System of Code

The next project we were asked to do had a new encompassing term. This time instead of creating a machine, we were asked to create a system.

It was with much hesitation that I decided to abandon the marbles. The fact that I had filled three liquor bottles with them helped me make the decision to go down a different path. They just looked too good on my counter and I did not want to take them out. We had a god run, but it was time to move on.

Being that one can pretty much describe anything as a system. I thought, why not make a system that would be unexpected and have an element of surprise. So my goal was then to set up my computer to play a random sound whenever someone walked in front of it. What it would also do at the same time, which was much less noticeable, was snap a picture. For the entire presentation, people would try to trigger it so they could hear the sound, but unknowingly triggering the camera as well. Toward the end of the presentation day, I sent all of the pictures to Photoshop and told it to turn them into an HDR. This was interesting because generally when a photographer wants to create an HDR shot, he’ll expose the same shot multiple times. Then Photoshop determines the best way to put them together based on proper exposure. These pictures that were taken in class were shot on my webcam and not formatted in this fashion what so ever. After the filter compiled, it spit out an interest image, which was a twisted distorted combination of all of the shots it took during that period of time.
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Process:

Create an apple automator action
Get folder content
Run it through this script (Selects a random File)
on run {input, parameters}
return some item of input
end run
Open Finder item
Launch application – soundtrack pro
Record a macro(watch me do) that goes to soundtrack pro and play the current track.

The Application “EvoCam” can trigger actions as well as capturing photos. Set it to run the action and take a shot simultaneously.
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