscene european demoscene should definitively be an interesting multimedia movement to cover. Demos and the demoscene have been around since the early eighties, and the repertoire of quality productions for every platform you can dream of out there should make for interesting viewing.
For people who've never heard of the demoscene before, it's a movement dedicated to building real-time multimedia production, usually with small memory footprints, with the aim to astound and show off a demo groups coding, graphic and music composition skills. Demos and intros (the main type of production of the movement) vary in size between 6-7 Megs (for recent productions) and 64k, (sometimes even being as small as 4 kilobytes !!) and can be described as the computerized equivalent of a "live performance". The scene has it's roots in the old Commodore 64 game cracking groups. Those groups usually attempted to show off their coding skills by adding small animated musical clips to cracked videogames, often accompanied by colorfull self-complimenting scrolling text.
It has since evolved into a huge European movement. Over 20 huge gatherings called demoparties now take place in different countries troughout europe, where demo groups compete with each others for prizes and recognition. Those parties are often lavish affairs, and are similar to raves with a bit of psychedelic computer trade show thrown in. The bigger parties 24 hours a day for 5 to 6 days non-stop, and are attented by thousands of computer programmers, graphic artists and musicians.
Demos have, over the course of the last few years, seen tremendous improvements, and can usually be described as "mindblowing". (For a good example of this, go download the VIP2 "invtro", it will *redefine* the way you look at realtime 3d rendering.) You can learn more about this whole movement by visiting the following sites: You will find the cream of the crop in demoscene productions at demoo!, where reviews for the most influential demos and intros can be found. For those wishing to learn how to create demos, cfxweb.net is a great place to start, you will find there tons of source code examples for 3d and openGL realtime 3d rendering. error-404.com is the definitive source for music creation using trackers, the scene's favored format (remember .mod and .s3m files?) For scene news and group lists, chat, etc, see pouet.net and ojuice.net. And as a last reference, my site, naid.net, also concerns itself with the demoscene but also covers anything related to the use of new technologies in the arts.
And go take a look at vip2 invtro. Trust me, you'll stop using past tense to talk about the demoscene.
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It might be difficult to track down these days, but it is one of the best art CD-ROMs I have seen.
It is used in the multimedia aesthetics course at my department.
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another would be snarg.net for its uniqueness and total lack of conformity to any consistency.. Its amazing it actually pulls it off.. congrats to the author (i can't remember his name)..
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for some multimedia of a slightly different sort go no further than tomato-the uk art design group-you can find more about them at their www.tomato.co.uk site or you can try and track down one of their wonderful books off amazon or the north american publisher www.gingkopress.com-or even the band associated with the group, underworld, and you can find more about them at www.dirty.org and www.underworldlive.com
just my opinion of some good multimedia that isnt necessarily in the mainstream but is worth looking at for its vision and concept
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The compositing of Bjork's face and the mechanical android body/head is some AMAZING work.
check it out here
- CFX Web
- Scene.org - especially the viewing tips section
- Assembly 2K
Some demos are classic "real-time" calculated, others have to fit within a size limit like 64k, still others are wirtten in Java. A study of the scene as a whole would show you some interesting trends e.g. the move to hardware accelerated effects over the last couple of years.--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
I think that this web site on MRI imaging is one of the finest examples of web-based multimedia I have seen.
A very well done tutorial.
I second this one. Heavy.com does a really nice job with the Flash stuff. The only complaint about them is that they do not stream real media. So I can't watch it on linux without VMware.
I'm a huge fan of shorts. I think it's great to be able to flesh an innovative idea out in 5 or 10 minutes and not have to worry about using filler to make it 90-120 minutes. You'll find the most creative stuff that way.
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Some of the best stuff I've seen came from the NFB here in Canada. I highly recommend checking out Norman McLaren's work. He was obsessed with the use of technology in animation and had a tendency to inspire people to experiment in their own creations. Neighbours, which uses stop motion animation with live actors (yup, it's pretty freaky) and a soundtrack which he drew directly on the film, won an Oscar. A lot of the other NFB stuff is amazing to eyes and ears as well. They're selling DVDs now, too, including a pair of animation collections which I highly recommend. The first one has Getting Started, which is the story of my life.
I also recommend a series of DVDs out there called Short Invention. They're really cool and I've been finding them in the Future Shop, which is even cooler, so you might be able to buy them off the shelf locally.
But, please, please, do not focus on computer animation and the like without showing the works of Norman McLaren first or your students will definitely miss out on something very important.
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My personal research (impromptu focus group of one) suggests babes really like guys who throw rice and weiners at 30,000 feet, so give it a go dudes! Just be careful where you aim your water gun.
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praystation -best flash artist out there.
once-upon-a-forest -another site by praystation
gorillaz -band, animation, music, good good good
The Residents (you know, that eyeball band) has produced many fantastic multimedia releases, the most recent being their DVD titled "Icky Flix."
They've been experimenting in multimedia for about 30 years, and many of their works (One Minute Movies, Freak Show, Bad Day on the Midway) are pretty innovative for their time.
The Icky Flix DVD has a collection of their videos (all of which have a 2nd audio track with new music recorded for the DVD) as well as some footage from live performances. Many of the videos were created specifically for the DVD for songs from many years past. There are also some very bizarre computer animations shown between videos if you watch them all sequencially.
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www.gaijin.com, especially the abyss.
its autobiographical and artsy.
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I'm sure by now everyone's been to Kimble's website. I don't know how it compares to what others have seen/done, but I think it's one of the neatest examples of flash technology that I've seen.
Especially cool are the movies, personally I prefer the 1st over the 2nd (not for any obvious reason or anything coughlinuxcough...
