spxlChaser2D3D
28 December, 2009 at 3:48 am
View sketch page for source code.
A mouse follower… with another dimension.
Exercise creating a class for the chasing objects, exercising PVector methods for the motion calculations.
-spxl
Reach out and touch some…thing – SubPixel / Studio Kanzen
25 November, 2009 at 12:02 amThe following is copied from an email addressed to Studio Kanzen, creators of SubPixel – a digital culture video blog.
Studio Kanzen,
this evening I discovered someone/something called “SubPixel”. My sister asked me what videos were mine on YouTube, saying that she did a search for “subpixel” and found something that looked like porn, so didn’t open it at work. Something about a guy with his shirt off and a girl with her hands somewhere near his groin. “No, I don’t think I have anything that looks like porn, or anything with a guy with his shirt off.”
What was she talking about? YouTube. Search.
I see… SubPixel: Clone a Willy Penis Mold Kit Review
Quite amusing, but no, not one of my videos.
Hi, I’m subpixel. I’ve been pushing pixels under that name since 2002 when I started taking club and party photos for Australia’s dance music community at InTheMix: “sub” as in music, and “pixel” as in pictures (digital photographs). On later reflection it occurred to me that the name had other interpretations, such as “subpixels” meaning “images from a subculture”, or “subpixel” being the thing (or person) underlying/behind the images I was capturing, especially since I was responsible for the images and rarely “in front of the camera” in my own photos, or those taken by other photographers in the Sydney scene.
After being an InTheMix photographer for a year or so, and having made many new friends along the way, I was more inclined to go where some of those friends were going, and less inclined to take on ITM photography assignments elsewhere, though still continued taking photos, including as “official photographer” for an underground party called Undercurrents, and today have an archive of some 70,000+ images and short video clips. I was without a camera – I mean a camera I cared to carry with me, since, now I think about it, I did actually have at least one other – for about 6 months two years ago, and found that to be a bit depressing. That slowed me down a bit, and I don’t seem to have been taking as many since then (or perhaps for a while before), though do go through spurts on occasion.
Photo madness in decline, I am still behind the pixels nonetheless. I acquired subpixels.com in 2003, and continued to use the name, especially for creative projects. In 2006, after a late night laptop-and-video-projector good times retrospective for a friend’s farewell at a city fringe music bunker (another friend’s house with a killer sound system and wall to wall wax) in Sydney, I was asked to supply visuals for a live electronic music gig called Laptopjam, and so the subpixel name moved on to be my VJ moniker.
I appeared mainly at live electronic gigs, VJ meetings and house parties in Sydney until I was roped in as resident VJ for a fledgling club night (Mind! Reggae Dubstep) in Brixton by Italian DJ Unity Selekta along with Earl Gateshead [Trojan Soundsystem] when I moved to London in 2008, strangely enough from my Gumtree listing looking for a place to live. Around the same time I discovered a local VJ community, VJlondon, where I made friends, had fun, and through which landed various gigs around London including a couple more live electronic gigs. I also joined the sizeable contingent of VJlondon crew appearing at LPM 2009 – Live Performers Meeting – in Rome, apparently the only Australian representative. Through Dr.Mo, who organised most of the VJlondon gatherings, I met architect and artist Alex Haw of atmos (currently working on the CLOUD for the 2012 London Olympics), with whom I collaborated to realise the Weather Projection installation at the inaugural Smart Light Sydney festival – me, a Sydneysider, scrambling to write the code in London (and in Rome after LPM!), and Alex, a Londoner, scrambling to put together the hardware (and content) in Sydney – such a mixed-up world we live in! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to Sydney to see the result, but I’m back in Sydney now, and have rejoined forces with the live electronics party/promoter Midi In The City as well as taking up residency with the closely related TECHnique crew for their monthly techno parties and festival vibes at the Earthdance Sydney 2009 Campout. I have just completed another international collaboration, this time with Venetian producer and deepindub netlabel founder, Maurizio Miceli: a “VJ clip” for Way Out [DIDVJ002] to promote his latest EP.
You can find clips from and information about past VJ gigs at SPXL.TV, and other stuff like my blog including experiments with Processing at subpixels.com.
Sourcemap
20 November, 2009 at 3:44 amSourcemap – Open Supply Chains
An incomplete Sourcemap for LPM 2009 in Rome, Italy.
Data is based on the artists list on the LPM site.
This Sourcemap was started as a Travel Map and saved, but when attempting to re-edit the map, the “passengers” have each been converted to 97kg of cargo. It would be nice if the map remembered that these were supposed to be human passengers (eg 1164kg is a bit mysterious!).
