Silence before the storm.

I had a great holiday, literally raved my ass off. Met up with the most of my friends and family, drinking beers. Been almost everywhere around Holland and even Belgium. For a few days I became a hardworking helping and soldering blonde god for the Agua Mineral team, which had an gig on New Year's Eve. Footage soon!

As you can imagine, it was quite intensive holiday. Therefore I managed to get a cold just before flying back into the Swedish snowstorms which I am supposed to do Today.

So the last weeks there hasn't be many updates on my blog, actually quite none. People started to question if I was still alive, I noticed the exponentially raising request for an update. There are several other motivations for not updating my blog this much anymore, but I will now to please you all.

First off there is "The Complete Lack of Time" to do this. My pipeline is kind off clogged with projects to be finished. To give you an idea on the workload: the backend of the new ProSafeSecurity website, the backend of the Buisness Management Class website. These sites will be finished before the end of January. And developed for both sites: Asphodel, which is my custom build easy expandable CMS system for future freelance websites to come.

Second in the series "The Complete Lack of Time" there is this portfolio module we are in right now. I have been thinking redoing my portfolio again, but with crazy images to pixel noise ideas. I have been thinking to create an row of images on the website, which explodes into autonomous pixels, which travel around the screen on their own way. When your mousecursor is close to the hotspot where the image was supposed to be, the pixels return to right place in the image. For those who are getting scared of visiting: I will make a plain html version with just blue links and images. Oh well, experiments are going nice. Still im thinking of a way to provide a page with work/lab/blog, therefore i try to keep it low profile on this blog if i am going to move things around.



Then on top all this I hijacked the role of "The Interactive Art Director" for the crewsite, or to be said better, the class website. An prestigious project where like 30 classmates work on and is supposed to be finished somewhere in February. More I am not allowed to say.

And I have been pondering about my future on Hyper Island but I didn't have "The Great Amount of Time" before the holidays to think it completely through. So before "The Final Conclusion" I intended to keep it a bit quiet. As you can see im going code all the way, therefore I chose my specialisation to be Tech. I had an Design specialisation before on my previous education, but because the world is crowded with designers it's hard to stick your head out. I intend to nurture my design passions in this specialisation. I'm developing myself more to an area of computer generated motion & design, combined with a development towards a better understanding on interaction design. Therefore my first purchase of 2008 (next to a hangover) is the Processing Handbook because i want to make Processing my own (ActionScript is as well on that list).

In the end I want to make you aware that all my inspirational blogposts have moved here, and I would motivate you to keep track of my del.icio.us

Oh, Reclaim Magenta has become one of the 25 most discussed posts of 2007 on Computerlove.

Have a good 2008. I will.

Typresso trailer

quickie for the presentation tomorrow.



now off to watch 'PI' with fellow classmatians

Classmates random motion + my soundbite

Emil Rydberg featured a snippet i've made in some totally random motion he done for his portfolio.



it seems to fit for a strange reason

Logo's, Tunes & Graphics

School: Logo for typresso, a revolutionized way of chatting! (?)




And between tomorrows, new tune! with a nice image:





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Digtial Media 07 KarlsKrona's Daily Bread

STRP!

We finally returned from our inspiring trip from the STRP festival. It was really nice to be back in Holland for a few days to meet my friends, family and go to RAVE! as the swedes adress it. It was a bit of a hassle to ship 12 swedes back and forth to Holland to my parents place and try to keep an eye on them. But it worked out really well.

The night of arrival we went out in my hometown Uden, no bigger than Karlskrona but apparently more fun. Probably because the alcohols are half the price they used to. Many happy hours!

The swedes weren't easy to exhaust and to get home. But finally we managed to go home and sleep. We needed the rest for the full nighter at STRP. We all woke up later than suggested and everyone was still a bit tired and hungover. But they did it to themselves. After ending the endless showercue we finally could go down to STRP.

STRP was long and there was too much to review indvidually, so I will only review the things that are still sticking in my head.

ATOM

Atom was a really inspiring music and spatial visual piece done by monolake. They created 64 balloons on a grid which were replacable by height and therefor they could create abstract sculptures with these balloons. Each of these balloons could light up whenever they wanted to. Accompanied with some really good abstract music they managed to create a beautiful and inspiring piece of work.



TFT Tennis

Plain simple, but good, pong in 3D, I loved it.



Bejing Accelerator

An agile tool to view nice panoramas from Bejing



Motor Karaoke

Haha probably the one with the highest entertainment value. A racing game based upon on ruke: The harder you scream, the faster you go. You could hear people screaming from the other side of the building. Some swedes lost their voice here.



