Each week during our Exhibition Matches this season we’ve been trying something different. In week one, we played an old-fashioned “Photoshop Tennis” match in honor of the application’s 20th birthday. Last week, two typographers created a font in real time and this week we’ve asked photographers Sam Javanrouh of Toronto and Naz Hamid of San Francisco to shoot and upload a live dialogue of photos from their respective cities. Instead of written or spoken layer-by-layer commentary, Mark Greenberg of Mayfair Recordings and The Coctails has agreed to compose a score for the match as it unfolds, a musical commentary, if you will.
We’ll sew everything together into an evolving animated sequence as we go. There will be a ton of tethering and wifi-finding and emailing from Canada and California and plenty of MIDI and sequencing and editing and synching and outputting and cropping from Chicago. That’s a lot of moving parts. It will be a blast and stressful too, but judging by the talents of our participants, it ought to be well worth the effort.
Please tune in to watch it all unfold live at 2pm Chicago time or head to the streets in Toronto and San Francisco and try and catch up to Naz and Sam. Check the time of the match in your area and let us know what you think, by Twittering your comments with #lyt in the message so you show up on our Crowd Page.
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Hello, friends, please note we've compiled the 2010 preseason into one easy-to-watch video along the lines of our Season Two video. When will Season Three start? What surprises await? Season Ticket Holders will find out first, and tickets don't cost a dime!
Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects in Tokyo submits the final volley (Oops I just accidentally typed "vinyl folly!") Our humble document has clocked over 21,000 miles today, and almost that many layers. Thanks for joining us for this and all our preseason matches. Sign up for free Season Tickets to be the first to find out about our regular season!
Here's a list of the players for today's Around the World in Ten Layers match. There is no coin-flip for today but that doesn't mean The Ref isn't busy.
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