Rhizome, P5

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So... I'm interning at where Fran used to be the director of technology - a not-for-profit new media arts organization called rhizome.org. Doing really basic HTML and CSS stuff. And I figure, where else to pick up good coding habits than a geeky artsy computery place like this?

Also, my interest is growing in the P5 glove. Google search to find more about it, but it's a controller that fits on your hand - I think it holds the same pattents as the Powerglove for the NES, but it's for the computer. At any rate, I figure w/ my movement experience (and, moreover, my hand movement experience w/ digitz), I can fenagel somethin pretty cool out of it. Just ordered one yesterday, can't wait for it. They used to retail at a hundred bucks a unit, but they flopped in the market, and are down to twenty + shipping.

I created a portfolio for most of my movement/media work for a scholarship application a class in Colorado called "Responding to Gesture and Bodies: Design for Physically Based Interactive Art." I have no idea what my chances are - whether they're looking for folk more experienced w/ actually getting a curator and whatnot, or if they're looking for a younger folk.

Oh yeah, I joined the Yahoo! Group for the P5 Glove. Check out the geek in that.

My very first art opening

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Okay, so it's not "my" art opening, as much as it's an art opening that features something that I was sort of a part of.

So a while back, I did this dancing gig, you can read about it here. Anyhow, the opening is at Lombard-Freid.

That's me in the photo, sportin the Rocawear shirt that I had to buy from Macy's, cuz that's how l33t thugs roll.

Also, in other news, a week ago I went to the House of Dance Conference, which happens on the first Thursday of every month, where I got to see some really ill poppin and lockin, tuts. I'm workin on my own tuts, and am in the process of building an animation thing (much like my little fingers experiment) with tuts. Don't know what tutting is? Check out YouTube.

3d

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So I have this fascination with the space between reality and cyberreality, and one thing that blurs that line is 3d imaging. So there are these awesome goggles at emagin.com, which run 3d by showing you two different displays, one for each eye (called stereovision). It'll run you about $900...

Or, you could spend a buck on two stamps and two envelopes and send a SASE to www.rainbowsymphony.com, which is how I got my glasses in the mail today.

Here's a 3d pic of me in my 3d glasses...

also, a 3d pic of my glasses.... oooo how meta...

and a little flash project, too.

Also to check out, some dude went through Quake II source code and modded a 3d version.

What's next? I challenge somebody to 3d-ify Second Life.

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In other news, my brother landed me an interview with an IT staffing... um agency? resource? Anyhow, that's up for tuesday.

Also, I sent a resume over to gamelab.com to see if I was cool enough to work for them for free (or on a near-free "internship" basis). I think they're uber-cool, and I hope that the drooliness all over the cover letter doesn't hurt my chances. I mean, free, people! How hard is it to work somewhere for free?

little html / dreamweaver design

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Lately, I've been concentratin most of my time on the computer. I'm screwin' around on Dreamweaver, Premiere, Flash, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Director, and Ruby, a programming language that my brother is really into. Incidentally, all of these things, except Ruby, are owned by Adobe, since Macromedia is owned by Adobe. I'm an adobe slut. I've also been designing lights for a show going up next week.

And I've been drawing / sketching ideas that make me laugh - Here are two of em:

I don't know if this one reads well. It's the "can you hear me now" guy bashing in the skull of the person he's talking to w/ his cell phone. Looking back now, I think it was sorta inspired by this film (although I just sorta gave away the punchline of the film).

When I look at the second one, I can even hear the whirring fans cooling down overclocked processors.

Anyhow, here's a little site I came up w/ on my free time.

homepages.nyu.edu/~aph220/fingers.html

Enjoy!