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Psychosith

Part of an emerging trend of CGI mashup – as computer graphics become good enough that home users can do incredible things, genres become squished together. Click through for the artists blog or videos.

From the Vaults: My Platform ’09 Application

I wrote this application for the Platform ’09 live art event back before I knew I was ill, but I was definitely suffering from all of the symptoms that would later see me hospitalised. I checked with a few people I knew, and found out that at least two of the people on the Platform [...]

Upcoming Juggling Residency

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be undertaking a residency at 25 Stratford grove this August, where I’ll be working with juggling. We had a brief run-through and experimentation with what you can do with juggling balls and a room full of artists on Sunday, when Carole Luby hosted an artists crit group. We spent some [...]

Don’t talk to me about your fucking arduino*

I just realised that I’ve been living with new media technologies as the locum of “what I’m doing in the art world” for the past seven years. And that I’m totally sick of them. So I deleted 97 feeds from my RSS reader. What I’m bored of is people who don’t understand the difference between [...]

Bah Bah Bah BWAH Nah

I sat down few days ago and made a concerted effort to watch Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a long, slightly flawed movie, but in the third act something interesting occurred to me. It wasn’t the fact that the alien spaceship was very cool, in that pre-CGI filmmaking way, nor anything [...]

Day by Night

I picked this book up because it has an amazing cover by Don Maitz, which you can see here on his website. I love the look of older SF book covers, which put to shame the cleanly designed lines of more modern books. Sadly, the plot wasn’t great – one of those confusing 1970s plots [...]

Vlogging

Right after I made this 2004 called and asked for it’s internet back. I told them I’d mail it back to Zefrank as soon as I was finished with it.

Instructional Videos are Bullshit

(SuperAmazingDoesItForYou video link) After a morning spent tussling with installing, then uninstalling Zotero, I’ve finally had it with those instructional videos that software designers create. I think that nothing beats the written word for communication of information, but I’m consistently finding that complex software is being explained by the use of an instructional video. And usually, that video [...]

Bin Badder

Bin Badder is a Mac-only piece of art software that I wrote for the online magazine Unlikely 2.0, sometime in the past half-decade. I found it recently when vanity Googling myself, and decided to update the software a little bit and put a copy of it on my site. (A brief discourse into vanity Googling [...]