February 2012
34 posts
Behaves So Strangely - Radiolab →
Fear of Sleep | This American Life →
This was brought up in our lunch last week. The storytelling here is really great. After the photoshop project we will be working on a sound recording/storytelling project.
For homework I’d like you to listen to an episode of the following podcast series
http://www.radiolab.org/
How might live storytelling be augmented with sound. Write a brief entry on your blog about how sound was used...
Bus-Tops: A Season Celebrating Processing -... →
Consider making a sketch and submitting to this.
Design is largely code these days. It wasn’t print that died, it was the graphic...
– Messageboard post, Tim S. (via magnificentruin)
I have been telling students for several years.
(via emergentdigitalpractices)
http://photosynth.net/ →
For your Photoshop amusement. →
Photoshop Disasters →
Photoshop a person into a picture →
(via Nick Bilton: Smart Content on Vimeo)
Nick Bilton, Lead Technology Reporter for The New York Times “Bits” blog, says that digital media has resulted in a “new form of storytelling.” Bilton, who is also a designer and user interface specialist, is co-founder of NYC Resistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn, and is currently writing a book called, I Live in the Future: & Here’s...
Coding for Success →
stevekinney:
Andy Young:
We need to teach our kids to code. All of them. This should be compulsory education, a core pillar of modern schooling. Many people are worried about a shortage of trained programmers, but this misses a wider issue – one of the biggest modern threats to our individual and collective success. They will thank us for it, and curse us if we don’t. Stick with me, because I...
E-mail correspondence with Matt Pearson
This is what I love about Processing - you don't need to be a shit-hot
coder. No one needs to see your workings. It doesn't matter if it crashes
every fifth time, or takes a week to render, or that no-one can understand
it but you. Dirty coding is okay again. The field is ruled by coders with
the best eyes and ideas, rather than the cleanest code.
I'm loving the stuff in your Flickr stream right now purely on an aesthetic
basis. How you made them is interesting to me, but ultimately it doesn't
matter, just that you've made them and they look so great.
On 5/9/11 17: 18, "Justin Lincoln" wrote:
> Hi Matt, Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner after your last comment on
> Flickr. It's quite a privilege to be featured on your blog.Thank you.
>
> Your book has been a great help as I am experimenting with Processing. Lately
> I've been mashing together code available through tutorials and Open
> Processing and adjusting parameters till I get results that surprise and
> please me.
>
> The hardest thing lately is trying to think in terms of OOP from the start.
> When I write my own code it always starts procedurally. I'll give myself some
> time with that I guess.Your book has really nice examples and explanations of
> that. I look at the work I am making now as being unpredictable paintbrushes.
> I look forward to the day that those paintbrushes take on their own behaviors
> like the broom's in Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice.
>
> Thanks again. Keep in touch. - Justin
Father of Computer Science →
Another nice resource for code. →
Golan Levin's studio. →
http://rhizome.org/ →
One of the most popular online clearing houses for opportunities and discourse in New Genres / New Media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome →
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze →
Our space on OpenProcessing →
dumbtech:
TED TALK: Kevin Slavin, How Algorithms Shape our World. (Fascinating)
Examples of Ignite talks. →