worm painting

My first sketch for processing ver85. Looks very Japanese. It’s a tiling image, so it would be nice if I print it on the Japanese traditional tray.

Because of plenty of experiment, source code is absolutely messy. Don’t look please

One thing we often forget to remember: how beautiful life can be without the constant stream of music, pictures, videos, data. I was travelling France. The landscapes were amazingly beautiful. We had lots of old and stinky cheese and i really fell in love with “thé du verveine”.

Beeing offline does not have to mean beeing pure analog. I had my IBM ThinkPad X31 with me, the best mobile computer ever made. After beeing disconnected from everything you find your thoughts tumbling and coming to peace. After a while everything seems so logic in the head and i instinctly knew what to do next. I did some good sketches in processing and had very good, satisfying thoughs. We all should from time to time make offline-holidays and hack our computers while beeing offline. More concentration and less effort, a higher state of thinking and a clear view of meaning is worth making the difference.

The Zen of making good design: pull the plug, reward concentration and intense design.

One thing we often forget to remember: how beautiful life can be without the constant stream of music, pictures, videos, data. I was travelling France. The landscapes were amazingly beautiful. We had lots of old and stinky cheese and i really fell in love with “thé du verveine”.

Beeing offline does not have to mean beeing pure analog. I had my IBM ThinkPad X31 with me, the best mobile computer ever made. After beeing disconnected from everything you find your thoughts tumbling and coming to peace. After a while everything seems so logic in the head and i instinctly knew what to do next. I did some good sketches in processing and had very good, satisfying thoughs. We all should from time to time make offline-holidays and hack our computers while beeing offline. More concentration and less effort, a higher state of thinking and a clear view of meaning is worth making the difference.

The Zen of making good design: pull the plug, reward concentration and intense design.

The two winners of a ticket for next week’s flashconference in Stuttgart are:

Katharina Klodt and Taufan (who doesn’t have a last name as he’s born in Indonesia, interesting, isn’t it?)

As everybody wrote really nice emails and had perfect reasons to be a winner I could not decide who deserved it most - so I just rolled the dice and chose the two winners completely by chance.

Thanks again for taking part! And see you on Friday!

What about Postcards? They are cheap, they look good, they tell stories and they can show text, pictures and context (what is essential for communication!). Postcards are cheaper and cooler than square and boring letters. You don’t need to fit any formal criteria, you can even put oddest materials into the postbox. Here i have a little collection of possible postcards.

A: A simple postcard with a mindbending citation i added myself on the front. I will send this card, but i still don’t know to whom right now…
B: A very custimized postcard. This is my entrycard from the MediaSpace-Festival i visited last year. The customization (showing my name on the front) was done by the woman who filled out the media-space tickets. A lovely story on each side.
C: Another great (retro?) technique for getting postcards: this is an analogue photograph that i took at the expo2000 in germany. Send your visual memories.
D: No use for old flyers? Why don’t send ‘em by post?

Postcards are even great for anonymous communication (especially for digital paranoids), that can be a real advantage against email. Visit the weblog Postsecret to see anonymous postards in action.

More advantages: the recipient will read your stuff, the recipient will love the work you made especially for him/her
Disadvantages: slow, you don’t know if it will ever reach recipient, low cost but cost often combined with the heading for the next post station / post box

PS: if you want to send me a card:
Martin Wisniowski
Schützenstrasse 42
67659 Kaiserslautern
GERMANY

What about Postcards? They are cheap, they look good, they tell stories and they can show text, pictures and context (what is essential for communication!). Postcards are cheaper and cooler than square and boring letters. You don’t need to fit any formal criteria, you can even put oddest materials into the postbox. Here i have a little collection of possible postcards.

A: A simple postcard with a mindbending citation i added myself on the front. I will send this card, but i still don’t know to whom right now…
B: A very custimized postcard. This is my entrycard from the MediaSpace-Festival i visited last year. The customization (showing my name on the front) was done by the woman who filled out the media-space tickets. A lovely story on each side.
C: Another great (retro?) technique for getting postcards: this is an analogue photograph that i took at the expo2000 in germany. Send your visual memories.
D: No use for old flyers? Why don’t send ‘em by post?

Postcards are even great for anonymous communication (especially for digital paranoids), that can be a real advantage against email. Visit the weblog Postsecret to see anonymous postards in action.

More advantages: the recipient will read your stuff, the recipient will love the work you made especially for him/her
Disadvantages: slow, you don’t know if it will ever reach recipient, low cost but cost often combined with the heading for the next post station / post box

PS: if you want to send me a card:
Martin Wisniowski
Königsstrasse 27
67655 Kaiserslautern
GERMANY

Navigating Celestial Currents “Math leads spacecraft on joy rides through the solar system” By studying the mathematics underlying subtle gravitational interactions, researchers are starting to create an atlas of this superhighway. Engineers are designing trajectories to send spacecraft coasting along…

Last week I officially left Delete-Uk to be a part of the bigger company named Lateral (the crazy guys that used the treemap algorithm for their own website). Don't forget that one of my collegues is Toxi!

It is a quite important news.

Not few things have been modified during the journey, now I look forward to check some of these new enhancements.

Ab heute gibt die Beta Version von Processing. Gleichzeitig mit neuer Seite und neuem Forum. Auf den ersten Blick haben sich ne ganze Menge Dinge geändert sowohl was die Syntax angeht als auch am Programm selber.

serendipity? the world according to google maps is quite a sight. obviously caused by a serious lack of data, medieval maps and the perception of the world were impacted similarily… the quest for asia is starting all over

Habitualmente no pongo noticias, pero con esta estoy que no quepo en mi de la emoción. Hay una nueva versión de processing. La última estable hasta ahora era la 069 (yo llevaba más de un año con esta) y acaban de sacar la 085, con lo que pasa a ser una beta y la descarga ya es pública (no es necesario registrarse).

Para ver qué ha cambiado, podemos ver un FAQ, pero a mi ya hay una clase PSound que me está poniendo los dientes largos. Seguro que hablaré más sobre esto pronto.

Finally Ben Fry and Casey Reas have released the official Beta of Processing. Unlike the previous versions that were labeled “alpha” and only available on request, version 0085 is publicly available in the Processing download area.