Archive for April 2008

Processing: sketch_2008_04_28_diagonal_lines2

In Art, General on 29 April 2008 tagged applet, black, blue red, diagonal, generative, green, java, lines, media-arts, pattern, processing, random, yellow

I had some time recently to mess about in Processing. For your consideration: sketch_2008_04_28_diagonal_lines2. Stare at it for a while and everything starts to make sense.
Update: I posted a few shorts to Vimeo: diagonal_lines2 / diagonal_lines3.

links for 2008-04-29

In Links on 29 April 2008

7 Free Ways To Get Your Glitch On – I use SupaTrigga and Scrubby when I need to mess-things-up
Test Drive Bitnotic chill – Public Beta of Mac Ambient Music Software
Daniel Dociu – amazing concept art
You are the river – An interview with Ken Wilber
ceramic paper plates

In Reviews on 28 April 2008 tagged books, fiction, reading, recommended, short, stories

I finished The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) last week but am taking a break before starting the final book. It’s interesting, and reading that it’s a retelling of Milton’s Paradise Lost makes me want to dive into that epic poem (some day). For now, I’m reading some early pulp detective stories in [...]

links for 2008-04-25

In Links on 25 April 2008

The brand called Obama – Win or lose, Barack Obama’s rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here’s why.
Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
All Streets – All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments, by Ben Fry.
Jared Diamond on [...]

Everyone's gone green

In General on 22 April 2008 tagged earth, environmental, green, natural capital, recycling

I think it’s great that ‘green’ issues have gone mainstream and are growing in popularity. It seems like every day there’s some new article or ad about green’s growing momentum.
Despite some of the obvious green-washing, environmentally-friendly practices can make great business sense and social policy, drive innovation on many fronts and help solve some of [...]

Typography is content

In General on 22 April 2008 tagged archer, art direction, bodoni, content, design, garamond, gotham, graphic, typography, visual communication

Lately I’ve been musing about the importance of typography in design. For me, the choice and relationship of font families is key to both the visual style of an individual project and the overall brand identity of the organization. Just like art and photo direction, color palette, arrangement & page layout, and ink & paper [...]

links for 2008-04-18

In Links on 21 April 2008

Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – playable online.
Designing Dante – nice minimalist book designs.
The Machine That Made Us – The film stars Stephen Fry and tells the history of the Gutenberg Press.
FontStruct – lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes and generate a font file.
High [...]

links for 2008-04-16

In Links on 16 April 2008

Garbage in space: New pics – Or, there’s a lot of stuff flying around up there.
College Student Twitters Arrest in Egypt – Twitter has a powerful ability to move people to action, to deliver help where it’s needed, and more.
Transport informatics – A quick survey of new informational approaches to transport, hinging on individual behaviour [...]

links for 2008-04-14

In Links on 15 April 2008

Wayne Levin – Cool underwater b+w photography from Wayne Levin.
20 respectable rock and rap acts that peaked with debut albums
You Don’t Need It – An organization called the Anti-Advertising Agency has started an anti-consumerism guerilla movement.
Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks – hundreds of examples
Jim Henson’s “The Cube” In Color – Before Jim Henson went [...]

New release: 2008 Spring mix

In Music on 14 April 2008 tagged ambient, chillout, dance, digital, dub, electronic, experimental, house, media, minimal, mix, mp3, Music, podcast, space, synth

I have uploaded a mix of recent original music (1hr19min, 90.61 Mb MP3) for your consideration.
Track order:

Book of Morvern
Chthonic (min)
Meshed
Agmatist (S&S dub)
Loaded (acid vs. mix)
Little iniquities
Disco drift
Electrum
Helial II
Paths of Unintention

Bonus outtakes (13.8 MB zip archive):

Tight house – has more variation in the original that didn’t export
Untitled (2008-02-03) – didn’t fit well in the overall mix

links for 2008-04-08

In Links on 9 April 2008

Is This The Best Virtual TB303 Ever? – Probably no synth has been cloned more times, both in hardware and software, than the Roland TB303.
Ambient Exposure – a follow-up to last year’s Ambient Intimacy.
Beautiful Handwriting, Lettering and Calligraphy – dozens of samples for inspiration via Smashing Magazine