December 12, 2007 at 2:19 am · Filed under Digital Art
I have to prepare a little presentation at the university about Metaverses in literature. We could choose a example and i chose the “The Futurological Congress” which i really adore. Another possible choice for me would be Neal Stephenson or Philip K. Dick maybe (it was in fact for other students). One course at the shop is about Second Live (so we run around there, build stuff, look at things and talk about how much SL sucks) and the other, called “Orbis Tertius”, is about the perception in the metaverse, so they are connected. “Orbis Tertius” is the one for which i have to prepare the presentation tonight so i think i will take some of this, this and this and prepare a little something.
The teachers are nice guys, so either check out their website or, if you are into SL, check out the blog from Harwdarehacker Hoch.
December 4, 2007 at 11:45 am · Filed under Music
Luke Vibert is at the moment one of the most interesting artist to me as far as electronic music is concerned. I just love his last two albums so i was really happy to find this dj-set from him. A nice collection of old and new acid house/breaks tracks with some of my favourites in it. Check it out!
December 4, 2007 at 11:34 am · Filed under Music
Fino sent me yesterday this nice hip-hop mix by Mick Boogie. So enjoy Busta Rhymes and J Dilla on Rappcats.com!
December 2, 2007 at 9:22 am · Filed under Digital Art
At the university we have to do each semester a project so this year i want to do a 3d sculpture with one-way mirrors. The idea is as follows: I want to build a small white pyramid with the top cut off and put it into a box of 4 one-way mirrors. Over the pyramid i place a video projector and i want to project 4 videos on each side of the pyramid. I’m going to render the videos with OpenGL so i can correct the distortion in a 3d engine (jMonkeyEnginge preferably). I want to use a realtime 3d engine so i can make the sculpture interactive or rather modifiable. At the moment i still play around with the video rendering and the 3d stuff, so the creative part (choosing the videos and writing the concept ;) is still to be done.
There are two videos on youtube which in some way have to do with the idea.
Automatic projector calibration
3d city projection
There are several problems with this project:
- A square meter of one-way mirror costs about 250€ and i need about 2.5
- I haven’t found any literature about one-way mirrors. I dont know how much light intensity i loose with these mirrors
- I don’t know if the engine is fast enough to render 4 vids
I try to have a working modell without the mirrors in the next few days.
November 28, 2007 at 9:41 pm · Filed under Stuff
I’m not really a online community site affiniciado but there are some tools out there which i use more or less frequently. For example you can find my small link collection @ del.icio.us and i also use stumble upon, which is a really cool plugin for firefox. The quality of the links you will “stumble upon” is really high and i think i will post some of my stumbles here in the weblog as well. Of course i also have a musician myspace profile (which i rarely check). Together with alive we run a small label called syncmode records which is also on myspace.
Because i’m really into Unreal Tournament 2004 i have an ESL profile and you can find me also on clanbase and our clan homepage. As mentioned before, i also have a soft spot for foosball so you will find me posting from time to time here.
November 28, 2007 at 6:32 pm · Filed under Foosball
I really enjoy playing foosball (table soccer aka wuzln). i’m practising now for ages and i’m still highly motivated. Not that i’m any good (maybe around top 100 in the garlando ranking) but i think it’s a challenging game. You gotta have some tactics and a really good hand-eye-coordination. I’ve been to Las Vegas in september playing the championships on the tornado table and i have to admit i enjoy it much more than this crappy garlando table, so if you think about buying a table, go for the american model! And to put some advertisement into this blog (the first one btw), my brother opened a online store for selling tornado tables in europe called tornadotische.at!
November 28, 2007 at 6:15 pm · Filed under Digital Art
After playing around with some java 3d/game engines i think i like this one best. Easy to code, with physic support and a lot of friendly people in the forum. For my semester project i also play around with jMyron, which can handle video/webcam images and do some basic motion and color tracking (it’s also used in processing). As soon as i have some results i will put the source online (either via svn or via download).
November 28, 2007 at 4:21 pm · Filed under Music
a nice collection of online jazz radio stations.
http://www.surfmusik.de/genre/jazz.html
August 1, 2007 at 2:22 pm · Filed under Stuff
Finally! My new website is online .. wooohoooooo!!
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