Make: Blog put up a post this morning about APxD (Autonomous Parapoetic Device) (my project that was in the Spring show)! To be fair, they put up posts about pretty much every other damn project in the show too. But I'm still pretty excited.

February seems to be the official month of doing creative stuff with time constraints. So I'm throwing my hat into the ring. Here's Texty Text, where I have been posting, and will likely continue to post, one "experimental text" per day until the end of the month. It'll mostly be weirdo algorithmic stuff, but you may eventually experience the ( Read more... )

1. ITP Thesis Title Generator. I fed three or four years of ITP thesis titles into a Markov chain algorithm. The resulting strings are often evocatively nonsensical (Interface Memories in L-systems), sometimes remotely viable as actual thesis titles (The Massively Multidisciplinary Connectional Aesthetics), and, very occasionally, something I ( Read more... )

• Brian Dettmer's Altered Books combine text and sculpture to striking effect. Almost incomprehensibly elaborate-I wonder what the planning stage is like for something like this. (via Ron Silliman's blog)
• Twice Upon a Time: an feature film from 1983 animated with translucent paper cutouts (looks kind of like Lotte Reiniger-style silhouette animation ( Read more... )

MarkovFilter: a generative tool for analysing an individual's personality/priorities/obsessions by feeding his or her MetaFilter comments through a Markov Chain. An excerpt from my MarkovFilter page:

Metroid Prime. It's like Pale Fire, and everyone's Kinbote! Seems like a cross between a sex toy and a copy of Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls. See if ( Read more... )