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| Hello Ruby Thursday Computer Arts - Jim - 03 Mar 2006 3:02pm Want to get into Ruby On Rails but don't know where to start? Carson Workshops is hosting an intensive one-day workshop with leading Rails developer, Geoffrey Grosenbach, in London on 30 March. Which is a Thursday. See? More details here. |
| Free Aperture Seminar Computer Arts - Jim - 03 Mar 2006 3:01pm Square is holding a seminar on Apple's photo management app at the Design Museum on 16 March, in conjunction with Apple and consisting of a first hand look at the software followed by a Q&A with Aperture experts. http://www.squaregroup.co.uk/events-home.aspx |
| It's In The Game Computer Arts - Jim - 02 Mar 2006 5:21pm Ever thought of putting your design skills to work in the games industry? I'm not allowed, on the basis of my industry chums telling the girlfriend of the late nights and weekends that have to be worked quite a lot of the time. But don't let that put you off! http://www.scenta.co.uk/games/jobs.cfm |
| Animex Audience Awards Computer Arts - Jim - 02 Mar 2006 12:52pm The 2006 Animex Festival has been and gone but if you want to make your mark on it, judging is now open for the Animex Audience Awards. Take a look at the animations, vote for your favourite and help the next generation of animators get their work seen. http://www.animex.net/audience |
| Encyclopodia Computer Arts - Jim - 01 Mar 2006 11:37am Exciting things to do with your iPod other than, say, plug it into this new iPod Boom Box thingy: install Wikipedia on it. This is 800MB of encyclopaedic knowledge in iPod-friendly form; only works on older models, though. http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/en/ |
| Quantum Physics for Dummies Computer Arts - Jim - 01 Mar 2006 11:35am Confuse yourself with this excellent animation demonstrating just how bizarre light is. Like, it behaves like a wave and a particle. Which is just wrong. Or at least, terribly quantum. Link. |
| Microsoft i-Pod Pro 2005 Human Ear Edition Computer Arts - Jim - 01 Mar 2006 11:30am So, what would happen if Microsoft was in charge of iPod packaging? This feels hilariously close to the truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGr3mVVUwE |
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Graduate Showcase 2006 – Call For Entries It’ll soon be that time again – Computer Arts’ annual celebration of graduate talent. Which means that the deadline for entries is fast approaching! |
| Imagine Cup 2006 calls Student Designers to represent the UK Computer Arts - Jo - 27 Feb 2006 3:00pm Microsoft has announced the start of its fourth annual international student competition, the Imagine Cup. The competition pits teams of students to win glory, a share of the $125,000 total prize fund and the chance to kick-start their careers. The Interface Design invitational encourages student to look at the ways we interact with software and web pages, and create new functional, compelling, and imaginative user interfaces. The other five categories in the Imagine Cup 2006 are Software Design, Short Film, Project Hoshimi programming battle, Algorithm and IT. Click here to enter. |
| Painter IX.5 Update Computer Arts - Jim - 27 Feb 2006 11:56am Corel informs us that there's a spiffy new update for Painter IX available, featuring new Photo Painting Palettes, Rosetta support for Intel Macs and more. Painter IX.5 (surely it should be IX.V? Or just 9.5? I hate myself for even typing IX.5) should be available now, although I couldn't find it when I looked five minutes ago. http://www.corel.co.uk/painter |
| Making of a fake Computer Arts - Jim - 27 Feb 2006 10:50am Everyone in the Apple rumour business got all excited the other week by a snap of what was obviously a pre-production widescreen Video iPod. Except it was a fake. And here's how it was made. Unless this video's a fake as well. Link. |
| Troy Denning Computer Arts - Jim - 24 Feb 2006 2:38pm Tattoo art - not the usual sort of thing we'd cover, which seems like a perfectly good reason for mentioning Troy Denning's site. He's a New York-based tattoo artist and his work has a distinctly Japanese flavour - be sure to take a look at the gallery. http://www.troydenningtattoo.com/ |
| Tetsoo Production Computer Arts - Jim - 24 Feb 2006 2:30pm A great front end for a pretty decent portfolio of work from Swiss designer Gregoire Poget. Hasn't been updated in quite a while, but it still makes for some fine browsing. http://tetsoo.com/ |
| IronClaw Computer Arts - Jim - 24 Feb 2006 2:27pm This seems to be the web equivalent of one of those really unpleasant hallucinatory dreams you get when you're unwell; the kind that repeats every few seconds and won't go away. Great stuff! http://www.ironclaw.tv |
