Tangwen Sandersons seaside nosalgia parlour

In Brewers Quay. Brilliant.








I was immediately transported back to the age of seven, on a seaside holiday at grans, even though this never happened. Very relaxing with the soothing cries of seagulls and all sorts of thought full pieces, rich in detail, conveying melancholy...

Loads of flotsam, jetsum, bricabrac, and hot glue guns on the table, ready for making. And lots of wonderful finished products in the shop window forming the growing installation. Enchanting.

Look out for a web version of the Parlour and Tangwens new site soon...

b-side cactus capers

Eds endangered snake grass and seahorse installation at Teds cactus kiosk

painty

some of the art in the Mullberry...

b-side going well

It's been a great couple of days. Awesome weather and so many excellent creative innovations on one route..

Loads more pictures on the flickr site

feed portal (window) complete

meh

to the right is Andy Sherlocks awesome pic of Jackie Avery, in his terrifying post nuclear bunker at the Nothe... I thought I'd be coming out to nuclear winter...

can't seem to embed individual Qik videos... the almost finished set up can be seen here, still facing the wrong way and in snake hell...

http://www.qik.com/video/335653

b-side COMSURV feed portal nearly ready

The feed portal, or shop window to the web in Brewers Quay is nearly set. Many thanks to SES Computers, the staff at Brewers Quay, Dave, Darren and Andy for all their help, I definitely couldn't have done it without them. My legs really aching now, despite spending most of my time with my feet up... Anyway, this is where I left it...

So I have four channels on 10 monitors... I ideally would like to run all this off one uber pc with 20 large flatscreens and 10 channels, camera drones, WLAN cams...

Maybe next time but for now I've had to keep it simple (ha!) by using ready made web interfaces and an old pc per channel.

As for the channels these are all promising much but getting them to consistently deliver in the way I needed turned out to be days worth of hassle too. It all seemed so simple when I suggested the webby bit as a marketing technique... and then had to turn it into an art installation.

A good experience though and I think this is a great concept for a wide range of events. Combining a massive, user generated body of web content with a geographically localised portal. This allows people to be drawn form the web to the event, and promotion of specific aspects of the event itself, to participants already there, via the portal. I think.

In this instance me on my scooter using my N95 to stream to Qik will be the only camera drone. I really fancy a mini air ship based remote control flying camera, that'd be awesome. Enough rambling, the feeds are all in place and are as follows

http://comsurv.blogspot.com/2008/09/comsurv-live-video-feed.html

http://comsurv.blogspot.com/2008/09/b-side-08-live-flickr-surveillance-feed.html


http://comsurv.blogspot.com/2008/09/test.html

b-side COMSURV Weymouth

B-side COMSURV

In this, the most surveilled country in the world, I decided to document the B-side festival by "surveiling" it using my camera and phone, along with anyone else s camera or phone who wanted to take part, and upload the images to the internet. Ideally all the images will show up on a map where they were taken but the current internet technology for this is slightly limiting.

The B-side COMSURV installation consists of 4+ channels of digital content displayed on 8+ monitors, set up in an old style shop window, for more details see here

b-side 08 live flickr surveillance feed

B-side 08 satellite flyover and thumbnails of weymouth route