I made a series of hand illustrated paper angels as a christmas present a couple of years back.
Without access to a last minute printer, my solution was to load this paperangel.svg up on the screen and then trace round it before filling with patterns I traced from a google image search. Then simply cut out and slot the two slits together to make it stand.
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keyword quick search bar shortcuts
You know that numb sensation you get when you are somewhere away from the internet, and you can no longer just find out the things you would normally have at your finger tips? You may not, perhaps this is an indication of just how much of my time is mediated by the web (I’m not an addict … but I do keep some extra internet hidden down the back of the sofa for emergencies).
Anyway, I have a similar sensation when using someone else’s web browser – my senses feel dulled, my reaction time slowed by the subtle differences in a web interface that I am unfamiliar with. One thing in particular I miss when away from my own browser are Firefox’s keyword quicksearches.
My most used are
?for wikipedia,herefor searching the website I’m currently viewing,mapto see where things are on a map,img&vidfor google image and video searches, and various searches for my flickr, delicious and friendfeed accounts to help me recall things I’ve seen.Keyword:
?
Location:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%sKeyword:
??
Location:http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=%sKeyword:
here
Location:javascript:void(location.href='http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=site:'+location.href.split(%22/%22)[2]+'+%s&sourceid=firefox')Keyword:
map
Location:http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=%sKeyword:
img
Location:http://images.google.com/images?q=%sKeyword:
vid
Location:http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%sKeyword:
flickr
Location:http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=17306001%40N00&q=%s&m=text
(you’ll need to look up your own id to use here)Keyword:
del
Location:http://delicious.com/search?p=%s&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1&atags=&rtags=&context=userposts|noii|
(dito)Keyword:
ff
Location:http://friendfeed.com/search?required=q&q=%s&friends=noii
(since selling themselves to facebook, friendfeed’s search has been super slow and shitty)A few others:
Keyword:
last
Location:http://www.last.fm/search?q=%s&type=allKeyword:
hype
Location:http://hypem.com/search.php?q=%sKeyword:
whois
Location:http://www.domaintools.com/go/?service=whois&q=%sKeyword:
sch
Location:http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%sKeyword:
boing
Location:http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&domains=boingboing.net&sitesearch=boingboing.netFinally, for some sites like the movie database, you’ll need to go and right-click in their search box by hand to generate the correct keyword search.
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Digital Media Labs Residency technical advisor, Hull Oct 2010
Technical advisor for the Digital Media Labs Hull touch screen art commissioning residency.
Digital Media Labs offers ten chosen artists a week-long residency as part of a commissioning process for a touch screen art work for the new multi-million pound NHS Hull Wilberforce Health Centre. This commission and Lab will be a key part of their innovative and ambitious arts programme for the new city centre multi-use building. – about
Ran a series of workshops and talks throughout the week demonstrating the potential and limitations of touch screens. Worked with other resident artists to help them produce functional demos of touch-screen pieces. Predominantly used Processing.
A winding journey through technology talk notes.
Most useful Processing code snippets for touch screens are:
noCursor();size(screen.width, screen.height);and remembering that you can run in presentation mode full screen on the second monitor if you change
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Team Lovely (evil) Pony artwork
Ran across a folder of stuff from a 24 hour Simplicity Iron Chef Prototype-a-Thon run by Maeda during my time at the Media Lab. These team logos still make me laugh.
The topic was email and the secret ingredient was Play Doh. Our project proposed an email system that was military-grade encrypted and only revealed each message by printing it in to soft Play Doh. This allowed the reader to instantly squish up the message. Perfect for love letters most intimate. Carlos, Limor and I built the printer, a Play Doh pixel font and the code to run it in the course of the night.
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Paths – one month studio work
This summer I had the chance to use a vacant shop space in Leeds Plaza thanks to Yvonne from Art in Unusual Spaces. My aim was to play with some projections and generative works around the topic of paths. I was also keen to try some of the simpler blob tracking methods in combination with live video feeds. I’ll get some of the code up if I have a chance. In the mean time, here are some photos and a few minutes rendered from one of the projections (and a version without noticeable compression).
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Using association between distinct things as a lens
I posted two consecutive unrelated images that appealed to me through the ffffound interface a while back. It was only when reviewing the site later that I noticed a similarity.
I’ve seen this happen a few times before with flickr favourites – I star several images over a few days, and then favourites update on friendfeed, and the different photos are juxtaposed to create new meaning. Nice. -
China trip notes for a friend
Some thoughts on Beijing:
View Beijing visit notes in a larger mapAnd on Shanghai:
View Shanghai visit notes in a larger mapYou’ve seen this already, but here’s my photos:
I’d suggest considering a trip to Hangzhou from Shanghai (1 hour ish by busy, efficient, cheapish train) for the day, or stay over. It has a pretty lake. And apparently the trips to the tea growing areas are a nice day out.
