Software
For all you Americans out there. Here is a Processing sketch of some bouncy turkeys for you to play with. Happy Turkey Day!
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This is my suped-up version of the old flight404 and toxi Processing sketch - it uses Perlin noise to create a moving field of very organic-looking daggers. toxi used it for hairs, and now I made an intricate version that uses 3D daggers drawn using OpenGL.
Noise Spears - PixelPusher (after toxi and flight404)
Read on for more plus source code
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I spent a bit of time trying to get lightbox working in Wordpress with the new, built-in image gallery shorcode that is part of wordpress.
First, get Lightbox2 from its plug-in page. Download it, unarchive it, and put the lightbox-2 folder into the plugins folder in your Wordpress installation, and use the Wordpress control panel to activate it, as per the instructions.
I had issues with thumbnails not being auto-generated - there are many solutions in this thread on the Wordpress site, but after making sure that all of my images were standard 24-bit PNG it seemed to work very well.
Then, get my slightly-modified media.php file - what I did was to add the lightbox code to the default photo gallery shortcode function. Rename the file to “media.php” and put it in your wp-includes folder in your wordpress installation. You’ll probably want to keep your old media.php file before you do this - just rename the original one media.php.bak.
For the WP hackers out there, what I did was to simply cut the wp_get_attachment_link function from the file wp-includes/post-template.php and add it to media.php in place of the original function call. then I modified that code to add the lightbox ref=”GALLERY_NAME” property to every image attachment link returned.
Once that is finished, you can upload images via the regular “add media” tool in the editor and display them via the gallery shortcode, and viola! They will be automatically open in a lightbox-enabled slide show.
UPDATE (for WP 2.6.5):
This no longer works, because they’ve changed media.php. The new fix is to edit your wp-includes/media.php file so that starting from line 109 is the following:
//$link = wp_get_attachment_link($id, $size, true);
$pt = str_replace(" ", "_", $pt);
$thumb = wp_get_attachment_image($id,
$size='thumbnail', $icon = false);
$link= "<a href='". wp_get_attachment_url($id) .
"' title='$post_title' rel='lightbox[$pt]'>$thumb</a>";
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The first rule of blogging is to blog often. So much for that. I’ve been traveling the world, and moving, and generally sans internet (that means “without internet” for all you non-French speakers). In spite of this blog silence, I’ve been working on a lot of new things. Like more experiments and sketches in Pop Art and Processing. Here’s one (source code included):
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A software art project that remixes the skylines and sights of cities I’ve lived in and visited. Download at: NYLONCityBlob
Awhile back, in 2006, I put my lifelong obsession with New York City’s buildings to good use. 2006 was the year my wife and I moved to London to start a new life as expatriates, reversing the colonial journey that started our home country in favor of the old country on the edge of a new, powerful-again Europe.
Leaving New York, I felt like a traitor. New York is in my family’s blood. My grandfather loved nothing more than to take us around the sights - the Empire State, the Twin Towers, Macy’s, the countless delicatessens shining as culinary diamonds in the rough preserve of Mexicans making Chinese food and Chinese baking Pizzas. My grandfather spent all his years in New York, knew every inch of the serpentine BQE (Brooklyn-Queens-Expressway) slithering over and through industrial Brooklyn on its way up north to upstate and sweet oblivion, finally exploding into the Hutch, the Cross-Bronx, and the Bruckner.
Not that he would have ventured that far north - he hated grass, and crickets. Especially crickets.
I don’t want to give the impression that my family is parochial; they’re well-traveled and world-wise, but they always come back. I still haven’t returned.
I ‘ve turned my world travels into an art project - just as the skylines of all the places I’ve visited and lived get jumbled in my head over time, this software remixes them and rescales them and blends them into a chimera of a city. I’ll add to it over time but right now it is NY (New York City) LON (London). Sometimes it gets intimate, and small places crowd out the big, important, impersonal ones. Use the mouse to navigate. Mac-only (for now). Enjoy.
If you’d like to show it somewhere, please contact me at pixelpusher@flkr.com, I’m open to the idea.
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