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DVD may be a wonderful format for storage of multimedia works, but if it is burdened with CSS locks, it is far less useful for playback -- another artist cannot use excerpts from the work in his own creation or juxtapose them for comment or criticism, even when those are clearly fair uses. He is technologically (and possibly legally, if those fighting to uphold the DMCA are successful) barred from sampling, creating montages, or adapting earlier works. Further, the locks burden audiences for the work, who may be unable to watch them on a given machine, in a chosen sequence, or to view DVDs imported from another region. In fact, you yourself may experience these difficulties if you wish to prepare several DVD movies for classroom comparison. (If you do, please let us know.)
I hope you will encourage the artists, whose work these controls are supposedly protecting, to reject locks that prevent their audiences from making use of the works they create.
More information on the DVD case, Universal v. Reimerdes, is available at Openlaw DVD.
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Mission Impossible2, Matrix, Saving Private Ryan, etc...
With all the extras, bonuses given, its chock full of multimedia goodness.
I'm sure that I could make a case for multi-angle-director-commentary pr0n dvds too.
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http://wurks.com/flash/wurks.com5.swf
Maybe you could use it as an example of bad flash...
Well, since you mentioned Stomp...
The show Blast! is pretty cool too. It's kind of like a drumcorps show on a theatre stage. The variety of music is good. The quality of the music is excellent. All of the props, costumes, choreography and "special" effects are very, very simple but come together in interesting ways. A wonderful, wonderful example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
I found the website here.
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Might be way off left field here but here goes...
If it's true that it's implemented in flash, does that mean it's possible to port YDKJ to run in netscape or something similar? I have a lot of old YDKJ disks here and no way to play them any more because none of my boxes run winders
SquareSoft does some of the best CGI movies in the world. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within will be released on 13 July this year. It is the first major motion picture to be completely CG and not be a cartoon. Toy Story and it's sequal were CG correct, but very cartoonish, where as FF is attempting to be as life like as possible. Star Wars Episode I doesn't count, rumor is that a few of the characters were in fact real live actors on film.
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
Wild Tangent has some interesting technologies that allow AWESOME game production in a very short period of time, and they can be plugged into on the web via ActiveX controls. www.wildtangent.com
At GV Expo in November (Washington D.C.) I got a first look at Adobe Premiere 6. Premiere now allows you to output video that intereacts with a browser.
What it does is "throw out" a URL to the browser and allows you to have information brought in from the web at certain keyframes.
The demo that the Adobe rep showed me was a brief clip on BMX. When they introduce a rider they update a frame with biographical info.
Of course there are security implications...
Here is a write up I did on Premiere 6, while it was still in beta.
I don't know any other tools that allow this so easily...it might be worth it to make a multimedia presentation of your own.
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I'm biased because one of my workmates made this site, but check out DanceNZ, a site aimed at the dance music scene in New Zealand. He's gone to a lot of trouble to provide a really strange but effective interface for navigating the site, really squeezing out all the juice that Flash technology has to offer.
IMO multimedia on the web has come a way in the past few years but there still is a lot of room for improvement, even with today's technology. It's good to see courses that show multimedia appreciation, but to me it's a matter of getting the graphic artists understanding the technology that's available for them so they can push it as far as it goes. Designers need a bit of the coder inside them.
For a very effective use of camera angles to induce mood, try out the beginning of Silent Hill for psx. Quite early on there is an overhead shot in an alley that I'm sure most horror movie directors will love to be able to pull off in the real world.
Just my own tastes of course, YMMV:
Check out www.ninjatune.net. Lots of good flash microsites created for their artists. The Amon Tobin microsite is especially good. Coldcut (the guys who started Ninjatune) have also released a software package called VJamm, which is used to sequence video clips to make music. Apparently it can be used in realtime to great effect, although I've never tried it.
Also check out the flash site for Requiem For A Dream. Makes more sense if you've seen the movie, but a very impressive site either way.
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EYE4U (German Multimedia Company Corporate web-site)
Hielscher (Done by EYE4U)
nrg design (Corporate site)
Beatstream (another company site)
Renegade Cartoons (cartoon site / Corporate)
Dude Studios (makers of the infamous "Dude Wars")
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Antiorp seems to have done some interesting things...though I am no expert. Since this artist and programmer has no interest whatsoever in communicating in a linear fashion, Antiorp's material may be ill-suited for the classroom. BUT, a good example of what can be done to audio, video, language, and social...
...disintegration.
Try google by Antiorp...
Well, I'll have to respectfully disagree with you though; the fact that they're either "cheap" or "common" does not make them less powerfull. Take the example of cellphones: they're common, they're cheap, they're powerfull.
Now I would agree with you that the original "powerfull" sounded a bit like extraordinaire exoctic hardware, which it is not.
There is an excellent CD production made at Simon Fraser University in BC, called The Prime Ministers of Canada. The website is a great example of the use of Flash and standard HTML, the CD was produced using Macromedia Director and uses some very innovative and complex Lingo programming (a friend of mine was the chief Lingo programmer on the project which why I know about it). It forms part of the Canadian Encyclopedia World Edition and can be purchased online at Chapters.ca or Indigo.ca
I would suggest you check out the site and decide what you think.
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Check out Yugop.com. This guy is a master of flash design. Really bleeding edge stuff.
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This is easily the best use of multimedia I've ever seen.
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EBN's website at TVT Records.
Who Built America?
Puppet Motel
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The Day After Trinity
http://voyager.learntech.com/cdrom/
The book contains a wealth of info, and is very well written. Of particular interest to the ask slashdotter is the last section on Multimedia Practice. It contains a variety of ideas for multimedia projects, illustrating what is possible.
This is an excellent example of DVD's potential. Plus, it is one of the rare non-pr0n discs that uses the multiple angle feature.
Swiped from Amazon:
Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Color, DTS Surround Sound, Box set, Dolby
7 camera angles during "Vrooom Vrooom"--the full band plus an angle for each of the six band members--plus 7 Dolby Surround mixes to choose from, highlighting each instrument.