| Google Pages Computer Arts - Jim - 23 Feb 2006 11:05am Tried out your new 100MB of free Google webspace yet? It's ready and waiting for you - all you have to do is sign in with your Gmail username and password. I don't have either, which probably makes me unique and special. http://pages.google.com/ |
| 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Awards Computer Arts - Jim - 22 Feb 2006 4:52pm Adobe's annual student design competition is open for business and it wants your entries. It's open to student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists, either working individually or in groups, with the winners being flown to Toronto in July for the big awards ceremony where they'll receive prizes of $5,000, Adobe software and more. There are nine categories covering a wide range of digital arts, and the closing date for entries is 28 April. Take a look at the Adobe site for full rules and submission details, and get to work! http://www.adobe.co.uk/education/ |
| Le Funk Boat Computer Arts - Jim - 22 Feb 2006 4:23pm Bit of online radio for you - not the usual kind link you'd expect, I grant you, but the fact that it's called Le Funk Boat coupled with its intro animation meant that I couldn't not give it a mention. Shame the firewall here means I can't actually listen to it, but you can be sure I'll be funking it up big-style when I get home, daddio. http://lefunkboat.com/ |
| neovision Computer Arts - Jim - 22 Feb 2006 12:48pm I'm not sure, but I think that this might be some kind of Japanese image library. Then again, it could just as easily be the Japanese equivalent of a John Lewis catalogue or something. Actually, no, definitely an image library. Nicely done, too. http://neovision.jp/ |
| The Sponsored Tube Map Computer Arts - Jim - 22 Feb 2006 12:17pm Almost too much lovely attention to detail in this look at what the London Underground might look like if it went on an insane corporate sponsorship binge. My favourite? WimbleDonkey Kong. http://www.digitalhome.plus.com/tube/sponsors.pdf |
| 1001 things to do with liquid nitrogen Computer Arts - Jim - 21 Feb 2006 11:38am Wish I had some liquid nitrogen. Would anyone like to swap? I could probably rustle up a couple of t-shirts and a few thousand Computer Arts stickers. Link. |
| ICT in Art and Design Computer Arts - Jim - 21 Feb 2006 11:18am Newham City Learning Centre is holding a free two-day Teachers’ ICT in Art and Design Course on 20-21 March at Forest Gate Community School, offering London secondary school teachers a chance to find out about e-learning in art and design. To find out more and sign up, contact Jenny Creffield. |
| Caligraft Computer Arts - Jim - 20 Feb 2006 3:52pm Computational calligraphy - it's the next big thing. Even bigger than horses, I'm telling you. Have a look round this site and play with the applets and you'll see why. Can't really see it working in print, though. http://www.caligraft.com/ |
| Monk's Mind Game Computer Arts - Jim - 17 Feb 2006 3:16pm Friday frivolity in a Saturday afternoon telly kind of way; it's a completely shameless Wario Ware rip-off based around ace obsessive compulsive detective show, Monk. Starts off a bit easy but it'll soon have you shouting at your monitor. Link |
| GUIdebook Computer Arts - Jim - 17 Feb 2006 3:03pm Ever had the feeling you're being stalked? Richard Eaton sent me the link for this splendid gallery of graphical user interfaces, but rather scarily he sent it to one of my other email addresses, causing me no small amount of post-lunch consternation. Proper Friday time-wasting to follow shortly. http://www.guidebookgallery.org/ |
| sIFR Computer Arts - Jim - 17 Feb 2006 12:09pm Typography for the masses - sIFR uses cunning Flash jiggery-pokery to replace plain text on web sites with attractive fonts that don't require users to have the fonts installed. http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ |
| NickAd Computer Arts - Jim - 17 Feb 2006 12:08pm Ooh! Stylish navigation for this portfolio site. So stylish that I sat waiting for ages thinking that it hadn't loaded properly when in fact I had to... Ach, I'll let you work it out for yourselves. http://www.nickad.com/ |
| The Art of DeTouch Computer Arts - Jim - 16 Feb 2006 12:50pm Processing-powered fun from the EyeBeam OpenLab, which takes before and after shots worked on by professional retouch artists, enables you to fade back and forth between them and also visualises the changes in exciting algorithmic ways. http://detouch.org/ |
| Chordstellation_ifva Computer Arts - Jim - 16 Feb 2006 11:58am I love Processing - it enables people who normally wouldn't touch a programming language with a barge pole to create weird and wonderful stuff without too much head-scratching. Stuff like chordstellation_ifva. It's about chords and particles and stuff and it's just really strange and pleasant. http://www.pillandpillow.com/lab/chordstellation/ |
