January 2012
57 posts
Eyeo Festival's videos on Vimeo →
Watch one of the videos from this conference. Make a 6 minute Ignite Talk to introduce one of the artists to the class. More information and links on these folks can be found here. http://eyeofestival.com/
PopTech : Popcasts : Zach Lieberman: Interactive... →
Homework for Tuesday
1.Read Program or be Programmed. I’ve found from reading this book several times that I strongly agree with some points and strongly disagree with others. Find one of the 10 commands that you agree with and one that you disagree with. Outline those points in a blog entry and be prepared to discuss either of those points in class next Tuesday.
2. If you haven’t installed Processing...
WatchThe Art Department at Whitman will be ordering a Makerbot kit this semester and building it ourselves.
“Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about the transition from...”
– The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site
WatchProgram or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff (by OR Books)
You’ll be reading this book over the weekend.
For Your Processing →
My own archive of Processing related tidbits.
Browse - OpenProcessing →
A great resource for code by people ranging from beginners to experts.
Processing.org →
Download processing for your own computer….it runs on all platforms and is easy to install….it will make homework for this class much easier.
WatchDaniel Shiffman (by Mark Webster)
This guy wrote our textbook on Processing.
Class blogs
newgenrearts
annaberrant
haleyefox
avid91dreamer
beatnikblogster
rcline
petersjc5
calebjturner
peteolson26
Rachel's GIF. →
Water Canyon Kumquat →
Whoa, guys, they just shut down Megaupload and... →
newsweek:
shortformblog:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved against a group of suspected online pirates Thursday, targeting the popular file-sharing website megaupload.com a day after Washington lawmakers were besieged by complaints about legislation designed to crack down on the online sharing of pirated copies of music, movies and other material, people familiar with the matter...
A GIF workflow
1. Take your photos or find/shoot your video. Trim the video down to a second or two using Quicktime.
2. Bring video into MPEGStreamClip and export to other formats ( Image Sequence).
3. Open Adobe Bridge CS5 and find the photos or image sequence. In Tools find Photoshop -> Load files in Photoshop Layers
4. This will open them in Photoshop. Open the Animation Window. Copy the image for...
What Is SOPA? - Gizmodo →
CreativeTechs Tips » Build Animated GIFs in... →
One more type of GIF tutorial. A somewhat different style of GIF….but that’s fine too. Our goal this week in terms of making something is to make a GIF and post it to our blogs.
Gif Tutorial for Photoshop
fyeahbigbangtheorygifs:
This was supposed to go up a long time ago, but I totally forgot about it. Sorry about that. Since I wrote this up a while ago, I talk about reducing the size to 500kb. But since the limit was raised to 1MB (YAY!), just pretend that 500kb is 1MB in this tutorial.
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Another GIF tutorial.
dvdp →
GIF blog example # 3.
Watchrobertogreco:
“We talk to Casey Reas about Processing, the open-source software programme developed by himself and Ben Fry while they attended MIT, and how it has transformed how designers can creatively express themselves.”
—Protein®
The Creators Project | Casey Reas →
One of Processing’s creators.
