randomwalks/dj

Today Theo Watson in the Eyebeam Production Studio released the Maya to Google Earth plugin.

Maya2GoogleEarth is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed at Eyebeam for exporting 3D models from Maya into Google Earth. Once installed, it allows you to export 3D models from within your scene as a single Google Earth Placemark (KML) file.

The project was inspired by the Open GL extraction utility OGLE which can extract 3D data from openGL programs like Google Earth. We thought that it would be fun to be able to take the extracted 3D data, remix and add to it and then load it back into Google Earth.

Originally from OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D blogs, on February 14, 2006 11:11 PM

Interview with David Remnick about the revitalization of the New Yorker and what exactly it is that makes that magazine unique. "My principle in the magazine - and I am not being arrogant - is that I don't lose sleep trying to figure what the reader wants. I don't do surveys. I don't check the mood of the consumers. I do what I want, what interests me and a small group of editors that influences the way of the magazine." (thx, george)

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 14, 2006 11:10 PM

Shuna's write-up of the Common Wealth Club's Food Blogger panel (and the event itself) triggers quite an interesting reaction in the comments. Recipe for a food blogger flame war: 3 cups drama, 0 parts actual discussion of food, a pinch...

Originally from A Full Belly, on February 14, 2006 11:10 PM

The story so far: Danish paper publishes cartoons that mock Muslims. An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest. Now, a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest. Amitai Sandy, the publisher of Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Dimona Comix, and founder of the contest jokes, “We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”

This is a refreshing response to all the cartoon-fueled anger in the news lately — fighting fire with humour.

(via MetaFilter)

Originally posted by Johnny from Drawn! The Illustration Blog, on February 14, 2006 11:10 PM

urban_data posted a photo:

Originally from eyebeam - Everyone's Tagged Photos, on February 14, 2006 11:10 PM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 11:09 PM

please help: non-profit bookmobile project trailer & van is MISSING!

Originally posted by anemone from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 11:09 PM

Marc Andreessen is annoyed by his customers coming to visit the office (the nerve!) so a few of his customers are using his software to organize and pay him a visit tomorrow. My long-held opinion: Marc Andreessen = putz.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 14, 2006 11:08 PM

Apple's latest operating system update addresses several issues.

Originally from Macworld, on February 14, 2006 11:08 PM

ccMixter tracks in-community mixversations. We've now released a very simple beta API that allows tracking remix relationships across sites. The API is implemented in ccHost, the GPL software that runs ccMixter, and you can implement it for your site. For details see ccMixter developer Victor Stone's blog entry and the beta documentation. Feedback to the cc-devel list.

In other ccHost development news, the excellent Open Clip Art Library is in the process of migrating to ccHost and doing some work along the way to make it easy for others who want to use ccHost for non-music remix communities to do so.

Originally posted by Mike Linksvayer from Creative Commons Blog, on February 14, 2006 11:08 PM

read: finding religion

Originally from lifeblog, on February 14, 2006 11:07 PM

MeasureMap just got bought out by Google. I believe that's the first Ruby on Rails application to be picked up in a Web 2.0'ish buyout. And it didn't even have to launch, take that Yahoo! Speaking of, I'm now having a sale of futures in ideas for apps that I haven't even thought of. Who's bidding?

No seriously, congratulations to the MeasureMap team, which includes Rails core member Nicholas Seckar and always interesting Jeffrey Veen. I've been in on the beta for a while and there's definitely some interesting ideas and thoughts going on there. Statistics that goes beyond the numbers^TM. Mighty nice.

Now let's see some Getting Real and a launch!

Originally from Loud Thinking, on February 14, 2006 11:07 PM

MeasureMap, a blogstats application built by our good friend Greg Veen (with help from his brother) was sold to Google today.

As much as we will miss Jeff at the bar after work, it is good to know that MeasureMap will now not work with Chinese blogs either.

Originally from Off the Hoof, on February 14, 2006 11:07 PM

HAPPY V. DAY

 

The art blogosphere is up-in-arms over Artnet Magazine writer Charlie Finch's supposed sexism. That news is so old and tired  the only way it could be the least bit interesting is if it was old Charlie himself posing as Anonymous Female Artist (A.K.A. Militant Art Bitch). More interesting to me is why this particular kind of old school feminist discourse is being promoted so heavily at this particular moment. Oh, right, it gives Roberta and Jerry a platform to preach to the flock (and rake in the thithes).

