Category: Code

Archive for the ‘Code’ Category

Brain Wipes

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Continued exploitation of HTML/CSS/JS as an animated display language. This one hurts you.
Wiper

Sure, a BIT of a comment. A bit of play. A bit of an exploitation (of HTML/CSS). Destruction destruction destruction. They’re cutting down power-lines outside today. There’s a smoke from Canada blowin in. This isn’t how it’s meant…

Fill Er Up Boss

Posted in Code | 4 Comments »

Friends With Websites Kickstarter

Monday, May 31st, 2010

I am moving in both place and mind. I have been working as a web designer/ developer for a number of years. Largely it has been satisfying and educational work. There is much intrigue to me in understanding these technologies we inhabit. It is wonderful work to enable and empower individual humans and projects, less so to dress up faceless business and spin one’s wheels. In moving place I am raising money. In moving mind I am raising awareness and quality. Templates are well and good where personality lacks. Templates are an insult to personality. Many friends with websites are left with no place to turn but to the vile template overlords. Who can afford a website?

For swaggeringly deflated rates I will design/redesign/and/or/redevelop the websites of humans. The projects will be addressed as they come in, and I will take every measure possible to turn them around in no more than a week’s time. All the sites will be collected and linked on a communal site at the end of the project so that friends may share friends and websites alike.

I am a designer, programmer, and tinkerer. Here is the evidence:

alt/ATL Delete (professionally)
OR/AND

ATL/alt Website (casually)

Send me adjectives, designs you like, and what you’re looking for in a home on the internet. Please no: “I’d like to develop like a Facebook type application for my readers.” or “Can you make like, YouTube?” No more social networks. Let’s talk about you.
All sites built from scratch to spec. Quick, clean, and compliant code that’ll grow old slow and well.

Blogger and Wordpress friendly. If there’s a question about features/functionality, e-mail first and we’ll discuss it. These should be quick projects, not big builds.

Kickstarter Project Link: Friends With Websites

Posted in Action, Code, Design, News, commercial, web | 2 Comments »

Achieving Failure

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

A bit back I composed an interactive meditation on failure for an open call from Several Pursuits. The task was taken up merely as a direction for thought/activity, and the objective was met (for me) as soon as the piece was completed, however, because it was a directed effort, it has hit a mark, and they’ve accepted my submission. Follow this link to Several Pursuits to bring you back here.

5:36:24…5:36:23…5:36:22…

Posted in Code, Writing | 3 Comments »

Very Big Text/ Very Big Array

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Big Array This (fairly) quick exploitation of some CSS attributes came about when discussing variable character display grids with a friend yesterday. The application of the presently undisclosed project will not follow these same construction principles, rather it was an exercise in pre-scripted grid output. This is not a typeface writ large, each character is an arrangement coded into a grid. It’s written in the trite and true combination of CSS, Javascript, and HTML. It’s easily scalable, easily randomized, and fairly portable.

Posted in Code | No Comments »

Sleep is Death

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

In the late of last night, Jacob Cholak and I attempted a new computer game called, Sleep is Death. It’s an extraordinary game made by a curious and fascinating individual, Jason Rohrer. The game can only be played with two players. One in the role of the player, the other as the creator, the wizard behind the curtain. Each player has a 30 second turn to both advance and react to the unfolding story. It’s tremendously confusing, frustrating, hilarious, and unlike anything I’ve played before. Improvised adventure role playing computer game. Jake and I played through a couple times and were only ever able to come up with story-lines involving Dads, naked children, and cowering. Maybe some day we’ll figure out what that’s all about. In the meantime you can flip though one of the creations. Sleep is Death: Movie Rentals and the Late Voice of God

Posted in games | No Comments »

Pixel Junky

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

A 5 minute proof of concept (actually spent longer putting the damn thing up on the site). A bastardization of ~~PHP~~ Javascript, CSS, and rand(). Available in full screen versions. Very variable. ~~Not the fastest on the draw but~~… faster now that I re-wrote it in Javascript. I like writing PHP so much more, so generally I end up rewriting programs again and again because it’s not necessarily the best (actually explicitly NOT) way to hand in-browser processing. Pixel Junk

Posted in Code, web | No Comments »

sMeSs

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

SMeSs burps text messages to (un)known targets un(knowingly). The penultimate Surrealist Act (according to Niels Bohr) is walking out of the shower and texting your girlfriend in the middle of the night. This program misses the mark by far. It will blind a cat however, and it puts the keys to probable chaos in the hands of anonymous gentlemen and wildwomen. Must enlist to receive arms.

Posted in Code, Projects, art | No Comments »

eMaim

Monday, March 15th, 2010

eMAIM fires off blind and random e-mails to any one of a collection of (somewhat) willing victims. The ultimate surrealist act (according to Breton) is walking out into the street with a gun and firing at random. This is a less dire implementation of the same intent. Send poetry to who knows who. You’ll never get it back. You’ll never hear of it again. Get it out of your life and into someone else’s.

Posted in Code, Projects, art | No Comments »

Dreaming Heavies

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

I’ve been on a project all day with my buddy Yeshe. It will eventually be a dream data aggregator of sorts. We’ve both been very interested in compiling dream data across time, space, and minds just to see if there’s any correlations or patterns that might possibly emerge (I.E. why the fuck did we all dream about dogs on February 3rd?). In order to have a place to collect this data, I’ve spent the day belly-button-deep in MySQL and PHP manuals. It’s pretty close to functional at this point. Will post it here when it’s ready to launch. In the meantime jot down your unconscious wanderings.