Top played artists of 2009*:

1. Animal Collective
2. Pixies
3. The xx
4. Grizzly Bear
5. Handsome Furs
6. Sunset Rubdown
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Port O’Brien
9. The Dodos
10. Wolf Parade

Top 10 Played Albums of 2009*:

1. Animal Collective—Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. The xx—xx
3. Grizzly Bear—Veckatimest
4. Port O’Brien—Threadbare
5. Handsome Furs—Face Control
6. The Joy Formidable—A Balloon Called Moaning
7. GZA/Genius—Liquid Swords
8. Sea Wolf—White Water, White Bloom
9. La Roux—La Roux
10. Fever Ray—Fever Ray
11. Sunset Rubdown—Dragon Slayer //honorable mention

Top 10 Played Tracks of 2009*:

1. Animal Collective—Bluish
2. Animal Collective—My Girls
3. Animal Collective—Guys Eyes
4. GZA—4th Chamber
5. Katy Perry–Hot N Cold†
6. GZA—Shadowboxin’
7. Animal Collective—Taste
8. Animal Collective—Also Frightened
9. Animal Collective—Lion in a Coma
10. Grizzly Bear—Cheerleader

Top concerts of 2009:

• Fever Ray—NYC
• Sasquatch (Grizzly Bear, Dodos, etc)
• Handsome Furs—Boston
• Pixies—Boston
• Animal Collective—Boston
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Boston
• Sea Wolf—Brooklynº

Looks like I’m that guy

* last.fm
† guilty as charged

º partial

Halloween has come and gone. I was dressed as the following depending on the time and who asked:

Silver
Space hobo
Burrito
Quicksilver(Hg)
Astronaut
Future bunny
Silversurfer
Jiffy Pop
Tin foil
Aluminum foil
A Mirror
Really really Loud

Haven’t really had a whole lot of time to keep this updated. I’ll try to be better. I know I say this about every three months. So if this is the last post for another couple months, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

For studio I’ve been building large (17″ x 31″) backlit LED panels for a studio project. I used PCBs and parts from an 8×8 kit from ModernDevice.com and sort of exploded it to turn it from a smallish 3.2″x3.2″ square to something a bit more human-scale. I built a total of four of these assemblies and they’re all controlled by a newer model Arduino which controls all the boards. Each board has embedded into it pressure sensors that register when and where the board is pressed. The sensor mechanism is a little clunky right now, but I’m working to really finesse the detailing so it works better in the future.

The problem is in the gfslideshow.js  file they provide you will only display square thumbnails of your photos, and if you scale them up, they become hopelessly pixelated. It took me a while, but the solution is simple. Open gfslideshow.js in a text editor and go down to line 48 then simply replace “thumbnail” with “content.” (or download this one)  Also, be sure only to use the RSS2 feed from flickr as the Atom feed will not work with this.

That’s it! your slideshow should now show larger images.

Animated lines with endpoints that are both attracted to a cursor (invisible in the video) and repelled by one another. Left alone, an equilibrium should emerge.

the applet is posted below, however I encountered some difficulties with different versions of java (64 vs. 32 bits).

Sorry, you have a Java-challenged browser!

Surprisingly, to me anyway, one of my most popular and most trafficked photos on flickr is this party invitation that Nick and I made for a house party we threw. Most of the hits come in through either a google or yahoo image search for “Debutante Invitation,” or “Debutante Ball Invitation.” I guess it just kind of weirds me out that people somewhere are having debutante balls. Or maybe I’m just jealous.

in less than 24 hours I’ll be back at the GSD for another semester.

Sometimes even though it’s 114% humidity outside, summer in Boston is really nice.

On one of the best days in NYC. Too bad the weather was less than perfect.

Somehow summer is coming to an end very rapidly. I can’t decide if I should sleep all the time or never sleep and try and fit everything in.