 

For those in New York City who would like to put in their two bits on the topic the LMCC gallery on the second floor on Maiden Lane is giving you an opportunity: 

Speed Limit
Redhead Project Space, 125 Maiden Lane, Second Floor
New York, NY
February 24-May 26
Public Event: April 4
Closing Reception: May 26

Redhead Project Space invites you to participate in an experiment: A History of Women’s Art. What constitutes a history of women’s art?  Who can write that history? Speed Limit is an experiment attempting to arrive at an open, participatory, physical history of women’s art. On February 24, the gallery will be open and empty and ready for your contributions.  What can you contribute?  Works of art, artifacts, texts, etc. that you believe could contribute to a history of women’s art.    The more difficult question of what could constitute a history of women’s art is up to you. Everyone is welcome to contribute. For Rules and Regulation and a more complete description of Speed Limit, visit http://www.redheadprojects.com.

Originally from post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine., on February 14, 2006 11:07 PM

Originally from Perl.com, on February 14, 2006 11:07 PM

The scrappy, unwavering spirit of the Camino team pays off in a big way today with the version 1.0 release of that Web browser. In the wish list of browser features I wrote last December, I had unfairly disregarded Camino, even though I had it installed on my own system at the time. This is probably owing to past experiences with earlier versions that were a bit bumpy, but this latest release is smooth, polished and very solid. It’s a true Macintosh product, having painstakingly brought the Mozilla group’s refined Gecko rendering engine into Apple’s Cocoa framework.

The result is a browser that’s rivaled perhaps only by Safari in how native it feels to the Mac OS X computing experience. I’ve been using it for several days, and it feels fast and reliable — but what I like most of all is its integration with Mac OS X’s Keychain password utility, which is invaluable for convenience and peace of mind. Unfortunately, Camino is missing a few features that I’m becoming increasingly used to having at my disposal: session saving and the ability to force all new windows into tabs.

That doesn’t stop it from being an amazing piece of work though. It may be true that Camino’s open source cousin, Firefox is a wonder of coordinated, selfless efforts joining together to produce a surprisingly usable and elegant end product. But Camino is an example of similarly dedicated and truly passionate engineers and designers putting that same brand of selflessness to work creating something truly beautiful. It’s the closest an open source project has come to producing art that I’ve seen yet.

Originally from Subtraction, on February 14, 2006 11:06 PM

Here's one from the archives for you. Make sure your kids don't grow up without seeing this. By the way, that guy he dunked over? The Knicks picked him ahead of Ron Artest, Jeff Foster, Andrei Kirilenko, and Manu Ginobili (who, by the way, was so unknown on draft day in 1999 that CNN/SI listed him as a power forward).

Originally from True Hoop, on February 14, 2006 11:06 PM

If you want to play with space and time and people, if you like crossing barriers and probing around in extreme situations, if you fiddle around with the idea the space can be programmed, if you eat social patterns for your breakfast, if you are not scared by a drunk young audience, if you keep telling your friends that environments are not passive wrappings but active processes, if your perceptions keep shifting, if your projects are about interplay, exploration and humor, if tinkering with technology is your obsession...
...then... this call for works is your unique chance to experiment with interaction design within the context of an electronic music festival. Nightlife, extreme characters, clubbing freaks, a young, unrespectful and challenging audience. You know what we are talking about, don’t you?

YEAH!

Originally from USC IMD: , on February 14, 2006 11:06 PM

I've been getting lots of squid t-shirts orders as of late, but recently I recieved quite a few orders for our NARM! shirt. Mike and Erika noted that one of the orders was from Matt Shakman, a television director for Six Feet Under. Turns out he directed "Singing for Our Lives" the episode that introduced NARM! into the public discourse.

I contacted him, and he said that although there were many NARM! shirts floating around on the InterWeb, "none compare" to Mule's. Matt is a charmer, but he's also an enabler, because he promised to give one of the shirts he ordered to Scott Buck, the writer of "Singing for Our Lives" and the "true father" of Narm!

This news has made all us Mules giddy, as we are big Six Feet Under fans. Thanks, Matt!

Originally from Off the Hoof, on February 14, 2006 11:04 PM

A video of The Fall performing Smile on the Tube in 1983 with guest presenter John Peel. I used to know a guy in college who only listened to the Fall and Pere Ubu, I can see a logic to that.

Posted to music

Originally from Stunned, on February 14, 2006 11:04 PM

Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves Adaptive Path to work at Google.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 14, 2006 11:04 PM

But I thought it would be Yahoo. Google grabs web analytics UI wizards Measure Map.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on February 14, 2006 11:03 PM

Python for S60 is making the news again!

• Guido van Rossum now has a Nokia phone to run PyS60 on: “Too Much Fun with Python on Nokia Phone“
• Steve Litchfield, of All About Symbian, has posted a review: “Nokia Python’s Flying Circus” that discusses the pro’s and con’s of using Python compared to other mobile development options, and shares his first PyS60 application, “created in around ten man hours from ‘never having seen a line of Python before’ to ‘finished and ready for download by the world’”!

