http://vladt.net Trying to make sense Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:27:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OneSpace2008, the First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet OneSpace2008, the First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet, aims to present a high-quality forum of discussion about the identification and study of the complex relationship of the Internet with space, place, ... http://vladt.net/2008/07/07/one-space-2008/ from Prof. Werner Kuhn's talk Prof. Werner Kuhn's closing talk for the Edinburgh e-Science Institute's theme on Geospatial Semantics is now online. It gives a good idea of actual challenges in GIScience, and in Knowledge Representation in general. http://vladt.net/2008/03/07/the-e-science-institute-public-lecture-dynamizing-spatial-semantics/   Moon Shot, my last short film, is online, and for a short time too featured on brifilms.tv. http://vladt.net/2007/12/10/moon-shot/ Most often I cannot read the CAPTCHAs... so I wonder. http://vladt.net/2007/07/17/am-i-a-machine/   Hello blog, long time no see! Making a film was a long lasting ambition and actually the most difficult thing was to start (even if not from Goethe I love this quote). Chris High gave the motivation with his Participatory Video seminar, as well as a theme; "Lost in ... http://vladt.net/2007/06/11/mk-at-first-sight/ Above, my clumsy attempt to imitate Jessica Hagy's inspirational diagrams. I cannot easily think like that - always seem to get lost in the detail - but wish I could. The piece of wisdom behind this configuration was given to me by a photographer met in Paris, long time ago. ... http://vladt.net/2007/02/15/indexed/ Yesterday pipes arrived (1, 2, 3, 4). I will not describe the service, the picture speaks by itself; one can visually compose procedural modules to compute data from Internet sources. Maybe it is a "a milestone in the history of the internet" as Tim O'Reilly puts it but yesterday it was ... http://vladt.net/2007/02/09/pipes-are-us-the-end-of-mashups/   Akira Kurosawa's multi perspective narration of a murder, Rashomon, is on Google video (and on the internet archive). (from we make money not art) Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will as well reports artbasher! After yesterday's film, with full making off (Koyaanisqatsi), websites for pro shorts (atomfilms) pilots from Scrubs writers ... http://vladt.net/2007/02/07/your-google-tv/ Blogumentary is a "...slick and well-researched" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) documentary about why we (and of course the author, Chuck Olsen) blog. It is 1 hour long so did not have time to watch it till the end. However the first minutes are most entertaining and the whole seem to ... http://vladt.net/2007/02/06/why-do-i-blog-this/ Michael Wesch's <5 minutes short about the web, great facture, at least one step further from traditional screencasts and gives many ideas for the next versions of the eMerges video. (from Richard Cyganiak via Planet RDF). http://vladt.net/2007/02/05/the-web-in-short/