Create Digital Motion

D-func, one third of German DVJ trio Weissgold.TV, picked up a Lemur [on CDMo, on CDMu] a couple of weeks ago, and has put together a fantastic custom interface which controls VDMX [on CDMo] over two machines.VIDVOX Forums - I finally found my perfect set-up!VDMX’s UI customization is one of its biggest strengths, allowing you [...]

Photo (CC) Becky Stern, also of MAKE / Craft.Calling Nam Jun Paik a video art pioneer would be too narrow to describe his impact. In exploding the idea of what television and television processing could be in his art, he helped create a conceptual revolution that cleared the path for today’s ubiquitous and always-dynamic screens. [...]

Arduino the Cat, Breadboard the Mouse and Cutter the Elephant from hmt on Vimeo.Media artists and design houses around the world: you’ve got nothing on this group of eight to eleven-year old English girls, bravely exploring interaction design, soft toy hacks, and physical computing using the open source Arduino platform to animate cats, mice, and [...]

Interface 27 from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.There has been a long tradition in live visuals and motion graphics, inherited from many other media, of maintaining a “secret sauce,” or the guarded formula of eleven herbs and spices. Ironically, for all you hear today “DIY” and “open source” in the same sentence, a lot of the motivation [...]

Stock footage has long been a VJ cliché, and remixes in and of themselves aren’t always meaningful. But in the right hands – just as in audio sampling – sampled content can take on new life. It might even find an unrecognizable form. And with publicly-funded documentaries, why not give the actual content back [...]

Apple has rolled out its 10.5.7 OS update. First, the good news: it may enhance video support. Apple’s tech document claims the update “Improves performance of video playback and cursor movements for recent Macs with NVIDIA graphics.” The (potentially) bad news is that it could cause issues with video output and external monitor resolution. There’s [...]

The OFFF Festival, held last week in Lisbon, Portugal, has to be one of the most visually stimulating places I’ve ever been. Herds of bright-faced, young, handsome European artist boys and girls pack by the thousands into an old steel mill. In a cavernous, resonant concrete bunker, the echo of excited chatter never really stops. [...]

MGFest in Chicago. Photo courtesy Psymbolic."MGFest (Motion Graphics Festival) continues its tour of the US, opening tonight in Austin, Texas. The conference is still $7 total for all the live events and the conference itself. For the workshops, you add $240 a day (bulk discounts available) – but that means that, if you’re low [...]

Memo’s ongoing quest to get his application MSARemote on the iTunes App Store has hit what is hopefully its last rejection today, this time because one of the screens “infringes an Apple trademark image.”This is a reasonably well documented failure mode, so hopefully this is the final invisible, electrified hurdle they expect Memo to sense [...]

Melbourne director and animator Matt Arnold has put together a lovely little cutout nautical world in After Effects [CDMo tag] for The Basics’ “Built This Ship”.I’m currently working on a similarly nautically themed project, using similar post-production techniques, so it’s fascinating to see another artist’s take on the concept.Via excellent video production site Pro Juice, [...]

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.For those of you who think that there’s a guy living inside your computer that makes all the magic happen… now there can be.The gang at Multitouch Barcelona (recently spotted at OFFF) have posted a cheeky project that imagines a real human interface. Microsoft Bob has nothing on this.I love [...]

Share, the thesis project of Yannick Assogba in the MIT Media Lab Sociable Media Group, is an interesting idea in coding: it’s basically a peer-to-peer sketchbook for creative code. All of your sketches are synced to everyone else’s sketches, and Share tracks the connections between users.http://share.media.mit.edu/aboutYou get more from Share than you would from [...]

Trackmate :: 5 ways to get started from adam kumpf on Vimeo.Trackmate is the inspiration for this project, partly because - building on the previous success of ReacTIVision - they’ve done a good job helping make it clear how people can get started, even if they’re new to this.The mouse is not all that interesting [...]

There’s no supporting lesson to go with this clip, just an extremely good animated music video. Enjoy!(Warning: Stylized cartoon boobies.)WOOD from mc bess on Vimeo.Thanks Karl.