When it comes to remixing a song from a big group like Radiohead, there are tons of guys producing ugly 4/4 club remixes and a few who create something truly original. James Houston, who’s just graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, definitely belongs to the second category.

“Based on the lyric (and alternate title) ‘Big Ideas: Don’t get any’ I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.”

Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Modules from endemic project on Vimeo.

Genius!

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Some time ago I did a web page running a processing applet that I called Painting Machine. Anyone could draw lines onto a small canvas and make some kind of abstract painting… A few months later I accidentally removed the files from my web server and then forgot about it. Today I put it back on line.

http://tokoloten.furibond.com/paintingmachine

Just give an URL to the Glitch Browser and it will be corrupting all the images in the web page. The result might be interesting.

There was a documentary on TV5 this morning on Reno and Claire Marca. They live in Bretagne, Reno is an illustrator, Claire a writer and they have published beautiful trip books.

I like Reno’s drawings very much. The pictures below are taken from “Madagascar”, their book to be released next september.

http://www.reno-marca.com

Everyday I receive 1 or 2 friends request on MySpace and sometimes it leads me to crazy pages… When layout css hacking turns out to be a piece of… crart.

Here is the profile of secret shapes.

Share is an audio-video project launched 6 years ago in New-York by Barry Manalog, geoffGDAM et Newclueless. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into the system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. Some Share communities were born in Montreal, Melbourne, St Petersburg… and now Geneva. There’ll be some Share showcases on May 1-2-3 at the Contemporary Art Museum that will be part of the upcoming Mapping festival.
Eric of Sigma6 made a website for Share GVA.

I’d really like to go there and jam but I’m not sure yet I can move to Geneva next week.

Next month I have a concert that is being planned at Le Bourg in Lausanne. Le Bourg was a cinema that closed some years ago and was transformed into a Café-Théâtre. I’ll say more about the upcoming event soon.

As it was a cinema, it’s a great place for projecting visuals and I want to take this chance to setup my first “visual installation”. I use Processing so I’m coding in Java… and I realize that my code starts looking like a piece of crap. I’ve been focused on visual rendering rather than modelisation I guess.

I’ve got different renderings but the main process is simple: I get the frequency spectrum of the incoming audio signal (using the Sonia library), it returns an array of values which correspond to the amplitude of frequency bands. For each value I draw an object for which the shape, position and transparency change depending on sound. The color is picked from an image so it’s easy to control the set of colors. It never gives the same results thanks to some random settings.

I hope I’ll manage to complete that work before the event. At least I have a friend who’s ok to give me his laptop for running the Processing patch during the concert.

Interesting stuff found on Flickr. Alexandre Duret-Lutz (aka gadl) first builds 360° panoramas (by shooting hundreds pictures), then makes a sphere using stereographic projections. The results, as shown below, look like small planets. He calls them Wee Planets. Nice and even funny!