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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-06

Alex May — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Writing some laser tracking code. That’s right, tracking frickin’ LASERS! #
Taken drawing perspective chessboards to new depths (hah). My homography is strong. #
Passing through a downpour at Haywards Heath, heading to London to meet, and demo PatchBox to, The Darkroom #
Burger and beers on the night train heading south. Good to catch up with the Belle Atmos boys and hear the new album, albeit sans vocals. #
RT @shitmydadsays: “It’s just a fucking june bug, calm down. Jesus Christ, what happens when something bigger than a testicle attacks you?” #
Just scanned my head. In 3D! #
Been learning about Delaunay triangulation. Now my front brain is full. Fortunately, Friday eve is all about the lizard cortex. To Brighton! #
Crashed the dConstruct party at Audio. Not sure my particular brand of geek’ness works with the geek mainstream. Ah well, cocktails saved. #
This evening should be drawing to a close and yet am in a taxi heading to Middle Farm for a ‘field party’… #
We were walking the five miles back but instead got a lift from a kind police man. Thanks, PC? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-16

Alex May — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Little bit blind (temporarily, hopefully) after projecting video onto his eyes on purpose. Ah R&D, it’s sometimes a dangerous business… #
Possible to use modified pyramid image segmentation with canny edge detection to fill in the holes? Would depend on input quality, I guess.. #
Listening to Tower of Power and downloading my brain into FreeMind. #
Ouch, just got hit in the head by a falling Dell Axim 51v with large capacity battery. Better my head than the floor, I guess… #
Experimenting with MS Speech API by playing the audio from Dr Strangelove into the recogniser. Mildly amusing but ultimately useless results #
Just hit a large roll of graph paper with my fist. In your FACE graph paper! #
Deep into planning our first guerrilla video projection session in London on Monday night… Mwahaha… #
@vj_anomolee All will be revealed in good time, my friend… in reply to vj_anomolee #
Mmm, 2pm – must be time for breakfast, yay! #
@nicklevine Good find! See you there! in reply to nicklevine #
The team is prepped for Monday night. Four men, in a van, with advanced technology, and mischief in mind. #
@nicklevine Will do, chap! in reply to nicklevine #
@StephenBrighton Like the look of the Iydea photo exhibition – is there a private view/event? #
@StephenBrighton Very kind of you, thanks! in reply to StephenBrighton #
Heading to Brighton to check out new exhibition at Prescription Art, followed by racking up the uncomfortably weird dial to 11. #
Listening to the recording of the last Belle Atmos gig – shame we didn’t get footage of the visuals, says visuals man: http://bit.ly/18bXlq #
@nicklevine Haven’t been up so much of recent since last job was in Hove but we’ve meetings in town a plenty coming up. in reply to nicklevine #
Going to have to refactor a large chunk of PaintBox – needs a floating point drawing buffer to get the nuance I need! #
Oh, that was easier than I expected then! Just got to add a cursor on the streamed output and it’ll be ready to go… #
Dammit, seemed to have messed up my nice Bresenham implementation. Just can’t leave things alone, me… #
@StephenBrighton Lovely, thanks again. in reply to StephenBrighton #
With a couple of hints from Ramesh Raskar I’ve finally got augmented geometry alignment working in PatchBox. Super yay! #
Projective alignment and projection working, off shortly to Lighthouse to see work and talk by Tina Gonsalves in #Brighton #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-02

Alex May — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Went to see Moon at @DukeofYorks yesterday. Bit of a chin stroker, but worth a watch. #
Belle Atmos gig went well on Saturday. Like having whole stage lighting kit in one, albeit heavy, suitcase. #
Meetings done, dog walking, food, then at loose end in #brighton – anything of note happening this evening? #
@awhillas Happy Birthday, dear chap! in reply to awhillas #
Liking the new wikipedia layer in google maps mobile #
The Met Office people on News24 don’t seem to be able to subtract 55% from 100% (65% and 35% are not correct) No wonder predictions suck.. #
Late night call from Nik Turner of Hawkwind – sounds like visual mischief afoot! #
Using the rather pleasant FreeMind to sort out all the audio/visual installation ideas pinging around in my brain – http://bit.ly/QNJJI #
Grey humidity hangs heavy over rainbow pubs overflowing with the bleary-eyed 11am crowd choking through the first pint of the day. #pride #
Eating ice-cream for the brain freeze and watching the rain fall hard. 80% chance of severe weather to hit Brighton after 5pm… #
“All the fun from this year’s Brighton Pride”… umm… http://bit.ly/b43rd #
Beer Monster #1 – http://twitpic.com/cfnt9 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-26

Alex May — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Been in bed for the past two days will a touch of ill. Nothing swine related, fortunately. Watched Dexter series 1 in single sitting – vgood #
http://bit.ly/BQFcm – If you’ve ever wondered where money comes from, or especially if you haven’t, you should watch this film. Kinda scary! #
Off to London for previously postponed meeting about an egg at the Groucho Club. #
Good meeting, after, dropped in on K&C Jemma’s leaving drinks. Heading back home with medicinal beer. Amazing cloudline. #
The parallax of electricity pilons at dusk is one of my favourite things #
One of these is camping under my desk http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2229 (ukmoths.org.uk, hahaha) #
My bed looks too flat (!) #
@heatherofficial Heading to vbites for virtual vegetable adjustments! #
Belle Atmos gig tonight – just polishing up PaintBox for it’s first proper outing, time for final compile and gear packing! #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-19

Alex May — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Long day battling with matrices. Dull and little progress! #
Searching for camera calibration info over coffee this morning, may have a lead on the problem. Off to work to try it out (fingers crossed) #
Meeting about an egg, in Groucho’s, postponed due to problem in Shanghai. #
Going to try to have a non-programming day and attend to other work matters. Not easy with an N-point perspective solution almost complete! #
@awhillas Thought Watchmen could’ve been twice as long with more of the original story in. Fantastic visual realisation (apart from Veidt) in reply to awhillas #
@nlomioni Searching the web for nucleotide pr0n again? in reply to nlomioni #
If you’ve yet to treat yourself to the sonic delights of ‘Eye Bent Grape Spasm’, the official web site is back, enjoy: http://bit.ly/NJebl #
Fine evening at the #lewes arms: death-defying tales, conversations of high-wire work and art. Return to pile of nine old hard-drives on bed #
Following the issue of the #Lewes Pound, higher denomination notes are coming, including a ?21 note. This town is weird. http://bit.ly/KQ4Mv #
Listening to the #belleatmos set for our #London gig next Friday to work out the rough visuals framework – tasty musical manoeuvres! #
Eternal Moonwalk – Strangely hypnotic tribute to Michael Jackson. http://bit.ly/e75w0 #
@vjmorph fugScope already does colour, no? Have added a line thickness parameter… http://bit.ly/4uHqFZ in reply to vjmorph #