The Guide

The other day I noticed that I hadn't updated this in awhile and I was also thinking about this good old city of Regina, Saskatchewan. I felt like promoting some of the local talent here that isn't just a band. So here are a few Regina electronic artists that deserve a little more of a showcase. Archie Cooper Latest tracks by Archie Cooper Limbo / Neontetra Latest tracks by limbo / neon tetra / rcid Pulsewidth Latest tracks by ernst.pulsewidth ------------------------------

A quick formal update. I know the world of twitter has taken up a lot of people's time, but I thought I would take a little moment to at least try mentioning that I've put some music up at soundcloud. Here is the player with some tracks that I just felt like they needed to be aired out a bit. Guidewire experiments by guidewire Hopefully I can get some feed back and see if any actually like a few of them. You guys can download them from soundcloud I believe. Also, these aren't really finished finished tracks. But, I guess sometimes after putting them out there is no going back. I just finished up two week or so of inspiring festival going and I can see more music starting to bubble up right away that I have some time to relax a little more. I hope to start getting some more complete ideas down on here as well. I'm also feeling like I may or may not start another blog that is more geared towards my work/tech research. But, I'll probably wait until...

So, A little less than a month ago I held a little musical event called "WTFeb!!!" and we had some great performances from Hamptone, Pulsewidth, Guidewire (me), Dj Potree, and Nuthre. Here are there recordings: Hamptone http://tinyurl.com/d3buv4 pulsewidth http://tinyurl.com/aw2k9j Guidewire http://tinyurl.com/d8fypu DJ PoTree http://tinyurl.com/czqbwp Nuthre http://tinyurl.com/add7f2 And a link to a stream of the five performances: http://tinyurl.com/dgmpjt I've also posted up an old album of mine called "Psycho Acoustic Algorhythms" which can be found here http://ryan.ameba.ca/guidewire/paa_guidewire.zip tell me what you think Hopefully you guys find these recordings worthy of your ears.

So, I've been exploring the technicalities and coolness of " Augmented Reality " AR at my workplace over the last week or so. It's a process of basically overlaying 2d or 3d images onto video of the world in "real time". This can be done using a video camera and a computer which could then lead to some kind of headset in the future. The process has been around for a number of years, but recently it has become possible to do it relatively easy on a website. here is a video that got our curiosity going -- It's designed using Adobe Flash, a code library called papervision3d , and another library called FLARToolKit based off of ARToolKit. Saqoosha, who translated the code to work with flash, has some sample code to get started http://saqoosha.net/en/flartoolkit/start-up-guide/ There is a nice starter article that I've been going back to more than once from Mikko Haapoja out of Toronto: www.mikkoh.com/blog/ A company called Boffswana designed a litt...