Exploring the apps that allow users to create and immediately share video content really pushes the idea of portability. Not only is the phone portable, the content is too. I can make it, I can share it on a range of social media platforms, I can export it to my laptop, edit it on Adobe … More PIM Project 3_Portability: Reflection on sharing and portability of content
b) sketch using short form video service (Vine) Back in 2009, Simons observed, ‘Besides drawing attention to itself, the moving image is being put to tasks of informing and instructing, luring and persuading, performing and parading, surveying and summoning, and, of course, entertaining and amusing’. (Simons 2009, p. 8). The moving image, in short, is … More PIM Project 3 Sketch: Portability: #letterboxes
f) a sketch that explores a new technique or constraint For this sketch I wanted to explore the idea of portability from the point of view of the content itself being portable. Clearly a key value of the mobile phone is it’s capacity for people to share their content quickly and easily to a select group … More PIM Project 3 Sketch: Portability: My Sunday
d) A sketch using a desktop video application on a computer This sketch was shot on my iphone 5 and has been edited in Premiere Pro. I shot the clips for this video one morning walking my dog around the block and down the back lane. My phone, even more than usual, is in my pocket, … More PIM Project 3 Sketch_Portability: city downpour
a) a sketch entirely using the mobile phone This sketch was shot using my iphone 5 on Hipstamatics video app Cinematic. Cinematic is a smart video app that has the same square format as Hipstamatic. You can shoot clips of 3 to 15 seconds and then apply a filter. The filters offer a range of different looks but … More PIM Project 3 Sketch: Portability_apps to alter content 1_City Storm
I am following readings that in particular cover the affordance of portability, and again I find that Mizuko Ito has a really interesting way of thinking about affortability. In her article, Personal Portable Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone, Mizuko argues that in Japan the mobile phone, or keitai, is ‘a snug and intimate technosocial tethering’. Mizuko finds … More PIM Project 3_Portability: reflection_’technosocial tethering’
d) A sketch using a desktop video application on a computer In the past week I’ve been working on a range of sketches covering the criteria set for Project Three. I have posted sketches that have been shot and edited and shared solely on my iphone 5. I have enjoyed the speed and immediacy of … More PIM Project 3 Sketch_Portability: Watching paint peel
What is striking me about the affordance we are exploring (portability) is that what is being recorded by most people using their mobile devices is the ordinariness, the mundanity of life. Until quite recently this has been via text, then images, but now the capacity to share short, quick, easy to make video has really … More PIM Project 3_Portability: Reflection on recording the mundane presence in everyday life
a) a sketch entirely using the mobile phone without using a computer With these two sketches I am still working entirely using the iphone and am uploading directly to Vimeo. In previous sketches the main exploration of portability has been the fact that the phone is light and easy to carry and is with us … More PIM Project 3 Sketch_Portability: Regent mirrors
a) a sketch entirely using the mobile phone without using a computer This sketch continues my exploration of working solely with the iphone and not using a computer as well as investigating the affordance of portability. In this sketch again, the portability of the phone is evident. I’m at the beach, go for a walk, … More PIM Project 3 Sketch_Portability: Good dog
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