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 [...]
Category Archives: installations
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 [...]
kerouac’s ear
“Kerouac’s Ear” is a WWII vintage electro-mechanical typewriter which periodically types out text fragments in the beat style. This text is distilled from online chatrooms where the style of each line from hundreds of posts is considered. When a line of chat text is found to resemble Kerouac’s style, it is passed to the typewriter [...]
Failure sketches
Here are a couple of quick sketches for Failure: Cameras positioned above each screen shoot the data representation and render the image as well as possible. Gallery visitors interrupt the camera’s path causing data dropouts in the rendered image.
“ruby slippers” is now “Lossless”
The title has changed, and we’ve refined our pitch. Here’s what we sent to Linz: Good news, Lossless has been accepted into collision 11! Details to follow.
ruby slippers update
there’s a chance we’ll be showing the ruby slippers in 16mm this february–details to follow. in the meantime, here’s a small taste of how things are developing.
group theory
Here’s a new idea for the ruby slippers series. Q: What is the most popular recording of all time? A: Bing Crosby’s 1942 White Christmas, it’s sold over 50 million copies. Q: How was this originally consumed? A: On 78rpm records. Q: How do most of us know the song today? A: Either from television, [...]
hwy101 at noon (for Ken)
hwy 101 >>moov silverlake blvd >>moov
oz differencing prototype gallery
here. After finding a charming collection of chalkboard notes by Pat Hanrahan, I finally understand how Photoshop determines the values in a matrix of pixels resulting from the composite of two transparent layers. Then thinking like an optical printer (the person, not the machine) and tossing some ideas around with Adam Savje, I put together [...]
100% Austen
sty·lo·met·rics |stīˈlämitriks|1. A method of studying literary style, frequency of word usage, etc by means of the statistical analysis of a text, usually with the aid of computer programs, which allows for the charting of historical changes in style, the investigation of questions of disputed literary authorship, the authentication or otherwise of written evidence, police [...]