The Guide

Caricature from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo . grab code here for openframeworks https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxCv/tree/master/example-flow-distort

timeRemapExportHD from Adrien M / Claire B on Vimeo . Slit can photography from    Donato Maniello http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/distorting-the-concept-of-time-through-photographic-manipulation Hesitatio by James George http://www.jamesgeorge.org/works/hesitation.html Info about slit scan photography

This makes me want to learn EVERYTHING This video sent me on the tanget of learning sites http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/ex-stanford-teachers-new-startup-brings-university-level-education-to-all-tctv/ ----------- ------------------- http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.udacity.com/ http://ocw.mit.edu/ http://www.codecademy.com/ http://io9.com/5848291/10-awesome-online-classes-you-can-take-for-free

Came across this from the blog Prosthetic Knowledge Here is a about the Artist Lillian F. Schwartz http://lillian.com/

Here is a talk from Amber Case.  She has some really interesting ideas on how we interface with each other and technology. Amber is working on a book that is exploring these ideas. You can see of it here. http://cargocollective.com/cyborg-anthropology

20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo . http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/

Beautifu animation by Max Hattler . I wish I could make something as beautiful as this. I'm going to have to try a few experiments and see where it goes. This is a modern day version of what John Whitney was trying to make. I have an earlier post showcasing some of Whitney's work along with a few others. ------------------------------

As some of you may know, I've been working on Augmented Reality projects at Talking Dog Studios and I also have a great love for sound in all it's forms. I think these two videos compliment each other and I think I'm curious to look more into these concepts. I've been playing around with a app for the iPhone called RJDJ that seems to sit in the middle of these two videos. Enjoy ... ------------------------------

I just love listening to Bruce Sterling talks.  I highly suggest you listen to what he has to say then we can go talk about it together. You can follow this video up by going to his blog on Wired magazines website  wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/ Closing Keynote: Vernacular Video from Vimeo Festival on Vimeo . At the end he mentions a few people (Gurus of the Guru)....The one I actually caught was Lev Manovich. Here is a link to his website  manovich.net and I'll have to go back and catch some of the others. Also, I've been meaning to gather up a post about Bruce for some time and I'll try find all his other talks and post them up on here. Enjoy ------------------------------

The other day a friend posted this video online rhythm 23 by Hans Richter (1923) and music by The Soft Moon "Parallels" (2010) This got me thinking about the simple magic of animating shapes. I love animation and I've been recently thinking more of the coordination of sound and image (in particular black and white imagery). I've been playing around with making sounds with black and white imagery using a program called photosounder . The video above sent me on this journey through youtube and led me to this video. Viking Eggeling - Symphonie Diagonale from 1924 After the last video I was reminded about John Whitney . I had been introduced to Whitney a year or so ago through my interests in abstract computer graphics and music. His work was exploring the harmony of sound an image together. I would love to study more of his work and ideas. Here is one of Whitney's called Matrix III from 1972 and here is a piece of his that tries to condense his various styles to...

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...

Here is a little video we've put together at my work. It kinda came out of some of my experiments with motion tracking and just general craziness.

So, at work awhile ago I had been playing around with motion tracking. Here is what I came up with.

Here are some wonderful videos my brother has been making.

So, I'm having a little Daftpunk fever. I picked up the Alive 2007 Daftpunk concert album just a few days ago and I'm been listening to it while driving around and it's a pretty decent listen. Then I remembered to myself that Daftpunk put out a strange obscure little experimental film just awhile ago called Electroma. You can watch the whole film here: electroma on google video Now before you play the clip below you should watch the whole movie first. I suppose you don't have to, but it may add to the enjoyment. Apparently, from what it looks like, the whole film was edited to their last album, but then replaced with the experimental, cinematic soundtrack that went along with the theater release. I'm sure this has probably come up in a few places on the net, but this was the first one on me so I thought I would share with yall. and to finish this all off, here is a review of the film with a little added discussion about see the film in a theater vs the youtube...