Category Archives: Video

Project Idea: Render Images with Dice Rasterization

By MattK | Published: April 10, 2010
This great video by Fujiya & Miyagi inspired me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk Why not write a Processing sketch that will take an image and render it in dice? It might be fairly easy: Divide the image into square sections. Calculate the average brightness of that square – like I did in my engraving sketch.1 That average brightness [...]
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How could you hack open subtitles?

By MattK | Published: October 2, 2009
The Miro open subtitles project just got funded at kickstarter. The promise is an open source of subtitles for video. Now the subtitles won’t be restricted to the people who made the video. They are anticipating use for the hearing impaired and for translations.  Why am I excited? The project is also designed to make [...]
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Professor Robb Willer and the Golden Apple

By MattK | Published: May 8, 2009
The group of misfits I grew up with has turned out pretty well. One of them, Robb Willer was my debate partner for a while. He’s gone on to be a professor at Berkeley. Robb won the Golden Apple award for being an awesome teacher. How awesome? Robb’s got intellectual groupies! Berkeley put up Robb’s [...]
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How to install Add-Art

By MattK | Published: May 28, 2008
Steve Lambert put up a nice helpful walkthrough video on Add-Art, the project I’ve been working on recently. Take a mo’ and check out the project and the video. Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
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I am a strange, sordid loop

By MattK | Published: March 17, 2008
I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere. This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis balls to become soaked in saliva. Maybe it is a way to generate dog orgone? Perhaps it is a dog [...]
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It’s not just vandalism, is it?

By MattK | Published: March 8, 2008
Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building. Sometimes it is much better. This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for [...]
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This is the only time this has ever happened.

By MattK | Published: February 13, 2008
How fortunate that someone was there that single time to film it! Watch to the end and relish the beauty of the last sentence. Via Boing Boing.
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Obama

By MattK | Published: February 13, 2008
Why? Alex Barnett is someone who writes amazing ideas about technology, and he’s written why he would vote for Obama if he could. It’s not too long. One of the reasons that I’m starting to shed my cynicism about the process and get excited is that these smart nuanced positions that Obama takes don’t see [...]
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Congratulations Sraedi!

By MattK | Published: February 12, 2008
A big congrats to my ol’ buddy Sraedi for winning the Skull A Day dance video contest!
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Money: What happened to the markets in August

By MattK | Published: November 11, 2007
I’ve been looking for a simple way to explain what happened to my friends, and I think Statler and Waldorf here nail it.
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