Twitter Updates for 2009-02-22

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  • Applied to school of sound’s international symposium in London this spring. Fingers X’d; http://www.schoolofsound.co.uk/ #
  • Underachievers at Saki bar in Rusholme, maybe a good place to show stuff….. #
  • having my 352nd final cigarette and coffee :o( #
  • Playing with Processing – the programming language – it is amazing! Trying to make a dynamic bluetooth powered animation system…. :D #
  • Underachievers at Saki bar for a film night, was pretty rubbish. Viv’s videos were great though.. #
  • setup http://lostobjects.co.uk/ for caiti’s lost things project, check it out #
  • idea; Create a bluetooth virtual gallery, for arts viewable on mobile phone. #
  • another processing idea; use Wii remote to animate… #
  • starting to use Vimeo instead of YouTube – such an attractive interface! And high quality to boot. #
  • ..another Processing idea (related to Frankie & Wyndward’s idea); output binary stream from an analogue input #
  • People following you, in order to then spam, is a very bad idea. Go do some blog spam. #

BtAnim: Processing Animator + Bluetooth V1

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I’ve spent a couple of days this week working with Processing – a programming environment designed for artists and designers. I’ve found it surprisingly fun. It happens very rarely with software, that you just identify with it straight away. It happened with me and Ableton Live, and that has culminated in my album.

Anyway. I’ve managed to create something – currently extremely unimaginatively titled BtAnim. As with a lot of my work it is really just a framework for something else to happen. How it works is this;

To begin with BtAnim just displays the starting image on the screen. Anyone who sees it can add their own frame to the animation, by taking a photo on their mobile phone and bluetoothing it to the computer. If you watch the video example here, you will see that as time goes on, more frames are added (although the video is just from my own testing) just as they will be when people are contributing their own images.  That’s it.

I thought it would work really well in a public place like a shop window or something.

Technically it is my usual mish-mash of hacking together some code in Processing, using BlueSoleil for the bluetooth component and PHP to monitor incoming files. Watch this space.

Cube Competition Entry

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I’ve entered this photograph into a competition that Cube are running.

I’m doubtful whether the image will win – but apparently all of the submited images will be shown, and I think it would work well as part of a collection like that.

Wheelie and Wheels

Wheelie and Wheels

Keeping Busy

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I need to keep busy over the Christmas break from University. Although the year is normally split into 3 segments, this year (the final one) is basically split in half. And I’m at the halfway point. So I need to keep up with making things, writing things and formulating what I’m going to do at the end of the year. Here’s a few things that I want to get on with.

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Distributed Video Feedback

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Feedback is an immensely interesting subject with many philosophical facets and a massive array of applications.

I’d like to set up a feedback loop that is distributed among remote locations. For it to work I’ll need to have two computers, each equipped with a camera and an internet connection. The screen on computer 1, will show the live video feed (streamed through the net) from computer 2. The screen on computer 2, will show the live video from computer 1. The cameras attached to both computers would point at the screens.

Adding some kind of moving subject infront of either camera would possibly produce more interesting results.

It would be ideal to increase the number of computers in the chain. The more distributed (and global) the better. Degredation of quality, however, would probably ruin the image after a few iterations – though maybe it would actually create something really good.

Web Server Art

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If you run a website, or put a web server online, it shouldn’t take long before you start getting hits. Most of the hits are from automated bots, but still you get them. Following on from my previous post, I thought it might be interesting to have a custom web server that produced sound directly from the HTTP requests that it got; whilst still delivering the HTML content to the requestor.

Hmmm.

- Update, I’ve just hacked together a webserver that will make my laptop beep everytime there is a hit on it. So- if you’re reading this then make my PC beep by clicking here.