Archive for April, 2009
Buying from the Amazon Kindle Store
Just bought Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky from the Amazon Kindle store, and loaded it on my iPhone.
The process was very smooth. I saw the image to the left, and clicked the “Buy Now” button. I was then told “Your item will be sent to Dance Dance Dance. Kindle for iPhone will start [...]Building My First Web Server
I’ve worked the last couple days to get a web server up and running. I’ve done some administration working for Flavorpill and CScout, but have never built a server from scratch.
I decided to use Mosso. This decision was in part made based on the cost of hosting. The basic account that I’m using costs just [...]Evolving Visuals Ideas to Incorporate Ableton Live and Max/MSP/Jitter
I’ve been exploring visuals more, prompted by the Anthony McCall work mentioned in the previous post.
Last week — nice timing — I received a message from Rhizome introducing me to the article, Maximal Art: The Origins and Aesthetics of West Coast Light Shows. The article included what one might expect from its title, but I [...]Visuals Ideas Influenced by Anthony McCall
In 2002 I was at the Whitney to see the exhibition Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977. One piece that really struck me was Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone 1973 (pictured above.) It consisted of a 16mm film projector that was playing a 30 minute loop of the progression of [...]
Replacing a Fan on My MacBook Pro
It’s been bugging me slightly for the last couple months, but yesterday the right side fan on my MacBook Pro started sounding like a cement truck whenever it spun up. I’ve known this day was coming for a while since in looking at the grates that the fans sit behind one sees fingers of cigarette [...]
Patterns Part Two
As a follow up to the last post, I just wanted to share the actual pattern I used for the task Flo gave me. I’m sharing it less because I think someone would find it useful, but more because I want to take note of it so I can use it again.
Florian asked me to [...]Squidfingers Patterns
I needed to find a pattern for a CScout task today. I searched Flickr then Google Images, but didn’t come up with much. Digging into a traditional Google search I was able to find tons of free patterns. Below are a few I found at Squidfingers.
Combining and Filtering Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes
I had some fun with Yahoo Pipes yesterday. At CScout, we use a rather clunky email newsletter service called FeedBlitz. (I’m not even going to give them link love because they’re really quite bad.) The one good thing this service does is allows us to create newsletters from an RSS feed. The service has worked [...]
