Media Museum Bradford

I visited the media museum in Bradford as well as checking out the university, which i am very interested in at the moment, even though it did not have my ideal course, it did have something more to my liking, a Gaming Graphics course.

At the museum there were lots to see and such little time, what i managed to capture were these old videos, almost robotic in movement so i can only guess it was using some sort of stop motion, putting images together to make a video effect, these may be some of the first videos of their kind, considering most before were mainly just flip books, I tried looking up dates but it would seem that picture films only really started 1900, with Enchanted Drawings, which was the first entirely animated film, Motion pictures starting 1890

Saddly, I could not find any videos of these on youtube :c

In one of the floors of the museum there were different arcade games and even a few old console games, I felt they were pretty much interactive installations and of course had to try a few, the phot's arent the best quality, I am very sorry.

Using a microsoft kinect to show movement as light particles, the camera scans the room, anyone who walks in front of the sensor will be shown with those colourful spots to indicate  their presence, not only dots, they seemed to be different effects after a while, however i could only capture this one in the short time i had.

Richard England is the designer who produced this kinect experiment demonstrating a variety of effects.

Even though this shows nothing along the lines of video art I did want to add this into my post because not only do I find it fascinating, but also it promotes looking for the bigger picture, yes the skull looked good but what does it mean? "I'M THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN"

I thought getting a few images of this installation in one of the first rooms of the museum was a great idea, each TV screen was showing a viral video that would change every-time one has finished, it was an interesting set up for me because of the different appearing shapes, when they are all the same size, just in different positions, an incomplete tetris .

A wall of tiny images, the colours intreged me enough to go check it out and i was not disappointed.

These are images of the only surviving Wallace and Gromit scenes, Aardman Animations won an oscar for the film "wrong trousers", it is the last survive set because of a devastating fire that destroyed 30 years of work, this piece survived because it was no in the building of Aardman Animations.

I personally love the Wallace and Gromit series, as well as chicken run and creature comforts, they have always managed to put a smile on my face, from the quirky characters to the effort put in to making them move, frame by frame.

A video of a Phenakistoscope, a disk with a series of images along the outter side, you look through a small square and watch as the images change, the faster you spin the more fluid it appears, this is an illusion.