daniel shiffman

Making its debut this weekend at VloggerCon is Video Comments, A WordPress Plugin. Based on some work by Dan O’Sullivan in the late 90s, it’s the result of the tireless effort of the aforementioned Dan O’Sullivan, Shawn Van Every, John Schimmel, and Josh Dickens. Oh, and I worked on it too.
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Sometimes, somehow, somewhere, strange things, like a transit strike, will produce funny results. . . you know, like causing one to decide they should teach themselves the basics of iMovie. . . Clearly, I have no idea what I’m doing. . . .
Ode to the ITP Winter Show, 2005:

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Photos from the ITP Winter Show. For more info, visit: http://itp.nyu.edu/show.
Oh, and I fiddled with my camera and shot some quick video. . . perhaps I’ll try to get better footage tomomrrow.

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(Hmmm, this didn’t turn out at all the way I intended. Alas, I’m posting it anyway.)

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So I discovered via flight 404’s blog that Processing’s version 97 allows for exporting of applications. . . to Mac, Windows, and Linux! Guacamole, that’s pretty amazing. Now my quick little test isn’t nearly as cool as flight 404’s, but download and enjoy:
Windows Download (note you’ll need Java installed)
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And another iteration. . . . using the King Kong movie trailer, just for the heck of it. . . (special thanks to Shawn Van Every and Toshiaki Ozawa who both indirectly got me started on this riff)

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I rarely have any time to work on anything new these days, however, little germs (gems?) of ideas come up quite often as I help students solve programming problems. . . here is one born from a question that arrived via e-mail today. . .

Went to see Mark Napier’s show, Empire, at bitforms gallery yesterday. Mark is teaching a new class at ITP next semester using LWJGL (”lightweight java game library”) as means for exploring OpenGL as an artistic medium. Should be a great extension of the programming courses taught with processing at ITP. . .
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Here is a video taken at Siggraph of some of my work presented there in 2004. . . . it’s old, sigh, someday i’ll have some time to show something new. . .

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So, I’m testing my ability to video blog with my cat as a test subject. . . If you’re new to videoblogging, check out this terrific site: freevlog.

click to watch. . .