Two camera angles available during "Frame by Frame," "Three of a Perfect Pair," "Indiscipline," and "People"
"21st Century Schizoid Band" - A revolutionary interactive musical game, where the player may compile their own version of "21st Century Schizoid Man" by choosing one of four rhythm sections, vocal tracks and soloists from any of various incarnations of King Crimson
"Tony's Road Movies" behind-the-scenes footage from bass player Tony Levin
Excerpts of written commentaries by Robert Fripp
Another nice bit is in the Criterion Robocop (or was it Starship Troopers?) DVD where you can use the multiple angle feature to view original storyboards while the movie is running.
Finally, I haven't seen it (yet) but I suspect there may be fun stuff in the Residents' "Icky Flix" DVD.
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Pretty Bad ass flash siter http://www.derbauer.de
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www.hell.com is really good. bizarre, but very good
Yes, definatley not extrodinary :)
Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
Multimedia is SUCH a stupid word.
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Excellent example of flash usage.
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Back in the 90's (it still feels strange to say that) there was this band called EBN. (Electronic Broadcast Network) They came out with a CD (Titled "Telecommunications Breakdown")
This CD is good, but what was better was the multimedia and the VHS production of the album. They managed to show video clips from that time in sync with the music in a very creative and effective manner. I will reply to this post with info on where you can get the video once I find it.
EBN also helped U2 with the ZooTV production. It turned out to be a great success and any video of ZooTV would help out as well.
Depending on where you live, you could try to see Blue Man Group (as seen on Intel commercials). They also have a CD out now that is really good.
I will post links off of this thread in a little while..
Wow, it looks like most of this is already redundant!
Brief lowdown on EBN
EBN page on TVT Records site
Blue Man site
Anyone know where I can find the Telecommunications Breakdown VHS tape? I can only find the CD.
Oh, and I almost forgot KIMBLE
...and Westwood games in general. The sense of humor is very clear and refreshing. I laughed for a long time when I saw the intro to Nox.
*candle goes out during incantation*
"Damn. Lousy two-bit candle makers. What kind of operation do they think I'm running here? I'll kill them all when I rule the world."
-Hecubah
And of course, "Can we go home? Tina made bacon."
-Jeremy
"Don't worry, the midgets will be along shortly."
"I wonder if it will be friends with me?" -A Very Surprised-Looking Whale (HGTG)
My favorite piece of multimedia ever is The 8-Bit Construction Set by Beige Records.
It's a vinyl disc, each side with parts for scratching, locked grooves, a ravy track and data track. You can record it on datasette and load it into your Atari or Commodore. There's a commodore side and an Atari side, each produced with the corresponding system. And the design is really sweet.
The interactivity is really great i'd say ... Of course 1024 times better than any "interactive" music program ever done in director or similar evil macromedia software.
http://members.tripod.com/~drosser/
http://www.512productions.com/lobstermagnet/
Don't forget the AYB videos. You may think it crass, but it spread like wildfire and even the clueless people at Time were made aware of it. The original one is at http://www.overclocked.com/zerowing.mov
Good luck with the project, I'd love to see a syllabus if you ever finish.
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Check out these Flash sites (they work with the Linux Flash plugin for Netscoop) : http://www.brittle-bones.com/ http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/ And 'State Of Mind' is a must-see demo: http://skal.planet-d.net/mind/index.html I'd also suggest viewing some of the incredible fractal animations available on the Net.
Sledgehammer theatre in san diego did a few productions 5 or 6 years ago that were really ahead of their time, and quite good. It was a mixed live theatre / video approach, where people would go offstage and TV's would show another part of the story.
In particular, I remember one about the angst of a department store worker, where the live play was about her home life and the videos were of crappy things happening to her at work.
http://www.sledgehammer.org/
-b
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Actually no, it wasn't done in Flash. Given the time it came out, Flash simply couldn't do that kind of stuff yet. It can *now*, but I'm pretty sure the CD was done in something else, maybe Director.
A|Q|U|A
http://www.flashfilmfestival.com
Some of my personal favorites are:
And here's one that I *coded* (I'm a programmer, not a designer) for a company I used to work for... it's won a few awards and was all done in Flash 4.
Rand Interactive
The company I work for also has a Flash web page, but I wasn't as involved in it:
Fig Leaf Software
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The site is unfortunately in norwegian (which might restrict your appreciation somewhat, unless you happen to speak it), but you should get the idea anyway. It's on www.boyzvoice.com.
The site is for the norwegian band boyzvoice. The band was originally created for a short tv-sketch attempting to make fun of boy-bands (not too unlike Ali G making fun of gangsta' rappers).
Somehow, the idea took off. They made a full-length movie, and have probably sold more records than most real boy-bands in Norway. All the songs and lyrics are there, which of course are in english, as no boyband would ever sing in norwegian anyway...
It's all about spoof, karaoke and flashy graphics, has no purpose whatsoever (except getting the authors wildly rich), but is quite enjoyable.
It's a pretty box, too, simple asthetics. Black and white, opens front and back. I have it in my hands, my hot little hands.
Watch out, btw. If you buy it, open it and check the cd before you leave the store. Some of them shipped with no CD key.
Maybe the state's highest function is to grind out insoluble problems. (Zelazny, Hall of Mirrors)
Lionhead has a shockwave/flash/whatever page that is reasonably astounding. I knew you could do all the stuff that they do, but I never considered putting it together like that. The scrolling landscape is particularly neat.
The link:
www.lionhead.com
Go to the shocked version, of course.
Maybe the state's highest function is to grind out insoluble problems. (Zelazny, Hall of Mirrors)
Check out Scott McCloud's web site. He's a comic book author and the author of probably the best teatise on the subject, Understanding Comics. He also wrote a followup called Reinventing Comics that touches on a lot of multimedia ideas. Also, his web site can often be a playground of fairly inventive multimedia applications. He's got a different eye to this sort of stuff than most folks.
