papermill: “Books as Software”

I just realised that I should probably blog about this…

/me actually graduated from the Bauhaus University!
(No, the link is not wrong, the Bauhaus, from Weimar, successor-in-mind of the internationally renowned Design Movement really has a website that ugly).

papermill Manual (Screen Shot of the web version)

Read the summary here: alpha.papermill.in
and the thesis here: ba.178.is

code.bau-ha.us/jugend-forscht/

I gave a workshop this semester, the results are presented right now and are collected on this website: code.bau-ha.us/jugend-forscht

OS X/Sci-Fi Mashup Wallpapers

On special request by Anthony Antonellis, here are my OS X/Sci-Fi Mashup Wallpapers for you to download.

OS X Lion/Battlestar Galactica Wallpaper

OS X Mountain-Lion/Deep Space 9 Wallpaper

Image Placeholders

I have now seen 3 ways to get placeholder images (for website or other mockups) without manually generating them.
So time to collect:

placehold.it

http://placehold.it/100x78

fakeimg.pl

http://fakeimg.pl/100x78

holder (javascript)

<script src="holder.js"></script>
<img src="holder.js/200x300">

Presentation: “Digital Collaboration”

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Slideshow

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University Lipdub (Updated)

http://yotu.be/pjzkCOorEbw

Update (21.12.2010)

Update (22.12.2010)

http://www.megaporn.com/video/?v=G334V02Z

Update (27.12.2010)

“Porno-Parodie auf Video der Bauhaus-Uni sorgt für Wirbel” (TLZ vom 22.12.2010) (Backup PDF)

Original Bauhaus LipDub now deleted, too. See youtube.com/user/bauhausuniversity

Bauhaus Porno LipDub still on YouTube See youtube.com/user/bauhausuniworsety

Update (18.01.2011)
Bauhaus.FM hatte den Lipdub am Montag als Thema in der Sendung, zu diesem Anlaß haben sie auch eine schöne Materialsammlung angefertigt. Wenn es die Sendung irgendwo im Netz zum anhören geben sollte, reiche ich den Link nach. Der Mitschnitt ist hier zu finden.

vuvuzela filter for ableton live

someone had a great idea on how to filter out vuvuzelas from a live TV signal.
like everything else, it can of course also be done in ableton live. i took a EQ Eight Effect, punched in the frequencies Mr. Tube provided and also put it in a nice little effect rack. that way, you there is even a “Kill Vuvuzela” knob to turn up for you.

feel free to download the result:

(it is an old-school Ableton Live 7 project. i never used tis fancy new sharing features because i have not upgraded my licence yet. maybe someone with version 8 wants to that.)

a note:

• i don’t watch football
• you probably need an good soundcard for this, or a virtual audio device to route the audio to Ableton Live, depending on how you receive the TV signal or stream.
• some folks have asked for a open source/free version of this. while i would like to see it, it does not make much sense because the open source audio world is even more fractioned, so you can’t really help more than a handful of people per implementation. also, you don’t really “need” any premade solution, all the work of finding out and writing down the right frequencies was done by the Guy who wrote the article i linked to. anybody who already deals with linux audio should be able to do this in less than 15 minutes.

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