"Echo Lighting"

Truly, this is my favorite demonstration of an applied PD system. The timed lighting can be interacted with via cursor. When the cursor touches one of the lights, the light casts a ripple effect, etc. Its really pleasing and interesting to watch. The resolution seems to be of good quality. Truly well done.

An Interesting PD Patch

I think this PD patch I found is kind of neat. I mean it's nothing really spectacular, but it seemed like a good one to try. I found several more on this person's website (I think it was his website). I would actually like to see how this patch works or, to be technically correct, sounds. hope you guys like.

http://media.createdigitalmedia.net/cdmu/images/2009/03/pdexamples.png

Processing is Pretty

This video is amazing.

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

This guy makes incredible visualizations to music using the program Processing. Here is his blog where he details how he made this incredible video.

A Simple Pure Data Patch called "Bonk Your Head"

I thought this was pretty interesting and a good patch to try to make. It gives you the steps on how it is made and has a nice percussion sound. It's really cool that a simple patch like that can make such a nice sound. I don't fully know how it is working, but I understand some basics. The object adc~ is audio input and the object noteout is MIDI output. The object unpack gets each element of the messages and the object makenote 50 250 delays the note. I had trouble figuring out the others since they weren't in the help list and receiving the final sound. Good luck to all who try to make it!

Funny Little Pure Data Patch~

This is a simple little patch that I found and thought was pretty cute.
(OK, truthfully, this was one of the only patches that I found that I actually understood how it worked. . . . )

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2959-was-really-bored-day-decided-cool-patch

For Your Eyes Only!

This interactive creation is a sight to see! I'm not that funny.... but this interactive display is called Eyecode and it was made by Golan Levin in 2007. That rhymed. With a hidden camera, the display responds to the blinking movement of your eyes. When you blink the eyes on the screen light up. When your not blinking the eyes are watching you or shifting back and forth. Would this be creepy or entertaining?

Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far

Stefan Sagmeister and Ralph Ammer transformed into a dynamic duo of technology and typography when they teamed up to create the interactive installation featuring the phrase "Being not truthful works against me" woven into spiderwebs, projected onto a screen. The phrase originates from Sagmeister's book "Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far," and is one of his only digitally interactive designs. As the viewer approaches the screen, the web catches, moves, and erases as a camera detects and responds to each movement. If the viewer stands still long enough, the entire phrase will be completed, but it is usually more fun to swipe away the web before it has reached its completion. Sagmeister typically works with interactive typography created out of environments and situations, but his foray into the digital response medium creates an interesting and highly amusing form of installation art.

Also, it's currently in the Modern Wing at the Art Institute. Hooray!

Bicycle LED

Interesting enough I watched this video before coming to class today (Fri). I think that the video applies well with some of the videos we watched in class. The company is Monkeylectric and although they do not claim to display their work as art (commercial use mostly) I still think that it is an interesting technology. According to some of the blogs about the video the average person can purchase this system for around $2000 dollars and attach it to their own bicycle. Pretty cool.

Princeton Laptop Orchestra