Karl Kliem made this 3rd price awarded video from Lithops new album Ye Viols!, which I can recommend. It was released on Thrilljockey. For the people who do not know: Lithops is the solo-project of Jan St. Werner, one of the Mouse on Mars members. I really really appreciate their work.
Daniel A. Becker – Random Walk of the number Pi
Daniel A. Becker works freelance, got high-awarded prices and finally published his diploma-thesis he made at the FH Mainz in Germany. The thesis Random Walk is a deep exploration of the phenomena “random”. The interplay of random and order: Order claims, that random do not exist or has no significance. We all know, that this isn’t true. On the other side even pure random generates patterns and systems – although it claims, that it is patternless by default.
Shamus Young explored the beauty of code by building a “Pixel City”. In ten iterations he build the steps, to create a unique city at night.
Procedural content part 1: sort of windows-texture.
Finished Procedural content: say what?
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I totally fell in love with this wonderful trailer of the otaku-festival. Simply a unique work of art. And who had thought… This festival was not held in Japan, but in the middle of south-east Europe: in Romania.
…who had ever said, that a game-character cannot be a pixel, disguised as a simple square?
This is why I love art: Cut and break old games, get art. Easy as that.
Inspired by the slash paintings of Lucio Fontana – Data Spills explores the aesthetic transformations that occur when video game software is cut, spilling program logic into the representational layer.
The works are made by Jeremiah Johnson, one of the people behind the 8bitpeoples-netlabel. Read in detail about the concept at Datacorruption. (via Offworld)
Woohoo! A website and a blog completely dedicated to state-of-the-art and modern looking foldables. The are free to print-out and do at home and I’ll bet pixel-lovers will fall into. I’ll also bet, that clever game-designers will take the other way round.
MIT Media Lab staff (the Open Ended Group) is working on a new kind of programming tool called Field. It connects everything. Not only various programming modules and components, but also different styles of generating, editing and testing code are provided. For example textual coding with auto-complete, visual coding, timelines, live-coding, flow-management etc.
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