Mon, May 03 2004 05:01 pm
xml and flash (cont.)

a good way of learning about a specific technology is to search for FAQ's on that technology. I keep having to remind myself
Flash XML FAQ
found via web reference article

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Sun, Apr 25 2004 02:59 am
Justine Cooper MRI artist

I was just searching for artists who use MRI imaging in their work (search terms MRI scan artist) and I came across.Justine cooper -I like. excerpt from a review " MRI) scan of the artist’s head have been printed on perspex squares and stacked in an evenly spaced, quasi-minamalist cube", reminds me of Prof. Gunther Von Hagen's Public autopsy in London.

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Tue, Apr 20 2004 05:59 pm
xml brain parsing - flash /php

this weekend - and on monday I was busy with the organised.info- xml parser programming. Its all pretty much documented and illustrated in my email correspondence with friends. bascially I want to show the brain maps created in 'the brain' on my site, using a combination of xml and php parsing. there are few guys working on a flash/php combo parser called 'flashbrain' and last night they released a javascript/flash version much to my delight.. but their interface is still not what Im after...mines is very minimal..
I figure Ive got an excuse to learn xml based parsing properly if I make this myself.
however.. my php exploits have also been affected by Nic today, he showed me how to read and trace a particular element in an xml document in 5 actionscript lines.
last night also, si shared des's bbc rss reader code with me after I described what I was doing in an email. its all flash around me. luciano's saying flash too.. oooo... I may have to dispense with my minimal communication layers desires and go the flash way.

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Thu, Apr 15 2004 10:33 pm
Comlight breathes again

Ive just come across something, its a communication project that uses . small lasers
it reminds me of one of the ideas that I presented for my project this year 'comlight'.. it was too thin on concept and didnt really tax the skills I wanted to gain this year so I abandoned it. but I may pick up on it later or put it on my open source brain..

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Fri, Apr 02 2004 05:46 am
glitch mirror (pocket size version)

just had a thought.. one way to overcome the public vs. private glitching issue on the glitch mirror would be to use smaller screens. like 5 inch lcd's or something..alison suggested a portable glitch mirror, which I hadnt really considered doing as my final piece. so this Easter break will give me time to develop this further.

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Tue, Mar 30 2004 04:22 am
Blessed be thy vision

"Gates also said advances in programing will allow software developers to create applications in less time by using visual representations of the inner workings of software rather than writing lines of programing code." SAN DIEGO (Reuters), This is like every developers dream.

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Sat, Mar 27 2004 11:27 pm
Piranesi

earlier while I was chatting to luciano about italian, blake, gertrude stein, the passion of christ and the 3d city scene Im working on, he said giovanni piranesi was pretty much a precursor to industrial gothic, 3d lighting etc.. okay not his exact words but the meaning was implied directly and indirectly. I agree.
artchive pic link

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Sat, Mar 27 2004 11:22 pm
Frida

Frida Kahlo you strange woman.

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Fri, Mar 26 2004 04:37 am
utility knife ImageJ

it would be safe to say ImageJ can be used for many purposes in the science profession.. take Researching Active Solar Longitudes for example small tutorial, the macro feature is by far the best! even lets yu create plugins from them and I suppose you could import them into your own java apps!

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Fri, Mar 26 2004 04:17 am
Image processing

Image J is a standalone app and plugin library for java that allows some pretty advanced image processing. its geared primarily towards the medical profession but it has a very small footprint and is very simple to get up and running.

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Mon, Mar 15 2004 10:34 pm
Daniel Rozin

Daniel Rozin is an artist, educator and developer, working in the area of interactive digital art. As an interactive artist Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. In many cases the viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece. Even though computers are often used in Rozin's work, they are seldom visible. he's also owner of the company that makes track them colours. OHMIGOD !! he has a mirror project too! --looks similar to one avenue of exploration I had about cutting strips of mirro and physically manipulating the mirrors. he has done it by means of servo motors and such. pretty fast too.Daniel Rozin

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Wed, Mar 03 2004 04:00 am
Jim Kajiya MSR Director

"With ubiquity, graphics can be used to record ideas and experiences, to transmit them across space, and to serve as a technological substrate for people to communicate within and communally experience virtual worlds," Kajiya and Microsoft colleague Jay Torborg observed in a recent scientific article on Talisman."
Microsoft link

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Sat, Feb 28 2004 05:00 am
new Francis Bacon exhibition

CNN link : Francis Bacon
Beyler foundation
nice zoomable images. For Barbara Steffen, curator of the show at the Beyeler Foundation museum in suburban Riehen, Switzerland, the studio material presents the missing link between the "the sublime horror of Bacon's own imagery and the often complex, ambiguous beauty of the artists he accepted as his idols."