| The Dumpster Computer Arts - Jim - 15 Feb 2006 11:54am That's Valentine's Day nicely out of the way again, then. And here's a fabulous piece of Processing work that visualises a whole load of blogged breakups from 2005. I'm just an incurable romantic, aren't I? http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/ |
| Pixar: 20 Years of Animation Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Feb 2006 10:48am If you're in London in the spring and fancy a close look at the masters of CG animation, head for the Science Museum; for ten weeks from 1st April it's hosting an exhibition all about the history of Pixar. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/pixar |
| Exactitudes Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Feb 2006 10:22am "You're all different!" "YES! WE *ARE* ALL DIFFERENT!" ... "I'm not." http://www.exactitudes.com/ |
| It's worse than that - he's dead, Jim! Computer Arts - Jim - 14 Feb 2006 9:47am Obviously William Shatner's cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds from his 1968 album, The Transformed Man, is one of the greatest musical recordings of all time. But now it's become even better - someone's made a video to go with it. Joy! |
| High Dynamic Range photography Computer Arts - Jim - 13 Feb 2006 12:21pm HDR is a process whereby you take a number of shots of the same scene at different exposures and then merge them all together into a single image, with amazingly vivid results. http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/ |
| Painted Room Illusions Computer Arts - Jim - 13 Feb 2006 11:53am Finally - the sort of home décor I could get really enthusiastic about. I'm fairly sure the girlfriend would kill me if I went ahead with it, though. http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1188/ |
| Tiny Friday fun Computer Arts - Jim - 10 Feb 2006 3:33pm I've hardly had any time for Friday off-slacking, but that's no reason for you to keep your noses to the grindstone. Press them to the monitor instead - you'll need to at this tiny site, which despite its 15x15 pixel size is still packed with games. http://www.guimp.com/ |
| Go on, expose yourself Computer Arts - Amy - 10 Feb 2006 2:43pm We have been approached by At It Productions, who are looking for budding animators to create a ten-second animation as part of a pilot show for Channel 4. If you're interested in creating an animation for the pilot (there's no payment on offer, sorry) you could put yourself in line for a paid weekly animation job should Channel 4 give the show the go-ahead. Could this be the break you've been looking for? Email Lissa Blomley to find out more. |
| Donna Wilson Computer Arts - Jo - 10 Feb 2006 2:05pm Knitting is cool, according to my girlfriend, Zoe. |
| Transmediale trailer Computer Arts - Jim - 09 Feb 2006 12:25pm A fantastic piece of motion graphics work by Fork to promote transmediale 06 - brings back memories of watching Vision On while hyped up on orange squash. http://fork.de/download/tm_trailer.mov |
| Multi-Touch Interaction Research Computer Arts - Jim - 09 Feb 2006 11:53am I love stuff like this - a New York-based research project into applications for a touch-screen system that can read more than one finger at a time. Be sure to watch the demonstration video. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ |
| JPG to ASCII Computer Arts - Jim - 09 Feb 2006 11:32am Gain yourself instant 1337 credentials with this online application - simply give it a JPG image and it'll convert it to ASCII art for that old-skool BBS look. http://www.codeismylife.com/ascii-art/ |
Quicktime 7
QuickTime updates don’t usually get us that excited. But the inclusion of the H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 has us drooling as it’s the one the PSP uses for movies. Stick your showreel on a big memory card and put it on a PSP – that’s progress!
Canon EOS 350D
Canon’s pro-am SLR gets even better, now with an 8 megapixel sensor and new features previously only found on much more expensive models, including three focus modes, monochrome mode and faster memory card writing.
Annoying Apple
Jobs and co have sparked ire for getting heavy-handed with a student who put the latest OSX update online, so much so that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out and offered him $1,000 towards his defence.
Drunkenblog.com
Loonatics
“Hey, let’s take the Looney Toons characters and re-imagine them as angular, edgy superhero types in the year 2772 for today’s teen demographic!” No, really, we’re sure it’ll be at least as wonderful as Scrappy Doo.
Postgazette.com
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