On October I will be judging a contest about games developed for Flash Lite platform. It is organized by the very active Italian Community Actionscript.it, and it is open to everyone, not just Italians.

Personally I would have prefered a more general contest, including thus applications, but it wasn't possible since Macromedia did already one. But probably many of us would like to see applications more similar to games :), especially the ones for children that is already a good target if we consider how many of them use already a mobile phone. So maybe I would add the category application for children that can't be so far from a game

Der Macher von proHtml, Christian Riekoff, hat mit proXML eine neue library für processing heraus gebracht. Mit proXML ist es möglich in processing XMLs zu erstellen und auch abzuspeichern. Außerdem können XMLs aus dem Netz geladen und geparst werden, was die Einbindung von Webservices wie den von flickr ermöglicht.

Nachtrag:
Leider …

What a technic in this impressive reel by the guys at Onesize (Netherlands).

It is somehow a ironic fact, but also a sign of the time, that i know most of streetart only by digital media. Here in this town there isn’t any streetart scene, but digital media allow me to follow the analog world “outside”. But where is outside? When i am at home than the “outside” is the street, the places, the city, the world in general as a physical fact. But what when i am in the world? Is the “virtual” than the “outside” of the realworld, or does it still remains the “inside”? What is this “inside” of media look like?

When i am sitting in a place without a hotspot and wanting access to the net, i do feel like beeing “outside”. But this is another kind of beeing outside. It is an access restriction: forced to stay outside the stream, forced to stay outside data, forced to stay outside information flow, forced to stay outside instant communication. There is an urge, a wanting to get data. The digital “inside” hasn’t any gestalt to wander around, or do you want to reduce presence on two-dimensional interfaces? Following Goedart Palm the virtual a basic condition of mind, that is present since thousand of years in the human mind. But what about the media itself?

It is somehow a ironic fact, but also a sign of the time, that I know most of streetart only by digital media. Here in this town there isn’t any streetart scene, but digital media allow me to follow the analog world “outside”. But where is outside? When I am at home than the “outside” is the street, the places, the city, the world in general as a physical fact. But what when I am in the world? Is the “virtual” than the “outside” of the realworld, or does it still remains the “inside”? What does this “inside” of media look like?

When I am sitting in a place without a hotspot and wanting access to the net, I do feel like beeing “outside”. But this is another kind of beeing outside. It is an access restriction: forced to stay outside the stream, forced to stay outside data, forced to stay outside information flow, forced to stay outside instant communication. There is an urge, a wanting to get data. The digital “inside” hasn’t any gestalt to wander around, or do you want to reduce presence on two-dimensional interfaces? Following Goedart Palm the virtual is a basic condition of mind, that is present since thousand of years in the human mind. But what about the media itself? It is somehow like a river floating under the city (like in this town).

This artist really caught my interest: Microbo.

This artist really caught my interest: Microbo.

Dann kommt das neue Jens Friebe Album. Die erste CD seit langem, die ich mir mal wieder kaufen werde.

“Programming for designers that think they can’t do it”

Danny Franzreb has a nice piece in 2005.2.volume 12.number 2 IdN Magazine. Features articles with Reas, Fry, Tarbell, Pitaru, Dawes, Watz, and me.

I just had a very sweet break from work and my course while eating. I watched a new movie from Belief, those guys are crazy, but also very wise, so I highly recommend it. And if you have still time, and you appreciated it, watch also Pollinate, another master piece about creativity in advertisement.

“Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment.”

ooh!
Link (via blog.extrajetzt.de)

I tried once. And I failed once. Inspired by an urge to try my hand at tangible computing, I ran out to Radio Shack and bought a microprocessor starter set. It had a motor, a couple servos, and a small handful of shiny perfect LEDs… just think of the possibilities!!

But aside from learning a bit about the color-coding of resistors and using a bread board, the experiment was a failure. I couldn’t figure out how to get Processing to communicate with the microprocessor.

Enter Hernando Barragán . He is putting the finishing touches on some custom-made Wiring I/O boards. They are part of Wiring, which is “a programming environment for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics.”