I’ve been running a bit behind on my creative projects because I’ve been taking on so many video projects. There’s always the editing part I need to think about. Anyways, last night I dropped by my friend Colleen’s house in order to film some insects. Colleen is a professional botanist and has an amazing collection […]
I’m sorry to be posting this one so late. Friday (Day 174) night, I got so frustrated trying to get live quantize to work in my monome app 64(video)Fingers that I continued the work on it Saturday. I kicked myself real good when I was reminded by fellow monome user Dovemouse that the object I […]
Last night I worked on my Monome App 64(video)Fingers. I drove home feeling very confident of how I was going to proceed. I wanted to add the option of live quantization of the button presses. Then I wanted to work on the pattern recorders so that they didn’t screw up if you accidentally press the […]
Yesterday was a great day. I took the day off from work and Jenny and I took June to Disneyland. By the end of the day we were both exhausted. I had no idea what I was going to do for my creative project at the time. I tried contacting my friend Colleen because she […]
Even some of our closest friends have no idea how musically talented my wife Jenny is. When I first met her she was studying to be an opera singer. She went to the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco and studied voice there for a couple of years. Nowadays, if you ask her to sing […]
I don’t think this one turned out as good as my previous fluid macros on Day 169 / Miniature Cosmos but the ingredients I used this time around were a bit more creative. In the video below you will see (in order of appearance) chicken stock with saffron (given to me by my friend Dave […]
Not as exciting tonight but I did make some progress with Processing. Over the past couple of days I have been reading the same chapters over and over again trying to understand some new ways of coding. Last night I successfully converted one of my previous sketches into using this new method. The new method […]
Last night I finally put my macro lens to good use. A very long time ago I purchased a small chemistry set so I could experiment with fluids under a macro lens. I have always been inspired by the visual effects in the film “The Fountain”. There’s a sequence in that film with Hugh Jackman […]
Ok, so I have to admit that I did most of my work on this song on Sunday rather than Saturday. On saturday night I was working more on Processing and learning how to do some more advanced concepts and I realized that I was not going to have anything to show for on the […]
I’d been planning on trying this out for awhile now. When I saw this post on the MAKE blog about an artist who sculpts things out of the graphite on the tip of a pencil I knew I had to try it out. I read that he uses no magnification at all and his sculpting […]
I have to apologize for all the Processing stuff lately. The truth is I have been really getting inspired by it. Add to that the fact that I’ve been working late the past few nights and it seems like the perfect choice. Tonight, I made some real progress. I challenged myself to create something specific […]
I was so sleepy from my late night at work the previous night that I could hardly read my “Learning Processing” book. I wanted to get through another chapter but I couldn’t seem to retain anything. So, I turned to the website Open Processing which is a place that hosts processing sketches. It’s pretty fun […]
My work is ramping up again. The past two nights have been reminisient of my experience working on Toy Story 3. Leading up to the release of TS3 I was working all-nighter after all-nighter. This time is not nearly as bad but the next week and a half are going to be busy. So, […]
Work is beginning to ramp up again and last night I worked pretty late. I didn’t have much time to do my creative thing but luckily it was an opportunity for me to test out my new crazy lens. I had always planned on renting this lens for a Macro week on the blog. Inspired […]
So last night I decided to play around with Processing some more. After I finished arranging the song from yesterday’s post I read a couple more chapters from Learning Processing and finally turned to the computer to make something. I made another variation on a code. This time I took the example for Random() […]
Sorry for posting this one late. Jeff came over for a usual Saturday night jam and we recorded until about 1am. I couldn’t get around to sifting the material and performing the clips until sometime on Sunday. Sunday I was busy doing family stuff until about 7 or 8 in the evening. Never the less […]
If you’re an artistic type and have thought about learning to program but have no clue where to begin, let me recommend Processing. It’s the bomb. I wandered past it a while back and clicked on their Flickr stream and I was blown away at how great the art was that people were creating with […]
This post is dedicated to Jenny. She watches after our daughter day in and day out and has very little free time for herself and after June goes off to bed she is too exhausted to really get out as much as she’d like to. I’ve been there myself. After a full day of trying […]
I’d been looking forward to doing this project for a while. I initially found this tutorial on the net detailing how to make the light bulb terrarium. I thought it was such a cool idea to use a light bulb, and I mean, it just so happens that one of my best friends is a […]
My good friend Brian Keegan (aka. The Broiler) offered me the chance to make a beat for his forthcoming Swayze Memorial Album. If you follow the blog you might remember me mentioning him before. The dry-erase animation I worked on a while back was animated to one of his older songs. He has a […]
Finally finished the last Bliptronome last night. I closed up the case around 11pm. I really wanted to demo these guys in some kind of video showing off the ability to use the knobs for something, but realized after a bit of research that there is a real dearth of monome apps that utilize this […]
I got one of the Bliptronomes done last night. I almost finished both but I ran into a few obstacles that ended up delaying my progress. There is this little circuit board that came with the kit which allows you to connect your USB cable to it and in the instructions it says […]
As I said in my previous post, this weekend has been a lot of watching after June. I’ve been trying to relieve Jenny a bit from the duties she has to do everyday during the week while I’m at work. Now June is 18 months old and walking time bomb. Keeping up with her is […]
Today I sent the footage that I captured from yesterday’s “The Sphere Arm” rig and sent it through both the horizontal and vertical sliscan procedure. You can see the video example below. I’m actually a little disappointed with the results. I’m still trying to figure out what went wrong. The wavy lines you see in […]
With thoughts of the upcoming music video and more slitscan effects I remembered a camera rig design I found on vimeo a long time ago. It’s called “the sphere arm” and it was designed by a fellow named Edwin Bont. He built it for the sole purpose of filming insects in macro. It’s a pretty […]