The Labs @ Barcelona

In the BCN for a couple of weeks. Soaking up on the art and the culture. Visiting the BIOGen Labs and scouting out the future crib for the LABS.

NeuroLabsInc intro

Fun with AE 7.0

Midi video performance

The choices for playing and scratching live video nowadays are incresingly better. A smart expansion on behalf of most Vj-ing software companies into full blown Midi hardware tools is evergrowing. Wether it be Resolume's ReAct controller or Livid Instrument's Viditar, which is custom build to user specifications or the more commercial 'Tactic' controller; there is a constant growth in Vj-ing products to suit the constantly gorwing live videoperformance or 'scratching' which, i hope, will some day reach the stature of today's DJ scene.

Air Force One Tagged by Marc Ecko

Cultural spokesoerson and designer marc Ecko decided to spray paint Air Force One as part of a publicity stunt to promote free speech and our constitutional right of expression. Although the two minute video is actually a hoax and is actually a rented 727 painted to match AF1 almost exactly, it helped boost Ecko and open a dialog to promote his ideas and opinions on free speech.






Visit StillFree.Com here.


Or read the full story at Wired.com here

Fun with Java

Useless but cool little script i found on some blog.

Instructions:
1. copy this script:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

2. Go to this page, and once the page loads completely, paste the code you just copied into the address bar and hit return.

Note: This works for any page that has images.

Click here to visit Barryblog.

Street Writer - and other projects...

the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) has been for years working on a number of different projects, most of which directly or indirectly involve robotics or some sort of human=machine interaction.

One fo their more interesting pieces is the Street Writer. A descendent of the fully independent moving robot equiped with a series of spray cans controlled by an onboard computer to deliver text messages on the pavement codenamed "Graffiti Writer". The SW consists of a large white utility van equipped with the same arrange of computer controlled spray cans than its younger brother.. but at a much larger scale.

visit the IAA website for videos and more info on their other projecs such as little brother.

Street Writer video

"Piece of Mind" VFS VFX short

A nice Visual Effects demonstration by students @ the Vancouver film School digital media program. Nice use of dynamic editing and some pretty nice compositing nd tracking.