FlashForward 2008

08/07/2008 01:53 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

Seven years ago, I got my public speaking feet wet when I spoke at FlashForward Amsterdam in November 2001. I believe it was 2001. The incident was still fresh enough that seeing assault-rifle armed guards at Logan airport was oddly equally terrifying and comforting. Amsterdam was great! But what wasn’t at all great was [...]

Advanced Beauty on Apple

07/03/2008 11:48 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

That fantastic Advanced Beauty project, curated by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything, with audio from Simon Pyke of Freeform, now has a trailer on Apple.com. In HD too! Ooooh, shiny! Take a peek. The Blu-Ray will be released in November.

Processing - 3D Spiral Patterns

05/05/2008 11:13 pm in Processing experiments

I’ve been getting comfortable with Processing over the last few days, by experimenting with what else but … particles. The three-dimensional patterns that emerge by moving the sliders to change the internal parameters can be quite complex and unexpected, and sometimes strange attractor-like. The algorithm governing particle motion is very straightforward. New particles are created with [...]

SFIFF is nigh!

04/28/2008 11:52 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

I have a piece in the San Francisco International Film Festival. Weird, right? They have a thing called Generator which is an amalgam of a bunch of digital art shorts. My Advanced Beauty piece is in there, along side the works of Lia, Toxi, Watz, and several others. Thanks to Matt Pyke for entering it. [...]

Radiohead reconsidered.

04/26/2008 07:54 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

After 95% of the comments suggested I submit the Radiohead piece to the Aniboom contest, I went ahead. http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=210097 I poked about a bit to see some of the other submissions, and there are some really well thought out storyboards up there. Im looking forward to seeing the final selections.

Visualizing Radiohead

04/24/2008 09:01 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

As many of you know, Radiohead is having a video contest dealie. Lance pointed this out to me back in March and suggested that I give it a go. And a go I did give. First, however, I will discuss why I have decided not to submit my entry. After I started working on the piece, I [...]

FiTC, April 20-22

03/23/2008 12:59 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

As I mentioned a couple posts ago, FiTC is coming in latish April. FiTC is a technology and design conference that originated in Toronto, but has since expanded to other cities in the US and Europe. Originally Flash-focued, it has evolved into a more opened ended format highlighting all manner of multimedia. I am particularly excited [...]

Seed Magazine

03/21/2008 07:47 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

The April 2008 Seed Magazine is out. Hooray! Im excited both for the content, and the 4 full spreads that I did at their request. This issue profiles ‘7 revolutionary minds’, but the Seed Salon is dedicated to Benoit Mandelbrot. Seed Magazine asked me to provide some fractal images, specifically whole Buddhabrots. [...]

SCI-Arc done. FiTC to come.

03/18/2008 01:47 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

Southern California Institute of Architecture were great hosts. I had a really good time, despite being on the tail end of what I can only describe as the most insidious lung infection evar. Luckily, I had Chandler and Ben there to comfort me and put up with my constant whines of “its sooo hard to [...]

Earthquake!!!

03/06/2008 01:25 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

Living in a seismic hot spot has its pros and cons. My grandfather died from injuries he sustained during the last big quake in Kobe. My family is not immune to the effects of a trembling planetary shell. Perhaps this is part of the reason why they fascinate me so. After moving to San Francisco, several [...]

SRC: Particle Emitter, pt. 2

02/14/2008 10:55 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

My creative process is very sculptural. Seeing as how I graduated with a degree in sculpture, this is no surprise. When I code, I keep adding and adding and adding until I reach a point where I start to get confused. Then I step back and look at the piece from all angles until I [...]

SRC: Particle Emitter

02/11/2008 09:07 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

For this first release, I am showing how I go about making a generic particle emitter. I used Processing v.135 and Karsten Schmidt’s Vec3D library. It was developed on a MacBook Pro laptop, but this shouldn’t be a problem. There is an emitter on screen which will follow your cursor position. When you click and [...]

Source code rumination

02/08/2008 09:43 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

Maybe rumination is too strong a word. Im not really thinking intensely about it. Rather I am thinking vaguely about offering it. And by ‘it’ I mean ’some’. I need to be better about giving back to the community which has been so generous with its assistance in helping me. I want to post [...]

Solar, with lyrics

02/02/2008 10:04 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

It occurred to me the other day as I was scrubbing through an audio track and writing down the time stamps for major transitions, “There has got to be an easier way to do this.” When I first started playing around with audio responsive visuals, I simply relied on the FFT data and nothing [...]

UCLA preparations

01/24/2008 07:49 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

Putting some final touches on a demo piece I am showing at UCLA tomorrow. Thought I would pop up a few preview images. See you tomorrow!. See the larger sizes on my flickr page.

Magnetic Ink, process video

01/17/2008 10:04 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

I posted a new process video showing how I made the most recent Magnetic Ink prints. Its a bit better than the first video version (to me anyhow). Still tweaking, but I have to say I love how the orbital vector looks when hundreds of those particles slide around the spheres. If I [...]

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