It seems that it’s the season for subscription web offerings. Last week Peter documented the launch and premium packages offered by SoundCloud. Now CDMo’s favourite web video service Vimeo has just introduced a for-pay tier to their service: Vimeo Plus. For US$60/year you get a 2GB/week upload quota, HD embedding, priority uploading, more player customization, […]

I’m thrilled to be here in Berlin this week, before heading to Ireland for Dublin’s DEAF Festival. (More on that shortly.) Tuesday night, I’m playing a set at Dense Record Shop, a wonderful record store that also does live sets and has its own bar. It’s a cozy, informal venue so if you are in […]

The fever for creating pulsing, organic sequencers from the cellular automaton Game of Life continues. Now, you can get your Game of Life on with the iPhone and iPod touch, transmitting event control via OpenSoundControl. (Despite publishing this on the music site, this could be great as an additional modulator for live visuals with OSC-supporting […]

As I’ve noted, unlike the new MacBook, the MacBook Pro revision retains FireWire, in the form of a FireWire 800 port. This does represent a switch to an NVIDIA chipset, so there may be new performance wrinkles with some interfaces. But it’s not the FW800 port per se you have to worry about. It gives […]

As mentioned in the call for artists, I have a project coming up which involves projection mapping in a venue which seems to have been designed with visuals in mind. Doing research for this project I’ve discovered that there’s a dearth of resources for artists taking their first steps into projection mapping. The “traditional” technique […]

A month from now sees the launch of the Barbican’s fantastic “Game On” exhibition at the State Library of Queensland, and for the opening I’ve been asked to put together some “traditional” and projection-mapped visuals. As the exhibition covers a wide range of gaming genres, the aesthetic is hugely varied, so rather than keep the […]

A month from now sees the launch of the Barbican’s fantastic “Game On” exhibition at the State Library of Queensland, and for the opening I’ve been asked to put together some “traditional” and projection-mapped visuals. As the exhibition covers a wide range of gaming genres, the aesthetic is hugely varied, so rather than keep the […]

A month from now sees the launch of the Barbican’s fantastic “Game On” exhibition at the State Library of Queensland, and for the opening I’ve been asked to put together some “traditional” and projection-mapped visuals. As the exhibition covers a wide range of gaming genres, the aesthetic is hugely varied, so rather than keep the […]

Hmmm, kids seem to like Serato. Perhaps this is important technology. Makoto & Deeizm MC at Zerwick, Munich. Photo: AREALFAKE. Serato announced yesterday that they’ll be joining Ableton in a “creative partnership.” It’s not too hard to parse what this means from the announcement, which notes that Ableton Live’s strength is production and real-time remixing […]

HDV cameras like the widely-beloved Canon HV20: no longer compatibility with the MacBook. And, ironically, for the difference in price with a Pro that gets you FireWire, you could buy an entire PC laptop. But I guess this camera was, um, totally 2007? Photo (CC) Brad Wood. Apple’s decision this week to remove FireWire from […]