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Saturday, August 7th, 2010

I am currently getting publicly grilled on Reddit.

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Processing and Arduino in Tandem | creativeLIVE.com

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

O’Reilly is offering a fee web streaming course on using the open programming language processing together with the open hardware platform arduino, starting at the end of August. I’ll be bleary from Fantastic Fest during part of it, but I enrolled anyway. Processing and Arduino are both powerful ways of creating just about anything under the sun, from multimedia installations to robots, but they are designed with beginning programmers and fast-prototyping in mind. I’m a math-deficient visual thinker, and I never would have imagined I would be able to get into programming until I discovered them.

Processing and Arduino in Tandem | creativeLIVE.com.

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Texas Filmmakers Production Fund

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

YouTube – Texas Filmmakers Production Fund.

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GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY

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Create Digital Motion » Visual Music Tumblr, Takeshi Murata, and Philip Glass on Sesame Street

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Terrific stuff on CDM yesterday, most notably a link to a visual music Tumblr blog.

Create Digital Motion » Visual Music Tumblr, Takeshi Murata, and Philip Glass on Sesame Street.

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The Octopus Project, Tia Carrera, and Mother Falcon at Mohawk Patio | Music | Events | The A.V. Club Austin

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

This saturday at Mohawk – OP kicks out jamz.

Perpetually cast in bright, sparkling colors whether it’s floating along on buoyant pop hooks or diving into grungy, digital dissonance, Austin’s The Octopus Project adds an intoxicatingly human edge to a genre that’s too often about cold, technical precision—one dictated by its credo, “Music Is Happiness.” It’s also one of the most visual bands working today, often accompanied by lights and projections that crystallize the eternally unspooling Stan Brakhage films its songs only suggest. The band took its “visual music” concept to the next logical conclusion with this year’s Hexadecagon, a multimedia/multidimensional collaboration with Wiley Wiggins. Expect tracks from the Project’s full-fledged follow-up to 2007′sHello, Avalanche here—though Tia Carrera threatens to obscure whatever creepy-cute projections accompany those new tunes in a metallic purple haze. That band’s distorted heft, meanwhile, will be tempered by the baroque swells of Mother Falcon’s yearning chamber-folk.

The Octopus Project, Tia Carrera, and Mother Falcon at Mohawk Patio | Music | Events | The A.V. Club Austin.

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Gizmometry: Circuit training with Austins DIY noisemakers Austin Music – AustinChronicle.com

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

This week’s Austin Chronicle includes an article (the cover story!) about the DIY electronic music scene in town, including Eric Archer, Dann Green & handmade music Austin, and Switched On.

Gizmometry: Circuit training with Austins DIY noisemakers Austin Music – AustinChronicle.com.

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BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo on Vimeo

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Digital Harmony: The Life of John Whitney, Computer Animation Pioneer

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

A little biographical page about John Whitney Sr. – The inventor of motion graphics, and inspiration for the current piece of video I am working on for The Octopus Project. (kind of a wrap-up of the final song from Hexadecagon). Whitney passed in ’95, but managed to work with both Charles Eames and Saul Bass during his life.