Rhea Myers

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  • Explor Again

    One more procedure and I’ve a complete mini-explor implementation. Then I just need to write a script to compile user programs, make a build/install script, and bundle it up.

    Here’s the semi-hemisphere example from the original article run using my implementation:

  • Flash Math Creativity

    Another site that I missed mentioning this blog recently is the excellent dataisnature.

    I didn’t realise that the author of dataisnature was one of the contributors to Flash Math Creativity, now in a second edition updated to use the new Flash ActionScript syntax. I found the first edition an inspiration, the sort of thing I wish I’d had when I was learning to program art (and teaching others to program art).
    Each chapter features a series of simple but engaging algorithmic art projects, beautifully illustrated, with full code and explanations. It’s directed at Flash users, but if you can understand JavaScript it’s easy to transfer the ideas to Processing, which is probably better for pure generative work.

  • Creative Communism

    Pause to remember that Copyleft isn’t Communism, then view the image below and laugh your backside off:

    Creative Commies

    via the ever reliable Boing Boing.

  • Alain Badiou

    Badiou’s philosophy and aesthetics look like a refreshing change from the narcissism of postmodernist textual fetishism:

    Handbook of Inaesthetics

    Theoretical Writings

  • Books By RSS

    Via Chris Double, programmer extraordinaire:

    Books By RSS

    This is the kind of use of technology that overly restrictive licensing will prevent people who want to make money making money from. 🙂

  • CC Reblogged Me 🙂

    I missed this. CC mentioned the Perdition remix contest when I linked to it, and they linked back to me:

    http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5075

    Thanks guys.

    The CC weblog is an amazing resource. Well worth a place in your RSS reader:

    http://creativecommons.org/weblog

    And if you can spare any money at all, do help support CC. They are doing an excellent job, and their t-shirts are cool 🙂 :

    http://creativecommons.org/support/

  • Remix (1993)

    Examples of a series of image remixes that I made in 1993. The sources were images in galleries that allowed photography at the time, paintings by friends, and photographs of party scenes. I thought I’d lost these but I managed to rescue them from some old floppy disks.

  • 2004

    2004 was good, on balance.

    I completed 1968 and 1969, began rheart and minara, got work into Rhizome ‘s artbase, and exchanged emails with Harold Cohen.

    I listened to Meme, Auf der Maur, Interpol, Unkle and The Killers.

    And on the Free Culture front I read, well Free Culture, and listened to Meme, People Like Us and “The Grey Album”.

    This year I want to do postcards, screen-printing and even a show. I’ve more to do on rheart and minara. And there’s arrows and remixes to do, as well as more old work to put online (including some remixes from 1993!).

    I’m hoping to do even more good stuff in 2005.

    Happy new year!

    And, yes, there’s no escape – please give some money to help offset the South-East Asia Earthquake/Tsunami disaster. You don’t need an overarching ideology to demand that you do so; if something this bad happened to you, wouldn’t you want people to help you? We recommend UNICEF.

  • Boing Boing

    Boing Boing included something I sent them in a discussion of font copyright.

    Remember, kids, never take legal advice from an artist…

  • One-Step Logic

    “There was a time but it’s long gone
    Janie got a crush on the Vietcong
    Burning through downtown Saigon
    Me I’m sold – down the Mekong”
    – ‘Dr. Jeep’, The Sisters Of Mercy.

    Remember, kiddies, if the deckchairs on the Titanic had been a different colour, it wouldn’t have sunk.