Electric motors generate a magnetic field. This YouTube video is interesting. Paperclips responding to the electric motor under the floor of a train. I’m pretty certain that this will also work on the Toronto subway (sit above the wheels).
It is now March 19 and the 36 inch balloon/tablet combination is neutrally buoyant. Excellent. Last night (night of March 18) it was still stuck to the ceiling.
See attached video.
I drove down to Manhattan the other day. Stayed in a hotel just off Wall st. Here is a photograph of Wall St. 1. Lots of police. The NY Stock Exchange is just visible in the photo.
This image shows the entire length of Wall St. The tall buildings at the end of the street are actually across the river in Brooklyn.
- I did not know that it had been closed to traffic. ↑
Here are some useful websites to help you navigate the beast that is Flash CS3 …
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/captions_flash_video/
(This digital magazine may be of interest to any of you who wish to learn more about all the aspects of web design/interactive creation tools. http://www.digital-web.com/
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg1.htm … More can be found here (but remember that the actionscript 2 tricks will not work with Actionscript 3. http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm
Luke Harding reports on Russia’s male life expectancy crisis | World news | The Guardian: “This is a community solely of old ladies. The village’s last male inhabitant died in 2007. The scene is being repeated across Russia, the world’s biggest country, where there are at least 34,000 villages inhabited by 10 people or fewer, almost all of them old women.”
Sigh.
I just put a small processing sketch at the top of my placeholder page. It is a clock. I put it there to remind me of the constant, unrelenting passage of time. It tells the time, it counts the time passing and it counts down to the day my personal odometer records another year gone.
yaaay! It was, contrary to how it may seem from the description above, a lot of fun to work on.
happy monday.
Oh, the link is at http://www.davgreen.com/
I’ve just added a video to my portfolio site. It is made up of the portraits I extracted from my images of Times Square.
I’ve posted it here: http://www.davgreen.com/portfolio/reverie_video.html
enjoy.
d.
that this week or so.
much love
d.
I’m going to pick this up again. It has been a month or so since I’ve last done anything here. I am going to try to post something everyday. Either an image or a video clip or a sound work. Something.
Starting tomorrow, of course.
Happy new year y’all.
As I mentioned yesterday, I updated my machine to the new Mac Os X Leopard a few days ago. I’m still playing around with it (and am being delightfully surprised by some of the more subtle changes).
My friend also updated her MacBook Pro to Leopard. There’s a new feature that allows one machine running leopard to view (and control) the screen of another machine running leopard on the same network. (Don’t panic, they need full user name and password access and this feature is turned off by default.) Well, Cara opened my screen on her machine. It was really strange. She could take control (opening files, moving windows etc.) I wanted to see what would happen if, while she had my screen open on her desktop, I opened her screen on mine. The result is really neat! Check it out … click on the image to open a full-sized image:
