notes from the bigfug

I was reading a recent article on Coding Horror that introduced me to Dan Pink and his ideas on what motivates people in their lives, and the surprising research carried out by a range of eminent economists that would seem to prove money as an incentive for work that requires even rudimentary cognitive skills actually acts as [...]

Last week I wrote to my MP, Norman Baker (LibDem, Lewes), asking him why he wasn’t present at the readings of the recently passed Digital Economy Act.
From my experience, Mr Baker is one of the good ones.  He works hard on behalf of Lewes, is active in the commons, always replies to questions that he’s [...]

While playing around with PatchBox’s projective texturing features (and listening to Radiohead) I caught this bit of video. It’s using the same model that we created for the "Out Of While" show we did at the GV Art gallery in London at the beginning of 2009 but this time projected onto a sphere, all in [...]

The press release and booking details for our next public art event can be found at:
http://www.quadratura.info/2008/09/kaidan-ghost-story/

The video billboards are in place, as are lower buildings to flesh the city out a bit…

Mapping a cube map onto a sphere screen
Added in support for loading cube maps from DDS files.
Here’s one made from some Quake 2 textures…
Also added cube screens…
I think you can probably tell where this is going!

I’ve had enough of Serendipity!? It’s a good platform but started to have some problems with the various plugins not playing nicely and it just didn’t feel up-to-datey enough for me…
So, switched over to WordPress instead.? Seems rather spiffy.

Quadratura is doing visuals for a record launch this Thursday that has required a few new features in PatchBox.
It?s been on my mind for a long time that the LUA interface was pretty messy ? more a proof of concept than anything.  So yesterday I re-wrote the whole thing.  I?d already added a large [...]

Slightly posed fairy lights in the garden of the rather lovely and very eccentric Bom-Banes restaurant on George Street, Brighton:

Testing out the water light we?re going to be using for the Boy & Dolphin statue:

At a private view in the HQ gallery in Lewes, I noticed this fantastic message on the street below – ?Disabled [...]

While generally my focus is on projections, there are certain challenges with the Statues Alive project that have spilled over into adding physical modifications to the sculpture space.
The primary challenge is that most of the statues we are projecting on are made of dark material that certainly doesn?t make for an ideal surface.
Early on we [...]