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HBO Story Cube
The HBO Story Cube embraces the telling of deeper and more engaging stories in innovative ways. I don’t know if it is more than I imagined, but cool nonetheless. http://www.hboimagine.com/
Beck: Femme Fatal
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico “Femme Fatale” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Grasshopper Graphical Algorithm Editor
Awesome generative modeling for Rhino3d. It’s for designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms. Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
JavaScript Processing
Processing rocks. “Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing [...]
Realtime Firefox 3.5 Downloads
Have you downloaded 3.5 yet? Watch the downloads in a sparkline type graph in realtime. http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
bithacks
Peteris Krumins writes, “Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing some operation (such as counting the 1 bits in an integer) by looping over individual bits, these programming nuggets do the same with one or two carefully chosen bitwise operations.” & – bitwise [...]
Google o3d
http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/ Forget papervision (and it’s processor hogging code) O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.
1,267 songs (6.15GB) from SXSW
Looking for creativity: http://sites.google.com/site/sxsw2009torrent/
algorithmic art tools
We all know processing, but there are some other intersting tools out there for creating algorithmic art. Alice Hackety Hack Max/MSP/Jitter openFrameworks Processing Pure Data Scratch VVVV
Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys
Great new album from the vocalist & guitarist of the duo, The Black Keys. Nice stuff here and love the analog studio. Quick read here: http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/dan-auerbach