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Not a lot to say today…

This week we had great weather, now we are back to our comforting rain. 

On the creative front.  I’ve been making steady progress in Andrew Glassner’s book.  I can’t recommend it enough, not only is it an excellent tutorial technically, he also writes well.  Ten chapters in and he is true to his word, the book is written for non-programmers.  Mind you it helps if you are interested in how programming works.  I have learned more about how to program from this book than most any other text or tutorial.  

The video (while a bit rough) takes you thru 6 example projects.  In all cases they are altered.  He encourages riffing on his receipts.  It has been a great way to get some of the concepts to sink in.  It reminds me somewhat of fiddling with particle scripts in Second Life.  Alter the parameters and variables and see what happens… I hope you enjoy my alterations on the Processing projects this week. 

More Processing from Robward Antwerp on Vimeo.
Further progress this week.

52-Posts: A Delightfully Mixed Bag

This week… busy… stressful… But:

The sun shined (finally), it warmed up, and the flowers are going gangbusters.  It was a delightfully mixed bag.

On the creativity front… several things.  A though provoking post over at The Imagination Age blog, I will resist my tendency to obsess on creativity and only say this.  Creativity does not happen in isolation… all creativity is influenced by the sea the fish swim in.   I do enjoy playing with ideas such as this… but these days I am more interested in actually exploring and experiencing creativity… both my own and that of others. 

As for others:

I found particular inspiration in the short  video about Ai Weiwei I linked to from with in Rita Kings post.… you should check it out .  (Full disclosure: I do participate in Kickstarter… you do not have to… the movie is easily watched without pitch for your cash.  Alternately for general more info try the wiki post about Ai Weiwei.)

For Myself:

Last week I mentioned the Processing graphics programming language.  I’ve spent the week exploring it and am having a great time.  I’ve captured some short video of the animations so far.

Processing Experiment from Robward Antwerp on Vimeo.
Processing Experiment.  Using: Processing 1.5 www.processing.org. Based on tutorials in Andrew Glassner’s book. Processing for Visual Artists: How To Create Images and Interactive ArtMusic sample:

"Sooner or Later" by Geert Veneklaas (feat. Christina Courtin)
http://ccmixter.org/files/geertveneklaas/21395
is licensed under a Creative Commons license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/