Originally posted by erik from [eriksmartt.com/blog], on February 14, 2006 03:18 PM

Former US ski team member, and gold medalist, Picabo Street has a blog! You may remember her from the 1998 games in Nagano. She won the gold in the Super G. She's in Torino now as a special correspondent for NBC. While there, she's keeping a blog on the Torino experience, especially now that she's getting to enjoy the Games as a spectator rather than a competitor. Neat.

Originally from megnut, on February 14, 2006 03:18 PM

Ten successes that shaped the 20th Century American city.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 14, 2006 03:16 PM

Through an improbable series of clerical errors, I am scheduled to participate in a "keynote conversation" about professional blogging with Heather Armstrong at SXSW in Austin, Texas next month. Armstrong, so the story goes, got fired for blogging at work and was rewarded with a loving husband, cutie-pie daughter, photogenic dog, several television appearances, hundreds of media mentions, and a new job -- talking about poop all day -- that supports her entire family. And so but by the way, she's also headlining the entire SXSW Festival along with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young. Which makes me approximately chopped liver. When I told Meg about the headlining thing, she said, "boy, that conversation had better be good". Pressure's on, Heather.

To sum up, a piece of chopped liver will be having a chat with a nice lady from Utah next month about blogging for groceries. Should be fun.

Originally from kottke.org, on February 14, 2006 03:16 PM

Adobe released a new Lightroom beta, its first Intel-ready application.

Originally from Macworld, on February 14, 2006 03:16 PM

MacMinute: “The Camino Project today announced the Camino 1.0 browser, a free Web browser for Mac OS X, built on the open source Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.”

Sweet!

Originally from ranchero.com, on February 14, 2006 03:16 PM

Today the Eyebeam Production Studio releases its Maya to Google Earth plugin.

Maya2GoogleEarth is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed at Eyebeam for exporting 3D models from Maya into Google Earth. Once installed, it allows you to export 3D models from within your scene as a single Google Earth Placemark (KML) file.

The project was inspired by the Open GL extraction utility OGLE which can extract 3D data from openGL programs like Google Earth. We thought that it would be fun to be able to take the extracted 3D data, remix and add to it and then load it back into Google Earth.

Originally from OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D blogs, on February 14, 2006 03:15 PM

They are serious. BioWillie! [boingboing]

Originally posted by pmcaleer from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 03:15 PM

Worldchanging ally Ze Frank, one of the funniest men on his block in midtown Manhattan, explores global warming, quarter-mile-long cars, and the plight of joke-writers in this new informative video:

"I started PSBI as a non-profit because I wanted to start an organization where no one profited."

(Posted by Alex Steffen in QuickChanges at 11:02 AM)

Originally posted by Alex Steffen from WorldChanging: Another World Is Here, on February 14, 2006 03:14 PM

Originally from the real janelle, on February 14, 2006 11:48 AM

The Whitney Museum's Artport and the Tate Online have teamed up to commission three web projects. Launching today, Valentine's Day, The Dumpster by Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg is an online visualization that depicts a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using postings extracted from millions of blogs, visitors can surf through tens of thousands of romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another.

The Battle of Algiers (launches Wed 3.1), by Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin, is a continual re-composition of scenes from the seminal 1965 film re-enactment of Gillo Pontecorvo's movie.

By entering Screening Circle (launches Wed 3.22), by Andy Deck, visitors can compose loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces, or segments, can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be haphazard or precise.

Via Flavorpill.

Originally from we make money not art, on February 14, 2006 11:46 AM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 08:33 AM

Barcelonan hotel wrapped in "individual nodes that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then at night each node will give off color according to how much sunlight that node collected." (via WMMNA)

Originally posted by blackbeltjones from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 08:32 AM

James Clar, an interactive lighting designer, is currently working on scaled-down version of an L.E.D mesh structure that will eventually appear around the Habitat Hotel, near Barcelona. Working for experimental company Cloud9, Clar is using his expertise to build a working prototype for a model of the hotel, to be shown in New York. As he puts it on his site:

It is a hotel with a light mesh that wraps the whole building. The light mesh has sensors that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then at night each node will give off color according to how much that node collected sun. Therefore, the mesh reflects the energy levels of each day, it will change over seasons and due to weather. It’s very nice since the mesh itself is raised off the building and forms its own see-through structure. Also, each node is self-contained with it’s own sensor and LEDs, there is no central computer controlling the whole structure.

The model, along with many other works, will be on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) NYC from Feb 12th for the New Spanish Architects show.

