5 Design Tricks to Become a Paper Pro
Paper, by FiftyThree, is one of the best sketching (and note taking) apps available on the market for the iPhone and iPad. It allows artists, doodlers, designers, writers, and just about anyone with a...
Author: Colin Budd
The Unintended Effects of Designing with Care
Let’s start at the start… Recently, I went through a breakup. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t easy (let’s be honest – it still isn’t nearly two months later) but it was a decision we...
Project 4: Advanced Drum Kit & Algorithm
Addressing the multitude of interactivity issues that dominated my recent advancements with the Kinect in Processing, I began to write new library classes and algorithms. I started by adapting the skeleton library from Kinect Projector...
Tweetris – A Study of Whole-Body Interaction in Public Space
While researching artists and works dealing with the kinesthetic performance of the body in public space, I came across a fantastic research project called “Tweetris: A Study of Whole-Body Interaction During a Public Art Event”...
Project 3: User3d_Dance_DJ
In this project, I continue my experimentation with Kinect, interactivity, and music within Processing. After weeks of development and struggling to work around the finicky interactivity of Kinect within Processing (including activating buttons and tracking skeletons),...
Twitter in Processing: Part 1
Twitter Project 1: “#Cornell” For Art Thesis I, I began to intermix my understandings of Processing in order to create a series of projects incorporating a live Twitter feed. My first project of this nature, demonstrated...
Quick Update: Live Image Manipulation with Processing
While building a foundation in image manipulation, I began to experiment with more advanced “glitches” using live feeds from the Kinect and webcamera. The results are pretty unique and I absolutely wanted to share...
Project 2: Kinect Music Dance
Building upon the Processing Music Visualizer created for Project 1, I began my exploration with the Minim library and how it could be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Kinect. As detailed extensively in my...
Quick Update: Kinect Visualization in 3D Space
Just a quick update on the amazing ways of visualization and manipulation using Processing with camera feeds. Direct depth sensor information from the Kinect allows one to achieve results like that seen above. Through SimpleOpenNI,...
Lovejoy: Video as Time, Space, Motion
Reading through Margot Lovejoy’s Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age, I came across a particular writing that struck a chord with my current explorations in video and performance art: “Video as time, space,...
