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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 2009-08-23

Alex May — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Back at Martin’s after driving around London checking the seven sites we’re planning to cover in video projections tomorrow night. #
Finished the final route plan for tomorrow. Time for an early night – is going to be a long day! #
Drinking coffee and making video content for tonight’s projections. Will be posting up live images and GPS coordinates between 10pm and 2am! #
All the video assets are now prepared, time to pack up the equipment. 2.5 hours to go – feeling excited and nervous. Need to shave… #
Equipment packed, press release prepared for tomorrow morning, food time shortly, still need to shave… #
15 minutes until we set off on this night of visual madness. Martin’s got the car, waiting on our van driver. Strong coffee is brewing… #
Bit of a delay getting going but on the road heading to first site. #
Hit some bad traffic, joy… 51.511077,-0.108852 #
First site: Banksy rat near Barbican #
http://twitpic.com/eafo3 – Banksy 1 #
On our way to second site… #
@vvarp 5 to go in reply to vvarp #
http://twitpic.com/eakf6 – Banksy 2… #
http://twitpic.com/eaq09 – Codefc graffiti #
http://twitpic.com/earpb – No Graffiti No Problems #
And unfortunately, that’s our lot. Batteries drained and the inverter couldn’t cope. Bit sad but we got most of them… #
@vvarp Yep, on the ungraffitiable surface in reply to vvarp #
Higher resolution photos from tonight are up at – http://bit.ly/adsIe – #streetart #banksy #
Press release and photos sent. 4am… SERIOUSLY time to get some sleep… night all, thanks for following! #
Our video that we filmed during last night’s video street art event is now available. Enjoy! http://bit.ly/adsIe #
@chrisbillett We’re setting up a wiki which will have in reply to chrisbillett #
@chrisbillett Oops, yes, the wiki isn’t available yet, but will let you know. What info were you after? in reply to chrisbillett #
Went to the Farrah Azam Fortnam exhibition opening last night at The Muse, Portobello Road. Now drinking coffee, planning return to Lewes. #
@chrisbillett Will keep you posted. Also we’re just updating the live demo that’ll feature most of our mapping tricks, if that’s of interest in reply to chrisbillett #
Back in Lewes. Hell’s teeth, it’s hot today. Almost hot enough to contemplate a lunchtime Staropramen. Might have sleepy consequences though #
RT @alpaykasal: RT @pinkninjatweets: “chair” Videoart Projection by Masaru Ozaki http://bit.ly/SHS4R #
Heading to Brunswick Square Festival in Brighton to meet up with London chums. Might need some cheap yet jaunty sunglasses. #

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 2009-08-09

Alex May — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Still working on winter exhibition plan – hard going trying to balance technology, cost, and artistic cohesiveness! #
Seem to keep coming up with ideas involving Slinky springs… dear god, man, why? #
Saw a gull killing a pigeon in the road. Since the introduction of gull-proof bins here, they’re getting deadlier! Where’s Tippi? #brighton #
Where will you be at 07/08/09 – 10:11:12? http://bit.ly/2w6uS4 #
@grahamblanca +1 hour, minute, and second, of course. Falls over after 11/12/13 14:15:16… Ok, will stop now in reply to grahamblanca #
@grahamblanca Not taking into account leap years, either! in reply to grahamblanca #
@grahamblanca Um, off the top of my head, 01/01/10 – 01:10:10? in reply to grahamblanca #
@grahamblanca Of course, if you add milliseconds into the picture, you can have 01/01/2010 01:02:10.10… Though I prefer the binary one! #
Horrid dreams of orange Smart Cars and yelling leave me feeling lethargic and weird, also today’s jobs: clearing up dog mud and dead mice. #
The default icon for VLC is a traffic cone – makes browsing my media collection feel like travelling the M25 in roadworks season… #
Time to re-install the car speaker I have cleverly (tbc) fixed with the liberal application of copydex! #
@BrightonArgusJo Sounds like a good idea. Afraid I didn’t get any juicy pictures – was driving at the time! in reply to BrightonArgusJo #
Finally got perspective correct texturing working in PatchBox’s quad’s, fixed a few other minor bugs, added bezier curves to PaintBox. Yay. #
Woke with a head full of ideas. Time to get this proposal finished. #
Proposal for winter show finally done. Off to Brighton shortly to make guacamole for tonight’s MEXICAN FEAST! Tortillas! Tequila! ARRIBA! #
Today I will mostly be playing fallout3… #

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 2009-07-12

Alex May — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Our latest two commissions revealed: http://www.quadratura.info/news/ #
Just finished the VBites media launch party. Much champagne and photos. Will post tomorrow. #
@BrightonNat Good to meet you last night at the vbites, sorry we didn’t get to chat about projections, another time? in reply to BrightonNat #
@vjmorph Not so much these days, it’s all about the CGFX shaders round these parts in reply to vjmorph #
Pics of our interactive AV installation from the VBites media launch last night #brighton – http://bit.ly/ZPc4V #
@vjmorph What’re you looking for? in reply to vjmorph #
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #artist #vj #programmer #
@matthanson Another multiple projector installation at Heather Mills’ VBites cafe in Hove, it’s interactive too! http://bit.ly/ZPc4V in reply to matthanson #
Listening to Steve Reich’s ‘Electric Guitar Phase’ at a volume loud enough to drown out the raucous children’s procession roaming #lewes #
@awhillas Not one of his best but I love all the Reich… in reply to awhillas #
Enough with all this crazy video projection shiznaz for today – off to walk the dog and drink wine and maybe go see The Welfare Mothers #
http://tinyurl.com/mvjlaa – Having a bacon sandwich and coffee at Shoreham airport #
http://twitpic.com/a169y – Having a bacon sandwich and coffee at Shoreham airport #
http://twitpic.com/a3wkp – IMAG0218 #
Today’s focus: ignore hangover and experiment with vanishing points and projector calibration #