Good Talk- Russell Davies

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Points of interest: - People like things- they don't mind paying for an object (as opposed to web/ internet related stuff)

- A tacky figurine might be better than 1000 photo files on a cloud when it comes to recalling or remembering a holiday

- Screens aint all that

- People are amazed that internetty type data can become physical- especially personalised objects

- As old tech and practices change the infrastructure they used begin to become more accessible to the little guy (we've broken your business now we want your machines.)

aM Laboratory

This guy: Andre Michelle rocks. Seems to be some kind of audio code, tech master. This pic is of a tenori-on-like device which makes soaring soundscapes when you hammer at it's buttons- even if you're shit it just seems to work out somehow. Be sure to check out his other stuff too I really like these too-super ellipse and pulsate.

Processing Pt. 3

Spent a productive day kinda getting to grips better with the object functions, arrays (and iterating through them), and the dist function in processing. With a decent sized shout out to Mike for some tweeking of code to actually make the bastard work I managed to get some quite pretty results. The top stuff is a proximity sort of thing each time a new point is drawn it assesses how far away the other points are from it and draws a darker line depending on how close it is to a given point. Pretty. The second set is a simple (but triumphant for me!) distance thing done earlier on in the day where it assesses how far a new point is and if it's within a certain range draws a line to the middle of the sketch. I felt well good after doing these- looking forward to doing some more. (code to follow when i figure out how to do it!)

Processing Mk.2

Not so good today. Managed to get this box to move across a screen (with random colours for prettyness), but that was about it. I managed to remake what I did yesterday but with objects instead of whatever normal code is which I guess is an achievement and I'm starting to recognise what I don't know- Arrays are doing my head. So is the for(i++) type of function so those guys are next on the list.