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I was recently involved in a project called Very Public People led by Ania Bas that took place at The Public in West Bromwich: The Very Public Person project is the brainchild of artist Ania Bas, and will see visitors to The Public meeting a variety of individuals who play a part in West…
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I was showing a friend some open source software for design and evenetally came to Alchemy. Within just 10 minutes of srcibbling and then doing a bit of post processing in GIMP 2.7 I had this: I like when accidents like this happen
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Ever since I went down to an Openlab workshop last year I’ve been fascinated by live coding. From Wikipedia: Live coding (sometimes known as ‘interactive programming’, ‘on-the-fly programming’, ‘just in time programming’) is the name given to the process of writing software in realtime as part of a performance. I thought about doing live…
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You may remember from my earlier blog post that I’ve been working on a databent typeface. It was mentioned a fair while back now, but I have been doing bits of work on it every now and then. Here’s a bit of my progress so far: Ass you can see some of the characters…
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On Thursday 4th February I was Stoke-on-Trent for BitJam. I still don’t have anything ready to show on stage but thought I’d use the night as a testing ground for some of my ideas. I wanted to investigate ways in which to interpret what was happening around me. The main performance of the night…
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One of my overall goals is to find a way to databend live video. I’m sure there’s a way to do it with Processing and PureData but I’m not yet proficient in those programs so they’re out of the question for now. In the meantime I thought to try and hack the Echobender script…
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Myself and Mez recently finished a script called Echobender that automatically databends images. To use it you’ll need: A computer with Linux installed. I don’t have a Windows or Mac PC so I can’t test it on those Sox. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install sox Convert, which is part…