http://radius.pir2.org Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:35:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After leaving Adelphi, I shifted gears in art-making and quickly abandoned the endless rolls of Tri-X. Two weeks ago, thanks to a lovely give of the Lomo Fisheye 2 from the boy, I started loading film again. The love (and frenzied pace) returned immediately. These days it's color film and ... http://radius.pir2.org/2008-04/film-renaissance/ Since someone posted this already, I figured I better put it up myself. I recommend watching the HD version :) chaotic.terrain (trailer by vade) from bene on Vimeo. Trailer for the first-person art-game chaotic.terrain by Mary Ann Benedetto. Compressed from full res in-game footage. blurb: chaotic.terrain is a 3D game environment in which a ... http://radius.pir2.org/2008-02/chaoticterrain-trailer/ Today we used the Intensity card to capture full res footage of chaotic.terrain. Hurrah, finally! The first video has been cut, by Anton. He's asleep, and this video noob can't compress it to a reasonable web size. So for now, we have screenshots of his work. And ..err.. mine too! ... http://radius.pir2.org/2007-12/chaoticterain-screenshots/ Oh, what photoshop and too much gaming will lead to... http://radius.pir2.org/2007-09/master-chief-hearts-samus-aran/ Germans postulate what countless nights of playing Mario Kart DS before going home have made me suspect: If you've been obsessed with PGR or Gran Tourismo lately, German psychologists think you should be extra cautious next time you get behind a real-life wheel. Study: Racing Games Cause Real Car Crashes, from Wired It ... http://radius.pir2.org/2007-03/games-rewiring-your-brain-for-better-or-worse/ Playing with the pixel data of one of the photos used in chaotic.terrain (more on that, still forthcoming). Click stillshot to see cropped video, or download the source (bring your own photo!). I had started this as an in-class demo, and then had fun with it. After a long ... http://radius.pir2.org/2007-03/photo-munging-in-processing/ Previews and information coming soon! http://radius.pir2.org/2006-12/chaoticterrain-teaser/ While at SHARE last night, I was working on a new Processing sketch. It's a variant of corral -- less math, more pretty. Click to play/pause. You will need to have Java installed. A few screenshots, including one variant not in this version:     http://radius.pir2.org/2006-11/processing-at-share-10-06/ My thesis project has been consuming all of my time these days. Part of that work includes photography, both shooting new and rummaging through old. Here are two very different perspectives of Brooklyn: both shot from the same location, while facing opposite directions. Click to enlarge. From March, facing south: From August, ... http://radius.pir2.org/2006-08/brooklyn-at-dawn/ There's currently a bit of mess, as I got the silly idea in my head to support Internet Explorer 6.0. Oh bother... At this point, only the main page is readable, and I've given up on fighting IE for the night. UPDATE (8/6): Version number kicked up to 1.3 after a lot ... http://radius.pir2.org/2006-08/version1-3/