At the Last HOPE, I decided that I'd probably get enough interested folk to set up a mailing list. On this mailing list I plan to send out info as to when I'm participating in new events or when I'm exhibiting anywhere. I also plan on sending out info if I'm looking for some help - people who are interested in rendering their 3d code in the Wiremap, people who have places to exhibit the Wiremap... So join if you're up for it!
At The Last HOPE, I met a fellow by the name of Max Parke. He saw my project Friday and was excited to get involved. After thinking about it for a night, he came by my booth on Saturday and messed around for a coupla hours and came up with the following program: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97qgnNWhCg[/youtube]
Over the last four days I've probably spent over 50 hours in a conference hall at the Hotel Pennsylvania. If there's one thing I've learned form the experience, it's this: Hackers are cool. Like, seriously cool people.
So for all of you who took my business card and are reading this right now - thanks for all your support and excitement and insightful ideas. Your input is definitely going to change the future of the Wiremap.
I've got one last favor to ask. If any of you post photos or videos or articles or interviews or whatever, I'd love it if you could drop me an email to let me know. It's third person material like this that helps bring the Wiremap to other events. I plan on compiling all the links on a big list at http://wiremap.phedhex.com,
One of the highlights that many of you didn't get a chance to see was when a coder named Max (don't know his handle or last name) decided to build a new program for the Wiremap. He thought about it for a night, came back, and within two hours whipped up a beautiful and captivating ripple effect. I took some video and will be posting it in the next coupla days.
I'm in the process of setting up a mailing list, also. I promise I'll have a link for that on my blog within a week.
See you at The Next HOPE.
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/6332438[/vimeo] Ever since DEMF I've been taking my dance a little more seriously. Video speaks for itself, really.
& if you wanna hear the feedback I got from some very informed liquid people, check out the replies to my post at floasis.net.
Enjoy!
So, when I was staging Calvin's Island, the script called for a telescope. We borrowed one from an astronomy student up at Columbia, and ended up not using it because it was too big. At any rate, when we returned it, he took us up to the observatory and showed us the night sky. It was beautiful! It was also weird to be looking up there and seeing all this stuff really close up.
Anyway, he shows us Saturn and we laugh in disbelief. It looks almost like a cartoon version of what you think it might look like.
So, with my geekery in optics and cameras and POV and all that jazz, I get the idea to try to capture Saturn with my cell phone picture. After all, if you get the camera in the hot spot with the telescope, you should be able to pick up whatever the eye is picking up.
I put my phone up against the telescope and looked around. The camera had to be in just the right spot, but when it was there you could definitely see Saturn. After a couple of missed shots, I got this photo:
Here's a closer image:
And an a ridiculously close zoom:
Turns out I'm not the only one who's done this. Dave Pearson has been doing this for a while and has a couple of very cool photos of the exact same subject as well as a few others.
I've been dancing on and off for about ten years now - the last couple of years being "off". Nonetheless, for a little while now I've been involved in two online dance forums, reflective.net and floasis.net. Reflective has been around for quite a while, and the group is comprised of poppers mostly from the East Coast (as far as I can tell). Floasis is a group that's only a about a year old and is comprised of people doing liquid. Alongside realizing that I don't really enjoy theater as much as I thought I used to (see two posts ago), I've come to the realization that I miss dancing. Like, I really miss rocking out to good music.
DEMF is the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. This year I went out there and met up with a few people at Floasis.net, and learned my ass off. Yeah, they were all very skilled dancers - very very skilled.
We took loads of video, mostly of dancing and some experimental footage that I want to play around with in the same vein of the liquid cam video I made a while back. I'll post that as soon as it's up.
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