-spxl
SPXL.TV launched
13 August, 2009 at 5:03 amSome months ago I snarfed a new domain for myself, and today (well, in the past day at least) I’ve built a new website showcasing demos, music videos and footage from past gigs. It is taking some time to go through the back catalogue, and there is more footage to be hunted down on various media (external HDD, backup DVDs,… I hope!) and uploaded, but there is plenty there now to check out if you’re so inclined. :o)
- SPXL.TV – subpixel’s media channel
Please let me know if you’ve been to check it out. Suggestions are welcome. Possible future plans include providing content (such as VJ loops), and perhaps some other interactive stuff (Flash, Processing, etc).
Whilst I’m plugging, I should mention that you can also find me on social networking sites, including:
You’re most likely to catch me on Facebook these days. Sorry MySpace! :o)
If you want to find me in person, you can catch me this Saturday (15/Aug/09) at The Sly Fox Hotel in Enmore, supplying visuals for this month’s installment of TECHnique, featuring Typhonic (Databass Records) launching his new EP, “Gotta Work”.
- TECHnique feat Typhonic – The Sly Fox Hotel, Enmore – Sat 15/Aug/09
I’ve been cooking up some new effects, and hope to have some new content ready for Saturday, and am looking forward to it.
-spxl
Startpage metasearch engine: search without the privacy violation
30 July, 2009 at 5:15 am- Users’ IP addresses are not logged (Startpage is currently the only search engine that does not log IP addresses).
- Other data like the anonymous search queries are deleted from the log files within a maximum of 48 hours, often sooner.
- Startpage servers have been enabled to handle https requests using SSL (encryption available in most browsers).
Check the Startpage site itself for more information.
Link: https://startpage.com
-spxl
TECHnique feat. McBean
24 July, 2009 at 1:29 pm
fontburner
23 July, 2009 at 3:08 pmsIFR fonts delivered by www.fontburner.com
What is this about?.. A neat little service allowing you to use any of over 1000 freely available fonts for the heading elements on your website by means of including a line of “code” in the <head> section of your page. Sweet beans. :o)
It works by using Javascript to replace each heading element (<h1>, <h2> and so on) by a little box of Flash. If Javascript or Flash is unavailable, the original text/font is displayed. Win-win!
-spxl
Telstra TV commercial backing track
7 July, 2009 at 1:22 pmUpdate: Ok, so I’m a spazz. I recognised the backing track in the TV ad for Telstra, and later when I went to my PC to work out what it was, I was tricked by the Arovane track, Goodbye Forever (after listening to it, and without the TV ad to listen to again to check). The track used is actually Trentemøller - Miss You – a completely separate, though similarly beautiful track. Sorry Anders (and Arovane) for having been mistaken!
Since I have the video link for Arovane track here already, you may as well enjoy it. :o)
Title: Good Bye Forever
Artist: Arovane
-spxl
Freak-out
13 June, 2009 at 5:52 amIn reference to the Wikipedia articles, Mental Breakdown / Nervous breakdown (typos, indignity and all):
“surveys of laypersons suggest that the term refers to a specific acute time-limited reactive disorder, involving symptoms of anxiety and depression, usually precipitated by external stressors” is complate bs. No layperson ever said that. Applying an apparently scientific description to “non-scientific” data is misleading at best. I would put it in a similar categorisation to the concept of a computer program having “a bug” in that the person saying so might realise that something is not right but having little or no concept of what is causing the problem (or more likely having little care to be bothered with what the particular problem may be).
This article should, in my opinion, be strictly reduced to a brief (non-scientific-sounding) description of the general idea of what the la(z)yperson’s understanding (or care-factor) is with a list of related articles, synonyms, etc. The current definition appears to be a straw poll of what the people around the water-cooler think it means, and having an “encyclopeadic” definition based on that is just lame. If the definition is based on such a straw poll, then the psych-science should show that.
-spxl
spxl.tv
7 April, 2009 at 9:40 pmFor some reason, just recently I decided to see if spxl.com was available to register, and to my surprise found that the existing registration had recently expired. What luck! Only… I wasn’t able to register it immediately, as the registrar was holding it in some unusable state (assumedly to allow time to milk some extra higher fees from the existing registrant) and I was told to try bidding for it on some other domain auction site. I don’t know what the details were for using that site – a minimum bid of something like $60, but what exactly would that get me? Maybe the domain… I don’t know. What I do know is that since then some (apparently) Chinese domain squatting company has nabbed it, and seeing prices bandied about in the $100k range for similar domains I wasn’t inclined to make further inquiries. I did notice that spxl.tv was available, though, and the temptation took me… some credit card details and so on later and it was mine. Who needs vowels anyway?
New site coming soon: spxl.tv
-spxl