The Guide

 Yes yes! I'm a Bruce Sterling fan.

More exciting new developments in 3D printing. Looking forward to seeing where this technique goes. http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/printed-optics-3d-printed-devices/

Would love to experiment with this technology. For info about looking around corners http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar//cornar/ More about femto photography http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar//trillionfps/

Can't help but be curious about how this will be used in the field of Augmented Reality. https://www.lytro.com/science_inside Lytro CEO thesis https://www.lytro.com/renng-thesis.pdf more info on light field  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field

Golan Levin's AMA Video Uses Experimental 3D Cinema from FITC on Vimeo .

Some exciting AR research at Microsoft ------------------------------

Just finished watching this documentary from 1996.  Very interesting to see where all this stuff came from right before the internet took off. The doc was done in 3 episodes on PBS and have been nicely compiled into a playlist of 18 segments on youtube. I would love to see a real follow-up to this ( apparently there was a sequel 2 years later about the internet, but I think much more has happened) Here is the wikipedia article on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds ------------------------------

If you have a large amount of time and love Buckminster Fuller you should have a sit down with these recordings. The whole collection of talks amounts to around 42 hours, but some lovely people have broken it down nicely onto youtube. It's pretty packed full of ideas and probably worth a listen to some of it. I'm defiantly going to try and get through it all (in a few sittings). Here is the site that the tapes first came from https://conversationswithbucky.pbworks.com/w/page/16447435/FrontPage Enjoy ------------------------------

Here is a video of a talk Jaron Lanier gave at a conference on Augmented Reality recently. I read his book "You Are Not A Gadget" recently and I'm curious about some of his ideas. He is one of those thinkers that I'm very interested in keeping up on what they have to say (including Bruce Sterling , Clay Shirky , Amber Case and Tim O'Reilly ) He mentions a short story by E.M. Forster (1909) in his talk called "The Machine Stops" that sounds like it would be a worth while read for all of us at some point. http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html He also mentions an man name Ted Nelson that was one of the early thinkers on technology. I must go learn more about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson ------------------------------

So, recently at my work I've been playing around with doing live streaming 'tv" on the internet. We've set up a little area at our studio with a green screen, camera and a microphone. If people are interested in seeing me talk about reality, music and current events come and check it out. The best place to find it is here: tenthdimension.com/chat tenthdimension.com/chat Or ustream.tv/channel/10thdim that's all

Here is a little video I made for a song my boss wrote. Also, here is a little crystal I helped make to go along with the project.

So, I guess I have a few things to say. I was recently shown this wonderful, but scary, video of the some new 3d modeling technology that will literally change the face of film, photography and criminal investigations. I'm pretty intrigued by this technology and probably won't get much of a chance to use it myself, but it's certainly going to push the boundaries of what we can believe from now on. I guess my second thing that has been on my mind today was the little old place of myspace. It seems like myspace is becoming more and more widely used, but it doesn't seem to really be enhancing its operations at all for the considerable amount of people that are using it. I know that it's free and people can use it to promote themselves, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't get something more usable than what's provided. In this age of web design I don't think any site should be able to get away with what they do. Myspace should be challenged a...

So, the other day at my work we came up with this crazy idea to put some 3d objects into crystal. There is a way of taking a 3d picture of yourself and have it put into a crystal using a laser. I went and did a little looking around and found this cool site where this person puts mathematical objects into crystal. SUPER COOL!! http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/

I just saw this TEDtalks video on a new multi-touch interface that is going to change the world... It is the technology that is part of the new iPhone... I should also apologies for my incorrect statement that the iPhone was at CES...it was of course at MacWorld. more to come later....just go check it out.

So, today I was just surfing the good old net and spotted that Apple announced their new iPhone. I'm trying not to like that company too too much, but they deserve credit some times. http://www.apple.com/iphone/ It looks to be pretty damned sexy. I'm supper in love with the use of tilt sensors to re-angle the screen for the user. This is part of the whole Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that's on this week in Las Vegas. I'm excited to hear what else is up and about.

I found this link http://graffitiresearchlab.com/ on Rhizome.org . I would really like to go put a bunch of these together and go a building up in my area. So nice, wikkid and lovely. Here are instruction on how to go make an LED graffiti magnet.