dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: glitchNES: make visuals with your Nintendo

No Carrier (a.k.a. Don Miller) has released glitchNES, a ROM (read: game cartridge) that makes user-controlled visuals on the old school Nintendo Entertainment System, with results that resemble the effects of circuit-bending. glitchNES is free, open source, and runs well on NES hardware and in accurate emulators, e.g., Nestopia. Get it [...]

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dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Rutt/Etra Visual Synth as Software; Etra's Legacy Needs Your Support

Ed. It’s one of the most important live visual inventions of all time — a visual creation on the level of something like the Minimoog for audio synthesis. And it’s now in software form. But just as importantly, there’s a [...]

  3 years, 6 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Neuros OSD 2.0 HD Recorder Dev Kits Available; Now, Go Record!

Today Neuros announced the availability of developer kits for their new HD recorder, the OSD 2.0, which can record 720p video via HDMI and component input. At 10″ x 10″ x 2″ and $250/each, this box looks to be a promising candidate for a cheap, portable recorder that you could carry to every [...]

  3 years, 8 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Another Max/MSP 5 Preview, With Some Subtle Goodies Revealed

Vlad Spears, musician, programmer and maker of the Davel.Plugs audio plugins (previously reviewed on CDM) has a write-up about the forthcoming Max/MSP 5. Andrew Benson of Cycling ‘74 gave a presentation at the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Meetup and Vlad kindly drew up a report. Most of the features [...]

  4 years, 3 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Pictures: Classic Rutt/Etra Visual Synthesizers Restored to Full Functionality

The great Rutt/Etra synthesizer repair party is almost over (hear all about it in a past episode of VJ-U). Daniel Summer threw the party, Matthew Schlanger hosted it, Messrs. Steve Rutt and Bill Etra came to repair and perform with the machines, respectively, many others, including Benton-C and Kyle [...]

  4 years, 3 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Video: Eclectic Method Gets a Pioneer SVM VJ Mixer

Ed.: DVJing sometimes seems more a dream of hardware manufacturers than something in the real world — until you get a talented DVJ going. We’re a bit late on posting this as it got lost in the shuffle of drafts, but well worth checking out, anyway. -PK
Jonny Wilson from Eclectic Method has got his hands [...]

  4 years, 4 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Weekend Inspiration: The Light Surgeons' New Adventures in Folklore

The Light Surgeons are an eminent, inspiring AV UK collective whose latest work, New Adventures in Folklore, fuses documentary filmmaking, live music and visuals in an “eye-popping performance of epic proportions”. They kept a blog and posted many gorgeous photos and video excerpts (see embedded slideshow and video below). See their <a [...]

  4 years, 4 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Tiny Laser Projector Becomes World's Smallest Projector

The world’s smallest projector is dead — long live the world’s smallest projector! PC Magazine reports from CES 2008 that Microvision’s PicoP projectors are smaller than an iPod, battery-powered, and make teh visualz with fricking laser beams. Max resolution 848 by [...]

  4 years, 4 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: EBN Releases Audiovisual Album Telecommunications Breakdown Online

Emergency Broadcast Network have released their ground-breaking audiovisual album Telecommunications Breakdown online for the first time. As Jonny says on the AV blog at videomix.es:

The release was original mainly CD Audio only at the time as general release formats didn’t allow for an AV album. All the visuals were made at [...]

  4 years, 5 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Automatic Projector Calibration: Video

John Hutchinson pointed us to this hack a day post about a new projector calibration system. Skip to minute 3:00 in the video to see the applications for multiple projections and non-rectangular, curved surfaces. It uses embedded light sensors in the projection surface and software — no projector hacks — and [...]

  4 years, 6 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Polymorphic Projection for Live Events

Today on the VJ-U netcast we’ll be interviewing Aleksej, director of Circus of Now, a large-scale multimedia event design company. Among other things, we’ll discuss their Intelligent Media Composer, a polymorphic HD projection system that can dynamically mix timelines of pre-produced content with live feeds. Join us in the studio [...]

  4 years, 6 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: MIDI Control with iPhone and iPod Touch: i3L MIDI Bridge

Mobile, touch control of visual apps? We’ve seen one way to do it; here’s an even more compatible MIDI approach. I think I’d stick to the iPod Touch, personally, just to conserve battery on a phone. But it’s interesting. -PK
Hot on the heels [...]

  4 years, 6 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Oscilloscope Artist Ray Sweeten Interviewed on VJ-U

This week on VJ-U, Benton-C Bainbridge interviewed Ray Sweeten, an audio and visual artist who pushes the creative limits of the oscilloscope, creating gorgeous, abstract forms with intense waves of sound.

Watch VJ-U episode dvadeset i dva: Applications in cross-modal media

  4 years, 6 months ago · View

dan-winckler wrote a new blog post: Cutting-Edge Image Processing Techniques: Watch All the SIGGRAPH 2007 Sessions Free

Until the end of the month, you can watch all the SIGGRAPH sessions for free at siggraph.org. There are many, many sessions worth watching, including Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (previously mentioned here by Jaymis and vade). You can’t link directly to a particular session so here are a few [...]

  4 years, 7 months ago · View