Programming Problems

I have come across a lot of obstacles in the programming end of our project idea.
We are currently looking at different code compliers for Augmented Reality on the iPhone and windows based smartphones. To create an application for an iPhone you must get a developers license which cost 70 euro, and then it takes months of work and reengineering of your application to get it to be accepted into iTunes app store. For Nokia based phones it the same system as Apple but the license is a bit cheaper at 50 euros.
Also there is an issue in creating an iPhone application in a Windows based operating system and yet again there is programmes out there that would help but you need a license which cost money.
At the moment until we decide which system and software we will use, I have been looking at CodeBlocks and Openframeworks just to get my self use to C and C++ as our project supervision Kieran suggested that code is used in iPhone apps.

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The Story so far

We have shifted our focus from making products to combat consumerism to combating the messages of advertisements. At the moment we are looking at Augmented Reality (AR) which is a mixed reality of real world environments and computer generated imagery. We plan to use this technology to create logos,signs or patterns then when viewed with the appropriate software will show the viewer our hidden message in the form of a subvertisements. This gives a lot of avenues for creative subvertisements that are not as law breaking as some of our previous ideas.
At the moment we have a test AR tutorial working on a laptop we hope over the coming weeks to adapt this application to a mobile phone ,so viewers can view our subvertisements while on the move. Also the team are working on our presentation of this refined idea.


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website found

Hi guys just thinking about our new direction for the project, we are giving people an alternative to certain items that they consume, and trying to put value into objects that people have, by showing them how to create the objects themselves.

Here is a site that tries to get people to use the most from their old technological devices, which is another thing we talked about.
http://lastyearsmodel.org/

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The Presentation

Today we had our presentation and a lot of relevant question were asked by the lecturers. They have given us a line of esquire to follow. We should be targeting people who are not aware of advertisement effects and people who are most effected by them. We will now research advertisements and young boys to see if we can incorporate any of the data we find into our project idea.

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Tweeners + Photoshopped ban

Hi guys just looking at some of the effects advertising has on children and the latest advertisers market the "Tweeners" kids between 8-12 years old. Also yesterday in the UK, academics doctors and psychologists call for a ban on photoshopped images, due to their effect on people to cause eating disorders and self-harm.

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http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/marketing/issues_teens_marketing.cfm

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/29012490#29012490 (video)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/liberaldemocrats/6516537/Airbrushed-images-harming-girls-and-boys-experts-say.html

http://news.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=2613948

Culture Jamming

Hi guys, here is some videos and links i found on culture jamming and Ephemeral Art as i think these are concepts that we can incorporate into out project.Also ill post up the Billboard Liberation Front manifesto as they have some good ideas on advertisements effect on society :)

Bling

http://www.publicadcampaign.com
http://www.woostercollective.com
http://www.billboardliberation.com
http://www.psjm.es/index_en.html

















The BLF Manifesto In the beginning was the Ad. The Ad was brought to the consumer by the Advertiser. Desire, self worth, self image, ambition, hope; all find their genesis in the Ad. Through the Ad and the intent of the Advertiser we form our ideas and learn the myths that make us into what we are as a people. That this method of self definition displaced the earlier methods is beyond debate. It is now clear that the Ad holds the most esteemed position in our cosmology.

• Advertising suffuses all corners of our waking lives; it so permeates our consciousness that even our dreams are often indistinguishable from a rapid succession of TV commercials.
  
  
• Different forms of media serve the Ad as primary conduits to the people. Entirely new media have been invented solely to streamline the process of bringing the Ad to the people.
  
  
• Old fashioned notions about art, science and spirituality being the peak achievements and the noblest goals of the spirit of man have been dashed on the crystalline shores of Acquisition; the holy pursuit of consumer goods. All old forms and philosophies have been cleverly co-opted and re"spun" as marketing strategies and consumer campaigns by the new shamans, the Ad men.
  
  
• Spiritualism, literature and the physical arts: painting, sculpture, music and dance are by and large produced, packaged and consumed in the same fashion as a new car. Product contents, dictated by trends in hipness, contain a half-life matching the producers calender for being supplanted by newer models.
  
  
• Product placement in television and film have overtaken story line, character development and other dated strategies in importance in the agendas of the filmmakers. The directors commanding the biggest budgets have more often than not cut their teeth on TV Ads & music videos.
  
  
• Artists are judged and rewarded on the basis of their relative standing in the ongoing commodification of art objects. Bowing to fashion and the vagaries of gallery culture, these creators attempt to manufacture collectible baubles and contemporary or "period" objects that will successfully penetrate the collectors market. The most successful artists are those who can most successfully sell their art. With increasing frequency they apprentice to the Advertisers; no longer needing to falsely maintain the distinction between "Fine" & "Commercial" art.
  
  
• And so we see, the Ad defines our world, creating both the focus on "image" and the culture of consumption that ultimately attract and inspire all individuals desirous of communicating to their fellow man in a profound fashion. It is clear that He who controls the Ad speaks with the voice of our Age.
  
  
• You can switch off/smash/shoot/hack or in other ways avoid Television, Computers and Radio. You are not compelled to buy magazines or subscribe to newspapers. You can sic your rotweiler on door to door salesman. Of all the types of media used to disseminate the Ad there is only one which is entirely inescapable to all but the bedridden shut-in or the Thoreauian misanthrope. We speak, of course of the Billboard. Along with its lesser cousins, advertising posters and "bullet" outdoor graphics, the Billboard is ubiquitous and inescapable to anyone who moves through our world. Everyone knows the Billboard; the Billboard is in everyones mind.
  
  
• For these reasons the Billboard Liberation Front states emphatically and for all time herein that to Advertise is to Exist. To Exist is to Advertise. Our ultimate goal is nothing short of a personal and singular Billboard for each citizen. Until that glorious day for global communications when every man, woman and child can scream at or sing to the world in 100Pt. type from their very own rooftop; until that day we will continue to do all in our power to encourage the masses to use any means possible to commandeer the existing media and to alter it to their own design.
  
  
• Each time you change the Advertising message in your own mind, whether you climb up onto the board and physically change the original copy and graphics or not, each time you improve the message, you enter in to the High Priesthood of Advertisers.
  
  

Jack Napier
John Thomas

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