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Meta by Lukasz Karluk [aka julapy]
Golan Levin Q&A - Recorded with Kinect
Programming artist Golan Levin created a video Q&A with Reddit on the subject of future technology related to experimental cinema. Interestingly, the whole response was captured with Micosoft Kinect technology, giving a Minority Report-like hologram feel, moving the data around to give alternative angles.
Here is the video, embedded below:
More background information can be found at Creative Applications
GIfVJ1.0
OK … Tumblr … Topherchris … sit down and take a deep breath …
K …
bimyoo [I think] has created an app with Processing that allows you to VJ with Tumblr Gif files. To get an idea, see the video above. You give the app the ID / location of the tumblr GIFs, and you can play them with your keyboard and Apple touchscreen devices.
The Google Translation of the Japanese below:
I created an application called GifVJ in Processing.
Enter the ID of the tumblr after starting the GifVJ, assign the switch a gif animation of the new order of up to 45 hours post automatically.
Keyboard operation “i” “o” “p” “@” “[“ key (in alphabetic keyboard “i” “o” “p” “[” “]” is) control block.
Gif animation is housed in one block of nine. From there, “1-9” is selected in the block key gif animation.
“I” new order “i” “o” “p” “@” “[“ and contains the animated gif.
BPM can also count the space key, you can sync with the music Seraru gif animation playback speed accordingly. Please tap the BPM at least five times.
GifVJ when exiting exits with esc.
tumblr users to download and play ~ I come!
ProcessingにてGifVJというアプリケーションを作成しました。
GifVJを起動後にtumblrのIDを入力し、自動的に投稿時間が新しいものから順に４５個までのgifアニメをスイッチに割り当てます。
キーボード操作では「 i 」「 o 」「 p 」「 @ 」「 [ 」キーで（英字キーボードでは「 i 」「 o 」「 p 」「 [ 」「 ] 」です）ブロックの制御。
一つのブロックに９つgifアニメが収納されています。そこから「1~9」キーでブロック内のgifアニメ選択です。
「 i 」から新しい順に「 i 」「 o 」「 p 」「 @ 」「 [ 」とgifアニメが格納されます。
またスペースキーでBPMカウントができ、それによりgifアニメの再生速度を音楽に同期させらることが可能です。最低5回BPMをタップしてください。
GifVJを終了する時はescキーで終了します。
tumblrユーザーは是非ダウンロードして遊んでね〜！
NOTE: I’ve downloaded the file (link above), it includes versions for all (Windows / Mac / Linux) but the Windows version didn’t work for me as of yet. That doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone else will have the same problem.
Found via 11111141
ADzero
Designed by British student, a mobile phone made with bamboo casing, to be released initially in China and the UK:
We are a Chinese-English electronics & user experience design startup developing a new innovative handset, our debut being ADzero - The Bamboo Smartphone
More information can be found at their website here
They also have a Tumblr blog here
A Swarm of Nana Quadrotors
Impressive demonstration of extremely small and mobile flying machines that can perform complex movements together - you see the good stuff at roughly 56 seconds into the video.
Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics.
Tinkercad
Online browser-based 3D modelling services looks like a great way to introduce anyone into designing, from children to adults. Uses modern web technology (such as WebGL) and it’s presentation is clean, functional, and undaunting. Anything created can be made with a 3D printer, and has the option to be sent to services that can make your designs.
Free To Use, Pay When You Order
With Tinkercad you can design real things that come out of the 3D printer, into your life. You don’t need any previous design expertise. Just open the browser and start creating! Share your designs with friends and explore things made by other makers. 3D print things on your own printer or order things delivered to your doorstep by high quality 3D printing services.
You can check out Tinkercad here
Amon Tobin - Just One Caress From You And I’m Blessed Megamix
Mix by kroniktronikboy that features an hour and a half worth of music by the great Amon Tobin. No tracklist I’m afraid, but it isn’t important - Amon Tobin’s work is all quality, a true maverick in the electronic music scene.
MTV’s 10 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (2001) By Jason Salavon
Following on from the previous post (where the artist gives a talk about his work).
