Swarm of Angels

BoingBoing mentioned this project again today as they are currently doing their February vote. I love the cinema 2.0 concept and just about signed up for a membership when it was first announced; maybe I still should and get involved.

Guitar Fractals: Yoshihiko Satoh

This one would be more fun if it was on a rotating stand.

Urban Curators

The goal of the Urban Curators project is to engage the public in the celebration of the decaying urban environment, recognizing its inherent aesthetic qualities as well as the important role that it plays within our cultural habitat. The project achieves its goal by elevating common, overlooked objects and spaces within the city of Providence, Rhode Island to the level of high art.

GRL Laser Tag Rotterdam

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Atari 2600 code visualization

Would you Like Marmalade or Rat Poison on that?

Long Exposures of Old School Video Games

Rosemarie Fiore’s work:

This is inspiring. Photographing displays is something I’ve experimented with a bit in the past. I’ve also been thinking about doing long exposure photography of projections.
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Forget about the iPhone, neo1973 is far more exciting

OpenMoko is an open source cell phone platform which powers the FIC neo1973.

Software updates via a apt-get kind of system would be great on a cell phone. The cell phone platform has such potential but is crippled by poor software with limited functionality. Making all the software open source creates all kinds of possibilities and makes me want to start spouting Web 2.0 buzz words all over the place.

Comparisons to Apple’s iPhone are natural (look here for specs) and while Apple may deliver a product that initially has more polish and features (not GPS though, which is a big sell for the neo1973), OpenMoko could be the start of a revolution. I think I’ll wait for a wifi enabled model before I buy though; it would be cool to connect to the Asterisk server at work.

Donkey Wrangler to the Stars

I’ve been listening to these mixes a lot as of late. These came to my attention via Blentwell, a great source for mixes.

I hardly ever touch my MP3 collection anymore thanks to sites like Blentwell and the mighty Songbird. Songbird is a glipse of things to come. They were even ahead in the black GUI trend (Apple is moving to a darker interface is looks like).

Linuxing

Over the past few weeks I’ve set up an Asterisk VOIP box running centOS and a Debian based file / web server. There was a point where I saw images of terminal windows when I was drifting off to sleep.

This weekend (for fun) I installed Xubuntu onto the PIII 800 laptop I’ve got kicking around and upgraded my Ubuntu based media computer with feisty repositories.

I’m pretty enthusatic about linux and figure I should get serious about learning some of this stuff beyond just ‘making it work©’. It’s the same wall I run up against with web development: I’m not a programmer. I’m not sure if my brain works in the right way to create code.

I’m still trying to get a decent photo workflow happening. At this point I’m thinking that running windows apps (photoshop) in a virtual machine is the way to go. I’ll give this a go at any rate.