Capital Chronic Article Edit

CAPTIAL CHRONIC: Raw cinematography expresses the process of an enhanced emersion into Social Networks.


CAPITAL CHRONIC
Abstract Documentary
5/5 STARS
IMDB Top Movies in History
www.imdb.hs.nz

In 2011 research commenced towards the creation of artificial biological networks of social interaction. This season, open for public experience in Virtual Reality Film theatres nationwide, you can experience it for yourself.

Today, in 2040, the Network has been around long enough to start to see some developing trends; conclusions have been reached and finalised in the field of wireless digital emersion. Behavioral patterns and traditions have formed in and around entry and exit points that are popular within the public arena. The digital community welcomed the injection of biological enhancements, which was an aid to a greater communication web, yet readily became reliant of them for existence.

The Capital Chronicle has partially funded the production of an abstract film based on the last 30 years of network addiction. This film has received countless awards and accolades from the film industry, including ‘Best Film’ at the 2040 Wellington film festival and a score of 96% on imdb.hs.com. The film expresses the notes of raw abstract in a crude nature that is thought provoking and said to be shown as if the audience is looking through the eyes of the addictive substance itself.

Capital Chronic opens in VRF theatres nationwide Thursday 28th June 2040.

Aspects of the film contain themes not appropriate for all viewers, including entry into and out of the network, metal/biological poisoning, blood batteries and social interaction throughout history within the city of Wellington. This is combined with the idea of the past + future life. Humans were used to show the networking on a basic biological level. Viewer discretion is advised.

NDG - Sports Article Images

Sensecaptive Images

Revised Article - THE FIRST NON-DISCRIMINATORY GAMES - Sport

SPORT
THE FIRST NON-DISCRIMINATORY GAMES

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A Leg Up: The Non-Discriminatory Games will be held by Wellington in early 2041, with athletes encouraged to enhance their natural abilities by any means available.


It has been a long time coming for a completely open entry sporting event, The Non-Discriminatory Games (The NDG) will be held in Wellington for the first time next January and is planned to be a yearly event.
With the huge increase in people with bionic implants allowing users to far surpass normal human capabilities; the genetically superior designer humans who are born with a distinct advantage; and the constant arrival of new advanced forms of steroids and supplements has left traditional events running short of legal athletes.
In previous sporting events athletes would be disqualified for taking advantage of such enhancements, but this event welcomes their use and encourages participants to test their capabilities against the best of the best.
Officials say that it is a brilliant opportunity to advance research in all areas of human biological enhancements, due in part to the large amount of funding that goes into sports training and development already. The extra competition is expected to force further advances year after year as competitors combine and improve enhancements in their push for the Gold.

Revised Article - OLD FILMS REACH SENSECAPTIVE

ART + FILM

OLD FILMS REACH SENSECAPTIVE

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Wellington once again gets the privilege of hosting the premiere of the Lord of the Rings, only this time using Sensecaptive technology. The films are due to be rereleased as one viewing experience, a feat that would usually take over 12 hours to view using traditional film, but using Sensecaptive they can be experienced in under 20 minutes.

Film technology has always progressed towards giving the user a complete experience, from its humble beginnings almost 250 years ago using light to project images onto screens, it progressed to the mainstream adoption of 4D cinema in 2020, and since 2036 has advanced enough to fully incorporate all of the senses with Sensecaptive Experience Technology (SET). A simple download from The Network allows users to experience a feature length film from a first person perspective in the comfort of their own head in less than 5 minutes.

From a user’s perspective the film is experienced as if you are immersed into the environment of the film, but no interaction or interference is possible with the storyline or characters. This is different from Sensecaptive’s main competitor Virtual Reality Films (VRF) which allows manipulation of story – delivering a different experience with each viewing, but lacking the ability to translate traditional films. With Sensecaptive the movies original intent can be upheld, while still delivering a full sensory experience.

But because SET is a completely different media to traditional film it took a few years to develop the technology to convert between the two. On Tuesday pre-2036 films started being rereleased in SET capable cinemas worldwide. The Lord of the Rings is rereleased Thursday at the Embassy cinema in Wellington one week before its worldwide rerelease.

Sensecaptive Experience

ART + FILM STILLS

Collection of stills taken from Rob and Elle's Art + Film video

King of the Rodeo: Sensecaptive user Alex Matson experiences a vintage Western, one of the first 20th Century films to be rereleased in the new format.

SPORT - The Non-Discriminatory Games come to Wellington

A Leg Up: The Non-Discriminatory Games will be held by Wellington in early 2041, with athletes encouraged to enhance their natural abilities by any means available.

It has been a long time coming for a completely open entry sporting event, The Non-Discriminatory Games (The NDG) will be held in Wellington for the first time next January and is planned to be a yearly event.

The huge increase in people with bionic implants which far surpass normal human capabilities, the genetically superior designer humans who are born with a distinct advantage; and the constant arrival of new advanced forms of steroids and supplements has left traditional events running short of legal athletes.

In previous sporting events athletes would normally be disqualified for taking advantage of such enhancements, but this event welcomes them and encourages participants to test their capabilities against the best of the best.

