Category Archives: notes
and the winner is…
Metro.net wins Best Home Page from LAWeekly! Yes, I work at Metro when I’m not teaching at CalArts or making experimental art. I am responsible for the Python/Django code that makes Metro.net go. I’ve been working on this for two+ years with an amazing team of five. It’s all part of a larger project to [...]
chromatic aberration
I assigned the students at my workshop in Vienna to bring examples of media artifacts. They brought in a wide variety of artifacts, including many things that had never thought about. This one is about chromatic aberration: those phantom colors that bleed away from their source into neighboring colors. He explained that chromatic aberrations are [...]
mersenne video twister
One of the students in my workshop in Vienna asked for help in disrupting the frames of a video. She explained that she wanted to use every frame, and that each one should be played out of order. I made a couple of notes on the back of an envelope, and here it is as [...]
the floor is wood
Look at (this image) of the floor. How do you know it’s wood? Have you touched it or interacted with it in some way? Visual cues tell you something about its character. The way stains penetrate the surface. Patterns in the grain suggest tree rings. Smoothed whorls of darker material suggest lost branches. Dents from [...]
I’m a Filmforum guest!
Thanks, friends, for coming out to the screening. It was a blast!
time compression series 4
highways stripes at 65mph seem to know something about economic hard times
time compression series 3
it may appear to be a normal beach snap but look again. it’s actually 722 vertical stripes of video lined up horizontally along the x-axis. there is about 24 seconds of time captured here.