Robert Whitman’s ‘Passport,’ in Two States at Once – NYTimes.com

Nice article in the Times about Whitman’s latest piece.  I built and ran the video network that connected the two locations for the performance.  Scenes from each location were transmitted and shown live in the other location.

Robert Whitman’s ‘Passport,’ in Two States at Once – NYTimes.com.

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The Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video : Video For Change :: A WITNESS blog

Bryan at WITNESS put up a blog post concerning the app that I am working on along with other Guardian folks.

The Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video : Video For Change :: A WITNESS blog.

It’s worth a look if you are interested in the intersection of human rights, mobile technology and citizen media. It’s an open source Android project too!

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Whitman’s Passport

The New York Times did a short writeup on the Whitman/Dia Passport performance that I have been working on. I’m putting together the system to transport the live video between each of the locations. We’ll be using bonded 3G connections on one end.

Should be fun!!

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AnDevCon – Developing Media Applications

Just finished a day long workshop in San Francisco at Andevcon. It went well and hopefully the participants found it useful.

Here are the slides and examples:
Camera via Intent
Custom Camera
Custom Camera with Parameters
Custom Audio Player
Audio Recorder
Video Capture

Of course, similar examples plus more can be found in my book, Pro Android Media and the source for the examples in the book is available

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Microsoft-Nokia Hookup Leaves Symbian Devs Hanging | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Microsoft-Nokia Hookup Leaves Symbian Devs Hanging | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

From a developer perspective, It’s too bad that Nokia didn’t go the Android direction and work on porting Qt over to Android.

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Announcing: Android Media Developers

I decided it was high time that we had a listserv just for Android developers working with media (audio, video, images, sharing, streaming, capture and so on) so I created a Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/android-media-developers

In addition, it will serve as a good place where folks reading Pro Android Media can come to ask questions, get support and so on.

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MoMA – Android Market

Love the new web based Android market.  It took Google quite a while to get it going but it’s there now.  Unfortunately, it means that the sites that popped up to fill the void, some of them with some really great ideas (AppBrain and the like) now face more of an uphill battle.

Now for a bit of self promotion:  Here is the MoMA App (that I helped develop) in the Android Market.

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AnDevCon Workshop

I’ll be teaching a workshop at AnDeCon in March:

Developing Media Applications on Android
Learn how to harness the Android’s media capture and playback capabilities in your applications. In this class, we will examine Android’s capabilities for developing applications that utilize the camera and microphone for photo capture and manipulation, sound recording, processing and audio synthesis as well as video capture. We’ll work our way through several example applications that utilize and illuminate these capabilities.
In particular we’ll develop a custom camera application and extend to automatically create double exposures. We’ll create a an audio capture and playback application that allows us interactively to scrub through recordings. Finally we’ll create a video capture example and learn about how we can extend it adding effects such as solarization to the output.
This hands-on workshop is suited for those with some previous Android development experience. Please come to the workshop with a laptop running Eclipse and the latest Android SDK. It would be helpful to have an Android handset that can be used for development as well (don’t forget your USB cable).

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MoMA Android App Launched

MoMA just unveiled their Android app which I built in collaboration with their digital media department.

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Pro Android Media

My book has arrived!

Pro Android Media now available at Amazon

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