Otolab: Circo Ipnotico

Some really heavy visual ride existing plainly on abstract circles and circular rotations. Together with the sounds it was hypnotizing. This exhibition endured like 45 minutes. After ten minutes we went away before getting brainwashed. Video later today.



Soundspots

Really nice dolby surround soundscape. With basically some sound cones, which were like sound showers to extend the experience of the position of the sound.



And there is more to be reviewed, but these were my main beloved experiences. To add, the sitting bags were really nice and there was some good music too! I would say encore to Trentemoller, Monolake, Various Productions and U-Dub (instead of loefah)!

The golden soundbites folder

After many requests I revived the /audio folder upon stijlfigurant.nl. This folder has been gone for a couple of months due to clumsy server moving. Luckily after a few days of downtime they managed to put most of my stuff back online, but not my beloved audio folder, which I used for uploading new soundbites, finished tracks, mixes and so-on. Reason: they did not backup folders bigger than 2 gigabytes.

Oh really, that is just what a good service should be about!? Very well then, make up your own rules, but then please presuade consitency.. For instance, my /motion folder was bigger than 2g's as well, but that one got backed up? Oh hell they have learnt me a good lesson. Don't go for small(er) and cheap hosting again. I will never use the webhosting: yourname after this again due this brilliant fact.

Anyhow back to the point. Some nice recent stuff to be found here, to bad no time in Karlskrona to finish a single bit, anyway, enjoy:

/Audio

Some layouting buisness

Good, things are rolling again, loads of workshops and some hands on work.

Results for the few:

A few hrs of typography

A few hrs of layouting


Note: All the content as the images aren't belong to me and far from absolute truth.

Useful tool when facing a difficult descision

My submission for hyper's cooperative christmas calendar

My first release!

Hurray, released on UMR 002, experimental belgian label.

look for dead pigeon entertainment

more tracks:

Myspaz

Touching the sand in the sandbox

So many things, so little time. So I will try to keep it edible. Last week has been very stressfull the birth of reclaimmagenta and the death of a buisnessplan. Not really the death, we successfully managed to finish the plan with a lot of utopian woordpooping from my side. But the investers didn't buy it. Or to be said better, they liked it but they suggested we should try to look for investments somewhere else.

ReclaimMagenta was a great succes, over 10.000 visters in one week from day one. We are almost up to a 1000 petitions by now. Meanwhile I really havent had the time to keep it evolving, and therefore freemagenta.nl smelled cash came in and stole our pride. No need to be having war on who has the best initiative, it's all for the sake of magenta. Only the part of money making over this annoys me. This remembers me of a quote I stumbled upon a couple of days ago. "I am the modern day robin hood, stealing from the rich, giving to the poor and keeping a little for myself". Im the brokest motherfucker in town, but still, I keep my values.

For the rest things are going pretty well, doing lots of freelance stuff and adding some value to Hyper here and there (which is another blogpost worthy writing about). But somedays I feel a bit displaced when I hear stuff going down in my old natural habitat from my friends. The best I heard this week as Bram msnd me: "I met Guus and Stephan the other day, they told me: 'are you coming to the party at Coen and Kasper's home next week in Breda' and I(bram) said : but they dont live there anymore? they answerd:'No but were still invited'". I am happy to hear my housemates keep the Weerijssingel 15 legend going :). Way too bad I can't be there..

A new module started, and it started of with a bang. I really enjoyed Greg's lecture today. He learned us how to start playing again. I have to get myself a new sandbox. But he lost me when it got tedious in the end. My focus wanderd off and I started to enter a half sleeping half awake state of mind. Therefore his words entered my mind but created other words than he actually was saying.

I here some echos down in the hall saying: "Goodnight, see you tomorrow, you are the only one left now!".

So thats a good reminder that I really need to go home, grab a beer and get some sleep. It will be early tomorrow and it will be early the whole week. And loads of extra work has to be done, so maybe this is the first and the last update this week, you better enjoy it.

RECLAIM MAGENTA

soon to be found on reclaimmagenta.net

Rapid Pink Movements

Many things to running around my head to write about this week. Too sad there is such a minimal amout of time. But there is one thing that pisses me off right now: T-Mobile (a mobile phone company) claimed the rights of the color maganeta. So they sue every other company that uses that color... Makes my blood boil. Up untill now I only found reports in dutch. But I will try to keep you updated.

I will put up a petition site, to reclaim the pink! (some hrs later today).

To keep it pink, there is a lot going on around the topic of free online music distrubution as Oink got busted sometime last week. There is something revolutionairy music distribution wise going on this moment. But more on that later (today I hope).

Finally! someone has reinvented the paperclip

and made it even better



to bad i can't read the website