New Video: A Brief Meditation on Digital Shamanism
Extending ideas from the last couple of posts, this video plays around with the idea of using virtual reality to support internal visualization and imagination. In good Transworlders fashion, it was created using elements from Second Life, Frameforge and digital photography of the atomic world.
Groovalicious Word Cloud Visualizes Essence of 400 Blog Posts
I’ve displayed Word Clouds here before, depicting changes in the blog’s direction over time and differences between avatar and human identities. Yesterday, I dumped the complete contents of all 400 posts into Wordle and created this beautiful (if I do say so myself) image. The only edits I made to the source file were to [...]
A Sneek Peak at a Music Video on The Migration of Identity
Back in May of last year, I created the image below to accompany a post on “Identity Surfing Within and Between Worlds“. I’m in the process of transforming the original concept into a 3D visualization that will be used in a music video for the fourworlds song, “Revolver.” The video below is just a [...]
Mixed Reality Art Show and Dueling Tag Clouds
I’ve recently accepted an invitation to participate in a mixed reality art exhibition. I’ll be leading one of five teams creating 1/2 sim installations in Second Life that will be captured via machinima and still imagery for presentation in a number of RL galleries. My topic is “The Ambiguity of Identity.” I’ll provide more details [...]
All Of Me Beta Invites – New lifestream timeline
All Of Me, a new lifestream visualizer is out in closed beta. Although they don’t offer an RSS feed importer, they link to flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Picassaweb and will soon add Facebook and Google Calendar. You can also upload local images, videos and web pages from your computer. One nice unique feature out [...]
Lifestream visualization
Most people use lifestream applications such as Friendfeed and MyBlogLog primarily to log and view current happenings. Another interesting way to use the collected information is to visualize it over time. Here are a few examples and resources:
Dipity (Image below is interactive. Try setting zoom level to “week.”)
favthums
Swurl
Word Cloud
Here’s a “word cloud” displaying the 100 most frequently used words in this blog.
Created by Wordle, a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Avatars gone wild
It just dawned on me that the vast majority of beings I’ve met through their avatar identities were initially introduced to me outside of Second Life. Yes, I know I’ve been writing and sketching relentlessly here about the subject of identity movement. But up until last night, it was more of an academic exercise than [...]
Identity surfing within and between worlds
Dandellion’s Going Schizo post helped motivate me to finalize the latest in a series of images visualizing the movement of identity between virtual and physical worlds. Thanks to Harper for the comment that spawned the cloud.