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Tue, Feb 24 2004 01:58 pm
Scrapbook script

MyScrapbook is a multi-platform compatible unique graphical Internet content management tool that looks and acts just like a book. scriptz.com link

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Mon, Feb 23 2004 03:21 am


stumbled across this in my research for a future career. THEME: Digital lifestyles 14:00 hrs: Keynote: the Impact of Digital Lifestyles on the Media Ashley Highfield, BBC, UK Ashley Highfield Ashley is director of BBC New Media. ext. link Established in 1967 as a showcase for broadcasting technology, IBC attracts 40,000 attendees from 120 countries annually. On the show floor are 1000 exhibitors including every major supplier of technology for the creation, management and delivery of entertainment content. And the IBC conference tackles all the key technical, management and creative issues.

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Tue, Feb 17 2004 10:26 pm
3D wires

3D wires Gallery makes me wanna go back to some old 3d work.

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Tue, Feb 17 2004 01:00 am
John Ruskin on abstract element in Art

I was just reading a bit from the stones of venice, vol iii, 1853. out of a Norton anthology of Prose
I like the way Ruskin talks about abstraction and colour.in particular his detailing of Grey and Purple...colours I love using for my 3d compositions and textures of those
.. before I got interested in abstract expressionism, I thought abstract paintings were intentionally cryptic..
I dont know what they are now.. but its worth exploring this train of thought..
- below from Ruskin;
The abstract element in Art: "..the arrangement of colours and lines in an art analogous to the composition of music, and entirely independant of the representation of facts. Good colouring does not necessarily convey the image of anything but itself. ..."
it then goes on to say how good colouring has more to do with the abstract qualities of colour and the relations of the chosen colours.
maybe I'm wrong but I think he completely separates the represention from the object represented.
is this distinction really what gives an artform a 'noble'/'fine' character?

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Fri, Feb 13 2004 09:13 pm
PHP class

PHP class which promotes separating PHP scripts and HTML files...useful for clean maintainable apps.. it also has some nice extras.. like page separation when outputing results and database support like EZmysql.
I'm considering moving over. Tiny But Strong

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Tue, Feb 10 2004 08:55 pm
useful bookmarklets

bookmarklets

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Mon, Feb 02 2004 01:24 am
wilcarded searches

I had no idea google does wildcarded entries "great * of *" could give you great wall of china and great balls of fire.

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Fri, Jan 30 2004 08:52 am
Computer fine arts

so many amazing artists to aspire to
computerfinearts.com

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Fri, Jan 30 2004 08:41 am
Five Small Videos

Really nice video experiments that challenge conventional video based video presentation.
ext. link

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Wed, Jan 21 2004 09:05 pm
Conceptual Art

Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt
ALT-x mag
I like this one, which is something that Luciano mentioned once in an email to me as well. -Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. Sol Lewitt.

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Wed, Jan 21 2004 03:17 pm
Jason Salavon

I was mining through my emails and I found this link I'd sent out a while ago Jason Salavon is an artist who does very interesting image averaging work.
in particular I like his The Top 6 Grossing Films of All Time, 2 x 2 2000 6 videos, 6 monitors, where he has reduced the mentioned films to playbacks of 2x2 pixels.

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Sat, Jan 10 2004 09:18 pm
Ubiquitous Computing

Draft version of Intimations of Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City by Anne Galloway, (search for "Glitch", interesting project idea.)
purselipsquarejaw link

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Thu, Dec 04 2003 10:07 am
London

Came back from London last night. Went to the Tate Britain to see the Turner Prize and the National Gallery to see Bill Viola's Passions.
I'd recommend anyone to go in this order :
1. go to trafalgar square
2. visit Bill Viola's exhibit
3. head off to Tate Britain
4. check the turner Prize
(my fav. being Anya's work)
5. have some food
6. get back home
7. contemplate the day.


