I'm going to officially switch to a new site.
I'll leave this one up for a while in case you want to check out some of the old stuff, but all future posts will be happening at:
Friday, March 5, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
New Provo Acoustic Sessions
So after a bit of a break and a bit of a shift in our crew we have started releasing new Provo Acoustic Session videos. Check them out at provoacoustic.com!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
First 3d Test in Blender
I started messing around with Blender last night. After having so much fun with Processing over the last year I thought I'd test out what some of the other open source development environments have to offer. I read through a couple of the tutorials last night and here was the little thing I ended up making. I sort of like it.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
2009 Wrap-up: My List of RSS Feeds
So I went a bit overboard with my RSS feeds this year and have somehow collected 238 feeds. I'm planning a cut back for the new year, but here's the full list in alphabetical order.
Friday, December 25, 2009
2009 Wrap-up: Top Albums I listened to in '09
The following list comes from my Last.fm profile. I use GimmeSomeTune to link my iTunes and iPhone to it.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
2009 Wrap-up: Top Movies I watched in '09
This is the first installation in a series of year end wrap-ups for 2009.
Here are some of the greatest movies and shows that I have seen all year:
- 500 Days of Summer
- 12 (Razgnevannyh Muzhchin)
- The Atheism Tapes
- Caprica
- Dear Zachary
- Dexter
- God on Trial
- I Have Never Forgotten You
- Inglorious Basterds
- Inherit the Wind
- John Adams
- Modern Family
- Moon
- Please Vote for Me
- Rough Science
- Seven Pounds
- Star Trek
- Sunshine Cleaning
- This American Life
- Twilight Zone: Season 1
- Waltz with Bashir
Did I miss any? Your feedback is encouraged. If you need any further endorsement of any of these let me know.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Chill Music Mix
A little collection of songs that I like to listen to when trying to relax. It might be tough to make it through this without falling asleep. Good songs though... just good chill songs.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Diamond Illusion Backgrounds
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Kaleidoscope Animation
Here is the animated Kaleidoscope. Really happy with how it turned out. I added the fade-in/fade-out along with the audio in iMovie. Be sure that you watch this on in HD.
Music is "Empty Us" by Boots to the Moon
Kaleidescope Generator
I wanted to try making a program that grabbed random images from a folder and used them in an image. I had a bunch of black and white clip art from this book so I used them. These images were all made procedurally with random colors and radius distances from the middle. I have made some video animations from this too which are promising, but they are small. I hope to create some large HD videos before I share that with the world. I'm considering creating some really large images with this to make prints of and put up on the wall at my house.
Click on each image for the full sized goodness.
Friday, September 11, 2009
My try at some retro-modern art
I'm not sure if retro-modern is what you'd call it, but it's inspired by this dude. I created the design procedurally in Processing and did some post-production in Preview.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
4 Steps to discovering new music using Firefox, iTunes, and Last.FM
I can't stand the thought of trolling through hundreds of myspace pages or iTunes directories to sample music from everyone possible to discover something new. I want to have music brought to me that has already been tailored to my taste. None of this live streaming from the internet crap, I want something that can look at what I actually listen to and give me actual music files to download.
Over the past couple years I have developed a simple method to do this which combines online services, browser plugins, and iTunes.
Step 1.
Find music blogs that cater to your taste and add them to an online feed reader.
Use services like hype machine or google blog search to find blogs that have covered your favorite bands. I would suggest searching with bands you like who you feel are lesser known. This helps avoid blogs that cover wide ranges of music types. Another important note is to find blogs that post .mp3 files directly on their blog posts.
Add these blog feeds to a browser-based feed reader. I have been using Google Reader for quite a while and love it. (If you don't know what a feed reader is check out this tour or Google Reader)
Step 2.
Sign up for a Last.fm account and download GimmeSomeTune or similar app.
An app like GimmeSomeTune will upload your listening data from your iTunes library to Last.fm's database.
Not only does last.fm store your listening data, but it will also suggest music for you to listen to. I don't particularly enjoy listening to music through my browser so I don't use much of this. Instead there is also a section that has recommended songs that are free to download. Instead of going to check this all the time I add the RSS feed for this page to my Google Reader as well.
Step 3.
Use the Downloadthemall plugin for Firefox to get all songs from the blogs/feeds.
Since the Last.FM free .mp3 feed and most music bloggers' articles will link directly to .mp3 files I can use the DownloadThemAll plugin in Firefox to download every music file linked on a page. This works great when using google reader. I open up my music section and scroll through a couple weeks of time to load all the info into the browser and then run DownLoadThem all to grab all the music from the page.
Step 4.
Import files to Itunes and use Smart Playlists to filter out the best downloads
After importing all of the music into iTunes I refine the music using Genius playlist. For more on how I do this read my previous article on making a Genius Discovery Playlist.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
End of Summer 09 Playlist
I wore a hoodie yesterday. That signals the end of summer for me. It inspired me to create a playlist of music that reflects this change in season. Please download and enjoy.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Fire Fly with Beat Detection
I figured out how to render the sound visualizations so that they sync with the audio. I threw it on to this fire fly program I did previously and here's the result.
Song is "We are your friends" from Justice.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Geometry Vizualization
I went to the Tool concert last night and was thoroughly impressed by the video and light show that accompanied it. I noticed that a lot of the video used was built on complex geometric shapes. I saw this and took it as a challenge. After I got home I dabbled around with it a bit and came up with this:
Then today I thought of a couple other tweaks to make and it turned into this.
Once I come up with a satisfying final product I'll run it in HD and upload it.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Provo Acoustic Session with Drew Danburry
Just in case you guys didn't know. We did another acoustic session. This time with Drew Danburry. He was lots of fun and has some great new songs.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Firefly Screen Shots
Here are some more detailed screen shots of the Firefly swarm program that I wrote. Click to see the full sized image.
Swarm of Fireflies
I was trying to figure out how to use buffers to create more optimized animation and this was what the end result of my tests were.
The red dot randomly moves around the screen as the swarm follows.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Michael Shermer on Being Skeptical
If we all lived by these rules then the world would be a much better place. Please take the time to watch this video. If you don't agree with what is said I would love to discuss it with you.
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