“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
As virtually everything is migrating to (at least) some form of shareable media, the line of what is “yours” and what is “theirs” is slowly being formed–or drawn. This video gives some insight through opinion on how creative commons works (and everything that surrounds it) is coming of age. It raises a few questions on how much should be shared, and exactly who should be the authority that designates such things. Creative Commons may just be the “stick it to the man” route to maintain the current state of the online community’s give-and-take nature– or perhaps not.
“We’ve been beating the notion that Blender is “not just for static modeling” like a dead horse. (Ananimated dead horse, anyway.) But here’s yet another example, just because it’s cool – and because following the video gives you a basic sense of how to replicate the effects yourself” -CDM
Blender is widely considered the most capable and easy to use Open-Source program in the “maya” digital design category. Well worth a download if you’re interested by that kind of stuff and come on, who doesn’t love free stuff?
But via comments, here’s more ffmpeg goodness than you can possibly handle. It reveals that ffmpeg’s GUI-less, bare-bones command line is an asset, not a liability. Type one line, accomplish anything, get your work done. ffmpeg may be our last, best hope to make sense of a chaotic video world.” -CDM
To me ffmpeg is in its most basic form a really free form approach to video conversion – almost to the point that makes me worried about it’s ability to “catch on”
“Trying to learn Apple’s free visual patching tool Quartz Composer, useful for making your own filters and simple generative effects? Or perhaps you’re learning VDMX, the brilliant, semi-modular Mac-friendly visual tool – which also happens to host Quartz Composer compositions as effects or generative sources? Well, good news for you: readers have a ton of tutorials for both.
Possibly the most perplexing concept to wrap your head around in Quartz Composer is the iterator. Iteration in code is pretty straightforward (think “for” loops), but while it’s powerful in a patch, it’s conceptually a bit of a challenge. ”
“Qeve is a promising-looking, open-source visual performance tool built in visual patching environment Pure Data (Pd). It was built primarily on Ubuntu Linux but should also run with some adjustment on Mac. (Pd itself runs on Windows, but some of the visual dependencies are not available on that platform. I’d still recommend Linux.)” -CDM
Another great example of what the influx of what I am probably mislabeling as free-form programming
“After twenty years or so of music software, you’ll often find that what you need to do is creatively satisfied by what’s available in pre-built tools. But video is often another matter: even if a VJ tool does what you need some of the time, there are times when you need something that doesn’t exist (or even something simpler, to perform a specific task). You might not be ready to invest hundreds of dollars in Max/MSP/Jitter to do that, of course. Enter Pure Data, Max’s free, open-source cousin. Like Max, it lets you quickly build custom tools by visually “patching” objects on-screen — ideal for modular video tools. But unlike Max, it costs nothing, it runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and because of the rich Pd community and a good relationship with the Max community, it has some tricks of its own.” -CDM
I found this to be one of the more eye catching takes on the tablets shown off at CES. I do like the Dual-LCD Book style that even slightly resembles a Kindle. But what really brings it all home is this “E-Ink” think they mention, which probably isn’t as user-friendly as my optimistic mind wants to believe. I do wonder, though, if this could be yet another stable approach for all sorts of approaches in design/tech fields that we may be overlooking a bit. But before jumping the gun- I’de like to see a breakdown on this “E-Ink”.
If you’re interested in checking out some of the other “new wave” tablet concepts shown at CES click the link below.
“Artist Lia has created her first piece of art for the iPhone and iPod touch, something called PhiLia 01. It’s a quirky, gorgeous generative sound and visual app activated by movement, one that encourages users to save their own artwork.”
The theme of this week seems to be the iPhone, so to keep it going, heres PhiLia; It would be unjust to say its like Brian Eno’s Bloom on crack— PhiLia is too elegant. It isn’t just touch-and-go like Bloom or any other sound generating app; it actually points you in the direction to start thinking about what you want to create– which is the kind of thought that needs to be put behind all implementations of this plethora of new technology we have being thrown at us.
c74 is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that let’s you connect your device with Cycling ’74′s Max/MSP 5.
From nr74.org:
“The massive improvement over existing interface layout apps is that the layout is dynamically controlled by Max. Therefore we can have the interface adapt to the tasks it has to perform in real-time.”
One good thing after another, Processing for iPhone and now Max for iPhone. The app is only $3.99 , well worth it considering it has a good majority of the capabilities needed to actually have some sort of a portable “workspace”. Although lets face it, the attributes of the iPhone (touch/gps/compass/accellerometer) with no need for another platform to connect to Max are going to be what draws people to this — not to mention having two max interfaces to interact as well.
