September 2011
23 posts
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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CSS preprocessing with the Less framework →
August 2011
35 posts
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Freelance hourly rate calculator →
“Good design and good markup provide structure to content. Good markup is a...”
– Frank Chimero
Designers vs Coding →
viafrank:
“Do I need to know how to code?” is a question that comes up with sure-fire consistency in design circles. I’ve seen it asked by so many, from uncertain design students in classrooms worried about their chances of landing a job, to seasoned professionals at conferences seeing…
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Watchprostheticknowledge:
FaceOSC by Kyle McDonald
Facial recognition software for interactivity. The example here demonstrates how facial expressions could be used to alter sound - interesting potentially for performances.
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WatchR&B R&D is an experimental platform for motion-based sound/video control. The system tracks the location of people in a space, and maps these locations to the properties of sounds, loops or songs.
Zach Kaiser has built the system in an effort to explore DJing, interactive systems, and user collaboration.
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A little bit about the work I did this summer.
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The Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit #2:... →
Enrico Bertini, author of fell in love with data, has written a very useful post on data visualization tools aimed at beginners. His prior post in the series introduced books and study material is worth a look as well.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Advice to clever... →
Aphex Twin, Plasticman, Scanner and Daniel Pemberton critiqued by Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1995.
Life before cell phones... →
A 25-year-old asks: “What was daily life like before almost everyone had cell phones?” on Quora.
Design Is an Echo Chamber →
Patric King asks if the things all designers “know” like “design improves value,” that “good typography is necessary,” that “design is good for the world,” (and more) are actual truths or are simply things we hear and have repeated to us every day…
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WatchThe Secret Life of Samples, Part 1. This 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate...
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be...”
– William Bruce Cameron
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WatchFluid library for Processing.
Thomas Diewald has created a library for generating realtime fluid simulations in Processing, using either the CPU or the GPU: diewald_fluid.
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conceptualjoinery:
More documentation of my explorations with DJing, interaction and space. Tentatively titled R&B R&D.
That dude running around the studio looks like a homeless man.
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“I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate...”
– Edutopia - Programming Is the New Literacy (via shiv53)
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WatchSimple Harmonic Motion study #2a by Memo Akten
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WatchThe Techno-evolution of the E-book. In their recent project “Le Editions Volumiques,” designers Bertrand Duplat and Étienne Mineur explore the poetic “union of paper and computation.” Duplat and Mineur envision the electronic book of the future to be infused with behaviors, interactivity and even personality.
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9 Thinkers on Failure →
