links for 2008-07-11
July 11th, 2008
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Are YOU tired of humdrum protests and bored of capitalism? Do YOU enjoy working in a team and ridiculing authority? Do YOU long for extremely silly adventures? CIRCA is looking for fools and rebels, radicals and rascals, tricksters and traitors, mutinee
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On Saturday the 7th of July 2007 artist activist the vacuum cleaner attempted to shutdown Manchester’s most boring, bland and generic commercial experiences. Armed with a wish to go back to bed, a team of elite yawners infected people with a subliminal
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another fine Aussie publication – produced by Sydney based SquatSpace it covers most of the practical and legal aspects along with a little history and philosophy for good measure.
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brief instructions on how to temporarily reclaim a street for human-based recreational activities
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Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image.
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For the next 90 days, I’m going to think about, sketch, draw, and prototype ideas about mobile design and post them here.
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The BBC made a documentary called The Secret Of Drawing. Here’s the part about the work of cartoonist Daniel Clowes. An interview tells us more about the background of Clowes and where he learned his unique style of drawing.
links for 2008-07-10
July 10th, 2008
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create a custom memory matching game from your flickr images.
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Half real face, half currency. No photoshopping, just currency and faces
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git is a distributed version control system. Think of it as a time machine: Subversion or CVS without the suck. If you make a lot of changes, but decided you made a mistake, this will save your butt.
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links to a bunch of articles about health, fitness, and the challenges of getting in shape
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a group of Anarchitects dedicated to battling the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces by institutions, corporations and urban planners
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No matter what you call them; ebook, white paper, or resource these 30+ pdf files contain information that no designer should go without.
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some nice looking web site designs, all ready to parade in front of potential customers
links for 2008-07-09
July 9th, 2008
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get web2.0y with the simple addition of stripes to your web site design. A low effort, online stripe pattern generator
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a step up from the striped background, this on-line app lets you create a variety of repeating background image types
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as much as you’d probably want to know about php in one easy to access wiki
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more mobmov fodder. The U.S. Library of Congress has a huge collection of copyright free material, but I like the vaudeville stuff the best. Methinks it would be nice with some ccMixter background music
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a couple of nice juggling patterns in attractive stick figure slo-mo
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chaplin, lots of chaplin
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cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. The poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. A wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux v
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Directed practice in acting, directing, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from pre-rehearsal preparation to workshop production.
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another online art course, covers: Purpose of Art – History of Art – The Visual Elements and Principles – Two Dimensional Art – Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, and Photography – Three-Dimensional Art – Sculpture, Architecture, and the Landscape Theatre (D
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allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure
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a personality assessment, which provides you with a personality map and a personalDNA strip that you can add to your website or blog
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an analysis of legal issues which apply to street photography in NSW Australia – last updated July 2008
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guaranteed to make your web development life easier (less hard?)
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variety of slide shows (currently 7) for viewing your Flickr photos with more flexibility.
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a lovely polaroid view of my flickr photos
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This device projects a graphic or text image when a button is pushed, using parts from a used disposable camera
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free flash templates or FLA flash source files (including flash website templates, flash intros, flash effects, 3D XML thumbnail galleries, and XML photo galleries)
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another on-line background design app
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mixing and audio production tutorials
links for 2008-07-08
July 8th, 2008
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takes the 50 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and creates a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a “tag cloud” like description of highly recommended artists.
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click on the beta test button to find out your index. I scored 153, which is either very open minded or not very fussy about what I listen to
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a graphical interface (GUI) for easily configuring Synergy2, an application that allows the user to share his mouse and keyboard between two or more computers
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This tutorial helps beginners learn the basics of PHP programming.
links for 2008-07-07
July 7th, 2008
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this rubric was created for marking blog posts, but could easily be expanded for use with other social networking activites – maybe a good direction for trainingo2.net
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a portal for movie length clips found on google video, YouTube, Vimeo etc. all nicely rated and classified and ready to MobMov
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a few nice film tailers – thanks for not smoking, etc. Another candidate for mobmov fodder
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short advertisements used during intermission at drive-in movie theaters during the 1950’s and early 1960’s to get people to consume junk food from the concession stand – more mobmov tucker
links for 2008-07-06
July 6th, 2008
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how to move or backup you MySQL database(s) using either mysqldump or phpmyadmin
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a fun tool if you have the bandwidth – allows you to fly through a universe of flickr pictures all linked by tags.
links for 2008-07-04
July 4th, 2008
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The support site for John Medina’s book: ‘Brain Rules’, in which discusses applied neurology. Presents 12 rules derived from contemporary brain science research that have practical applications in the class (and life in general). Recommended
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a beaut instructable from the mobmov folks on how to set up a car based movie theatre (the original site at at http://mobmov.org/manifesto/ is worth a re-visit too – lots more content since I last visited in 2006)
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more on the care and feeding of a mobmov operation. Re-creating the drive-in (or walk-in) theatre experience with an open source twist for zest
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124,243 movies that you might want to project in, oh say, a mobmov
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A guide to web-based sound-toys and music applications. The interactive works allow you to create music, explore sound science and music history.
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oh yeah, a laser beam that burns through walls (well, balloon walls anyway). This is the laser we all dreamt about as small children. Now, to mount two in a robots head and my plans for world domination can begin.
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more stunts and tricks that might be of interest to sidewalk circuseers
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a collection of web-based algorithmic composition toys for processing and producing MIDI music. The source code for most of the tools is viewable from each tool’s page
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a programming language and graphical user interface for MIDI, useful for both algorithmic and realtime musical experimentation
links for 2008-07-02
July 2nd, 2008
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a record of the Australia 2020 Summit 10 chapters covering education; economy; population, sustainability, climate change; rural communities; health strategy; families and social inclusion; Indigenous Australia; arts, and film; governance; and security
links for 2008-07-01
July 1st, 2008
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a collection or resources for improvisation theater – 500 icebreakers, warmups, games and exercises in 30 categories. Also available as a pdf or html download.
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more improvisation games – this time in an online book.
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Another blog maintained by Charlie Todd (see Improv Everywhere yesterday). Urban Prankster covers pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors that take place in public places in cities across the world.
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displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog – could be ‘adjusted’ to show popular links for a specific tag.
