a right click menu in the form of a plug in for pd that plops down objects for you: also note the search window! pd is getting a bunch of useful functionality built in!

another one with lost beads from a tibetan necklace. This one has 11 strands, they did not tie neatly in the back, managing many strands is a tricky matter, luckily the clasp hides most of my indiscretions. Here is a helpful video on using crimping beads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Hy5KjSPLw they are conductive, now that I can make [...]

Mike Cohen, David Phillips, Spike McCue, Liza Singer, and I spent all day yesterday building the props, shooting, doing the music, and editing “sweded” version of the iphone game The Incident. “Sweding” is a style of lo-fi recreation of movies that was invented by Michel Gondry for his film, Be Kind Rewind. Check out Gondry’s [...]

Shot a music video today for Twin Shadow.  Can’t really show much for obvious reasons… There is quite a bit of post production work to do now and that it going to round out my 4×4 week. I spent quite a few hours Wednesday night/Thursday morning struggling to get Cineform’s video codec to render alpha [...]

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.

pd-starterkit is now on github! https://github.com/organizations/pd-starterkit/ and the first commit of a somewhat fleshed out menutree is there too. access useful objects through a right click menu! tomorrow tutorials!

Here’s a bunch of photographs taken from vantage points that are not seen very often at ITP, if ever. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tylerdurden3181/sets/72157625862952834/ some highlights:

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. [...]

3D modeling for me, goes way back to somewhere around 1990 with Lightwave 3D on an Amiga 2000. While that sounds like I’m some sort of pro, I didn’t say I was good at using it. I played around with it every so often, but I never really got anything good out of it. Most [...]

Day ONE– Linkage Prototyping After a trip to the toy store, and a good amount of time looking at linkage games online, I decided to make my own linkage prototype system. It consists of a medium gage wire, machine screws, and screw caps. I bend each wire segment at the ends as close to a [...]

Growing up in farmtown Ohio I was completely spoiled by having plenty of wide open space to garden in.  I remember meticulously planning my gardens on graph paper all winter waiting for that last frost to start a new growing season.  When I moved to the city I had to give all that up but last summer [...]

For day one I figured I’d get started on two things I’ve been wanting to spend more time on. One being to spend more time with the Flickr API. The other to start work on building a photography portfolio. I figured I wasn’t really into the idea of a polished professional looking portfolio with just a select [...]

Warming up for the Winter 4×4 with a little Sunday pregame action.  Shooting a music video for “Twin Shadow” as Reed + Rader on Wednesday and need to make a cutout body/armor prop.  Without detailing too much, here it is… Measured the initial hand drawn mockup that was cut from foamcore: Mocked up the final designed [...]