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Official Flash version of Katamari Damacy. In Japanese (via http://ludology.org/)
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
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Great looking computer arts conference / festival in Holland. Keynote speaker is Jasia Reichardt who curated the historic 1968 exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” at the ICA London
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Film production studio. Lots of ads and video clips. Nice clean design. See also http://www.macguff.fr/
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Nice video game chip inspired music. 80s bastard pop remixes too.
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In depth tutorial for creating real time video glitches with Max/MSP/Jitter (via a comment from Ben Hanbury)
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Just saw them play at The Spanish Club in Melbourne. New album out in a couple of weeks.
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Competition to make a video clip for the new Pretty Girls Make Graves single ‘Nocturnal House’.
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Just attended an artist presentation by Paul at RMIT. Interesting generative work since the late 1960s and 70s through to today. Also used to do light projections for bands like Pink Floyd & The Who back in the day
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An essay by Paul Willemen which appeared in Reiser & Zapp’s “The New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative” I disagree on so many points!
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Another vj experimenting with jpeg corruption artefacts.
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Very cool interactive installation remixing TV content via a custom built / coded TV set with knobs that talk to Max MSP and manipulate the video and audio in real time. This page details the production process.
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Awesome site which lets you browse through field recordings from around the world, and create virtual audio journeys, selecting two or more locations and stringing together random recordings from one to the other. (via http://criticalsenses.blogspot.com)
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Mark Amerika’s new blog on “Professorial Remixology” lots of great ideas to critique and debate.
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The original Chuck Norris fact site
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Chuck Norris Facts vs Web 2.0 - so lame but I couldn’t help but laugh at a couple of them.
Chuck Norris invented blogging in 1974 in order to keep track of people he roundhouse kicked to the face.
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Nice looking webmail application. Customisable with CSS. Uses IMAP rather than POP. via http://cheesedip.com/
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Class blog for a course at New York University run by Shawn Van Every which sounds kinda similar to RMIT’s ‘Networked Media’. Looks like they’re starting to produce some interesting interactive vlog action. (via vlogtheory yahoo group)
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Lets you point to a video file via its url, play and then comment on particular parts of the video. I guess it’s like the time based equivalent of Flickr’s notes feature.
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Great (free!) print magazine with lots of interesting articles on new media events in Australia. Also available online here.
I’ve set up del.icio.us, a clever social bookmarking service to automatically post my daily links in the blog. I figure this place could do with a bit more activity and by adding a couple of lines of description to each link I can share the sites which catch my attention with a bit more clarity without having to sit down and write a proper post. I use del.icio.us quite a lot as I often move between different computers and locations.
While the daily post service is great, the interface for setting it up is a little clunky and cryptic unless you know what you’re doing. Thankfully Kevin Lim has written a helpful little guide to setting up del.icio.us with WordPress. It basically involves entering a username and password for your blog, the address of the xmlrpc.php file on your server, what time you’d like the post to occur in GMT and which category you’d like the post to appear in.
Another cool del.icio.us feature I’ve been meaning to post about for ages is the addition of RSS feeds for particular media types. Traditionally del.icio.us has provided RSS feeds of links for each tag, for example the RSS feed for links tagged “example” http://del.icio.us/tag/example is http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/example. Now, (since about halfway through last year actually) you can also search by media file type and generate RSS feeds for these complete with enclosures for use in podcasting applications like iTunes or FireAnt. So it can generate a feed of all the mp3 files people link to directly, or all the QuickTime movies or JPEG or MPEG files. Additionally, you can add tags to generate feeds of a particular media type about a particular topic, for example http://del.icio.us/tag/system:media:video+80s give you a collection of 1980s themed video files (mpeg, wmv, mov etc).
While I use iTunes as a media RSS client at the moment to harvest source clips which may be manipulated in live performance eventually it would be great to add a built in video RSS reader to my experimental video appliations (vidgets) and do live video searches.
[A disclaimer: subscribing to a feed of all mpeg or wmv files linked to by random strangers on the internet can lead to the automatic downloading of porn or other things you may not want on your hard drive (especially on a work or uni computer) so be careful eh ;-).]
Technorati Tags: del.icio.us
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a post commenting on my image data mangling, mangled by auto translation from norwegian = poetry
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This year’s festival program is online now. Lots of great projects happening all around the city, this year coinciding with the Commonwealth Games
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My housemates’ project in this year’s NextWave Festival. A shop where you can design your own merchandise and have it manufactured with a transparent supply chain and non-sweatshop labour.
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A Transdisciplinary Festival of Creativity, Research, Theory and Technoculture at Indiana University. Currently has a call for entries.
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Australian company which provides automagically constructed mp3 reads of news stories for news.com.au. The service has great potential for increasing web accessibility, though I think it is a good example of the ‘uncanny valley’
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Flip Phillip has worked out how to hook up multiple cameras to QC
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(tags: gig)
A few months ago I began playing with manually corrupting jpeg files to see what kinds of artefacts I could create. I selected an image, compressed it down to a very small size (so I could easily manipulate large chunks of the data), opened it in a text editor (I like SubEthaEdit and TextMate) and added random text, copied pasted and generally shuffled the data, occasionally saving as new files.
Above is a QuickTime movie which animates through 12 of the resulting jpeg files. Click it to stop if it’s giving you a headache 
I re-compressed the jpegs just to be sure they wouldn’t crash QuickTime Player. Manually introducing errors and noise into files and then playing them is one of those “make sure you save any important files you have open” situations as things can grind to a halt.
I was playing with these images at Plug N Play at Kent St on Thursday night. I mentioned that I was planning on writing a php script which would similarly screw with jpeg images online and Sean told me about glitchbrowser.com.
From the site:
Computers are not allowed to make mistakes.
The glitch browser represents a deliberate attempt to subvert the
usual course of conformity and signal perfection. Information packets
which are communicated with integrity are intentionally lost in
transit or otherwise misplaced and rearranged. The consequences of
such subversion are seen in the surprisingly beautiful readymade
visual glitches provoked by the glitch browser and displayed through
our forgiving and unsuspecting web browsers.This work was produced for New Langton Arts Packets programme,
by Dimitre Lima, Tony Scott and Iman Moradi.
Glitch Browser lets you enter a website’s URL and it will show you the page with all of the images randomly glitchified. For example, here’s the most interesting photos from Flickr through the Glitch Browser. Great stuff!
