RJ Duran

Isaac Asimov: World of Ideas

05/10/2012

Category: Ideas, Inspiration, Wisdom

Wisdom From Napoleon Hill

04/16/2012

Watch once all the way through, then watch again and take notes. After this read about Andrew Carnegie.

Category: Inspiration, Wisdom

Caine’s Arcade

04/11/2012

http://cainesarcade.com/

Creativity and innovation is ageless. What have you made lately?

Category: Inspiration

Forms is an ongoing collaboration between visuals artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time. It is inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Étienne-Jules Marey as well as similarly inspired modernist cubist works such as Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No.2″. Rather than focusing on observable trajectories, it explores techniques of extrapolation to sculpt abstract forms, visualizing unseen relationships – power, balance, grace and conflict – between the body and its surroundings.

memo.tv/forms

Category: Film/Animation, Form, Generative, Inspiration, Motion, Space

Sacred Economics

04/03/2012

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

http://sacred-economics.com/

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
- Lao Tzu

Category: Film/Animation, Ideas, Inspiration, Nature

Wisdom

03/30/2012

50 of the world’s most inspiring and iconic figures over the age of 65 share their words of wisdom. Wisdom is a multimedia exhibition that features extraordinary large-format portraits and documentary footage of interviews created by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman.

Category: Inspiration

Inspiration (#10)

03/30/2012

Post like this were previously labeled “Weekly Inspiration” but since it hasn’t been a weekly thing for quite some time, I’ll just label them this way from now on.

http://kazukitakamatsu.web.fc2.com/works1.html

http://creativecodingpodcast.com/

http://polycode.org/

Electric Independence: Morton Subotnick

Category: Inspiration

Tutorial: The ModelBuilder Library For Processing & 3d Printing

08/30/2011

In this tutorial I will introduce you to the world of 3d Printing and Processing using the ModelBuilder library by Marius Watz.

If you are a seasoned Processing user you probably know about installing libraries and using them so I won’t cover that here. If you are a new user, check out the Processing tutorials at Processing.org.

I created this tutorial as a way to learn about the ModelBuilder Library. This summer I spent countless hours building a RepRap Mendel open source printer. Check out the video below to learn more about the RepRap Mendel.

Tutorial
1. Download the following programs
- Processing (1.5.1 used)
- 3d Printer w/ software to print with. I used Pronterface
- Skeinforge (41_reprap_python_beanshell used) to generate gcode
- Meshlab or Pleasant3D to view/modify stl files

2. Explore the example code provided then download the Cube Grid example I made for printing.

3. Run the Processing sketch and press “s” to save out an stl file. If you want to modify the number of cubes in the grid simply change the “n” parameter in the build file and rerun. To alter the space between the cubes change the “bSpace” parameter.

4. Once you have your stl file saved, open it in Pleasant3D or Meshlab. I find it easier to use Pleasant3D for simple manipulations like moving the model relative to the origin and resizing. Here we need to center the object and adjust the center point to something like X: 20.0mm, y: 20.0mm. On my printer this basically moves the start location of the model into the build platform a little bit. When all modifications are done save the stl file.

5. Open the stl file in Skeinforge and build the gcode. I won’t go into detail about Skeinforge due to time and the fact that it’s a monster of a program. There are a lot of settings to work with. If you are new to it start with the manual and google around for some tutorials.

6. Once you build your gcode file you are ready to print. Fire up Pronterface and load the file. Both Skeinforge and Pronterface are python scripts so you need Python installed.

7. Print!

Processing Sketch

Pleasant3D screenshot

Final result printed. Each cube is 10.0mm x 10.0mm x 10.0mm with a 2.0mm gap in between each.

Resources
http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/2011/04/06/code-modelbuilder-library-public-release/
ModelBuilder Library
ModelBuilder Library Javadoc

Category: 3d Printing, Processing, Rapid Prototyping

Weekly Inspiration (#9)

05/27/2011

Art Sale!
http://www.luiferreyra.com/art_sale.html

Sitting is Killing You
http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/sitting-kills/

Scott Summit — The Future of 3D Printing

Music Is Math by Glenn Marshall

Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Seaweed by Tell No One

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

Sound Affects
http://www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/soundaffects-maxmsp-sound-arduino/

Long Conversation with Ken Foster and Pete Worden
Short discussion about the future of NASA and space travel.

Source: http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Ken_Foster_and_Pete_Worden

3D Printer – High Resolution – Homemade – DIY
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/homemade-high-resolution-dlp-3d-pri.html#
http://3dhomemade.blogspot.com/

Source: http://youtu.be/snOErpOP5Xk

Purest Form
Awesome work and blog from a like minded polymath. I love it!
http://purestform.tumblr.com/

Abandoned Art
Matt Pearson is doing awesome things for the world of generative art. Sometime in June the hard copy of “Generative Art” will be available. I’m pretty excited for this book as it works through several things I am interested in learning how to do.

Source: http://abandonedart.org/