Fuck 'im up, Tim! His views are invalid! -Pirate Corp$
My suggestions would be the following:
website: www.designisdead.com
film: The Cell
artist: HR Geiger
Censorship rests on the child's delusion that "If I shut my eyes so I can't see it, it isn't there".
For DVD, it may be too obvious but Toy Story: Ultimate Toybox Edition, is a remarkable example of DVD for consumer products, ot just because of the vas amount of supplemental and interactive features, but also because Toy Story II was transferred to MpegII entirely digitally, and as a result is one of the clearest, most dynamic transfers on DVD. The same is true for Bug's Life. Also Check out http://www.homestarrunner.com/ This is a flash site that is an excellent example of form enhancing and complementing content. The design is polished and professional, and the content is extremely entertaining. Hope that's helpful, Andonyx
Andonyx www.andonyx.com
Its the bomb.
PC Demos, Amiga demos, C64 demos. The home for PC Demos used to be www.hornet.org -- I don't know where it is now, but CDRom.com used to sell a CD called "Hornet Underground." Warning: Most of these demos date back to pre-Pemtium/DOS days, so you'll need to boot DOS, or possibly even run on an older computer.
Yo-Yo Ma did an interesting thing with Francois Girard where he performed in a building by an 18th century Italian architect; the building had been designed but never built, so they instead created it digitally, and had Yo-Yo Ma playing in it. Thought it was pretty interesting, and of course the music was great.
You can find it on Amazon, or search elsewhere for "Inspired by Bach Vol. 1: The Music Garden/The Sound of the Carceri".
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Try the demo scene man, shoot, it rocks. Cutting edge high end kick ass stuff.
www.scene.org
http://www.demonews.com/
ftp.cdrom.com also has a good collection.
Make sure to show off some of those kick ass Amiga demo's, of which the PC was just recently (1999 or so) able to match up with. Also be sure to enlighten your students on the point of "Fancier and more CPU power is NOT always better!"
www.newgrounds.com is also good for some of the newer shockwave stuff, but not nearly as nice.
sign up for the hell.com mailing list, they are always doing something fucked up with shockwave. Don't like the people neccisarily, but damn, they have some great artists working over there:)
www.textfiles.com for some great ASCII art. Heh, mabye not multimedia, but a GREAT example of what can be done with a text only medium. ANSI art also rocks, a bit of sound too if your lucky:)
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Maybe Macromedia Authorware? A few years ago, probably about the same vintage as YDKJ, I tried converting a training package done in Authorware to Shockwave to run over a company's intranet (Macromedia had some sort of package to do this, as I recall).
Bottom line was that even over a LAN performance was appalling, and for sales reps dialing in from laptops, it was out of the question. However if the client and server are the same machine, you may be able to get away with it.
...is the whole point. "Multimedia" as such should be used to intensify the message. The human brain works more effectively and more easily remembers something when getting it from several sources - audio, visuals, if possible movement, taste, smells.. And reading ofcourse.
The ideal use of multimedia is NOT to show off "this is soo cool and we can do it!" but to bring the message to the user/reader/whatever in the most effective way possible.
Surely, part of this will be through impressing with nice design, but a nice design should enhance the message, not overwhelm it.
-me.
Love over Gold.
http://www.bantv.com has an archive of flash movies....the Pink Floyd is particularly impressive.
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art is doing an Art in Technological Times exhibit, complete with strange music and quotes by Nicolas Negroponte. You can check out the exhibition's web site, but more interesting to you if you're not in the SF area might be the online presentation, which may be more practical then getting to SF.
The exhibit, of course, is better than the on-line version; the on-line version is a bit gratuitous in its use of neat flash techniques and new interface choices, but it's worth a view.
Pre-WWW:
Multimedia existed from early on this century: from the 1920s: look up the Futurists: George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique was one of the first orchestral pieces paired with mechanical sounds: it included bells, sirens, airplane propellors...
From the 1970s on: Nam Jun Paik is a good example, one of the first artists to get their hands on video cameras. His, and others' video art, are available to rent from Electronic Arts Intermix.
If you live in NYC you can just drop by and watch whatever you want. Post-WWW:
(and don't dis it because these sites use flash, okay? Some of the most adventurous webart out there uses flash...)
Superbad, Praystation, Modify Me, and Y0UNG-HAE CHANG are interesting and completely different new media works. Check out the anti-banner ads at Soul Bath.
And finally, a site that links to a whole lotta pages, with some adventurous, forward-looking design. (some good, some bad) rb
The man's been on the bleeding edge for over 30 years:
David Bowie
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Back when Smart Planet was still ZDnet's "ZD University" or www.ZDU.com, I took a free interactive PERL class. I was very impressed, especially since it was free. I don't believe that any classes there are still free, but they were reasonalble priced. Unfortunately their prices have gone up. recently, but I will seriously consider taking more classes online some time in the future.
It would be great if there were more interactive sites for learning stuff because I think it's a great way to learn, (especially computer programming)
Another place that might be good (haven't tried it yet) is www.sosmath.com math website. It appears to be a free website where you can learn stuff like Trig, Calculus, and Diff. E.Q.
Great topic. I can't wait to see what others have to say.
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Of all those people you say you hate
Go to your local planetarium. Multimedia out the butt! I program lasers shows at our local one. Lots of different types of media used even in astronomy shows.
Try Komplex and then do a search for the old-school demos like Second Reality.. it gives perspective as to what was possible with a little creativity and design, not to mention a few math books and a talent for hand-coded assembler.
