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Month January 2009

Worlds Collide

IMG_8477.CR2, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.
Worlds Collide happened on Sunday night at the Wall in Kings Cross, along with an updated installation of my pixeltag project. The night was a lot of fun and pixeltag was very well received, so all’s well that ends well!
Tony Curran was kind enough to invite me to exhibit on the [...]

pixelTag Revisited

Here are a few screenshots of the latest and greatest for the pixelTag project.
I’ve taken the time to port some of the interaction and visualisation out of Max/MSP into Processing.  So far the button presses are working fine as well as the r/g/b/a colour selection options and the size choice.
pixelTag will be unleashed on an [...]

Processing Sketches

I’ve gone crazy overnight, writing out as many of the sketch examples included in Dan Shiffman’s Learning Processing book~
So far I’ve worked my way through to chapter 5 (of 23) and so far it’s still making sense!
Some of the sketch exercises I’ve completed are inserted below;

Not exactly life changing so far, but it’s good to [...]

Baby Steps

I’ve started from scratch, learning Processing using Dan Shiffman’s handy book Learning Processing.
Above is the first little creation from the book, a little creature called Zoog, which I’ll be wiring up to respond to mouse clicks and all kinds of computer interactivity.  It’s not much to start with, but it’s fun to get my hands [...]

Pivot

IMG_8230.CR2, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.

Pivot played last Thursday night at Beck’s Festival Bar in the Hyde Park Barracks, as a supporting act for Metronomy.
Having only recently discovered this Sydney 3 piece, I was blown away by their intense live set and furiously innovative sound.
Highly recommended!

Summertime Rolls

IMG_7908, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.

Isn’t it a wonderful thing?

Applecare?

One of the thorns in my side of late has been my idiosyncratic iMac G5, with it’s incessant desire to switch off at random and interrupt anything I happen to be doing. It’s become such a problem that I’ve actually abandoned it as my home computer and have conceded defeat.
Today I spoke with Apple [...]