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Creating a custom image gallery in wordpress using lightbox
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…
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PopArt (a sketch)
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…
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NYLON CityBlob
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,…
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offset circles take two
Originally uploaded by da mad pixelist on flkr I’ve been playing with the offsetcircles patch from before, and came up with a whole bunch of nice results. Taking a page from Claude, I made the drawing recursive (hmm… makes me want to use Scheme…) and rendered out these two short videos. These are fun experiments…
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Rotating circles after Duchamp Man Ray Picabia
You’ve probably heard of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia. If you haven’t, and especially if you have, and you happen to live somewhere near London, go directly to the Tate Modern to see their new exhibition of their combined works, do not pass go, do not collect $200. This exhibit is so chock full…
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movement bubbles sketch
I was playing around with doing some object tracking and movement recognition when I started playing and came up with a quick sketch that turns detected movement into bubbles. It’s a good starting point for a series of interactive works, I think. I can see adding image textures to the bubbles, as well as making…
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Study: Negative Space
I’ve been a bit obsessed with [tag]John Maeda[/tag]’s book, Maeda@Media. It’s a very visual journey through his works and artistic process. I find his work very minimalist, which is fitting for a man who wrote a book called “Simplicity.” Not only is it minimalist, but essential, in many ways – stripped to the core. At…
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livepainter free software
I’ve been playing with this excellent program originally done by Josh Nimoy for an installation with GRL (Graffiti Research Labs). It’s a chunky, colorful, NYC-graffiti-style painting tool that works cross-platform and is open source. I’d been kicking around this idea in my head for awhile about creating a live performance painting tool, which isn’t exactly…
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Piksel 2007
Don’t miss the Piksel live webcast of performances and talks. “Piksel is a festival and community for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source audiovisual software, hardware and art.” There are a few interesting speakers, from Reactivision to London Openlab’s very own Robert Atwood with his opensource Jackbytes software for analyzing audio in…
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Wii Worlds 4 Player Visuals
I’ve been working on some new collaborative visuals software for performance, and finally finished the first version of it. Basically, it’s a modified and stripped down version of my main performance patch, Sine-Rave, without the audio analysis and effects.