Now if only our beloved Hornet was around.. [snif]
I think this flash intro is great.
http://www.xdude.com/flashed-mar2001.htm
in 1999 I saw the Multimedia Opera "Monsters of Grace" by Philip Glass / Robert Wilson. They used a 3d Movie (with the glasses!) and the Philip Glass Ensemble played along with it. Very cool. -fohat
Is there heaven? Is there Hell? Is that a Tuna Melt I smell?-Primus
Not to plug an URL, but I just finished working on this project at www.2027.org. Some of the artwork created by the members there, as well as the sites they often link too, contain some of the best design work I have ever seen. Completely new intuitive user interfaces and incredible ways of conveying messages. I'd highly recommend delving into that scene for online media exposure.
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." - Tao of Programming
...the dungeon keeper series shows a colorful mix of 3rd person god-view, with 1st person action-view (with the 'posses spell'). :-)
As far as sound being important in a game, try System Shock 2. The sound in that game still scares the ba-jesus outta me. Especially the maiden mothers....
Along with use of cameras in video games, you may add the resident evil series. People would get frustrated about how the views are static, but the designer purposely did this for effect. And how homeworld has a complex 3-D dynamic camera, but it is simple to use and understand and makes the game more interesting (try viewing a battle from multiple angles... very cool).
Hope this helps for the video game section
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Take a look at Requiem for a Dream's website. Very well done, and very innovative.
-as
What Future?
Very few sites use flash like this. It's amazing what they have done. Goto heavy.com and see how they have made an ENTIRE SITE completely flash. And it's actually good!
I am a bad speler. Please ignore speling meestakes in me poast.
as for games, look at anything by squaresoft, pretty much. sound and graphics have always been amazing.
other than that, do your own research. sheesh.
http://www.skipintro.com or http://www.zombo.com
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
405 is also very well done; it was somebody's personal project that turned out to be extremely succssful. They also provide materials that could be useful in a teaching environment.
Flay is a Lightwave-specific site, but they post animations (including 405, above) as they are discovered.
The Internet Raytracing Competition has numerous animations...some of them appeal to you.
hell.com. I signed up for their mailing list over a year ago, and they invite me to intersting portions of the site. Check it out.
Check Balthaser.com
Oooohhhhhh!!!! I just thought of something else great from the music world: The Beastie Boys Anthology DVD.
It uses some clever but simple trickery to take advantage of DVD interactivity. For each song you get to choose one of 4 video tracks (which are generally "remixes" of the music video). Additionally you get to choose one of four audio tracks to go along with the video track you've selected. It is fun and full of variety/new combinations. The trick is that whichever video track and whichever audio track you choose- they sync!
Good stuff to be sure.
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U2's PopMart concert tour (1997) was a ridiculous/amazing multimedia extravaganza of... well.. biblical, or at least stadium sized, proportions.
You can get a good tape of it at amazon or a less offensize retailer of your choice.
Sorry.
Forgot to link it all up for ya'll.
Blarf.
http://www.fffever.com/AYB2.swf
Blarf.
If you want to show them some cross-platform multimedia... Blender is the way to go. There are tons of web sites with Blender galleries and tutorials; one of the best is Blendermania.
Check out digital blasphemy. It has some really nice pictures made with various 3-d animation/rendering programs. I do believe there are some movies on there too. Very nice quality work.
j0sh -- j0shdot.net
what do u mean thats not an original name?!
One of the most amazing Multimedia productions I've seen in the last few years was some work done by a group of french coders and musicians. You can download some of their work at http://www.nomad-medialab.com . Very nice to see people work on compact 3d engines and music processors in order to make works of art.
My best advice is to first see what the students are interested in. See what gets to them and look at why they think it is interesting. Kids are bombarded with media stimulus these days and there's no reason why many of them won't have a good and wide appreciation of what's out there for their senses.
You might also want to make a small project where they can use their own combination of media and let them explore it that way. Hands on is also hearts in, don't just have them sit there and watch. Those days are over.
yoink
http://home.achilles.net/~jgreen/mode.html
A brilliant experiment by Corel to produce interactive multimedia game sensory artificial intelligence cyberpunk buzzword buzzword buzzword something or other. It even has the patented, ground breaking MOOD TECHNOLOGY BAR, whereby you drag a little bar towards the left or the right indicating how warm or hostile you want to react to people, and get one of three responses based on the one of three movie clips that gets played back.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry I couldn't say that with a straight face.
Slow as hell, buggy in places, pretentious and overblown, a pure example of everything that was wrong with the mid 90s multimedia craze. This was post shark-jumping attempts at art-student-turned-Macintosh-"content developer" cleverness. And considered THE WORST videogame of all time. And it's Canadian, too, so you know it's GOTTA suck.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
I saw recently that Cisco has started to implement its help files as multimedia Flash applications. Might was to look at those. Also, There was a sausalito publication called New Media that used to have yearly awards for various smal and large scale multimedia projects. that may be a source of some excellent projects. - Andrew Hudson
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. -CP
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Now you owe me $5 for doing your research for you.
probably a departure from the common /. post, but the console games Xtreme G 2 has an exceptional menu system. Look it up, they are at blockbuster pretty cheap, and I think its written in Java. Starwars battle for the Naboo has a decent menu system, but xtreme g's is better. Get the n64 versions, i'm not so sure about the psx versions
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Sure... It rocks till you try to play back a large mpeg (which MediaPlayer will take forever to open and then stutter on).
It rocks till you try to record and export video using any of the codecs built into the MediaKit. Then you end up with clips that have audio/video sync problems and, using some combinations of codecs, clips that don't play back under any OS but BeOS.
If that's your definition of "rocks on multimedia," fine. I have higher standards.
Now Broadcast 2000 Rocks.
Ranessin
I never said it was perfect (though I've never had any problems with Media under BeOS....) If you give anything a 4GB .Mpg it'll choke. Heck Windows Blue Screens (big suprise) when I try to open anything remotley big....
