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Guerrilla Crosswalk

fekaylius — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:04:06 +0000

This mystery crosswalk on E. Burnside at NE 8th seems to be working.
(Photo: Doug Klotz)

Programmatic AudioBot Music

fekaylius — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:55:17 +0000

Automated beatboxing music generator, Incredibox, in shuffle mode really makes me wonder when there will be a new programatic musical protocol/standard?

Basically, it’d be so great to be able to run this kind of “song” in iTunes.

The RJDJ iPhone app is actually going way beyond this idea, and mixing programatic sound display with live audio input, so you as a listener are also a musician, or at least a contributor. They actually have free software available to create your own “scenes” (but I might suggest calling them something more like audiobots, or audioagents). I’m definitely going to be playing with this!

Floating Camping

fekaylius — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:00:05 +0000

(Via The Pop-Up City.)

Interface Human

fekaylius — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:40:40 +0000

Touch screen mechanical turk tabletop pc performance artist!

(Via @caseorganic.)

Ignite Submit

fekaylius — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:50:49 +0000

Sunday is the deadline for submitting your “idea for a talk” to ignite portland, it’s a pretty lightweight submission process, and definitely a fun event whether you get included or not.

Trash Raft

fekaylius — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:38:42 +0000

(Via VVORK.)

A Fort by Scott Laverie

fekaylius — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:11:13 +0000

(Via Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop – Portfolios – Scott Laverie.)

Health Hacking

jason — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:01:22 +0000

Can’t convince anyone that your brilliant idea will really work? Can’t find a convenient way to prove your point? Oh yeah, just try it on yourself.

There is a great collection of self-experimentation stories up at the New Scientist site. Get ready to read about people pouring yellow fever infected vomit into their eyes, stabbing themselves, inflicting themselves with radiation burns, suffering from oxygen poisoning, sleeping with cave-rats, dropping acid, trying to get ulcers, and letting hookworm larvae burrow away.

100 Meters of Eventual Death

Drawdio: Turn Almost Anything Into a Theremin

fekaylius — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:19:05 +0000

via: youtube

wow, so hackable, so rad

Zombies in Your City

fekaylius — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:11:23 +0000

For a little costume inspiration, I’d like to offer you the city by city zombie photo finder!

La Superette Call for Submissions

fekaylius — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:40:33 +0000

La Superette 2008 OPEN CALL

La Superette 2008 is looking for:

survival crafters
conceptual product makers
conceptual product makers
DIY game producers
micro distributors
fashion hackers
electro-gadget inventors

We want to see what you’ve got!

++La Superette IS:

An annual hybrid event mixing art, shopping, music, and community spirit

—La Superette is NOT:

An ordinary exhibition or craft fair

La Superette WANTS:

To promote and sell commodities made by artists and designers of
all career levels
To offer shoppers unique superettenly affordable items
To incite and inspire participation, collaboration, and conversation

La Superette 2008 is happy to announce that this year’s event is
supported by LMCC

Deadline for online submission is November 10
All products must be delivered to La Superette by December 1

La Superette will be held on December 13 and 14

Please visit our website http://lasuperette.org/call.php to complete your
application and carefully read all guidelines.

Stuffy Jacket

fekaylius — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:55:18 +0000

Fill this jacket with any kind of on hand insulation

Church of Elvis is back

fekaylius — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:28:59 +0000

Apparently in a new Old Town location (4th and couch), i’ll check it out later today and post a pic.

Automated Last Ever

fekaylius — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:53:03 +0000

This is a description of my dream audio app.

One a network, it would look for any shared music, it would grab tracks from multiple sources and mix them together using a few randomized methods, overlapping a few of them at various volume levels, creating a highly textured collage of sounds from the music that is physically surrounding you.

In essence, it’s a computerized version of Ken

(looking up Ken’s stuff on the web reminds me a fun project Carrie Dashow invited me to participate in with Ken in Williamsburg, where we wandered the hood with cell phones going back into Ken’s mixer, which was going out live over free103.9 locally. We’d convince strangers that they could be on the air live, and they could say whatever they wanted, or even sing.)

Fixing FireFlyMediaServer on a 1.1.3 iPhone

fekaylius — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:55:10 +0000

FireFlyMediaServer on the iPhone is one of the best things about a jailbreak, but with the 1.1.3 firmware, and all the root vs mobile user data and perms being jumbled around, I couldn’t even find an example online of how to get the thing up and running properly, it would install and show up in the uictl list, but spat out an error about a script not being able to complete. I think in retrospect that error has something to do with scanning the iTunes library.

I’m no expert at all, but here is the path i took to making it work:

1. Make sure Uictl shows org.fireflymediaserver.mt-daapd.plist in black, if it’s red, tap it, and select load -w.

2. In a browser on a wifi enabled compy, go to http://[the_ip_address_of_your_iphone]:3689 – use root/dottie – this is not connected to your phone’s ssh pw. (you can also hit 127.0.0.1:3689 in the phone’s browser, but it’s pretty small, and the screen isn’t designed for the small layout)

3. In the configuration section, edit the path to your music, it seems to assume root (from the early days) but needs to be updated to /mobile/

4. Go back to the server status and start a new full scan of your music files, this might take a minute or ten.

5. Now, if you had iTunes open already, and saw the empty device in the shared section, you can just eject it, and reconnect to see the updated content!

I also found that your music will simply be listed by song, so using the server’s own playlist creation tool is suggested, especially if you’ll be browsing this music in anything other than iTunes. (I’m thinking about putting a roku in the car, so I can stream songs from the iPhone to the car stereo over wifi. I’ll post that story once it actually happens.)

Mr.T

fekaylius — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:47:56 +0000

Baby Blue Eyes

fekaylius — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:50:42 +0000

Jedi Church

fekaylius — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:29:42 +0000

“They say their services will include sermons on “the Force,” light sabre training, and meditation techniques.”

from the BBC

Keep these nearly extinct species alive, as a ring tone.

fekaylius — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:16:09 +0000

With 69 exotic field recordings, from wolves to frogs to hawks, RareEarthtones is a great idea that has been taken beyond just an idea, but, I still wanted more, I wanted something different, something special, so, i merged all these together into one very dense track to get a wild feel.
Tell me what you think, i’m sure you will get some nice stares using this as a ringtone.

Listen above, or download it here.

nuke that meadow

fekaylius — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:37:47 +0000

Statement made by art group ZTOHOVEN

We are neither a terrorist organization nor a political group, our aim is not to intimidate the society or manipulate it, which is something we witness on daily basis both in real world and in the world created by the media.
Whether the reasons are political interests, market interests, financial interests or interests of supranational companies – we meet hidden manipulation and attempt to invade the subconscious mind of citizens with specific products or ideology, using all available means. We do not think that a subtle distortion of such system or an appeal to pure common sense of people and their ability to remain unaffected are harmful, not even in a democratic society. That is why, several years ago, the art group “Ztohoven” penetrated the public sphere of Prague, questioned the space given to advertisement generally and the space given to specific adverts. On the 17th of June 2007 this group attacked the space of TV broadcasting. It distorted it, questioned its truthfulness and its credibility. It drew attention to the possibility of using images of the world created by the media in place of the existing, real world.Is everything we see daily on our TV screens real? Is everything presented to us by the media, newspapers, television, Internet actually real? This is the concept our project would like to introduce and remind of. We believe that even the free space of public service broadcaster is able to endure such action and such impeachment. We hope our action will become an appeal for the future and remind the media of their duty to bring out the truth.

Thank you for independent media and free space for our society.