Barely Concealed Narcissism » experiment http://www.gaboosh.com/blog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:49:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Notes From The 7:20 Outbound http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/2009/07/notes-from-the-720-outbound/ http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/2009/07/notes-from-the-720-outbound/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:22:50 +0000 gaboosh http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/2009/07/notes-from-the-720-outbound/ Some notes for this cloudy Monday morning:

- Launched Stride on MTVTimesSquare last week. Send your message/photo to MTV’s 42ft screen (Broadway btwn 44th and 45th). Then get a ‘memento’ screenshot of what it [probably] looked like. Legalese and logistics have forced this one to be kept under wraps for a while now. Hopefully we have the opportunity to improve the whole concept as it runs.

- Posting and processing my latest shots to my Flickr account last week reminded me how much I miss taking daily photographs. Doubt I will get back to that frequency, but need to make sure I keep the camera with me more often.

- Have moved to XCode for my Arduino development. Struggling significantly with decoding IR messages from the Apple Remote. Speaking of homebrew-geekiness, congrats to Mr. Saunders for some great recent work.

- Wedding planning is flying, thanks to my wonderful partner in crime. Have some initial pages posted to sg.weds.gs. Starting to think about the registry now. Extremely conflicted on this part. More on that in the future.

- Finally, I leave you with a relevant shot, taken this weekend. Sixty-three years of marriage. And counting. Too bad I’m marrying into this family; I could certainly use some of those genes.

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This one listens to the noise around the computer (as long as you have a built in mic) and displays a quasi-equalizer. Nothing fancy, but definitely progress. You can adjust the sensitivity by clicking “Options…” I also learned about the importance of the nested iterator patch, reducing the number of total patches significantly. Screen shots below. If you give it a try, let me know.

Install by copying to /System/Library/Screen Savers/

Root Patch

Root Patch

Iterator Patch

Iterator Patch

Volume Bar Patch

Volume Bar Patch

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Decided to open up Quartz Composer the other day for the first time. Pretty sweet.

After a little playing around I came up with an extremely basic screen saver idea that floats three cubes around your screen, displaying the first 18 images from a given Flickr RSS feed. You can change the feed to whichever you’d like; the default is mine.

Included my patch macros, below. If you have any thoughts, please let me know– I’m extremely eager to get better at this.

Root Macro Patch

Root Macro Patch

Controlling cube position

Controlling cube position

Timed Sampler Patch

Timed Sampler Patch

Passing Flickr RSS to parsers which output images to cube sides

Passing Flickr RSS to parsers which output images to cube sides

Flickr RSS Parser which downloads the thumbnail and passes to output

Flickr RSS Parser which downloads the thumbnail and passes to output

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