To play back even a 60 meg mpeg file under BeOS, I needed to download smpeg from BeBits.
Anyway if you can find any OS better for Multimedia than BeOS I'll use it in a heartbeat, but it'll have to be pretty darn good to even get close to the Awsomeness of BeOS....
There's nothing I can do with multimedia under Beos that I can't do under Linux (usually easier): play back 5 mp3s at the same time (I stopped counting after 5), play back all the same video types (mpg, and various avi and quicktime codecs, real, etc.), record video clips off my WinTV card, edit video and audio tracks, stream live video (which I can't do at all under BeOS), etc...
Alot of BeOS zealots shout and scream about how BeOS was built from the ground up to handle Media, and how it has a great architecture for it. Linux just goes to show that you don't have to be built from the ground up for multimedia to be able to handle multimedia properly.
Ranessin
--I'm no BeOS zealot, I use Linux for most of my work and Triple Boot into BeOS for a few things.
:-)
Sorry, I certainly didn't mean to imply you were. But there are some out there in the world
Linux is Okay for multimedia stuff but I've had a much better time under BeOS and a better time under Windows with Multimedia....
And I still have to disagree, particularly with the examples I've given. Now, Linux may be more of a PIA to get configured and running properly, but after that point I don't see any distinct advantages to BeOS.
I really don't see the need to bend Linux (or any OS for that matter) into things it was never meant to be... Linux was never meant to be easy to use or for multimedia.
Linux wasn't designed from the ground up for anything. That doesn't mean that it's not capable of doing anything.
BeOS was designed from the ground up for multimedia. It was a great design. It was poorly implemented. BeOS has a buggy MediaKit. There is no denying that fact (in fact, Be Inc. doesn't deny that fact). A great Media design does not make BeOS a great Media OS.
Ranessin
I have a cd set for the Mozart opera Cosi fan tutte that includes a multimedia presentation of the history of the work, the historical setting of it's composition and a read-along play feature. It is very well done and comprehensive.
D Y/ 002-7805834-8918463
Like most complete opera sets, it is not cheap. Maybe you can get it from a library. Along with the multimedia part, the production is highly recommended.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I8
Cosi fan Tutte
Our Price: $52.97
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: René Jacobs
Performer: Marcel Boone, Bernarda Fink, et al.
Ensemble: Cologne Chamber Choir, Concerto Cologne
Harmonia Mundi (Fra) - #951663 / March 9, 1999
Audio CD / DDD / Number of Discs: 3
he should have the copyright to RealPlayer? He was, after all.
"I am a warrior, and information is my weapon..."
I always felt that "You Don't Know Jack" was a very well done video game. It was implemented in Flash and was always fun and well presented.
You can do some interesting things with Flash but for now Multimedia and the Internet aren't that well connected. Multimedia is sooner Digital television and CD ROMs. The internet can not yet support true multimedia... That was my 2 cents.. I'm willing to go into a discussion about it, as I have worked with Internet and Multimedia for the last 5 years.
Actually, on the long run, I think the market for multimedia developers on Mars will grow significantly.
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www.nakednews.com that's some quality news. A good multimedia example
As x approaches total apathy I couldn't care less.
I don't want to say it, but it has to be said. You must show them the All Your Base music video. It isn't a high quality production, but it is an example of a piece of multimedia that can spawn a whole load of crap. Also show them the "Father Frags Best" Quake II Demo. I'm sure that'll bring back some lan party memories.
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
FOr some really funny Flash animations,
go to www.bogbeast.com
The local Big-Lots (Junk Store)Still has like 50 of those stacked in a corner. Its actually pretty funny. They also have some MS Basketball and MS Submarine games, that are both like 50 years old
I always like the decade old MS Multimedia Bethoven (CD, don't know if its still available). It is a very good recording of Bethoven's 5th with lots of annotation. You can watch the score on the scren. You can see an english translation when the chorus sings. Way ahead of its time. Nothing else seemed to follow its direction. When I was trying to get my company interested in multi-media (10 years ago) I would bring executives into my office, boom it out the stero and they were sold. What makes it so compelling is it the age of the title, and the quality of the recording.
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yes, and take a look to this page : http://omr.planet-d.net/amidemos/ you will find old amiga demos on divx format. and take a look too : www.pouet.net demoscene 4 ever =)))
http://www.heavy.com/ . Which turns out is also pretty damned funny. Especially the Contagious movies.
If you're counting games, it's hard to beat half life. I can't think of an equal work of art that weights the creator and audience equally in terms if how the presentation will unfold. I've been a semi professional musician for ~6 years now, and could cite a few theatrical percussion ensembles and a webcast/mutimedia fiasco I took part in last year, but, frankly, none of them are half as interesting.
Use BeOS. This thing is awsome. Want to open a 400MB movie? Go ahead. I'm here playing 3 MP3s and a Movie of Bill Gates getting a Pie in the face while playing Doom. Perfect quality, fully responsive....
I still can't belive how much BeOS rocks on multimedia. I know I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but out of all the OSs I've tried for Multimedia Linux is the worst. Sound is usally choppy and my video framerates suck. Windows is quite a bit better but still sucks...
Anyway for Multimedia stuff, needless to say use BeOS, maybe a Mac or Windows, but not Linux. Linux was just not designed for that kind of stuff.
www.crosscircuit.com has conservative animated cartoons in Flash format. They used to have a bunch of them, but, hey, now it's on CD.
Some of Gipsy Smith's multimedia cartoons were shown on Fox News cable TV channel.
Check out http://www.coolhomepages.com/, they've got a ton of neat web sites on there, all with thumbnails and in lots of catagories. Yeah, it's only web stuff, and almost all flash, but people have done a lot of nifty things.
