Oh … yeah this news is actually about a month old, but we’ve been so busy I forgot to share it!
Just a few weeks ago Blip Festival 2009 took place in NYC. Blip Festival Kickstarter donors received some cool “thank you” items - one of which was a limited edition T Shirt by one (or a team) of the Blip VJs. Some people recieved a random shirt while uber donors received… all of them!
Since there weren’t many made, I thought I’d share an image (above). What is it? Well.. outpt and I decided to take awesomely designed Blip “b” (via Trash80) and kind of give it a remix - by filling with patterns, glitches, etc. created by our own vj apps.
So… next time you see cool people like recording artist Da Pantz or chip personality Ethan sporting one of these, you’ll know the story behind it!
We don’t have any of these for sale but we will have other outpt+paris designs out there soon!
As part of the first stop on the Data Beez West Coast Tour, I gave a short demo of an application that I wrote for the gp2x and one for the gameboy advance.
The gp2x application creates patterns based on various mathematical combinations of user defined waveforms. The gameboy advance application works with sprites to create patterns that can be scrolled, glitched, and roto-zoomed.
The presentation was given on Nov 7th, 2009 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles as part of the Giant Robot Biennale Exhibit.
Yesterday was the official release of the long awaited release by NYC chip band Anamanaguchi. The Dawn Metropolis website features videos for the songs with visuals by me and pixel art by Dave Mauro. Pretty much from the moment the site went live the buzz has been crazy. Yesterday morning I was seeing emails, txt messages, forum posts, reviews, tweets and every other type of communication blowing up. The compression on the videos is a little funky but… that is being worked on and Pete tells me new ones will be up soon!
Oh and what’s in it for me besides that I’m just a nice guy?
Easy! I have made them promise to take outpt and I on their world tour!
Digital Tools is an online magazine/blog with an emphasis on Homebrew, Portables, Tools and Game Design. I really like this site and have found many great articles there. I was honored that they asked for an interview. The interview focuses on my work as a video artist using handheld game consoles like the GP2x and the Gameboy Advance - it can be found here.
I have uploaded two new videos to my You Tube Channel showing the Pattern Maker application that I wrote for the GP2X. This is pretty much the same version of the application used for Blipfestival 2007.
The application holds about 100 equations, each with several variables whose values are set with the joystick and buttons.
One video shows the application using an 8 bit surface and the other shows the same application but dividing the color values down, giving a reduced palette.
My first little visual app for the gp2x is kind of in alpha version.
I have about 100 equations programmed into code and the Joystick controls various parameters of each equation. “B” goes to the next equation, “X” to the previous and “A” resets.
Overall, I like it but want to add more functions (of course) since there’s more buttons to press on the gp2x
Last weekend I threw together a quick video - gp2x TV out -> crappy capture card in - showing me playing around with it. Of course the video only shows a few of the tons of possibilites and as usual some parts (those will fine lines especially) do not look so good on YouTube with Flash Video.
