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Not dead yet.

dan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:37:19 +0000

Alright, this will be a five minute blog post and I will absolutely post it no matter what. There, the timer is set.

What’s going on with me? Well, since getting married in September, we’ve reclaimed all that time-that-was-spent-wedding-planning and put it to other uses, mostly turning up the heat under the kettle that is our business. Things had been heating up steadily since well before the wedding and the past nearly six months has seen us working our butts off, shooting tons of video, editing lots of footage, making new clients, and stretching outwards and upwards in satisfying ways, including more very enjoyable work for Wiley Wiggins and the Octopus Project. I have not had or made nearly as much time for artistic projects as I would like but I do manage to fit stuff in here and there. Yikes, 30 seconds left! Uh, uh, uh….we redesigned our home office. It’s great. I’m fitting in a little time to work on Open Emu here and there. For more on that, keep your eyes on openemu.org. Time’s up!

Update: this five minute blog post is now sponsored by my cat.

UnitedVisualArtists » Speed of Light

dan — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:21:31 +0000

UnitedVisualArtists » Speed of Light.

A beautiful installation done with lasers. Excuse me — forgot this was the the Internet — I meant, LASERZ. United Visual Artists are a UK-based team who create live visuals and interactive installations with an architectural bent, meaning, not just the usual glowing rectangles: really striking work. As I tweeted moments ago, I can haz laserz, too? I’m tired of weak projectors on dingy screens.

A conversation with Josephine’s New School class

dan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:43:32 +0000

Recently my friend and collaborator Josephine Dorado invited me to speak with her Social Media Mashup class at The New School, which I was delighted to do. The conversation (on Seesmic) ranged across a variety of topics, including improvisation vs. structure (in my work and live visuals in general), visual performance tools, and how my own background as a theater/comedy actor has impacted my live visual work. Now that the class is moving on to another topic, I’m posting this here for anyone who’d like to keep the conversation going, e.g., ask me all the heavy, technical questions I said I’d answer later. Thanks again, Josephine, Barb, Tom, Debbie, andrihatesjazz, Cecelia, Antoine, Rick and all you lurkers. Happy holidays!

this week in tweets for 2009-10-09

dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000

@wugmump oi, yet another shiny thing to lust after. /me wants more TB in reply to wugmump #

this week in tweets for 2009-10-09

dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000

@wugmump oi, yet another shiny thing to lust after. /me wants more TB in reply to wugmump #

this week in tweets for 2009-09-25

dan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0000

@parisgraphics i've used this dropdown menu plugin on some client sites: http://bit.ly/iNvc4 in reply to parisgraphics #
@theflophousepod congratulations, elliott! in reply to theflophousepod #
@bang_noise awesome work! this'll be fun to play with. in reply to bang_noise #

this week in tweets for 2009-09-18

dan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0000

let it be known that my inbox is leet. http://yfrog.com/163k6p #
sweet! RT @_vade: v002 Rutt Etra now working in 10.6…new render modes and initial support for lighting patch: http://yfrog.com/0p60028502p #
RT @nocarrier: Updated information for the pre-8static art opening of READY>RUN at the Klein Gallery: http://www.8static.com [including YT] #
@cjwl breathe, master cocotron. in reply to cjwl #
NYC tax $$ well spent! http://twitgoo.com/3at1k #

this week in tweets for 2009-09-11

dan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0000

@_vade beautiful! i like 'em without and without the techno. in reply to _vade #
en route to baltimore for a wedding tonight. after watching season 4 finale of The Wire last night, bummed we can't stay for Wire tour. #
attn journo-bloggers: pls self-impose moratorium on use of filler phrases "we caught up with" and "i was _______ enough to". #
@notendo 2 more days until you move there or you're there now? #
attn journo-bloggers again: also stop saying "we sat down with" — you're not an Entertainment Tonight monkey. #
to journo-bloggers (3): "we were lucky enough to" is particularly bad, since luck usually has nothing to do with getting the interview/etc. #
next week my company (usefulmedia.net) is installing the audio, video and lighting for William Pope.L's YARD installation, which is… #
a re-visioning of a 60s installation by Allan Kaprow, featuring lighting design by @benton_c, sound design by @glomag and video design by me #
it opens on Sept 23rd and stays up through Oct 24 at Hauser & Wirth's new NYC gallery on the UES. more @ hauserwirth.com for the curious. #

this week in tweets for 2009-09-04

dan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0000

RT @_vade: If I am reading into this correctly, 10.6 may have the holy grail for VJs. Cross process OpenGL texture sharing: CGLIOSurface.h. #
RT @synesthete: Nalepa – Sunflowers EP now available on iTunes http://bit.ly/SY8ec (via @Nalepa) #
@_vade u can add anything to your Amazon wishlist via a clever little JS bookmark: http://bit.ly/Uqsiq in reply to _vade #
@_vade of course it's still crazy expensive :X in reply to _vade #

this week in tweets for 2009-08-28

dan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0000

hott RT @nocarrier: Lickshot (NES sampler software) test version is here: http://bit.ly/ybfTc #
@rosswhite sorry you're sick, rossman. feel better. in reply to rosswhite #
Up with crazy. Rick Perlstein — Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage http://instapaper.com/zMlw1750 #
RT @wugmump: RT @BarackObama: Spread the truth: Reform will prevent insurance companies from rationing your care. http://bit.ly/3ev3Aj #hc09 #