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I've seen a cool little toy/tool from the folks at Carnegie Mellon. It's called Alice, and it's a pretty interesting 3d graphics package for the web. Oddly enough I learned about this from a multimedia class. I'm a little more taken with Teddy2 and major props to Takeo Igarashi at the University of Tokyo. Teddy2 is a spiffy little tool for building objects. And as long as I'm plugging 3d graphics tools I like to putter around with, check out Texture Weapons. It is certainly worth checking out some of the demos. This isn't just another way to make 3d widgits...ok well maybe it is, but they are really cool widgits, and sometimes more.
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
- ProgramLive: an intro to programming using Java.
- ActiveStats: an intro to statistics.
Their website: http://www.datadescription.com.He doesn't do a really good job of presenting javascript formally. A better, class based presentation can be found in the dynapi, which is a full blown extension of the javascript language to make it more useable, and add more features.
Of course, if you're not looking for web-based multimedia, I suggest that you be more specific about what type you're looking for. There are too many things to pick.
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A pioneering work was done for IBM in the days of laser disk/computer/et al combos. It's called ILLUMINATED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS and was produced by a now-defunct firm called And Communications, based in Santa Monica CA and owned by a man named, I believe Debovoise.
www.ati.com Great co. for multimedia apps.....
People who have witty things here blow.
yugop always shows flash at it's very best.
i don't know if the old version can still be found, it was hard to believe this was flash 4.
however, the new version stands up to the high expectations one has when regularily dropping by.
Also check out Atom Films. It would probably take you a month to look through all the material that they have. The majority of it is independents with twisted minds, and even Tim Burton has some good stuff there (not that he is excluded from the aforementioned group of people).
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Crowded elevator smell different to midget. -Chinese Proverb
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..acording to Qbertino:
;-)) go siteseeing and have fun.
Yugop
- my personal favorite. The only truly INTERACTIVE site I know.(check out the old stuff (archieves) too!!) Yugo Nakamura speaks the last word when it comes to design.
Gabocorp
-considered the reference of MM-rich websites by many designers. Too passive for my taste but the size/apperance ratio makes all those wannabe flashers cry...
Joecartoon
-I am a big fan of the british sort of humor (Monty Python and the sort), if you are too, youre gonna wet your pants at this site. Proves what all REAL designers know: simple but original does the trick. (Joe uses Flash 3!)
The Flashfilmfestival
-the cremé de la cremé of flashers pitch in their stuff each year to win their 'academy award' here. Beware of eyeballs falling out!
Flashguru
- you'll find everything in Flashsites that's worth being mentioned right here. Get a box close to a backbone
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
http://balthaser.com/fx/b1/home.html That was their original site, great for web multimedia.
Stixx
Try on Shen-mue, the video game from Sega designed by Yu Suzuki. It is the first attempt I've seen by a popular and talented video game designer to create a realm that felt like real life, despite its existance within a set of CDs and a small pixel blitter. Story left me wanting for more, and made me excited even to perform such mundane tasks as going to work and petting a kitten.
There's also a game for the Sega Saturn called Nights: Into Dreams. Hard to find, but worth it; nights was the first game that really dragged you headfirst into a world of 3d and colour. The eminent designer of every good game on the NES, Shigeru Miyamoto, says he never plays video games; but when prompted to play Nights he utted the words "oh cool" . Talk about your game of kings!
I needen't remind you, I'm sure, of Myst and Seventh Hour, two games that nearly broke my head as a younger man. Granted, they're nowhere near as pleasant visually as today's games, but the appeal they made to the senses and to the mind (those chess puzzles were HARD) was very special.
Finally, anything in the vast catalogue of text adventures from Infocom. I remember playing Lurking Horror and thinking, "finally, a book that I can talk back to." Great advances have been made in the medium by fans since the release of the Z engine. Anything you find nowadays has a good chance of being brilliant.
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But the Blue Man Group's shows are some of the best use of multiple media I've seen. They use video, scrolling LED message boards, video tape, backlighting, electronic music, public address systems, water baloons.. It's quite the experience.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Best of all for your purposes is that the web site has all of the storyboards and direction available for download, so you can see how it was put together.
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When I was at the University of Illinois I saw a multi-media presentation called "Grand Hotel des Etrangers" that blew me away.
I went to see what I thought was going to be a stage with a scrim in front of it where images would interact with the live actors. The first thing that happened was that the visible scrim at the front of the stage was withdrawn when the lights went down. Then the actor came out and images proceeded to float around him for the next hour and a half. Very nice trick making an obvious scrim to remove to aid suspension of disbelief.
They used subtle things as simple as barely audible street noises and as complex as projections that were so well coreagraphed (sp?) with the actor that they appeared to be interacting with him in all 3 dimensions.
The presentation had me thinking about it for the next week. I still wish I could see it again.
The URL for the production company that put on this spectacle is http://www.4dart.com/. If one of their presentations ever come to your town definitely go to see it.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Battleship Potemkin! Einstein's classic silent film wowed me the first time, and it truly is an "exceptional multimedia production". I've still yet to see another movie that's editing and montages can match this. Its still being emulated even today, with homages in films such as The Godfather and The Untoucables.
Find it, watch it...and I won't have to tell you to love it.
You absolutely must include "The Killer Bean" series.... you'll find it at thekillerbean.com or something like that... it's searchable and I'm lazy. The series is so good.
As far as siginficant media goes, and well done games, I'd say that the Final Fantasy series rank upon console RPG's as does D&D with pen&paper. Every FF game has had a deep storyline, with more recent games having intricate charecters, with troubled and interesting pasts. I personally recommend you attain a copy of Final Fantasy III(US), and spend some time with it. I challenge anyone who gives this game an hour or two to NOT get hooked.
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www.acid.org been around since 1989. Also check out iCE. www.ice.org. Those guys are top notch artists who've been doing it for years. Started with ANSi/ASCii -- har har. neat-o case i, huh? -- and have progressed steadly to 3d rendered art/animation/music.
