Resurrection

Gonna start posting stuff on here again. This time, more rants, ravings and opinions. heheh.

The best there is...

Check it:


or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc

Great old CBC program on the net

My friend, Victoria sent this along to me via the ol interweb. This is an article about the net, aired on CBC back in the day. It goes so far as to deal with emoticons and is surprisingly prescient about the various issues that the net would affect.

http://archives.cbc.ca/clip.asp?IDClip=11981

Experiment video

Great open source sound site

I'm planning on using some sounds in my project, specifically the sounds of creeks, maybe some waves etc; basically softly running water. This site:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

and this sound of gentle waves in particular are really nice.

Here's a good stream, or two.

Here's a good river, and finally, a great fjord.

Finally, here is a great article about using sound to create/change space.

Weird science!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time

Common People

Never live like common people do...

Happy New Year!

After a great holiday in Hamilton and New Year's in Montreal, I'm glad to be back and at work. Happy 2008 to everyone and make sure that before the days start flying by and the rat-race continues, you take a moment to sit back and reflect on the year that just passed. Christmas and especially New Year's Eve always remind me of how fleeting time can be, and how its my most valuable asset when I have it. I'm going to try to really appreciate the next few days and try to change the pace at which I live my life. It is possible to slow down, and rather than just 'keeping busy' and returning to the status quo this is the time of year to try to gain a new perspective on what it is you do and how you spend your time, and more importantly, your thoughts. There's a reason everyone around the world celebrates the New Year and its worth dwelling on that idea. Well, enough philosophy, back to taking it easy...

Arden & Indiana University

I love the name of this program: The Synthetic Worlds Initiative. Sounds a little scary and Gibson-esque, but also really rad. Their marquee 'world' is Arden based on Shakespeare. The website for the program is rather nice especially for a university.
Arden

Icarus' Ilk

Sometimes people do things that dwarf our everday experiences. These are those people:

NYTimes article on 'Flying People'

Great Media Player

www.jeroenwijering.com

It can play anything!

Graffiti Research

Graffiti Research Lab - kinda geeky and corny, but I can't really blame em. If only they hadn't mentioned "Style Wars" as such an inspiration. That sounds way too try-hard hipstery. Graffiti has been around in YOUR city for at least 20 years now, a movie shouldn't have to tell you that.

A good article from WIRED showing that there's more to it than those cats above. Especially the German subway submergence.

Superawesome

This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen on the web in a long time. There's even a Director Demo version on the web page. Essentially its an application that allows you to analyze and manipulate frames of film in incredibly interesting and beautiful ways.

http://www.recreating-movement.com/

More beautiful visualizations

Somebody's thesis project (uh-oh):
http://well-formed-data.net/thesis

Falling Down

The News:

http://www.fallingtimes.info/index.php

In real time, watch our "decadent" society crumble!

Thanks to my classmate Brigitte for the link.

Incredible magnetic/paper/processed butterflies

Need I say more?

More

More art...endless art....

The endless cavalcade of links continues with art by Martin Puryear, courtesy of the NYTimes.com. Does the amount of linking I do make each link the more trivial? This is something that concerns me. I should feed that data into Freebase or ManyEyes and chart it. And then make a chart of how fast/usefully I read that chart.

I'm basically at optimal functionality right now as an information processor as I surf the web. A combination of the right hardware (fast CPU and good keyboard and high-res monitor) and a lack of work and an attitude inclined toward superficial research (I am in school) has propelled me to at least twice my normal browsing/roving speed. I'm like a machine cow with 10 arms, 20 stomachs and a gut full of steroids ruminating across a lush meadow of ultimately lightweight feed. This blog is where I defecate/digest I suppose.

The last paragraphs courtesy, at least in part, to an over abundant diet of William Gibson during formative years.

Badass computer stuff

Some of this is visualizations of data, some I think just abstract, but procedural animation. Either way, its incredible looking.

http://www.flight404.com/blog/

Incidentally, its done with Processing.

Geolocated manifesto

Courtesy of Googlemaps and geogreeting.com and Photoshop, and for that matter BlueSponge's computers and relative lack of work right now (knock on wood).