Rebecca and I have been distracted by a number of things lately, though we have discussions about work now and again. Yesterday we were making a list of work that computers might actually be able to perform without the compromises that the encoding and decoding process impose on media. We started thinking about media that [...]
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Metro Developer produces Timelapse video of Mulholland Bridge Demolition Metro will soon release a timelapse video of the Mulholland Bridge demolition. Produced by Douglas Goodwin, developer for Creative Services’ Interactive Design group (IxD), the video is cut from 10,000 frames captured every fifteen seconds over the course of the weekend. These frames were first seen [...]
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carmageddon timelapse
This video is made from stills that were uploaded every minute to the server through the cellphone network. There is no sound yet. I don’t like that frenetic pace of most timelapse movies. That frenzy gives me an uneasy feeling that it’s stealing time away. I have been working on techniques to put more time [...]
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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 [...]
time compression series
on the street in front of the reproduction of DW Griffith’s recreation of Babylon.
Edw. Bellamy’s Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887, summary
Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is no doubt difficult for those whose studies have not been largely historical to realize that the present organization of [...]
computer<-->world connections
There are three new tools in the shed. List: a Max/Jitter patch that will advance full resolution video frames while driving the Tobin through a whole roll of single frames film. Call it an automated digital optical printer a Boarduino and prototype shield for interfacing with generalized MIDI streams an interface to John Fletcher’s Integrating [...]
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more digital artifacts
I’ve just completed a series of 17 images derived from failures in compression. I’m going to print these as large as possible, retaining as much compression ‘tooth’ as the procedure will allow. Thumbnails have been uploaded to flickr to see what kind of interest that community has in imagery derived from the failure of media [...]
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cuddle, sit by pool [468mb]
to download this file, simply click on the zip file image at left _or_ press and hold the [control] key while clicking on the image to download the zipped dvd disk image. wait a long time, then double-click on the resulting zip file to decompress it. double click on the resulting disk image (CUDDLESITBYPOOL.img) to [...]
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on the road, summarized
Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with his beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound bus at 50th Street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in Hector’s, and since then Hector’s cafeteria has always been a big symbol [...]
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