MirroID is an installation piece, which aims to interact with those who look into the ‘mirror’. Inspired by the work of Francis Galton it uses real time face recognition and the process of composite photography to generate a snapshot of identity within a public space.
The project itself is an experiment, which aims to investigate the [...]

After a review of my project today, it has been suggested i look into face recognition using AS3. I have found some cool posts but it looks quite complex for a beginner. However i am willing to have a go. I have found a source that uses real time face recognition to capture a snapshot [...]

I have been playing around with BlendMode and the filters in Flash to find out which one gives me the best result. I aim to generate composite snapshots of people across time so the layered bitmaps need to overlay one another, similar to using layers in Photoshop. Below there are some screen grabs from my [...]

The last couple of days have been tough, with lots of help from Kseniya I have managed to learn some AS3. My project now:
1. Pulls in a live web cam feed to the stage.
2. Detects motion.
3. If motion is detected it takes a snapshot.
4. It then applies BlendMode.HARDLIGHT to the captured bitmap. This is so [...]

Similar to the work of Francis Galton, Nancy Burson generates mixed portraits on the computer.
Below is “Big Brother (Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Hitler, Khomeini, 1983″.

Nancy Burson’s pictures are products of that mentality. And they show it: they show what sort of world will result from that mentality: a world of chimaeras.
The heart desires something: for example, [...]

Time for an update on final project. After my amazing find of Eye-Fi Explore I decided not to use it due to price and shipping. Plus my original idea proved to be stronger than live lifelogging.
My original idea was to experiment with a mirror and hide a web cam behind it. I wanted to capture [...]

Oh wow. I am blown away. First your phone went wireless, then your laptop, now finally, your camera!
Eye-fi is a magical orange SD memory card that will not only store 2GB - 4GB worth of pictures, it’ll upload them to your computer (All Eye-Fis), and to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa (or 14 others) (Eye-Fi Explore and [...]

I just saw this on Jason’s blog and thought I would have a go too. It’s a tag cloud of my dissertation, no surprise to see photographs as the biggest word!

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