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Sun, Nov 30 2003 03:51 am
Persian Bloggers

on my explorations of the rapidly growing persian blogosphere, I came across the site of Alireza Doostdar, a masters student at Harvard GSE Harvard link studying technology in education
his recent informative essay examines 'virtual reproductions of real-life sociocultural practice' by iranians on the blogosphere.

draft essay on PersianBlogger.com/english

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Sun, Nov 30 2003 03:08 am
Messa di Voce

The long applause said it all, what a fabulous night! even ended up going to the media centre afterwards and stayed a little while.
On a really superficial note; Golan site link was 'shorter' than I expected him to be, and seemed like a nice guy in general.
sadly I didnt get a chance to speak to him or tell him how fantastic the work was.
nor did I get a chance to speak to or hear, Jaap Blonk [Holland] and Joan La Barbara [US] other than in their performances.

do you see the space below the entry?, I originally reserved that for any kind of media related to the most recent post
and I've been thinking about a video blog recently, might create one once things clear up.
Back to writing.

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Sat, Nov 29 2003 03:28 pm
MIT Media Lab Europe

how ignorant of me, to not come across this before.. some very interesting Research going on at MIT Media Lab Europe
they're based in Dublin
and I'm already thinking of the possibilities..
MLE.ie/research
like my first joy of discovering microsoft research in Cambridge...
MSR Cambrige


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Sat, Nov 29 2003 05:26 am
untitled no.1 -David Topping

anything goes in my comm. arts section, though probably not communism
can't you see its not red!anyhow, just thought it would be apt to mention that this gentleman, David Topping. he has apparently successfuly executed an idea, which I came up with for my glitch/interference project, honest its in my sketchbook, and I only came across his site tonight while doing a spot of last minute research for my dissertation
still, I suppose that shouldnt stop me from doing my work which incorporates a similar idea
It would be very valuable to speak to him about the specifics of his work. though
David's site
Description: untitled #1 1996
A series of small interactive video sculptures using LCD televisions. As the visitors walk around the space the quality of the images is affected by their proximity to the devices.

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Thu, Nov 27 2003 10:17 am
Alarm Sync

if theres anything worse than an alarm going off.. its a phone a handheld, a pda and outlook going off simultaneously while you're awake.

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Sun, Nov 23 2003 01:46 pm
Money tracking.

Im a latecomer to the world of money serial tracking ;)
Where's George?
Euro Bill tracker
Osatsu: Yen Tracking
This reminds me of the film, with Brendan Fraser, mummy guy, called "twenty bucks" The film follows a $20 bill from its ATM birth to its eventual demise. Along the way, the note weaves in and out of the lives of a street person, an aspiring writer, a stripper, two thieves, and many others in surprising and inventive ways. -IMDB description.
IMDB link

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Sat, Nov 22 2003 10:18 am
Girder : windows automation

convinced Im going to need a windows automation tool at some point. Girder 3.2.9 from PC mag site
I found it on this original site

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Sun, Nov 16 2003 09:19 pm
Golan Levin

Ive long since been a fan of Golan Levin's work, Flong, he is undoubtedly a true inspiration to many and this year I'll probably get a chance to see him at Ultrasound! Ultrasound:Messa Di Voce In the second year, I had ideally seen my work on Aurex as a multivistor audio/video based installation, in fact I produced preliminary plans for it to accompany my aurex report. Aurex Report (htm) Though at the time I had absolutely no experience of the technology that could have been used to create an aurex installation. I see incredibly similar components, in Golans Mesa Di Voce, which incidentally was in development at the roughly same time as I was working on Aurex. Golans work is about Hidden worlds and voices, and throughout my research I have more or less focused on visualising the invisible. my work on SKY and VADIO for example, was a journey into visualising the invisible and Aurex was about visually interacting with invisible sound. so thats why Im really keen on meeting Golan and experiencing his work, as I'm sure both would be uplifting experiences in their own right.

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