suoıʇɐʌɹǝsqo ɔıpoıɹǝd » Chicago http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress Periodic Observations Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:36:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Digital Drugs http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/89 http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/89#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:55:43 +0000 Ryan http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/?p=89 The video below is showcasing RJDJ, a responsive / reactive music application for the iPhone.  The app takes information from the iPhones microphone and / or accelerometer and translate it, real-time, into audio output that plays through the headphones. The audio can also be recorded for future playback. For example, one of the programs takes environmental audio and translates it into tones… The playback is very mellow while in quiet environments and gets wild and crazy in loud environments, thus creating a kind of real-time soundtrack whatever you are experiencing. Sweet! The developer in the video equates RJDJ to taking psychoactive drugs. Now that sounds like something I’d spend 3 bucks on! The guy can really cut a rug too… =)

Update:

I think this is what our friend was referring to when he related the software to taking mind-altering drugs… It really makes a seemingly normal event take on an astoundingly eerie quality.

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]]> http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/89/feed 0 The end is near! http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/17 http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/17#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 21:48:44 +0000 admin http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/?p=17 Alright, so it’s official… I’m graduating! I went to my last class on Monday night and just have one project to put the finishing touches on. The past two weeks were really intense, but its all over. I have ‘industry night’ on Thursday and ARRAY opens on Friday. If you’re wondering, industry provides graduating students with a chance to show off their portfolios to representatives from a shit-load of different companies. So, basically, I just set up a table and talk to people and show them my work… and network. Maybe a jobby-job will come of it… Anyway, after all of this, its off to Asia! Still don’t have my Visa, however, but I’m getting it tomorrow.

I’ve also been moving out of my apartment this past week, to add to my busyness. I’m sub-letting while I’m out of town and giving up my lease when I return. It feels rather odd leaving this apartment that I’ve been living in for 3 years… and its going to be weird coming back to Chicago as a working man rather than a student. Whatever, I don’t have time to be sentimental! Goodbye 16 X 16 studio… I will miss you dearly!

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]]> http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/17/feed 0 Sculpture http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/12 http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/archives/12#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 11:11:27 +0000 admin http://www.rydaly.com/wordpress/?p=12 A couple photos from my walk downtown the other day… Also, testing out my new flickr plugin… ;) The first is Miro’s Chicago and the others are the Calder Flamingo sculpture.

Miro's Chicago
flamenco
Don Flamenco

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