Update #2: Only two weeks left!
Hey everyone,
First I just wanted to thank everyone who has contributed so far. It's extremely gratifying that 111 people thought this project was worthwhile enough to donate to. I can't emphasize this enough. But we're not done yet!
As of today, we have exactly 2 weeks left before the end of the campaign, and we still have over $500 to raise. In addition to your awesome contributions, I'd like to ask all of you for one more favor:
In the next week, please tell as many people as possible about the campaign. Tweet it, Facebook it, write it on a dead tree and send it USPS to your long-lost relatives in the Ukraine. I really believe we can push it over the top so that I can finish this project and make the world look a little less like a Nascar racer.
Thanks again to you all for contributing. You guys rock!
In other project news:
As you probably know, one of my goals of this project is to make it a successful free software project - as community-driven as possible. In order to do this, not only must the code work, but it must be accessible, well documented, and conform to well-known standards/conventions. This is what I've been working on for the past few weeks, when I can find the time. It is kind of tedious, but completely necessary, and easier to do sooner rather than later.
To this end, I am looking for collaborators: people who would like to get involved with the coding -- particularly people who are familiar with c++, GNU autotools, and computer vision techniques. If you happen to know anyone like this, please send them my way.
Lastly, I just came across this project, and I thought you guys might be interested:
http://www.logohallucination.com/
It uses an interesting analysis technique that I haven't looked into yet, but it seems might be useful for Unlogo.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fowlkes/BSE/
Have a great week!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 22, 2010.
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Your name in the README plus an "Unlogo" USB drive with the source code of the finished product.
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Your name in the README and 10 Unlogo die-cut stickers so that you can unlogify stuff in your neighborhood.
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All of the above, plus an unlogo t-shirt. Sure to be a contentious copyright artifact!
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All of the above, plus I will personally take your favorite movie and use "The Moustachizer" to add moustaches to everyone in the movie. You must own the movie, of course!
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All of the above, and a set of 12 glossy prints of the best Unlogofied frames from the first round of videos.
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All of the above, plus we will make a replacement scheme on the website where all logos will be replaced with your face, or another image of your choosing.
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I will come to your studio or home and give a workshop on how Unlogo works and what techniques I am using. You provide travel and accomodation if you are outside of NY.
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Jeff Crouse’s work playfully comments on the role of technology in our lives. His work takes many forms, including software, web applications, installations, games, and video – mostly as satire and parody. His piece Invisible Threads, a mixed reality installation about virtual labor, was featured at the New Frontiers Gallery at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. James Chimpton, a robotic monkey, interviewed the artists of the 2008 Whitney Biennial using information harvested from the web in real time. His fictional software, Godblock, a parental control program to protect kids from religious indoctrination, sparked an online debate on the dangers of both censorship and fanaticism. His work has also been shown at the the DC FilmFest, the Come Out and Play Festival in Amsterdam, Laboral in Gíjon, Spain, the Obie Awards, the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, and his software “Unlogo” – a corporate identity media filter – will be featured in the September Berkeley Art Museum Net Art issue. He has received grants from Rhizome and Turbulence, and has completed residencies at Eyebeam and Minneapolis Art on Wheels.
