{"id":277,"date":"2004-02-18T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:02:02","slug":"jitter-is-a-bit-of-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/jitter-is-a-bit-of-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"jitter is a bit of alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SO, about two weeks ago, I finally got a chance to play with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycling74.com\/products\/dljitter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jitter.<\/a>  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.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, though, I&#8217;ve been so hektik that I&#8217;ve not had another chance to get back to it, and I fear forgetting what little I have just learned.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve been asked to potentially build a commercial installation for my bud Templar, and it may involve using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycling74.com\/products\/dljitter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jitter<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squishedeyeball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Squished Eyeball<\/a> and \/ or <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/davidrokeby\/softVNS.html\" target=\"_blank\">softVNS<\/a> (Rokeby&#8217;s software version of his award winning art project, Very Nervous System). I&#8217;m so excited, anxious and annoyed &#8211; I want to start now! I want to learn!  Yay, art!  Yay getting paid to learn new technology for making art! AAAAARGH I don&#8217;t want to work!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Blink. Blink. Blink.  There&#8217;s no need to yell, nathaniel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-south-african-art","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":321,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/22\/awesome-maxmso-jitter-resource\/","url_meta":{"origin":277,"position":0},"title":"awesome max\/msp + jitter resource","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 April 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Max Objects dot com is a searchable database of over 1500 max\/msp\/jitter objects, by keywords (externals - free and for sale - and included objects with the app; all are specified as to which of these they are, with links to how to get them; most are freeware or shareware,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art and tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":231,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/06\/jitter-windwos-beta\/","url_meta":{"origin":277,"position":1},"title":"jitter windows beta","author":"nathaniel","date":"06 November 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Jitter, Cycling74's amazing, visually-based, object-oriented, interactive video modular for Max\/MSP now has a Windows (XP) Public Beta! 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