MTV compiled a millenium list of the “Greatest Music Videos of All Time.” Each of the videos in the top 10 of this list were digitized in their entirety and the individual frames were simplified to their mean average color, eliminating overt content. These solid-colored squares were then arranged in their original sequence and are read left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
The pieces are:
- Thriller
- Vogue
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Sledgehammer
- Walk This Way
- Sweet Child O’ Mine
- Sabotage
- Addicted to Love
- California Love
- Express Yourself
Turning Data Into Art
UPDATE: Apologies for the video not working - you can see it here
10 minute talk by new media artist Jason Salavon for Chicago Ideas Week. Jason is responsible for works such as Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades (normalized) and The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1 [pictured above, which is the film Titanic broken down into frames, which each frame reduced to it’s average colour - it’s discussed at the beginning of the talk].
“This is a website I created after being affected by the 3.11 Earthquake in Japan, and the nuclear power plant incidents that followed.”
Reblogged from dvdp
This is a great piece of net art - when you open it, the piece goes full screen, with abstract shapes and forms, colours etc.
Recommended, especially if you like trippy minimalism.
(via dvdp)
Scratch Markup Language
New project from Free Art Technology (F.A.T.) that aims to create a technology standard for the purpose of logging complex turntable manipulation:
SML (Scratch Markup Language) is a new file format for recording and replaying turntablism. We’ve developed open-source tools for accurately capturing the record and crossfader movements of a scratch DJ, allowing us to analyze, transcribe, and recreate scratch performances.
We want to do for turntablism what Graffiti Markup Language has done for tagging — especially teaching giant robot arms how to scratch.
At Art Hack Day we collaborated with other artists and programmers to develop the first prototypes of ScratchML. We used timecode vinyl to capture record movements ($10) and a hacked VCA fader + Arduino to record the crossfader ($30).
More info about the project can be found at F.A.T. here
Programmed Pencil Drawing Effect
This isn’t a cheap iPhone app or Photoshop filter, but using code @kyndinfo has managed to create the most convincing artificial sketching effect I have seen so far.
From Creative Applications:
Kynd uses openFrameworks to create pencil-like drawings of photographs:
Pencils has been the most primitive or the most basic drawing and writing tool since around the last century. It also was the one of the primary tools when I was in an art school and has been my best friend since then. Trying to simulate the tone of pencil sketches with programing codes, I reacknowledged that the beauty of of the tool lies in the delicate control of the blackness, strength and thickness of of lines, which I could hardly achieve in some of my attempts so far.
More can be found at Creative Applications here, and it is also worth checking @kyndinfo’s Vimeo channel for further experiments, including motion
Brainfeeder Sampler 2012
The great Brainfeeder label (set up by Flying Lotus) have just announced a free 12 track sampler:
Brainfeeder would like to show sincere thanks to our fans after winning “Label Of The Year” at the
2012 Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards.Download a free 12-track Brainfeeder sampler, with tracks from Thundercat, Martyn, Samiyam, Tokimonsta, Jeremiah Jae, Taylor McFerrin, Teebs, Austin Peralta, Matthewdavid, Mono/Poly, and an exclusive download from Lapalux.
Only requirement is an email address. More info and links can be found here
isolatedmix 25 - Applescal: A Telegram To The North
A quality electronic mix by Applescal for the music blog astrangeisolatedplace. An hour long, mellow and uplifting, and perfect for this season.
01. Of Oceans - In Love Not Limbo
02. Fourtet - Locked
03. Pien Feith - I have done nothing (Applescal remix)
04. Aebeloe - Elliot
05. ◯laf Stuut - Love
06. Tonik - Snapshot Two
07. Moonbeam - Motus (Applescal remix)
08. Pional - Alabama Dice
09. John Talabot - Families (feat. Glasser)
10. Tortilla Pass - When The Sun Is Here
11. Jonas K.P. - Day
12. Yasume - Slowly, Clearly and Calmly
13. Sigur Ros - Untitled #2 (Sekuoia remix)
14. Floex - Blow up
15. Télépopmusik - Smile (Applescal’s Tribute Mix)
You can read an interview with Applescal, as well as details behind choosing the above tracks at astrangeisolatedplace here
Timeline Movie Creator
Project created with both Facebook and Definition 6, taking your photos and other shares and putting them into a visual moving archive.
You need to have activated the Timeline feature (and at least 75 photos uploaded).
http://www.timelinemoviemaker.com/
UPDATE
The Next Web has a better analysis of the app, which you can read here
n. Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology
