Fans of VJing, visuals, and interactivity will want to subscribe to the Create Digital Motion RSS feed, but I’ll be checking in with our sister site to keep more casual readers up-to-date. Here’s the latest from our new site in its early days of operation: In part II on my series for building a Small […]

Posts this week stirred some controversy and discussion from big issues to small: “The OLPC program is not perfect, but at least they’re trying something. It’s open and there is a great deal of room for the individual countries and regions to adapt them to their needs.” -David Wagenbach in a heated debate on the […]

Broadband is almost ubiquitous, so sending draft renders or completed video projects to remote clients and collaborators electronically is becoming more viable. That they have the bandwidth to receive your file doesn’t mean they have the technical knowledge to connect to an FTP server though. VLOBLIVE (Very LOw Budget LIve Video for Events) has some […]

Broadband is almost ubiquitous, so sending draft renders or completed video projects to remote clients and collaborators electronically is becoming more viable. That they have the bandwidth to receive your file doesn’t mean they have the technical knowledge to connect to an FTP server though. VLOBLIVE (Very LOw Budget LIve Video for Events) has some […]

I love controversy. But after a week in which US politicians were talking about World War III (or was that IV) and somehow CDM’s great comment threads wound up on the topics of whether hardware or software was better (discussion = not allowed on this site), and whether starving children would be able to eat […]

Lemur 1.5 was announced today, bringing some significant improvements to this unique multi-touch display/control surface. Specifically, this update addresses a number of complaints about Lemur, including some I voiced in my review for Keyboard Magazine: Easier mapping: MIDI and even OSC assignment was a bit of a chore in the existing Jazz Editor release, partly […]

Resolume have just released Beta 2.4 for public consumption. My favourite addition so far is BPM sync for clips and effects, but this version also includes DMX control for lighting equipment, opening up a whole new level of possibility for staging events. New in version 2.4 beta: BPM Clock With the BPM clock in Resolume […]

Negroponte’s $100 One Laptop Per Child will include creative music making tools for children. Our friend Nathanael Lecaude writes us: Just wanted to let you know what I was working on during the summer, we’re doing a sequencer/algorithmic music generator for the OLPC project. We did all the protoyping in Max and are now porting […]