MachineMachine /stream - tagged with editing http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com The Wilhelm Scream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8aBFTVNEU&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:09:04 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8aBFTVNEU&feature=youtube_gdata Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar http://www.themillions.com/2011/03/zooming-out-how-writers-create-our-visual-grammar.html Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by any chance, Blue’s Clues happens to be on in the background, try this experiment: watch and see how long the camera holds on a single shot. You will, by design, be waiting a long time. The child psychologists who helped create Blue discovered that young viewers don’t know what to do with cuts and edits; they understand them as a new scene, not the same scene shot from a… ]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:41:43 -0700 http://www.themillions.com/2011/03/zooming-out-how-writers-create-our-visual-grammar.html Christian Marclay : The Clock (BBC News) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8svkK7d7sY&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:38:23 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8svkK7d7sY&feature=youtube_gdata Alvin Lucier: I am Sitting in a Room http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html "I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any sem- blance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physi- cal fact, but more as a way to smooth… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:48:11 -0700 http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html The lost art of editing http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/11/lost-art-editing-books-publishing But what happens the rest of the time? Away from the world of freak glitches, what fate befalls the writer as his or her magnum opus enters the publishing production chain? For some years now – almost as long as people have been predicting the death of the book – there have been murmurs throughout publishing that books are simply not edited in the way they once were, either on the kind of grand scale that might see the reworking of plot, character or tone, or at the more detailed level that ensures the accuracy of, for example, minute historical… ]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:32:53 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/11/lost-art-editing-books-publishing UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/sound/dj_food.html "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of… ]]> Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:07:00 -0700 http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/sound/dj_food.html White Cube — The Clock http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/ 'The Clock' is constructed out of moments in cinema when time is expressed or when a character interacts with a clock, watch or just a particular time of day. Marclay has excerpted thousands of these fragments and edited them so that they flow in real time. While 'The Clock' examines how time, plot and duration are depicted in cinema, the video is also a working timepiece that is synchronised to the local time zone. At any moment, the viewer can look at the work and use it to tell the time. Yet the audience watching 'The Clock' experiences a vast… ]]> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:21:00 -0700 http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/ What techniques do you use to make glitch art? http://ask.metafilter.com/167539/What-techniques-do-you-use-to-make-glitch-art What are some techniques you use to make glitch art? ]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:35:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/167539/What-techniques-do-you-use-to-make-glitch-art Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight of the big picture and obsessively expend huge amounts of energy fighting over something that, in the end, isn't really so important.

Back in the good old days, people would just get out their swords and guns and fight a duel; nowadays physical combat has been replaced by careful inciting of personal attacks, strategic… ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:46:00 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/12/the-work-of-the-moving-image-in-the-age-of-its-digital-corruptibility.html

by Daniel Rourke

"The cinema can, with impunity, bring us closer to things or take us away from them and revolve around them, it suppresses both the anchoring of the subject and the horizon of the world... It is not the same as the other arts, which aim rather at something unreal or a tal. With cinema, it is the world which becomes its own image, and not an image which becomes world."

Giles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image

Take 12 images and splice them end to…

]]> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:06:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/12/the-work-of-the-moving-image-in-the-age-of-its-digital-corruptibility.html On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces http://benfry.com/traces/ We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. The first English edition was approximately 150,000 words and the sixth is a much larger 190,000 words. In the changes are refinements and shifts in ideas — whether increasing the weight of a statement, adding details, or even a change in the idea itself. The second edition, for instance, adds a notable “by the Creator” to the… ]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:56:00 -0700 http://benfry.com/traces/ 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/07/back_to_the_futures_finally_co.php In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus, to show the closing scene from the first film as the opening of the second, it was necessary to completely reshoot it. Dig? Anyway, as you can see above, someone has made a side-by-side comparison of the sequence so you can now needlessly critique how well Robert Zemeckis and crew recreated the scene. The audio is layered together as well, and for some reason hearing a duet of Docs… ]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:10:00 -0700 http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/07/back_to_the_futures_finally_co.php CHEESE ZONE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6QfMqCTa8 ]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:30:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6QfMqCTa8 McRoll'd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssh71hePR8Q ]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:22:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssh71hePR8Q This Way to a Face Melting Face http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv1JFszHPy4 ]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:47:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv1JFszHPy4