This is BRILLIANT! - Live visuals done right... and done HUGE.
I finally have a piece that I am pleased with, and although it is nothing quite as big and beautiful as I have seen other in other processing created works -- I think this one reflects me at this moment in time quite well.
It doesn't do anything useful... here's how you control it:
move your mouse around to control where the circles are and when you'd like to save the path of the circles, click and hold down the mouse button while you move the mouse around. Simple and trippy :)
Please download and run the macintosh version of the application, or the windows version. (They are both java applications)
I was going to link to the application running in a web page, but for some reason it looks quite terrible running as a web application. (guess I've got to try and understand why)
You can also view the source code, so that you can see how it is made if you'd like.
I hope you like it, please let me know if you do.
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Actually - I did learn quite a bit.
Learning how to solder surface mount components... you would not believe how incredibly SMALL those parts are. Not made for fat fingered dudes like me... but somehow I managed to get it to work. Really glad I went.
This little toy is F_A_N_T_A_S_T_I_C_!
I've been recording little 2 bar loops to a digital recorder while commuting to and from work. Nothing I'm ready to share with the world just yet - but who knows... maybe someday I'll have a yellow album of my own. :)
I just thought I'd link a great track that I found on there.
Enjoy the listen.
And if you join up - don't forget to use me as your reference! :)
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This one's for Dan. Being the Beatles fan that you are, and the person who first introduced me to Led Zeppelin when I was a bit younger...
This one's for you buddy!
Or, you get rewarded for fitting in the mold of everyone else! ;)
You seem to get 50 points for just joining up, and then 10 more when you login (once per day). And each vote, or 'bump' as they call it, costs you 5 points. I don't know where the other 35 came from that I seem to have right now.
It's kind of a fun game. And you get to listen to music while you play it!
I really like both the idea of this site, and the execution of the site. The ajax is nice and fluid, and really creates a nice user experience. And as anyone who knows me knows... I love to hear new music. That's why I own Sirius radios. But now, I can hear new stuff just by logging in to this website.
Even if you aren't interested in voting for songs, or 'playing' the artist scouting game, you can just hit 'play' on any of the songs, and you get to hear one song after another. So, just put the page on as a background music for yourself, and when you hear a track you like, add it to your playlist, or bump it... or do nothing, and just enjoy the music!
What a great idea!
My personal space there is:
http://www.thesixtyone.com/evilblender
Come on over and see me sometime!
I think they were way ahead of their time... or perhaps I'm just still stuck in their time. With the exception of the popular figures of the day (Bill Clinton, and other 90's figures) EBN's music remains in the 'now' for me. Enjoy one of their albums, online for free - with the benefit of VIDEO.
link from audio video blog
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Just to remind myself of where to download it from.
]]>Anyways - Keeping up with interesting stories involves watching 'Frontline', and you can do this online - no TV needed.
Check out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
You can watch the latest programs from there.
Do yourself a favor, watch frontline, listen to NPR, and read Boing Boing. :)
You'll probably need more to read than that... I'll admit I love the service Safari by O'Reilly and to keep up with the Google Videos that teach you useful stuff.
So, have I really given up TV?
Only the TV that Nielson thinks is TV. I'm a fan of the podcast as well.
I think this has to be my favorite thing that I have seen to decorate a room with. If I were clever I'd figure out a way to make my own designs and have them printed on vinyl, and apply them myself. But, I'm not so sure I'm that clever yet. (plus I don't yet trust my own designs - perhaps time will change this)
Check out these neat wall decorations:
http://www.miraentuinterior.com/index.php?categoria=1&seccion=catalogo_detalle&articulo=81
http://www.miraentuinterior.com/index.php?categoria=4&seccion=catalogo_detalle&articulo=106
]]>Well, that's all well and good unless email from them was so much, that your email program has decided that anything coming from register.com is now 'spam'.
Then you won't get that email - won't know that you 'owe' $35 for another year of privelege for register.com to point your name server records someplace else, and instead, when you go to your website will be treated to a lovely graphic, with register.com's logo offering to auction off your domain name! Fun!
Here's the thing - I keep this website for 'fun' -- it doesn't make me any money, I don't think more than 3 or 4 people read it, and I can't imagine anyone wishing they could own the name 'evilblender' -- although _I_ think it's a really great name.
So, when something I purchase for myself, gets offered to _anyone_ else, because the people I bought it from decide that they continue to own it, and merely 'rent' it to me, and they can 'rent' it to whomever they want at any time.... that kind of pisses me off.
Like I said, I probably shouldn't be surprised - I've seen similar pages on other people's websites sometimes while surfing - and I thought to myself 'well that sucks, someone must have hijacked their domain name'...
turns out it was most likely the very company that they paid the money to, in order to get that domain registered. And now that company has turned around is trying to make money advertising off of what may or may not have been that website's popularity.
That's pretty sleezy.
I expected that someone like godaddy would do that - I mean they got the strippers selling their internet stuff - and I thought I'd read a negative story about them doing something like that... and incorrectly assumed that paying much more money to register.com would mean that they behaved differently, more 'grown-up'.
However, register.com's representative, Brian, told me, very matter of factly, that this is what they do. "They send the email, they can't control if I don't read their emai.l" It sounded a little too rehearsed. Something tells me I'm not the first person to have this happen to their domain.
Well.... I'm not sure I'll stick around with register.com. It doesn't appear that they are giving me any better service for the $35 a year than I could get @ a godaddy for $7 a year.
Dear register.com,
you've got me as a customer for just a little under a year now.
goodbye,
Jeff
They put it up on you tube kind of as a laugh, and sent the link to some of their friends.
They got a nice review from nymag who said it was their 'favorite of the bunch' of alternate endings.
:)
Nice job boys!
]]>I can't live without my daily fix of lolcats, and now I don't know how I've lived without some lolrobots.
Brilliant!
Thanks, boing boing!
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_Movable_Type_to_WordPress
moving Movable Type to Word Press.
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