- The Market Instability Monster
In Fooled By Randomness, Nasim Taleb talks about setting up a display to only show him very broad characteristics of the market. I wanted to create a kind of ambient monitor that took this idea but humanized the numbers into something that could be understood in a simpler, more passive way. Using weekly data from a total stock market index, the monster grows when instability is high and shrinks when it is low. The head is an indicator of short term instability. I wanted an aspect of the monster to retain a memory of special events in the past, and the ribs that appear at moments of extreme instability are supposed to serve that purpose.
- Tattoo Portraits
I’ve been working on a series of portraits to accompany an article on military tattoos that ran in the last issue of the Texas Observer. Most of these are from the tattoo convention a few months ago.
More after the jump.
- Tipped Bowler Tapes site launches
After a few months of work, the site I’ve been making for Tipped Bowler Tapes has launched. I posted the logo for the label a few weeks ago, and the site’s look and feel continues with the Victorian illustration theme. The site uses jQuery to give it a bit of Flash feel while still keeping the markup nice and clean, and sIFR drops in to make the headers pretty. It’s an oddly built site and a nice change of pace from some of the other work I’ve been doing.
A side note of thanks to Rob Goodlatte for coming up with a fix to an annoying bug in Safari having to do with half-pixel background positioning.
- Processing Tangerine Dreams
I’m calling my second processing project done and moving on. It proved a bit difficult to really beat detect the ambient song perfectly, but I grew to like the slow evolution of the thing.
- Nine Inch Nails? Apparently.
Just a quick Processing project — still a lot to learn on that front. The music is Nine Inch Nails, although I’m not sure why. The random beeps are accidental.
But it’s done, and I’m moving on.
- Penguins on the Moon?
This is my first Blender project. The penguins each have have a hollow body with a glowing cupcake inside — lifting one arm throws light out to the side. The fact that you can’t actually see the cupcakes in this image is a positive quality, I think.
