Can Google get any cooler? Does Microsoft really think they can win? In addition to searching:
Google Defines! (including philosophical/theoretical terms, like ‘intertextuality’
Google uses pigeons to make your search better, with *PigeonRank™*!
Interviewer: do you have the power to destroy the earth?
The Tick: I hope not! That’s where I keep all my stuff!
US military creates second Earth – not sure what to say about this one…
Follow the trail of links here to see the new powerbook G4, the problems of a powerbook G5, and a potential solution through none other than liquid cooling! Mac Rumors
Call me a geek, and you will be right, but can you resist downloading the spider-man 2 trailer? Spider-Man 2
I started teaching at Wits again yesterday: Multimedia Programming for Screen-Based Media and Interactive Installation (whatever that means) in the Interactive Media Design program. We have a fantastic MA class of Artists who I expect great work from!!!
Momentous!!!
OK, so, about 3 years ago, I took this class at ITP on Max/MSP ( Jitter did not yet exist; if it had, I surely would have tried harder). Anyhow, I recently made a purchase of this fantastic package, and have been wading through the tutorials (could this be a move from Director to Max for nathaniel? Stay tuned!…). At some point in the class a few years ago, I hit a wall. Today, when I hit that same wall, I remembered it: the funbuff object. What is this, you ask? Well, it does many things, but mostly, it just confused me. I stared, I read the tutorial, I read the reference… Sigh. You know what? It’s just a bloody index! It’s like a property list, or a graph that has a y value for every corresponding x. That’s it. The confusing thing was all the ways you can access that data. (And, I’m sure I’ll be thankful for it when the day comes that I need it, but for right now, I’m happy to ignore it and just understand the simplicity of this object).
So, what does this mean? It means that I am now beyond tutorial number 27 for Max, which left me hanging all those years ago! I think it’s time for a beer, don’t you?
Holy Crap! The long-awaited full release of Jitter for Windows XP from Cycling74! You Windows users have no idea how lucky you just got…
SO, about two weeks ago, I finally got a chance to play with Jitter. I was meant to do a video-text performance with some friends at the Pretoria Art Museum (went very well, actually), and so played with a bunch of Max and Jitter tutorials to get some nifty visuals.
Since then, though, I’ve been so hektik that I’ve not had another chance to get back to it, and I fear forgetting what little I have just learned.
Now, I’ve been asked to potentially build a commercial installation for my bud Templar, and it may involve using Jitter and Squished Eyeball and / or softVNS (Rokeby’s software version of his award winning art project, Very Nervous System). I’m so excited, anxious and annoyed – I want to start now! I want to learn! Yay, art! Yay getting paid to learn new technology for making art! AAAAARGH I don’t want to work!!!!
Blink. Blink. Blink. There’s no need to yell, nathaniel.