Accounts from Real Space

AM Up North

Schools of Thoughts 3

I just got back from Schools of Thoughts 3, a design education conference held at Art Center College of Design. Doug Kisor and I presented our paper on the need for flexibility within a design program to address change by discussing what we are currently doing in the department and participated on the dicsussion panel that followed.
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Flickr Photo Set

Formal Playing Cards

Business cards printed on the test prints for some other play

Monome Step Generative Drawing

Monome Step : Generative Drawing on Vimeo

This is my first test of having the Monome control some generative drawing along with the audio through this step sequencer I made in Flash similar to the original 64Steps.

I especially like where the step sequencing begins to break down because of how deep the drawing gets.

Its the same drawing engine I used to generate this seasons Thank You cards (although for the Monome version I removed the Type Flakes)

Generative Gratitude Collaboration

Just got these cards back from the printer made in collaboration with [M] (print magician).

Monome RandGridRunner 01

monome_NL_photogallery.swf

Monome_NL_PhotoGallery.swf on Vimeo

got the Monome and Flash on speaking terms a couple days ago. got it to do something besides trace(returned_xml); photos are from our recent trip to the Netherlands. each one gets assigned to a monome button on load.

uses serialI/O and flosc

formalfunction

During our recent trip to the Netherlands I broke the UV filter for my camera. It was our last full day there and it happened at the StedlijkMuseum. It fell off and chipped a little piece out of the edge. So, I decided to make a formalfunction project from it.

Same Code, Different Frame

I am working on this project and I had to go through hours* of video within Flash (FLVs dropped onto FLA timelines) and drop function calls along the timeline in order to trigger events based on the audio. I had already watched all the clips to find the key frame numbers (which wasn't that bad because some of the clips are hilarious) but after I had all the frame numbers, I needed to go through and drop 2 lines of code at each frame... the same 2 lines... on each frame... a tedium that I did not look forward to. So I ended up writing this panel to help do it faster and with less 'boring' than the 'by hand' way.

With this Script Sprinkler panel, you can enter a frame number and some Action Script. The panel will then make a keyframe at the frame number entered, on the currently active layer and add the Action Script entered. I found it to be really helpful for marking these videos that where thousands of frames long.

Download Installer

*Ok, so it wasn't really hours of video but it felt like it when I marked the first 2 by hand. It was probably more like 10 minutes of footage.

Formal Print - Spam Play

A print on Spam Paper

MkShft Light Table

I made this light table for use in burning screens with more accuracy. It is made from a flippped over Lego table with a large window pain resting on the now inverted four legs of the table. The table had the center removed to originally house a hanging bag for block storage. This proved to be a great way to inset the light so that as I was testing out a new brand of emulsion I could adjust the distance from the light to the screen.

Spam Paper

We decided to take a shredder full of junk mail from countless credit card companies and home repair services and make some new paper out of it.

Formal Ware - Gift Play

I wrapped up one of the shirts today to give to a good friend.

Formal Ware - Sheer Play

screen prints created using coded generated drawing studies on a few shirts

Formal Prints - Board Play

screen prints created using some coded generated drawing studies