[UPDATE] James has now posted some photos and a great project PDF.

Originally from Pixelsumo, on February 14, 2006 08:32 AM

Rocking it comprehensive-school computer class style on your phone...

Originally posted by blackbeltjones from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 08:31 AM

Upload from your gps to make tracks on google maps/earth

Originally posted by blackbeltjones from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 14, 2006 08:31 AM

an aesthetic portrait of romantic breakups from a group of 20,000 blog posts describing breakups in 2005. this 'social data browser' visualises inferred reasons for the break-up, who was involved, age & gender of the author, & emotional state, with similar breakups showing up with similar colours. launched today, Valentine's Day. [tate.org.uk & tate.org.uk]

Originally posted by fofoda from information aesthetics, on February 14, 2006 08:30 AM

elastico has a nice post (in spanish but most of the links lead to websites in english) about the New Architecture in Spain exhibition at the MOMA, New York, February 12–May 1, 2006. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have picture galleries.

My favourite projects are the Metropol Parasol to be built in Sevilla by J. Mayer H. and
Habitat Hotel by architect Enric Ruiz-Geli of Cloud 9 Architecture.

The hotel will be wrapped in an "energy mesh." The light mesh, developed by James Clar, has individual nodes that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then at night each node will give off color according to how much sunlight that node collected. The mesh reflects the energy levels of each day and will change according to seasons and weather.

The model's mesh consists of 500 tri-color LEDs controlled by a PIC microprocessor. Also imbedded in the model's mesh are photosensors which determine the brightness on them and give off a color according to the energy color scheme.

The building should be completed in 2008 and will be located in L'Hospitalet, Barcelona.

Just like Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, big names have been invited to contribute to its general design. Vito Acconci (see also his Island in the Mur) is working on a garden which will start in the main hall of the ground floor and will continue outside to create a confusion between public and private space. Evru (previously called Zush) has designed a small meditation room shaped like a bubble. And Dutch designers Droog Design will mark every step of the main stair with the number of calories burnt to climb them. On the top floor, Brazilian architect Ruy Othake plans to grow a kind of Amazonian jungle.

Via noticias arquitectura. More information in El Pais.

Originally from we make money not art, on February 14, 2006 08:30 AM

Another Spanish project (which isn't part of the New York show) that intrigued me: the city of Basauri (Basque Country) is studying the possibility to build a new type of dwelling for young people. 35 wooden box-houses would be built in the Basozelai area, in a natural surrounding.

The 42 sqm (+ 20 sqm for the terrasse) will be available as a temporary house for young people at a relatively cheap price, around 200 euros. What's interesting is that half of it will be kept in a bank account. Dwellers will get that money back at the end of their stay in the house (max. 5 years.)

The project has been designed by urban activist, artist and architect Santiago Cirugeda who was inspired by the urban ideas he saw in Northern Europe.

Cirugeda is famous for his activist projects. He seeks out unrecognized leftover spaces between the lines of building laws and gives them (il-)legal asylum. He works with the same survival strategies as migrants, who have conquered niches and found a place of their own when society refused to grant it to them.

Some of his Strategies for Urban Occupation i like: house enlarging with scaffoldings, insect house (first set of images, on the right), empty lots occupation, the dumpster-playground (images above.)

Also by the architect: Casa Pollo and don't miss Geoff's post in BLDG blog.

Via Edgar Gonzales < El correo digital. Image.

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Originally from we make money not art, on February 14, 2006 08:30 AM

motorcyclist records video of Honda Civic losing control and hitting her, posts video online  

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on February 14, 2006 01:55 AM

Originally from yann@typepad, on February 14, 2006 01:55 AM

Notes on a very practical Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us presentation, apparently taken my a group via subethaedit.

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 14, 2006 12:51 AM

"Blogging and wikis are reflective of a culture that views the Internet as a stream of information, rather than a collection of places."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 14, 2006 12:51 AM

The Yahoo! User Interface Library’s got a bunch of open source Ajaxy UI components, including a Calendar control, Drag and Drop, a Slider and Tree View. Neat.

Yahoo! UI Library

Originally posted by Gina Trapani from Spun, on February 14, 2006 12:51 AM

an interactive facade installation consisting of a matrix of iris diaphragms (like those found in cameras) which open & close according to the external light. this reveals and obscures the inside of the building from the outside, and reflects the duration which people stand in front of the facade. [fredericeyl.de|via we-make-money-not-art.com]

Originally posted by fofoda from information aesthetics, on February 14, 2006 12:50 AM

Takafumi Horie was charged with violating securities law by spreading false information to inflate a subsidiary's stock price.

Originally from NYT > Technology, on February 14, 2006 12:49 AM