Processing-lovers will quickly get into Algorithm Ink. It is a port of ContextFree, Algorithm Ink uses the still new Canvas object to create graphics in a generative way. With right click you can save the picture. After hitting “edit” – for example in the gallery – you can view and edit the source code. It’s the fun that is in open source. The syntax of Algorithm Ink looks a little bit like Basic meets Java. Here, I found an introduction-video as well:

The project is over two years old now, but still beautiful to work and play with. A little bit like Nodebox, but browser-based and JavaScript-powered.

Sola is a streetartist from UK, who uses lights and long-exposure photography to make his grafitti in works. He call it “Lightbombing” and indeed, it is a little bit link bombing graffities on walls. Sola think his work as a “green” form of streetart: not using colors, not leaving waste behind – just traces, that can only be seen on his pictures. Another interesting aspect of his work is, that this forms only exist in the 3-dimensional space. You can buy the pictures at his website lightbombing.co.uk. He started to blog as well.

Videotext got 30 today! One of the oldest “interactive” media, that is still in use today. And I absolutely love the technology behind the videotext. Small pieces of informations are send on “pages” inbetween the TV-signal. One page at a time. Every page got its own number. You can use the remote control to reference and open a page. A little bit like the internet in small – absolutely lightweight. The next thing, that is so cool about videotext, are the strong colors. And also that somehow “ASCII-like” pixelart, that you can see from time to time. I often thought about acquiring a job as a Videotext-editor, with the purpose to life the quality of the pixelgraphics in the Videotext. If you can offer me a job like this, feel free to contact me!!

Das Erste got a special feature about the videotext, also showing some oddities.

Interesting and sometimes hard chipmusic listening on the NES inspired album “Sky Burial” from Prizmatic Spray. It’s available as a free download. According to TCTD, we hear about the production from the creator Jace Bartet (please correct me, if I am wrong):

“Sky Burial is 10 songs made without automation or external effects in a tracker using common Nintendo Entertainment System sample loops that I cleaned up and fine-tuned a few cents here and there, with special thanks to bucky for Snare #25 from his DPCM pack and maktone for the kick drum”.

Expect something like Megaman meets complex death metal beats. (via TCTD, obviously!)

Slow animation about pixel-characters and a landscape. They demand colors and want to get upgraded! I have to think of this old drawingbooks… why?..

(via 8bit serbia)

A small feature about recent pixel art. Not a scientific report, but interesting to look at. Features interviews with Jason Rohrer, Joe Brumm and Alex Yabsley. Made by Simon Cottee.

In only three weeks (10.-12. 6. 2010) until the second “Cologne-Commons“-Festival will take place in Cologne (I am involved in the organizing team). The conference and festival focuses entirely on Creative Commons: what to expect from, how to deal and how to work with that licencse and the free content / culture resulting from it. This time we managed to have a two-day conference with panels and talk from experts, a two-day music festival and a movie night. Some topics of the conference are future of publishing-media, what about the “non-commercial” attribute in the CC-NC licence, upcoming do-it-yourself Robotics and a special feature with the creators of Netaudiofestivals all over Europe.

At the two-day music-festival, we will showcase artists, that strongly use Creative Commons to promote their works (or that work with Creative Commons in other ways). We tried to get a whole range of different artistic flavours. That’s why not only techno-artist come to play, but also artists from other musical directions, whether it be pop, live-improvisation, experimental or lounge music. To get an idea of the musical range, you can have a listen of the Cologne Commons Compilation Vol. 4, we released several weeks ago, featuring Creative Commons music. (Uh, I compiled the compilation by the way, and also made the artwork)

This year we will have a movie-night as well. At a cinema we will show Creative Commons based movies, that got it’s own unique way of telling stories. Don’t miss the opportunity, to see them at the “big picture”.

All details at the Cologne-Commons webpage. If you pre-order your ticket right now, you will get a surprise bag full of goodies!