Stuff that was probably relevant for the former Digital Media programme in Bremen.
Smooth Zarathustra of Design Stefan Sagmeister held a brilliant note at TED recently. It’s about his sabbaticals and funny and informative. This is the second fantastic video I saw today (actually the third, but the third one does not belong here).
Check out this recent rhizome interview with Processing founders Ben Fry and Casey Reas. They talk about the roots, the development since 2001 so far and they let us have a little glimpse for the future.
I don’t remember if I started with Basic or Logo, but I learned a little with both. I hit a wall and I wasn’t motivated to learn more. (I love playing video games on the computer more than writing my own small programs.) (Casey Reas)
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We’re only looking as far into the future as 2.0. We’re planning a 1.5 release before that, which will have two additional components.
The outcomes of the Tiny Sketch competition mentioned in the interview are very nice. The goal was to implement a processing sketch with only 200 characters length.
Art & Copy is a cinematic documentary about advertisement. I would say – according to the trailer – it is one typical self-criticizing and at the same time self-adulating fast paced movie with the motivation of mystifying things more than they probably deserve to be. Maybe it’s all of that not because it’s just the trailer. Then again, you know what they say about trailers. Well, have a look for yourself.
Japanese “ARTIST, DESIGNER, PROGRAMMER, DJ, VJ, COMPOSER” Daito Manabe took over the sound generation part in this amazing interface concept.
“How it would be, if a house was dreaming”
The guys from urbanscreen in Bremen did a fantastic job with this projection on the Galerie der Gegenwart in Hamburg. The tromp-l’oeil effect is convincing – I wonder if that would work at daylight.
This is definitely the most sophisticated facade projection I came across yet.
Two eccentric game designers talk about – what else? – game design. English with German subtitles @ arte+7, available only a few days!
More interesting than those here, 9 0 0 0 s flickr set shows some beautiful and interesting Atari VCS cartridge artworks.
Shamus Young’s impressive journey for an automatically generated cityscape by night. Watch it here or read the details here.
E15:oGFx is a Python API to generate and explore 3D forms originating from 2D animations. (Runs in Leopard only!) It derived from MIT Media Lab’s E15 Project.
Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.