Communication Technology

Down By The Old Mill Stream

Mr. D. Sader — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:17:33 +0000

… not the river but the stream

Try a classic Barbershop Quartet as a sonochromatic composition.

Download: old_mill_stream.mp3

Hallelujah

Mr. D. Sader — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:07:30 +0000

Turn this score:

Into a sonochromatic score like this:

Matt’s Blues Progression

Record a video of your “Hallelujah ColorSay Quartet for iPhone”.

Twelve Bar “Blues”

Mr. D. Sader — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:58:40 +0000

Read Neil Harbisson and his Sonochromatic music scale, first. You will also need the ColorSay app for iPhone (and PhotoShop).

Create a Twelve Bar Blues animated GIF.

If you use 4 iPhones, each on a separate quadrant of colour, you should be playing a C7 chord.

Now add the remaining “bars” using one of the common twelve-bar blues progressions.

Extra
Dedicate one of the quadrants for the “boogie woogie” line.

Sonochromatic Animated GIF

Mr. D. Sader — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:25:14 +0000

Create your own harmonious “ColorSay” composition as an animated GIF.

Use PhotoShop as your tool for making the “score”.
Use the ColorSay app from my previous post as your musical instrument.

What songs do these pictures sing?

Inspired Yet?

Need Help Designing with Colour?

Mr. D. Sader — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:38:08 +0000

Watch videos by Harbisson at TED.com.

Have a look at this.

Ask yourself something important about the relationship humans have with colour and sound.

What is you favourite colour?

What is your favourite harmony?

Retro Mac ~ 1994

Mr. D. Sader — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:54:28 +0000

Want to see what connecting the the internet looked and felt like circa 1995?

eWorld – an “All-The-Right Type-ish” version of the interweb from 1995. Seriously, I once paid $5/h for this.

The eWorld News links in this sim don’t work today, but it is where I first found out a significant piece of “live” news way back on April 19, 1995.

Oh, the modem squawks in the sim last a few seconds, but in ’95 I could pop a bag of microwave popcorn while waiting for just the home screen to load.

April Fools 2013 Pranks

Mr. D. Sader — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:00:33 +0000

Perhaps your inspiration for an awe-inspiring digital design project comes from an April Fools prank.

Washington Destroyed by Earthquake

Inserting A Gallery into a Post

Mr. D. Sader — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:15:53 +0000

I have a small peeve with the default behaviour of a gallery. It takes a few clicks to see an image in its original size.

So I offer the following tips.

1. Add link=”file” to your gallery short code.

2. Enable “Lightbox 2″ or “jQuery Colorbox” plugin so your images have that certain Je ne sais pas.

Extra Tip: I used the iPhone Dead Yourself App to doctor the images of my family and then uploaded them to this blog with the WordPress app.

Free Sounds

Mr. D. Sader — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:59:30 +0000

Looking for free sounds? I do not mean “Free for my parrot? – Aaargh!” I mean really free. Creative Commons free.

http://ccmixter.org/
Example: Here Comes the Snow remix

http://freesound.org/
Example: a Nightingale’s song

Tip: Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licenses

Changing Colours in Photoshop

Mr. D. Sader — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:09:29 +0000

Replace Color tool. To see this tool at work, select Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Color. Apply it to a duplicate of the background layer.

Another Method:
Hidden under the default Brush tool is the Colour Replacement Brush.

Fiddling with this brush will allow finer control to replace a colour under the crosshair but within the circle.

Read more about the Colour Replacement Tool here: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/color-replacement-tool/