Officials say that it is a brilliant opportunity to advance research in all human athleticism due to the large amount of funding that goes into training athletes already. The extra competition is expected to force further advances year after year.

ART + FILM Article

OLD FILMS COME TO SENSECAPTIVE

Film technology has always progressed towards giving the user a complete experience, from its humble beginnings almost 250 years ago using light to project images onto screens, it progressed to the mainstream adoption of 4D cinema in 2020, and since 2036 has advanced enough to fully incorporate all of the senses with Sensecaptive Experience Technology (SET). A simple download from The Network allows users to experience a feature length film from a first person perspective in the comfort of their own head in less than 5 minutes. But because SET is a completely different media to traditional film it took a few years to develop the technology to convert between the two. On Tuesday pre-2036 films started being rereleased in SET capable cinemas worldwide. The Lord of the Rings is rereleased Thursday at the Embassy cinema in Wellington one week before its worldwide rerelease.



Edit: Rob and I will be filming so we will have a photo for you on Sunday asap, and then a film for presentation. Elle

Sport Photoshoot

A few images taken from a photo shoot done for the sport section of Capital Chronicle

"How technology will transform us"

Video on "how technology will transform us" from TED Talks. Backs up some things I've looked into for the sport section - Bionic limbs, nanobots in the blood, possible the future of sport, along with a few extras to do with our project as a whole and The Network.

Captial Chronic Article

Capital Chronic Cinemas

Robbie and Niquita finished the abstract video about Wellington networks and connecting into the network. The video includes aspects of ideas that have been explored by the group including entry into and out of the network, water, metal/biological poisoning and blood batteries.

The video can be found on Vimeo HERE
or on YouTube HERE

Alternatively on Blogspot,

Video Effects and Stills

Robbie and Niquita combined have been working on the abstract video about networking and social interactions. The video includes aspects of ideas that have been explored by the group including entry into and out of the network, metal/biological poisoning, blood batteries and current social interaction in the city of Wellington combined with ideas of the future. Animals were used to show networking on a basic biological level.

Below are some stills taken from the footage we collected while I was experimenting with effects and colour.

Capital Networks Film

A Capital Chronicles Network Film is being created.
This short film will show a crude way of entering into series of networks, clash of technology and raw abstract.

Starring jono, niquita and robbie

Precedents for this film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxINMuOgAu8

Photographic diary. Tardigrade hunt

Robbie grew moss and let it harvest so that we could get a microscope and search for some Tardigrada. We did find some little bugs and also an aphid.

Biological Buildings

I found a company based in the UK that is building vertical gardens on the sides of buildings. LINK

There's a link on the page to growing moss on buildings but it says it's "hush hush"

"Growing moss and other plants such as liverwort in vertical situations, for a number of reasons, including an international arts project, a moss wall in Europe and a possible energy exchange system"

At the moment they're looking into different species and growing them on felt.

There's also a section on indoor vertical gardens. Below is an image of one such garden in a restaurant in Japan.

The botanist Patrick Blanc has a website HERE

According to his website he's the creator of the vertical garden or 'Mur Vegeta" He's also got really douche-esk pictures of himself posing on the homepage as an added bonus.

But if you go to his projects page he's got some really cool looking work. Good inspiration for the potential moss on buildings idea AND the perfect city home for Tardigrades if we end up using them.

Talk with Doug

Talked to Doug. Apparently really difficult to find Tardigrades. 100+ man hours for two people. They die easily, they get eaten by other things. They aren't big, need to be searched for with a microscope. In the samples we will be working with it's apparently like a whole different world of life - "Like trying to find a species of snake in the amazon rain forest."

Their "indestructible state" has to be induced somehow, Doug doesn't know how to induce it or get them out of it. While they're like this they're essentially like seeds but when they are in there normal living state they die very easily.

Doug's putting a microscope in the middle lab for us to use. He suggested going to the MET shop to buy science supplies and plastic box for the little containers he showed me to hold them. He also has a microscope with a Playstation camera attached, we can plug it into one of the macs and record at a microscopic level.

Said we should talk to a biologist - there could be an easier way of finding them. Apparently it's possible to buy colonies of them but NZ is pretty strict on things like this.

Doug also said that he thinks they might have slides of Tardigrades at Te Papa that we could go and look at.

Salient Article "Pedestrian City: The Future of Wellington"

Pedestrian City: The Future of Wellington

Article in Victoria University "Salient" student magazine from 28th July 2008

Talks about a Wellington already being a pedestrian city and expanding and focusing on this in the future.

Vertical Farming

The Future of the City: Vertical Farming

Article about a possible future for farming. Buildings dedicated to growing food.

"'vertical farming,' a practice based on the belief that producing fruits, vegetables and grains on farms located atop skyscrapers can reduce global warming, save space, while generating clean energy and water."



Verticalfarm.com is linked from the article. "Verticalfarm.com" Website is by Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbiology at Columbia University.
Possible contact for our group if we explore vertical farming more.

Design from the website of a possible vertical farm.