Month: April 2004
re-work, re-tell and release..
Video
I feel like this is something like bringing the oral storytelling tradition to modern media. It allows for change, critique and so forth.
From the site:
Wizard People, Dear Reader is an unauthorized re-envisioning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Ston, by Brad Neely. To experience it, viewers need to get a copy of the first Harry Potter movie and watch it with the sound off, replacing Neely’s narration with the original soundtrack.
Open Source USB IO Box
mamalala.de – USB multI/O
Check it out..
Thanks to Hans for the link.
Bruce Sterling gives us a bit of doom and gloom on the future of the Earth
Wired 12.04: VIEW
We need to wake up..
He concludes with:
In a brief 50 years, Mother Earth will be disrupting human enterprises faster than we can rebuild them. Earth will be bankrupt and no longer a viable commercial concern. What will life be like then? Well, nobody knows.
Not just any old eyeball anymore
MSNBC – Eyeball jewelry a new Dutch fashion trend
From the article:
Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry.
Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called “JewelEye” in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.
Craig Reynolds paper on steering behaviors
Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters
Craig Reynolds of Boids fame give some of his animation insight.
The math of animation
Animation Math in Lingo – Tutorial & Demos in Director
Pretty nice tutorial site for animation, includes topics such as vectors, forces, gravity, friction, springs, mass, sine and cosine, collision and more.
Don’t be put off by the fact that it is in Lingo either, all the code is clear and well commented as is the text.
From the site:
This is a guide to programming animation with Director’s Lingo. It’s a series that progresses in textbook fashion from simple to advanced animation programming. The three types of generating animation covered are incremental, parametric, and recorded. In addition there are some sections on important topics like model/display separation, object-oriented programming, and 3D concepts.
Java gets blue in the tooth
www.JavaBluetooth.org
Thanks to Mike for the pointer.
From the site:
The JavaBluetooth Stack is a 100% (no native) Java implementation of the Bluetooth Specifications Version 1.1. It currently supports HCI, L2CAP and SDP. Support for RFCOMM, TCS, and SCO, as well as implementations of specific Bluetooth Profiles such as the Handsfree-Profile and the Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profiles are planned.
What else can you do with that iSight?
MacDevCenter.com: More iSight Video Tricks [Sep. 23, 2003]
Good article exploring some nice Quicktime based software which works well with the iSight.
Interesting to note that the iSight is an IIDC camera and therefore it will work with a wide variety of software that supports IIDC. One example that comes to mind is Coriander for Linux.
There is always more to the story
FactCheck.org
Taxing Social Security & Gasoline: Bush Attack Lacks Context
Political ads are like statistics, the facts can be used for whatever you want with the right spin. Here is an example of how Bush is using facts against Kerry in a well, let’s just say a not completely honest way.