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No roaming = better tourism advertising
Those adverts for countries must be expensive. You know the ones – bland happy looking tourists wander the most inoffensive tourist highlights of your country. The kids are having fun, the wife looks adorable, the husband is glad to get away for his city desk, etc. etc.. I’m sure most ad campaigns run by countries try to save money by making their ads universal too – “We’ll just get a voice over and tag line in each local language” – but then you still have to buy TV or billboard space in every country you’re trying to draw tourists from. Plus, the problem is, by trying to appeal to everyone, every cultural nuance, you end up not very appealing to anyone.
The only exception to that rule I’ve seen is Iceland’s recent country advert offering. Perhaps ripping out your entire government and starting again allows for a country to take a few more risks. But then again, maybe it only appeals to me. Perhaps the rest of their potential tourist market is still unimpressed.
An advert produced by a local agency in each country would help, but why not go a step further? Why not let the people from each country document what they see as the best bits for their peers back home? I normally post a lot of photos to flickr – daily moments of life – same with twitter and the other media fragments of online life. When I travel my photo taking rate goes right up. I’m seeing new things everywhere, I have an eye of an outsider in each place. But my sharing of these images is held back. I don’t have my normal high bandwidth home and work internet, and my phone is roaming, so I switch off web access there too.
So my suggestion: country-wide advertising people, divert the money from your next big ad campaign in to supporting (or forcing) all of the mobile phone operators in your country to not charge visitors for roaming. I promise the tech savy ones will start producing a much greater flow of excited, holiday-mood content, just right, and pre-targeted for their friends and families back home. That’s got to be 100x better than Arnold Schwarzenegger in a suit.
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Art in Unusual Spaces residency & show, Leeds Aug 2010
One month Art in Unusual Spaces artist residency and End Of Season group show.
Art in Unusual Spaces Presents…
Preview Event: 5-7pm Thursday 2nd September 2010
Ground Floor of Leeds Shopping Plaza | All are welcome to attend.
Refreshments will be served courtesy of Land Securities
Artwork will be viewable through the windows of the units:
Fri 3rd Sept & Sat 4th Sept 10 – 6pm , Sun 5th Sept 11 – 5pm.Throughout August a number of artists have been creating illustration, video and installation in five empty shop units in Leeds shopping Plaza. Audiences are invited to come and view the work during the first weekend of September.
Art in Unusual Spaces has been hosting events across Leeds City Centre since December 2009. This is the last exhibition utilising these empty shop units before they are redeveloped and we move on to new pastures!
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Notes from binaural recordings in Marfa, TX
I love how these read like some sort of miniature poetry. Maybe one day I’ll upload some of the recordings.
disk 4 2005-07-04 12_44.wav - supermarket 6.8 Mb 2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav - supermarket talking in background 11.7 Mb 2005-07-04 13_16.wav - squacking bird, too windy 3.1 MB 19s 2005-07-04 13_16(1).wav - quiet a few birds 22.1 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 13_20.wav - cleaning up sounds 14.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 14_23.wav - bbq little wind at start 22.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 14_25.wav - clearing sticks train in the middle 66.6 Mb * really high pitched sounds 2005-07-04 17_21.wav - town and country 19.2 Mb 2005-07-04 17_58(1).wav - windmill and laughing *** good for radio 2005-07-04 18_01.wav - cars and windmills (a touch of wind) 23.1 Mb ** bit windy, maybe ok 2005-07-04 18_37.wav - rustling birds wind at end 8.3 Mb windy 2005-07-04 18_39.wav - flies, cars, rumble 13.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 19_38(1).wav - talk, fireworks, some wind in middle 20.4 Mb *** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 20_11.wav - klang klang wind at start and end 17.5 Mb windy 2005-07-04 20_13.wav - drips and wind mill 11.2 Mb ** make into loop cut before beeps at end 2005-07-04 20_57.wav - mdstartup noise, long approach car, some birds 18.8 Mb windy 2005-07-04 21_10(1).wav - v quiet. metal tinking. birds. cow at end pinto canyon road 18.