Video

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09/22/15

MarcelTV

MarcelTV was a proof-of-concept site for an online video archival service. The system is meant to store, transcode and re-distribute older video content. Video art from earlier generations can then be preserved and streamed from modern-day devices.

Below is an image of the site late into its development.
marcel_tv

The system is developed entirely with HTML/CSS/JS using the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP stack. Looking back on the development phase, using some type of framework may have been advisable. Doing everything from scratch became exhausting but also served as a great learning experience.

I’m not sure how long ASAP will continue to host this project but if you would like to see it you can follow this link. Enter ‘marceltest’ for the username/password or register.

02/14/14

NMD 200 Project: Film Database

I was inspired create the Film Database project when Prof. Blais asked us a simple question, “How can we get student films out of the dorms?” I thought back to my early film-making days and realized Freshmen just simply don’t know the campus and greater Orono/Old town areas well enough to avoid making a movie in the dorms. The Film Database project serves to solve this issue with a variety of film locations arranged by specific qualities such as outdoors, indoors, on-campus, off-campus, forest or graveyard to name a few. If you want to check out the actual website, I have provided a link here.

02/14/14

Cultural Shift: Holochat Screencast

Holochat Screencast

 

For the NMD 100 final project, my group theorized that Skype would develop a technology allowing 3D personal holograms to be projected piratically anywhere at any time. Essentially, as this technology worked its way into the mainstream culture it became the ‘ next big thing’ and holo-rooms became as common in the home as the computer is now. The Holochat system, combined with sensory input technology would allow anyone to go anywhere be able to interact with anything in the real world all from the comfort of their own homes. As one can imagine, we hypothesized what effect this technology might have on planet Earth – and it wasn’t pretty. This screencast depicts a typical owner of the Holochat system and how his world has been skewed without him even knowing it.

A link to the screencast video and website can be found here.

Apart from the screencast, I also wrote a short story depicting the world that Holochat has created.