dreams of being a writer/producer

So, I finally (about a year and half later) gathered a bunch of tracks of mine. Feel free to download: yeah you 2007.

flickr, java, ruby... [geek]

Substrate
Originally uploaded by jared

So I was inspired (thanks, Ben) the other day by this snake. So I dug a bit deeper to find the original Processing java environment, and was immediately reminded of all the visualization intentions I had had a long time ago. Forward ahead a Sunday and two movies later (Hitman and Children of Men) and I had implemented a midi library to read signals from Ableton Live and my xboard, then display those visually thru Processing.

Today I managed to get a Ruby script to read my latest flickr post. This ruby wrapper for the flickr api is very simple to use, albeit far from complete. So now, combining the amazing powers of ruby and processing, I have a stupid li'l setup that gets live feeds from my flickr which get visualized and can be messed with in real time using midi signals from my controller and ableton live.

Next up: getting my wiimote hooked up to this mess. It's been a fun week.

cubs memories

Thursday I said, "goodbye, work," slept in, and met a few friends at Lucky's to begin a day of baseball + beer. Considering the beer was either Miller Lite or PBR, that wasn't exactly the highlight of the day. The best part, though, was sitting three rows behind home plate - close enough to smell the grass. The Cubbies lost, unfortunately, but with enough pretzel/cheese/beer/nachos/beer/cheese in me, I didn't mind all that much.

Check out a few photos of the day, if you so please!