hi andreas
Nice project. I've just sent an e-mail to Douglas Bagnall, looking
for some kind of cooperation. We can probably intclude 'his' clouds
in our 'clouds of clouds'.
best of all
miguel
On 24Sep2008, at 7:57 AM, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
hey miguel,
this project should cooperate with this:
http://cloudy.halo.gen.nz/
regards,
-a
Dear all
Our new web project is already on-line. Please report any bug.
Comments are also welcome.
Txs
ml
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CLOUDS OF CLOUDS
by Miguel Leal and Luis Sarmento
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http://www.virose.pt/clouds_of_clouds
Clouds of clouds is a random generator of cloud images. Each new
cloud is unique and indexed to a particular time (GMT) on a
particular day.
Clouds of Clouds was developed in Perl + MySQL. It works over a
database of more than 1.000.000 photos of clouds.
Photo information was gathered from Flickr between September 10-13
2008, using Flickr API.
The database will be regularly updated.
Clouds of clouds is a web-based project comissioned for Interact
15 [http://www.interact.com.pt/].
The project was produced between July and September 2008.
hosted by virose.pt
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"This is randomness, and that is altogether different. If
absolutely necessary, you can count the stars. A catalogue has
been kept of them since Antiquity. But if you ask for a catalogue
of the clouds, people laugh at you. There is no such term as
cloud, defined as permanent, defined by its borders, by its terms
or its terminations. [Š] Clouds, whirlwinds, flows, noises, all
primary masses without qualities."
(M. Serres)
Chaos theories, as they have emerged in strength since the 1960s,
with their focus on complexity, were in fact an answer to the
monstrous and misshapen nature of certain phenomena that were
revealed to be resistant to determinist equations or to the laws
of causality. Atmospheric phenomena such as clouds have always
been seen as an image of the inability to submit certain realities
to precise measurement. To all intents and purposes, clouds
appeared to be a perfect example of irreducibility, instability
and unpredictability. Clouds, in their apparent causal
disjunction, like a whirlwind or vortex, represented the
principles of error, exception and monstrosity.
Perhaps this is why there have never been dreams of an individual
cloud catalogue, since it would be so absurd. If we ask anybody
for something similar, we risk being ridiculed, as Michel Serres
recalls. Clouds are instantly fleeting and have no number or
stable form. They exist now and no longer exist a moment later. We
can classify the clouds approximately, order them by type or try
to understand their signs but we have no way of archiving them.
The exponential growth of Web files, particularly with the
participative forms that Web 2.0 has made common, has finally
brought us an embryo for these absurd archives, and not only for
clouds. Everything that has always been firmly uncataloguable
seems to have found its place in the distributed digital archives.
At the same time, curiously, we have an increasing popularity in
recent years for terms such as Cloud Computing, Cloud
Architecture, Data Clouds, Text Clouds or Tag Clouds, in what
represents the attribution of a new semantic power to our idea of
a cloud. Particularly on the web, with the explosion of social
networks, it has become common to use similar devices to organise
meta-information generated by users.
Clouds of clouds is a random generator of cloud images. Each new
cloud is unique and indexed to a particular time (GMT) on a
particular day. Its clouds were made on similar dates and at
similar times, not necessarily the same year, and are linked to
the original web pages.
The basis of the archives are all images indexed with the tags
<cloud> or <clouds> on Flickr.
These are not clouds in the atmospheric meaning of the word, but
instead entities with which they share a complexity that can be
confused with instability, unpredictability and irreducibility.
That this is based on a relatively simple visualisation
arrangement is another way of indicating that this complexity
depends less on what we see on the surface than on the networks of
relationships established from it.
The clouds generated by the users are kept in searchable archives.
These archives will grow with the project and are intended to
become, over time, veritable daily, monthly, yearly archives of
clouds. Clouds of clouds also works as a type of infinite nesting
doll: clouds within clouds, archives within archives.
Clouds of clouds is a project by Miguel Leal and Luís Sarmento
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