I’m working on a series of sculptures that use mechanics to make magical things appear in nature. This is the first test, a wire mesh and leaf sculpture running on a slow dc geared motor. More on what it is in day one post Leaf Bot Video Here

Expanded the interior garden area today by building a shelf and installing lighting for a new tray of seedlings. Just broccoli, cauliflower for outside and another tomato plant for the WindowFarm for now… Cut an extension cord and split it to two bulb sockets with 100 watt 5500k CFLs.

In what seemed to be a catalyst for Greg B’s post on what makes a programming language good, I ran into similar issues. After spending most of my day attempting to really understand what I was doing with Cinder and not just copying and pasting code here and there, I ran into a ridiculous roadblock. [...]

I cleaned up my dataflow midterm, a series of abstractions, mostly gem wrappers for pd. Cut and paste your way to open-source VJ goodness. Download pd here Download the package here See a short documentary video here And email me if something isn’t working please please please here: yud dot sofy at gmail dot com

Yesterday, for the day 2, I made a semi-randomly generated 8-bit song. Way back during orientation week, a few of us were talking about music, as you do when you’re just getting to know a new group of people. Specifically, Marko Manriquez and I shared our enthusiasm for Aphex Twin. We talked about the incredible [...]

For Day 2 of 4-in-4 I promised myself I’d make a max/msp patch. I’ve done max purely with midi, but I’ve yet to do anything with audio. The patch takes in audio in 2 second chunks and randomly assigns it to a buffer. While that’s happening a random buffer is selected for playback and routed [...]

I wanted to know more about Sproutcore, the open source framework that allows you to create native style applications on the web.  There’s not much for me to mention. I mainly was running through the tutorial.  It was great fun and I got to use the Terminal alot which always denotes a feeling of authenticity. [...]

This is turning into a tutorial in Flash, and is a work in progress. I spent last night drawing up a Beam & Crank linkage in Vectorworks from Marks’ Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook: That part didn’t take too long, so then I drew it through 15 stages of rotation, assuming 15 frames per second of animation–so [...]

I was given the topic “love”. A poem. And maybe a picture. It’s title’d difficult. difficult thin lips and eyes to wind – through marriage of wine dancing moments and kiss from hot wings smooth like a fire like a stolen hag belly rotten green and gray and a wind passes through the centre

Work on this one is going a little slower than expected…but no fear! Coloring was about half got through today. Here are the first three pages colored (no text yet) …the next three shall be forthcoming tomorrow. Technically this is now a 2 in 4.  

Better late than never is my post about Day 2′s project! Sometimes you just want to be alone. If you’re already out and you knew your roommate would be in your apartment, you may decide to stay out. Likewise if you knew your roommate was gone, you might decide to stay in and relax while [...]

So, I’m a bit late in posting, and I have to apologize for that. Unfortunately, at around four in the morning last night, I realized that my second 5-in-5 project was getting completely out of hand, possibly better suited for a weeks worth of experimentation and building then a day. I may try and simplify [...]

Dennis Crowley and I spent all day doing 5 different Olympic Events: 100m freestyle, 100m dash, 110m hurdles, long jump and the rings (in gymnastics) and compared ourselves to Olympic athletes. This was to see just how amazing these athletes are in comparison to average Joes and as an excuse to do Olympic events all [...]

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