For non-coder visualists:

"For the uninitiated, Quartz Composer is an ‘environment’ tool which lets you patch together various elements in order to build screensavers, performance environments, and animated windows for use within an application. If you’ve ever looked at an Apple screensaver, played with the new iChat Effects or watched photos float and twirl on an Apple TV, then you’re familiar with what Quartz Composer can do. Its peers are tools like Pd (Pure Data), Processing, and Max/MSP/Jitter, with Quartz Composer heavily geared towards motion animation of processed video and images. Input can be everything ranging from your iSight to XML to audio to a Wiimote, with output being a window on 3d space containing all the sprites, effects and movement you care for. Because Quartz Composer is a real-time system, you can plug stuff together whilst watching and tweaking..."

Hyper Cool + it's free - and they've just released an updated version of it.

(Thanks for the link Greg J Smith :-)   read more »

50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Great new invention from the Southern Taiwan University of Technology. These will cost a lot less than regular electric wheel chairs too. (story from the Taipei Times)

by Masami Teraoka

Listen to the Eerie Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions.

Wow!

An intimate puppet show on the street, France.

This one's for you C~
Shot this on the street in Évian-les-Bains, France: Trés chou!

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
- Douglas Adams

Here's an interesting sign I encountered in Leukerbad, Switzerland. Pretty 007, nein? Check out the ladies soaking, sweating, and sipping cocktails up in the lounge in their underwear: good healthy fun ;-) We don't have joints like this in Banff as far as I know...

Came across villatype ("...a visual record and discussion of typography in the public domain." ) while perusing serialconsign. I have a sweeet spot for signage and typography out and about...

Above is a picture I snapped just outside Vevey Switzerland while on a gruyere mission with my roommate. (mission accomplished :-)

Toronto dorkbot is back on the scene.
I was happy to contribute to this splendidly interesting night, hosted by Liav at Interaccess last Thursday. Presenters (in order):

Patricia Rodriguez:
Nonstandard video   read more »