Really, I figured out a new kind of boredom. It appears while beeing creative.

Boredom C is a kind of “to be at a loss”. It appears while sketching, coding, doodling or whatever creative you do. When beeing creative you start out with fresh and powerful ideas. When they are done you go on a bit more. You do and do and do without much reflection. Suddently there is the point where you feel bored by the work you do, by the things you done. That boredom has its origin on the “beeing at a loss” (Nicht mehr weiter wissen). It is close to Boredom B. You have to take a step back, maybe sleep it over and collect fresh and powerful new ideas.

In addition to this blog-entry.

I have made a thing that scans all the lines that could possibly exist in an image. Its output kills Illustrator. Behold.

I have also got my motion tracking suite ready for some tracking action. Images will be along shortly.

The Chapman Brothers private view this week was drunkard. I achieved no new great heights, only old lows.

While cleaning my desktop from many icons, today I found a demo application I downloaded few months ago. I checked it again and I went to see the website of the creator and I found his whole research field very interesting. I always thought that we can create alternative interactive paradigms while working with graphic tools and I won't be surprised if in the future we will see concepts similar to the ones ideated by Takeo in tools like Flash or Maya.

Straight from Processing Blogs, and right back again, here’s an interesting link that explores the adaptation of print-based type forms to the digital medium. We already see this a little bit in some more clever browsers, where large type is anti-aliased, whereas smaller type is not. This project takes it a little bit further, with a scale-aware typeface that modifies itself depending on it’s size on the screen. From the site:

The current program only runs one Style that allows the font to respond to scale, at small point sizes simplifying its form to give greater legibility, then responding to the display nature of fonts at large point sizes by increasing in complexity.

This carries nicely from some Maedean ideas about creating tools that are rooted in the digital world, rather than in print. What could happen to type if it were to forget about it’s use in print and develop instead for pixel-rendering? Apart from some pixel fonts, I’m not sure that this has been explored in detail.

I’d like to see some more Styles - the photo on the main page seems to imply that there are more to come. I find the existing Style clever in concept but a bit lacking in execution… I’ll eagerly await updates!

Responsive Type project is online. Visit the ‘Program’ page to write messages which will be displayed live in Soso Gallery in Sapporo, Japan. Gallery visitors are also given an e-mail address which allow them to write and display messages in real-time . All previous posted messages are shown in the ‘Exhibition’ page of the site.
I’ve been part of the team that developped the project. We built an expandable system that allows us to add new styles and new fonts. More should come really soon, sources/tools will be available for download, register there if you want to be notified.
Thanks to Jody&Luke at Hudson-Powell, Michael ‘MFlux’, Brian and Michael.

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I had a nice chat with a nice woman living in Berlin. I was asking question about the perception of city and media. I said that you theoretically don’t need any big city, unless you can satisfy your need via media (not only print and web, but also physical media like concerts etc..). That women agreed that reading a magazine can generate an feeing of “urbanity” inside you while sitting in a chair at home. Her strategy of not getting lost in Berlin is: not reading thouse magazines too often and simply stay at home.

What about the web? I completely lost the overview. E.g. the netlabel scene. There are so many netlabels, so many blogs writing about music and netmusic. Where is the starting point? Where is the center? Where the orientations signs? In which direction all this moves? What strategies do we have to navigate in this richness?