Comment “Crowd-Sourcing the Magnum Archive” - 07/26/11
The New York Times Lens Blog on Tagasauris!
Posts Tagged ‘multimedia’
Comment “Magnum Photos’ Tagging Game” - 02/17/11
The British Journal of Photography has published the Tagasauris story on its site. Check it out here!
Comment Playing Tag - 01/25/11
The British Journal of Photography has picked up the Tagasauris story from Magnum Photos, out in print this week. Read it here!
Comment Tagasauris – the smart way to tag! - 11/30/10
I am very proud to announce the launch of Tagasauris. We have been working hard to develop innovative solutions for unlocking the value of multimedia collections by improving find-ability through quick, cost-effective and accurate descriptive labels. Tagasauris is a media tagging tool that’s powered by the crowd. We provide superior quality tags at lightening speed for a fraction of the cost of more traditional methods. We also connect these tags to well defined concepts and metadata with unique URLs. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge.
Comment Video Shoot - 07/16/10
On 06.24.2010 and 06.25.2010 we shot video footage for the music visualization application at the Zemeckis Center. We got some excellent footage (I will post some samples soon) and had fun working with all the wonderful dancers.
Comment Dance Dance … - 07/14/10
Music visualization can be successfully used to dramatically enhance the music listening experience by providing a visual pairing that presents aesthetically pleasing imagery, reinforces emotions and moods evoked by the music, and reveals information about the features and structure of the music. The most basic and instinctive visualization of music is dance. Dance is defined as: “moving rhythmically to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures”. I am currently developing my vision of a dance based music visualization for Classical KUSC.
This visualization application will dynamically synchronize stylized dances (dancer silhouettes on a variety of backgrounds) to music to create the effect that a dancer is dancing to the user’s music selection. We have recorded video footage against a green screen of professional dancers in a variety of dance styles including hip hop, break dancing, classical Indian, Brazilian, salsa, African and bollywood. For each dancer, we have recorded a set of dance sequences of varying lengths. These sequences will be chained together in different combinations to create a variety of dances. These dances can potentially be paired with any piece of music. A dance will be synchronized to a piece of music by compressing and contracting portions of the video to align the underlying beats of the dance to that of the music.
I have the pleasure to be working with some brilliant and dedicated USC collaborators:
Michael Annetta (grad student – MFA in Interactive Media)
Ravi Nitin Balajee (grad student – MS in Electrical Engineering)
Elaine Chew (faculty member – Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Andreas Kratky (faculty member – School of Cinematic Arts)
James Taylor (grad student – MFA in Interactive Media)