October 27, 2008, 10:26 am
More progress, but not quite what I was hoping. I figured I would start testing annotating images, or adding text to them, via ImageMagick. However, I seem to be unable to do this, likely because of trying to run it from my mac, and not having every library properly installed... I can't even really determine what GhostScript is, if I need it to do this, or if I'm getting a gs error for an entirely different reason. I should try later with my Linux box, as likely this will be the thing that actually runs the collecting process. Now, it might seem a bit silly to be spending so much time going through and trying to create a script that will add the text to the images, as I could easily do so via many other programs, but there's something I like very much about the idea of this thing running on its own for an extended period of time. If I could leave it running for a year straight, with my current settings (approximately 1 picture every 3 minutes, and if it ran at night shooting basically black), I would have 157,680 pictures of the sky, and maybe around 12775 blog posts found (averaging around 35/day). So, as silly as it sounded at first, I'm convinced that if I did let the thing run for a year, I'd be very happy to have this text thing happening automatically. Now, of course, it would be easier to do, if it existed only as a website. The text could be pulled from a database, the just inserted via html in a div or something like that. I also wonder if this work will perpetually exist through a website, if I can get it all working as I'd like. The camera worked without issue for 6 hours yesterday (the night before, I stupidly had the computer set to go to sleep after 15 minutes), so I missed out on seeing what might happen as it gets really dark.
The image above is from about 20 minutes of documenting a Max patch playing with some video I had taken earlier in the day. I also had Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians going with it, which is how I'd imagine it as a performance. Now, this is not to say that the Max patch is at all aware of the music, but rather that I'd perform with this patch in response to the music. I've realized that it helps to have some recognizable figures, shapes, patterns, something... the particular video I was using was a lot of leaves blowing, as yesterday was soooo windy, but they become lost a bit... which is fine, I suppose, it just seems to help to be able to pull something from the images every now and again.
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