Reverse lenses
Plonsky writes on reverse lens combinations do go great macro-shots of bugs.
Praetorius - Puer natus
With December 1st coming up tomorrow, here is Praetorius’ Puer natus in Bethlehem in Christian Mondrup’s transcriptions for the recorder. He’s used ABC Plus for the typesetting for those who are interested.
Return of the King - Extended
A Quicktime video with a 6 minute preview of Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, the extended version, has been released. I ordered my copy from Amazon about a month ago, nice to see what I have waiting for me. (via Binary Bonsai)
Illiad making me thirst for coffee
With Illiad’s Userfriendly cartoon going on about treating coffee addiction (see first strip here), my cravings for coffee skyrocket
Note determining object
I finished my first external Pure Data object, a note determining object. This object takes in the number of Hz a note is measured to be and outputs what note it is (the low A on a piano being 1, going up to 88), determining how many cent off it is and how many Hz […]
Tu che del mio dolore
Christian Mondrup has added an italian madrigal Tu che del mio dolore by Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (c.1558-1593) for 5 recorders to the recorder archive. Keep up the good work, Christian!
pyExt
Thought you’d might want to see just how simple it is: my pyext example for Pure Data. I’m planning to make an object that takes in a floating point number of frequency height and determines what note it is and the amount of error according to different scale temperaments, i.e. Valotti, Werkmeister 3, Kirnberger, Meantone […]
pyext for Pure Data
I decided I prefer writing normal logic in a language I’m used to, so I went looking for a Python-external for Pure Data. And sure enough, I found Thomas Grill’s py/pyext (built upon flext, a C layer for Python externals). I didn’t figure out how to install the binaries (didn’t take the time to […]
My project - Overtone analysis
I think it’s about time I introduce my project:
I want to use Pd to extract the overtones of the recorder and train a neural network to identify what kind of sound (broad, thin, glass-ish, etc) I’m playing. I want to use this to control VST processors to shape the sound I play. And after […]
Pd & Max/MSP blogs wanted
I’d really like to get to know blogs that focus on Pure Data and/or Max/MSP and use it for development and performances. Leave a comment with your blog URL
Munch’s head stolen
Missing: A statue of Edvard Munch in a Our Saviour’s Cementary in Oslo has been stolen of his grave only short time after Madonna and Scream were stolen (via VG and Aftenposten)
Martin
Mirror
I loved this dodgy bathroom mirror. But I need to pay better attention to my camera, I’d left it on 3200 ISO.
Use your eyes
Tracy’s photoblog is one of my favourites, so upon reading her interview I decided to take her challenge
and posted my first self portrait. I toyed with a couple of ideas, and finally I decided on trying to work with the problem with people closing their eyes when the moment I take a picture. Serious blinking […]
Moon probe arrives
The BBC is reporting that a European moon-probe has arrived in orbit around the moon. They also describe the propulsion system and theories of the moon’s formation.
Google is promoting Firefox
http://www.google.com/firefox
Band Aid flies again
CNN reports that a new Band Aid is being formed. Whee!
SSL support in Java
I’m making an XMLRPC server in Python that I need to access from a Java Servlet. But the default security manager is picky about allowing SSL certificates it does not trust (if you were in doubt: this is a good thing! ). The solution (based on this site was:
openssl x509 -in server.crt -out server.crt.der […]
Organizing photos
I just saw PicoJet’s flash-based ad (via The Digital Photography Weblog). PicaJet is software for organizing my photos, not much unlike iPhoto. I’m really fond of iPhoto, except that it’s too slow and that labelling and organizing pictures still takes too long. I miss RAW-support and search-functionality like imgSeek. I love the Gallery plugin, despite […]
