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Why bother doing things anyway.
Nowadays modern technology provides all the tools to generate the desired work at the press of a button or klick of a mouse: All the productive things one allways wanted to do but never had the time or skills to do like making a paper snowflake or a church sign, having your own warning label (see above) or maybe writing a paper in computer science (that is accepted at a conference).
Even in your leisure time you can find help for personal things like for burping, making indian music (by zanorg), or inventing your own new silly walk (or making an ambigramm for that).
And imagine that: You even can have help generating you own brain waves.
As if that is not enough there are already generator generators to help you generate generators (and if that does not help then recursion will kill you anyway).
Brave new world.

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Due to a heavy workload I will be blogging less frequently from now on, so this blog will get very very slooow. I will take a little blogging break for the next couple of days.

youtube link to breakdance video

If you have no wii controller but happen to have a mac book and cinderella installed you might look at this video which Jürgen Richter Gebert showed me yesterday. (wait a little when the movie starts it will get interesting after a while). cinderella’s new beata version allows you to use the motion sensor found inside some mac books as source for the gravity of the physics simulation. All you will have to do, is to get the recent beta and check the gravity hardware checkbox (detailed howto here). Would be nice to include the same feature into jReality.

There is a processing library for the motion sensor as well.

this is a follow up to fun with wiimote and 3d motion and other control.

This is a follow up post to the first part of focus and context a post in which I tried to reflect on marketing from the viewpoint of an ordinary customer. This post gets again a little longer. Read the rest of this entry »

screenshot of monoface, mono‘s happy new year flash greeting card (slightly modified in order to make it more look like me..:)).

via cuartoderecha.

Tha application monoface mixes up face parts of people from mono. The application is reminicent to a popular game on paper, where various people have to draw body parts in order to design a complete creature.

cloneGiz (daytar 3/2004) also “mixes parts of faces”. It has a mathematical “selection layer”, means you do not select by picking with your mouse as in monoface but you have to write a formula, which produces the outcome.

The main idea of cloneGiz was not to mix funny faces (although you can do this) but to ask the question of how one can controll the final product (the mixed face) by changing the mathematical formula. It links the mathematical language to a visual “representation”. This project was also made in order to illustrate an ongoing project of linking “objects” to “mathematical code” (sofar via the string rewriter jSymbol).

In the sixties some semioticians studied among others the semiotics of photographies where they discovered e.g. the socalled “photographical paradox” (Barthes).

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An unsorted and incomplete list of music instruments that deserve more attention than they get. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems the minute Nintendo’s nextGen console wii was out, people started to hack it Read the rest of this entry »