Brooklyn Art Project

Shepard Fairey from Arkitip on Vimeo.

CALL FOR ENTRIES // CRANE.TV FILM COMPETITION

DEADLINE // FEBRUARY 28, 2009

We recently met with the founders of Crane.tv about an impressive film competition they are hosting with Discovery Campus, reelisor.com and a power jury including fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, as well as Flavio Albanese, Ora Ito, Fernando Sulichin, Kirill Razlogov, and Laurent Claquin.

The juried selections will be announced at the international launch of theCrane.tv in March 2009 and receive cash, equipment, and TV broadcast. Categories include Culture, Art & Design, Lifestyle, Fashion, Ideas, Travel and “Green”. Your five minute submission should provide a fresh, insider perspective into your topic of choice.

The short videos can be non-fiction, fiction, animated or be in a journalistic or documentary style. Submissions can be uploaded in all standard web video file formats, preferable in English or subtitled.

For more information or to upload your submission go to: http://www.thecrane.tv.

This is an excellent opportunity for all BAP members interested in art, film, and culture. We invite you take part in this high profile competition and share your talent with the world.

The drawing above was automatically generated from a tool invented over at http://www.zefrank.com that draws an image based on sound waves from your microphone. I.e. low volume curves counterclockwise, medium volume is straight, high volume curves clockwise.

After playing around for a bit with my own voice, I put the microphone next to the speaker while Obama’s 17 minute acceptance speech played. The image above formed before my eyes. Pretty cool stuff, got me curious about what what some of my favorite electronica music would “look like”.

If you’re feeling a little creative, make one of your own and upload a link below in the comments section, would love to see what happens with other speeches, songs, movie clips, etc. Thanks Zefrank! Amazing job on this tool.

If you’re into political data visualization, check out the word cloud comparisons we did from Obama and McCain’s blog during the election. We did one in August, then another in October.

There are times where we find ourselves limited by our projects requirements, needs etc. And as we create, we get increasingly frustrated with what we are producing. Perhaps its just time to let go, take a walk, grab a coffee, to revisit the joy of just letting loose. And the result could be kaleidoscope of joy