- How Not to Get a Job
I just found this while cleaning out my computer. I think it was the beginning of a resume. Probably a good thing it was never finished.
- New Photo Site
I’ve been putting a bit more energy into photography recently finally got around to updating the photo site and giving it a much needed redesign. We’re focusing a bit more on portraiture and commissioned work, which probably means that more photographic oddities will end up here.
- Quick! Wedding Photography!
Just a quick shot from a wedding last weekend.
- Dirt Off Your Shoulders
This is an early version of a video system I’m working on. I originally wanted to make something that looked like it was communicating when really everything was just random — sort of like if the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind had used video to talk. I was working on it while listening to music and noticed that it appeared to be syncing even though it wasn’t at all. I think it has to do with how easily we see patterns, how rhythmic the music is, and how fast the video changes.
So, just an early example. I’m working on another version that uses MIDI for live manipulation.
- Best thing ever said
I was taking pictures in the park yesterday, and this girl said to me, “I’m a sleepy panda. [pause] Because I came from China.”
A few more after the jump.
- Madame Bovary Random Visualized Poetry
I used Python to get the parts of speech for each word int he first chapter of Madame Bovary. I fed that to Processing and had it write random poetry-ish lines. The background plots the location of the words in the original text.
- 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.