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 21_14.wav - cows, birds insect, stone throwing 31.3 Mb *** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 21_38.wav - bad sound in car, car door, after dusk at pinto canyon, cars passing 52 MB 5m10s *** edit down start 2005-07-04 22_23.wav - town and country after dark, train passing 27.7MB 2m45s 2005-07-05 06_51.wav - windy then quiet then windy luna at the arroyo, dogs and roosters, distant highway 53.9MB 5m21s 2005-07-05 06_59.wav - amber at luna on the last morning, birdies chirping, roosters 25.3MB 2m31s wind 2005-07-05 07_26.wav - Ben at luna on the last morning, birdies, dogs, roosters, crickets 32.2MB 3m12s *** (speaking at very end) radio too 2005-07-05 7_37.wav - Burros and pissing and and crickets and a truck at luna 58.7MB 5m49s *** (speaking at very end) radio too 2005-07-05 9_11.wav - footsteps and birds, beautiful, quiet metal banging 14.7MB 1m28s ** wind through 2005-07-05 9_13.wav - good cars passing rockshop, quiet, 14.2MB 1m25s ** edit off start 2005-07-05 9_14.wav - GOOD TRUCK (topped out) 11.8MB 1m11s 2005-07-05 9_16.wav - seven minutes of perfection, am at rockshop 73.6MB 7m18s **** fade in and out 2005-07-05 9_23.wav - one minute of perfection, am at rockshop ** a little wind 2005-07-05 9_32.wav - truck at rockshop 9.2MB 55s 2005-07-05 9_57.wav - Good! train tracks by the drug blimp 54.8MB 5m25s 2005-07-05 11_54.wav - annoying mexican radio broadcast 45.7MB 4m32s disk 3 2005-09-13 19_01.wav - TALKING the fear is that the train was going away 13.7MB 1m22s 2005-09-13 19_02.wav - TALKING I don't hear anything. 1m22s 2005-09-13 19_02(1).wav - TALKING and cars 7m17s 2005-09-13 19_02(2).wav - drunk and under the shirt, beer bottles 5m07s 2005-09-13 19_03.wav - nowheresville 18s 2005-09-13 19_03(1).wav - redford dog story 1m48s 2005-09-13 19_03(2).wav - junk 02s 2005-09-13 19_03(3).wav - blather 1m45s 2005-09-13 19_04.wav - this is the train, shh 5m56s 2005-09-13 19_04(1).wav - crickets, cars, listening from trestle, some wind, scratchy 5m45s disk 2 2005-07-03 13_31.wav - judd 2m09s 2005-07-03 13_52.wav - footsteps, crunching at chinati, wind ~2m *** radio cut wind 2005-07-03 14_29.wav - inside artillery shed at chinati 1m53s *** radio cut talkk at very end 2005-07-03 14_35.wav - inside artillery, joey speaking 21s 2005-07-03 15_35.wav - what are you recording? crap 1m30s 2005-07-03 15_57.wav - boring 1m24s 2005-07-03 16_07.wav - joey braiding hair 1m07s 2005-07-03 19_24.wav - rays are supermarket 1m28s 2005-07-03 21_54.wav - wind 28s 2005-07-03 22_17.wav - 3m of crickets, then rest yapping 7m14s 2005-07-03 22_30.wav - loud, boring crickets with wind 49s 2005-07-03 22_30(1).wav - loud crickets and cars under trestle 2m20s 2005-07-03 22_43.wav - more crickets and cars under trestle 3m20s 2005-07-03 23_18.wav - this is the train from ben's mic 5m43s 2005-07-03 23_44.wav - crickets and cars again (plus one dooley) and some wind 1m14s 2005-07-03 23_45.wav - crickets, crickets and a car 1m23s 2005-07-04 00_08.wav - mumbling at the marfa lights and a truck or two 3m26s 2005-07-04 00_27.wav - luna crickets, foosteps and Lalito's engine 12m45s disk 1 2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 8s 2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23.wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23(1).wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23(2).wav - rockshop rustling not so crappy but crappy 2005-09-13 18_23(3).wav - testing rockshop 15s 2005-09-13 18_23(4).wav - birdies and cars ar rockshop; some wind but not bad especially at the end, train horn in distance 5m20s 2005-09-13 18_24.wav - wind 8s 2005-09-13 18_24(1).wav - lots of wind and drops of rain on tin and rustling, cars 1m27s 2005-09-13 18_24(2).wav - wind. metal. 2005-09-13 18_26.wav - nothing 2005-09-13 18_26(1).wav - rain and thunder. nice a bit short 2005-09-13 18_26(2).wav - rain and thunder. 2005-09-13 18_26(3).wav - thunder and rain. 2005-09-13 18_26(4).wav - wind. birds. laughing. "hello" 2005-09-13 18_26(5).wav - rustle rustle. wind. 2005-09-13 18_27.wav - wind and rustle. then quiet rooster. then more wind. 2005-09-13 18_27(1).wav - boring. 2005-09-13 18_27(2).wav - trying to record the train. *** radio 2005-09-13 18_27(3).wav - glitch 2005-09-13 18_27(4).wav - train horn bad wind in middle. 2005-09-13 18_27(5).wav - rustle. late night fire talking. 2005-09-13 18_28.wav - aroya. wind and mic knocking. 2005-09-13 18_28(1).wav - long windy walk through aroyo 2005-09-13 18_29.wav - frogs and crickets 20s of good then windy 2005-09-13 18_29(1).wav - slow fade in and out. crickets and aroyo 2005-09-13 18_30.wav - 2005-09-13 18_30(1).wav - 2005-09-13 18_30(2).wav - rock shop birds short wind: 2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav 2005-07-04 17_58.wav 2005-07-05 9_12.wav 2005-07-05 9_56.wav - crunching, walking and wind 10.5MB 1m03s short speaking: 2005-07-04 18_45.wav - throwing rocks 18 Mb 2005-07-04 22_55.wav - luna "what are you thinking- of painting the house white?" 9.1 MB 55s bad: 2005-07-04 18_21.wav - banging headphones test 2005-07-04 19_38.wav - nothing 2005-07-04 21_10.wav - not much 2.2 Mb
