A Soggy Winter
Hurray it's February!
Hurray it's February!
Ushering in a whole new genre of "edu-tainment", here is one in a series of comedic/therapeutic photoshop tutorials. Hilarious, informative and cathartic.
Here's are steps for adding a photo album to the sidebar of your MovableType blog that will automatically be updated when you add images to your Flickr account.
Sachiko Kodama, Yasushi Miyajima
"Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spirals" (2006-2007)
"Morpho Towers--Two Standing Spirals" is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral... In this work, we are trying to activate analogue physical phenomena (= fluid) precisely by utilizing digital music metadata. To control the synchronization of the ferrofluid with the music playback in real time, time series metadata are added to the music beforehand. The metadata consist of musical information, such as beat position, chord progression, and melody block information, and ferrofluid control information such as DC bias voltage and AC pattern. Each data record has a time stamp that indicates the timing of presentation. All data are stored in time-series order."
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.