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November 30, 2006
Mouse Based Art....
It has been brought to my attention by several people that mouse based art projects have already been done to death. Word. If anyone knows of any Double Keyboard type projects please raise your hand now before I waste more time on instructables.
I thought I'd compile the list of projects people have been sending me though as they make for a really interesting collection. Thanks to Jonah, and Tom Moody (Anxiety of Influence....ouch) for most of them.
Eddo Stern's, Runners (using a Triple Mouse)
Joseph Delappe's, the Artist's Mouse
Joseph Delappe's, Mouse Surveillance System
Joseph Delappe's, Vagina Mouse
Joseph Delappe's, Drawings: Playing Unreal
Kristin Lucas's, Mousepad Drawings
Jonah Brucker-Cohen's, Mouse Traces
Jonah Brucker-Cohen's, Mouse Miles
John Maeda's, One Line
Posted by fi5e at 02:33 AM
Moonwalks on Thanksgiving...
Thanksgiving at the Roth household means canned cranberries, card games, and moonwalk tutorials. Last weekend we did what we should have done 20 years ago.... learn how to moonwalk. View me, my sister, and mother all do our best backward glides in Kelly's youtube directorial debut:
Posted by fi5e at 01:34 AM
November 28, 2006
Double Mouse...
Two new projects up on ni9e.com:
the Double Mouse
Double your productivity by connecting a single mouse to two computers! It's simple: one mouse, two USB connections, infinite possibilities. Each click of your pointer finger will be twice as powerful as it was before with this mouse modification. This is a low cost, no soldering, project that will double your clicks per hour in minutes.
Click here for HOW TO on instructables.com.
9 to 5 Paintings
Create art while you work! If you find yourself spending more and more time answering email, and less and less time making art then why not do them both at the same time? Turn your emails, internet browsing, and report writing into digital paintings. 9 to 5 paintings are a visual representation of your daily computing routines.
Click here to view time lapse video of 9 to 5 Painting in action.
Created at the Eyebeam OpenLab.
Posted by fi5e at 12:15 AM
November 25, 2006
second life?...
I finally got around to checking out Second Life this weekend. I don't think I get it. If anyone can show me something fun to do look me up: 'fi5e Ewry'
Thanks to Kella (aka Aqua Nurmi) for character building assistance.... I still could use some real clothes though.
Posted by fi5e at 09:53 PM
53 o's..
Thanks to Charles for introducing me to my new favorite artist of all time, 53 o's. It is run by John Michael Boling and Javier Morales. You can check out all their projects at http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/
I have posted some of my favorites below:
youtube solo jam
canterbury tales rap
rowrowrow
100 meter marquee
marquee mark
I also just definitely bought their t-shirt:
Several of their pieces use the marquee tag which apparently is the coolest thing about HTML and I can't believe no one told me about it (thanks for nothing Parsons). Below I've payed homage by creating Biz Marque:
Charles also has some really great projects on his site:
DATE MODIFIED PAINTING
My First Webpage
THE MYSPACE BIENNALE
PHOTOS OF CLOUDS WITH THE FLASH ON
Posted by fi5e at 03:27 PM
Vandalism 2.0
There has been much talk around the Graffiti Research Lab about how to define Geek Graffiti or Graffiti 2.0. We are still working on it but I found that if you take Eric S. Raymond's classic How To Become A Hacker essay and replace every mention of the word 'hacker' with 'vandal' it is a decent description of the graffiti artists of the future. Read for yourself:
Vandalism 2.0, How To Become a Vandal.
Posted by fi5e at 02:01 AM
November 17, 2006
Google rankings...
My google rankings are continuing to get better over time. I just noticed that I have the fourth ranked site for search term bad ass, and second for mother fucker.
Posted by fi5e at 11:56 PM
ghost riding the whip...
I don't know how I missed this one, but only today (thanks to Steve) did I learn about ghost riding the whip. Wiki-pedia tells us that "the act involves the driver and/or passengers of any given vehicle exiting while it is still rolling and dancing beside it or on the hood or roof. It is one of the highest forms of "going dumb" and a representation of the style of hyphy."
The rest of my day was spent doing research on the topic.... which I find brilliant. For starters here is a quick video HOW TO on the subject. This one is my favorite, and this one and this one are pretty good compilations of clips found on youtube. Other funny examples I found were the GTA and lawnmower versions.
Posted by fi5e at 11:11 PM
November 16, 2006
Earthwalk....
Michael Jackson Earthwalk. This came out of a conversation I had earlier today with new Eyebeam artist in residence Jamie O'Shea, and was compiled from George Georges youtube post.
Posted by fi5e at 01:42 AM
November 15, 2006
Youtube -> .avi and .mov
This online application will convert and allow you to download your favorite youtube videos as .avi and .mov files. Just paste a URL and download. Thanks Charles!
Posted by fi5e at 02:27 AM
November 11, 2006
freestyle...
Mike just sent me this freestyle super MC medley. All hail Aries Spears.
Posted by fi5e at 12:55 AM
November 04, 2006
Family Guy
Jackpot...... hours and hours and hours of the Family Guy. Get'em while they're hot.
thanks Jason!
Posted by fi5e at 07:42 PM
November 02, 2006
LED Throwie Pumpkins...
I found these on flickr, thanks Willie Nordmann
Posted by fi5e at 01:54 PM
Mike & Kanye
I just put up a new piece called Mike & Kanye...enjoy! The .gif is Mike Myers' reaction to Kanye West's famous "George Bush doesn't care about black people" comment during a Katrina relief broadcast (my favorite TV moment of all time).
The gifs below are some left over tests I did of diminishing color pallets:
128 colors:
64 colors:
32 colors:
16 colors:
8 colors:
4 colors:
Posted by fi5e at 02:52 AM
Design Lab 5...
I've been teaching an undergraduate course at Parsons on visual programming called Design Lab 5. There is example code from myself and students up at the following URL for those interested in Processing:
http://a.parsons.edu/~designlab5
For no real reason I am attempting to write the entire course website by hand using EMACS.... this may somewhat explain why it looks so dope. I also worked in remixing Zach's Making Things Move workshop with Michael Jackson, Mike Myers, and George Bush.
Posted by fi5e at 02:26 AM
G.R.L. balloons in progress...
Balloon banner lifting coming soon from the G.R.L.
Posted by fi5e at 02:22 AM
Open Source Software...
I just got a new laptop and am in the process of installing new software. I'm trying to limit the number of installations with proprietary licenses so below is a list of my top 14 open source / GNU / Free (as in freedom) Software applications:
1. Firefox (browser)
2. ThunderBird (email)
3. Open Office (.docs, .xls, .ppt)
4. FileZilla (FTP)
5. Putty (Telnet and SSH)
6. GIMP (image editor)
7. Processing (IDE)
8. EMACS (text editor) ...4 Windows!
9. BlogBridge (RSS Reader)
10. 7-Zip (archive, zip)
11. Audacity (audio editor /recorder)
12. LimeWire (mp3 downloading)
13. BitTorrent (file downloading)
14. GAIM (chat)
And just for the record, here are some free (as in free beer) software that I use and enjoy even though they are not free (as in freedom):
- SoulSeek
- iTunes
Posted by fi5e at 01:54 AM