I’m only currently watching the first video, but I can say it’s already a nice cool introduction to C++ for those who only know Processing/Java (I already ‘know’ C/C++, those are the first languages I learned, and I know people often struggles with pointers, the presentation here seems quite clear and nice about them… even tho it might be not enough, not sure… when I was in computer science school, I had somehow to teach some of those things to others students like me and I remember it was really not always easy to grasp. And for not having much coded in C++ for a while too, I think I might still stumble against pointers… // I’m currently wondering about maybe going back to code in C/C++… or maybe try to learn new languages.)

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Rie Miyazawa

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brucesterling:

Dear Yahoo! userbase:

   It has not escaped the attention of  new management that, yes, I now possess 30,000 Tumblr followers.   

     Thirty-thousand of you!  That’s pretty massive, eh? Wow!

      What’s more, I have also been a loyal Flickr user ever since January 2005 — “Flickr” being an obscure, formerly with-it Yahoo! photo-sharing site where I have over a million page-views. Over there at Yahoo! Flickr, they still count in pages.  Millions, but pages.

     With these elite credentials, I was quickly recruited for some R&D work on Yahoo!’s fully-consolidated Tumblr-Flickr service, “Tumblickr.” Yes, I’ll be helping to create the new, conceptual, diegetic  services that the rest of you will some day enjoy!

      What’s more, you people — my mighty legion of thirty thousand followers — are the very first people to hear early warnings from the leaky Tumblickr development R&D lab.   You’ll notice that the “heart” and “forward” commands have been disabled for this exclusive news post.  Do not attempt to use those grayed-out commands!  Violations of the new terms-of-service will be swiftly noticed and permanently recorded, and offenders may well be deprived of their obligatory Yahoo! log-in.

       1.  Automatic image enhancement.  Any group photo featuring a “Tumblicker Pro” (formerly called “Flickr Pro”)  will be automatically groomed for elite user benefit.  This means red-eye removal, gray hair re-colored, bent shoulders straightened, sagging features sharpened, unseemly wrinkles shooped out of their 1980s-style clothing, etc.   

       The opposite applies to the dead weight of the 47% Tumbler “taker” underclass, who will be depicted as even youthier, grimier and more downmarket than they already are.

        2. The new “Ignore + Throttle” feature.  Newbies, trolls, teens, cat-fanciers and other vermin who annoy a “Tumblickr Pro” will still suffer the useful, time-honored Tumblr “ignore” command.  However, randomized DDOS lag-moments of one to fifteen seconds duration will also be introduced into the service connections of these offending parties.  This is an innovative service of “Unit 63198,” our new Chinese Tumblickr offshore support batallion. 

      3.   Automatic Mobility Filtering.   Tumblr users are notorious for posting from “mobiles.”  These  cheap, careless Android snapshots are easy to distinguish from  genuine camerawork, linked through top-end Apple desktop media-production units, owned and deployed by those of us who can still think differently enough to take real photographs.  

       Our new Tumblickr feature allows us to filter-out these low-net-worth “mobile” vagrants, especially those who lack any mortgage or a retirement plan.  These way-too-mobile insta-bums will henceforth be gently guided into a “Tumblickr Favela” where they can pay in Bitcoins and be seen only by their own kind.

      Here at Tumblickr R&D Central, we’re soliciting further input about our services from our users — but for God’s sake, not from just anybody.  Do not send email. We own the Big Database now.   We already know who you are.  If you’re likely to do anything useful for us,  we’ll know that long before you do.

Forward to 40,000!

<3

thesisterskaramazov:

emacradio:

Boards of Canada - “Reach for the Dead”

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I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_je_t%27aime

Just saw that Christopher Doyle directed one of the segments of this… just watched the segment and.. wtf?

(sorry I haven’t found an english version on youtube of it… only a bad quality version in French with Portuguese subtitles…)

wandrlust:

Backlit by the Moon (1996) by Christopher Doyle

Found this / bought this on ebay.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made his first foray into the musical world on Wednesday with the release of the top single from his debut album, a song called “Dumbass” that takes inspiration from his detention in 2011. The video for the heavy metal song, which was directed by Ai with cinematography by acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Doyle, depicts Ai’s 81 days in secretive detention in 2011, which sparked an international outcry.

There’s a “Processing masterclass” workshop in my city, tomorrow, i probably won’t be able to go. (and nobody registered but there will be some people still it seems…)

We have a lot in common.

Audio and beat reaction No. 2 | Processing

by Diana Lange

Made with Processing.

Another experiment with audio data. Deformations and rotation are based on beat detection and FFT data from the sound file. Again, sound was analysed within an external sketch.

Used Libaries:
PeasyCam for camera control
MovieMaker / Video for exporting the mov file
Sonia + Minim + Beads for beat detection and FFT data

Music: 
Sigur Rós - Glósóli

Screenshots:
flickr.com/photos/dianalange/sets/72157626714986077/

why would the world need to be saved?