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Try taking a look at any of the children's books that produce sound and music associated with the story. You can pick them up at any book store for less $20 and they would be an easy example of multimedia that you could pass around your class.
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I am a graphic/web designer but i also do a lot of UI programming. I taught a class on multimedia design a couple of times, and I used some resources that i'd recommend you to look into, if you'd like. I would also recommend concentrating on a particular part of the aspect of multimedia: Web experiences, advertising, non-Web multimedia solutions. The one that you should be able to find teaching material relatively easy would be that pertaining to digital forms of medias. The main one that comes to mind is Shockwave and Flash, that is omni-present. It's definately the most popular but also the most flexible. Of course, animation and sounds is not everything what you can do with that, you can also make interactive cd-roms, games, UI that tie to databases(!). The sites I'd recommend for you to check would be www.ultrashock.com, www.flash.com (Macromedia's Showcase), where you can find LOADS of really good work. Particularily look into the stuff that other designers, firms, and companies do. Some of them would be www.mostasa.com, www.rezn8.com, www.carbonhouse.com, www.chapter2.net and so on... Also, with that, there is ActionScript and Lingo, programming scripts and languages that lets you really do some amazing things (earlier mentioned games, UI for databases, and so on). There is also a number of other multimedia applications, which are not necessarily Web-enabled, that include video, audio, and image editing that companies use in TV advertising, movies, shows or concerts. Another suggestion would be going to a bookstore or a library and just finding some books on design, interactivity, and designs, you will be surprised by how much stuff there is out there, as well as how many things people copy after each other. Whatever you choose, remember that 'multimedia' doesnt mean just a moving .gif or a .swf file, there is a lot more to that aspect.
Hey, even life is a highly interactive multimedia experience :)
http://www.brainpop.com is an amazingly effective science site for kids that keeps their attention during the flash loading process with tidbits of information and quiz questions... A secondgrader pointed it out to me this afternoon!
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There's a neat project going on over at silophone.net. You can upload audio files to their site and then have them played through an old silo somewhere in Canada. you can listen to what you and others are playing through the silo via realaudio.
Try this site.
Be sure to check the 64Kb demos
http://tranzmit.demonews.com/
Try this site.
Be sure to check the 64Kb demos
http://tranzmit.demonews.com/
Multimedia is a very much overblown word, but it is with us to stay. Befoer the term was even coined, however, there was a lot of really cool stuff going on in the Amiga community. I found through Google an archive of old Amiga demos http://www.df.lth.se/~cato/nostalgia.html and one of my old favs a site with Aerotoons http://www.df.lth.se/~cato/nostalgia.html Enjoy!
Check out these great animations! http://www.howstuffworks.com/at-0.htm and, this new one appeared today: http://www.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine.htm and this one, last week: http://www.howstuffworks.com/backhoe-loader.htm
You're welcome to play the games here: :) We have more to go live in the near future.
http://www.stimulation.com/gamezone
My favorites are How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Punchout
Or watch the toon here:
http://www.stimulation.com/maatkara/
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Sun has recently launched a nice flash-based interactive tour of their new server products: http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/interactivetou r
If your students are looking for practical examples of multimedia, this is the kind of stuff that will earn them a paycheck.
Suggest u look at www.peachpit.com, a publisher. They released a book called 'The Web Design Wow! Book', by Jack Davis and Susan Merritt. ISBN No 0-201-88678-2, Peachpit Press. PeachPit Press 1249 Eighth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 510-524-2178 Phone
Here's a nice list of sites to visit for cutting-edge multimedia: http://www.newgrounds.com http://www.shockwave.com http://www.atomfilms.com http://www.heavy.com http://www.yukyuk.com http://www.sess.net http://www.urbanentertainment.com Also you can visit Shockwave.com's and Macromedia.com's list of sites of the day - as they list cool sites made with their tool - the current Multimedia tool of choice for the Web - Flash and Shcokwave. There were other really good ones but a few mutimedia sites have been taken down during the recent internet crash. If someone knows of any other good ones feel free to post. Later
There are two multimedia CD-ROM-based packages by Data Description that are exceptional:
ActivStats, a college-level introductory statistics course
ProgramLive, an introductory programming course in java
Both packages could replace college courses with the exception of the interactivity with the instructor. The website has more details and also posts reviews and awards garnered. You may even wish to contact the main content authors for a discussion on multimedia in education. Thanks to them I am a big believer in asynchronous learning using rich multimedia through self-paced study.
See: http://www.datadesk.com
Good luck in developing your course!
All good examples. But take away stuff that requires a CPU and a CRT to run, and what do you have?
The people who mentioned Blue Man Group and Nam June Paik were the closest to the target for my entries.
Thirty-seven years ago, the 1964 new York World's Fair introduced the general population to a new experience, (at that time) called Multimedia.
The IBM exhibit, the GE Carousel of Progress, The Johnson Wax exhibit and (gag) "It's a Small World", among others, used innovative mixes of soung, multiple screen projection, automated lighting to attract and entertain audiences in ways that were highly innovative back then. (Hint: many of these exhibits resurfaced when Walley World opened in 1971 in Orlando.)
Within three years, "MultiMedia" producers were hawking the original (and quite literal) dog-and-pony shows to corporate clients to spice up what were, until then, deathly dull corporate and trade industry meetings.
The industry is still alive today, although the experience now usually involves pre-edited video elements and lacks the gonzo carnival atmosphere these shows had back in the seventies and early eighties.
Take something like the Residents CDROM and turn it into a live stage performance, or better yet, a live 3d immersive experience, and you'll get a hint of what this world was like.
Take every element everyone has mentioned in this thread, wad it up, package it, and you'd have only a portion of the material that would go into these "MultiMedia" shows.
It was Renaissance artistic patronage resurrected as corporate communication.