Pieces from jtnimoy

Sparkle Labs Web Development (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

I developed two versions of this company website for my friends from ITP. They would email me still mockups showing me their designs and I would distill that into a real site. The first site in 2006 was a lot of flash, php, and xml. The second site in 2009 is more php and html layouts. Because the original web host did not have mysql, I built a custom CMS which rewrites an xml file to disk and constructs its interface based on the xml structures it finds. It turned out to be great for d...

Google Chrome Experiments (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Commissioned work that deals with the browser as a medium in promotion of Google Chrome browser. I chose to port Balldroppings to processing.js and I made PopupPong -- pong that uses the brower windows as interactive game elements. BallDroppings was able to happen because of the native Canvas tag included in Chrome, and because the js engine runs so fast. PopupPong actually proved to be a bit difficult because of a bug in the window resizing and placement functions.

textflasher (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Marc Nimoy Extraordinaire was redoing the website for the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance (CIP) and he had embedded a small animated gif that had a marquee of text announces and fun blur transitioning. I offered to redo it in Flash 8, and give him a lot of customization features on the html side so the thing could be dynamically driven and lower bandwidth. After pulling a happy all-nighter at Beit T'Shuvah, TextFlasher was born. Thank goodness for cool flash filters. Alth...

Black Eyed Peas: Boom Boom Pow (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Code was written at Motion Theory to generate content and effects in the Black Eyed Peas' Boom Boom Pow video. Amongst this highly collaborative effort were two other code artists: Keith Pasko and Ryan Alexander. After the video was finished, Keith and I went on to collaborate again on creating custom VJ software used by VSquared Labs in the Black Eyed Peas live tour. The VJ software processes a realtime video feed, and was written in C++ OpenFrameworks. The keyboard was filled with dif...

withDRAWal (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

withDRAWal is a series of ten interactive scribble styles commissioned by Graham Peet of The Public in West Bromwich, England. I programmed and tested the whole thing at Beit T'Shuvah. Each mode responds to the scribbling input in a different way. In writing this software using C++ and openGL in OpenFrameworks, I found myself using a maze solving algorithm, the Box2D physics engine, and Perlin noise. Instructions: draw with your mouse, and press the circle at the bottom left corner...

Pirouette (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

My friend Josh Gallant sees looping corkscrews when he closes his eyes. Now you can too with this application for fiddling with a cycling spiral form. The application features high resolution image export, and a fullscreen view. Often times when I work in a production environment, I'm just making a fullscreen app with no GUI besides mouse and keyboard interaction. I used wxWidgets and added a nice native user interface to this one particularly to show Jake Sargeant that it's possible, although takes a...

The color of art is #A79F94 (2009)

Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

An average color was calculated from more than 26,000 images in the MoMA art collection. The result was this brownish gray.

bjodrickprojection (2008)

Mon, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

in San Francisco on the building 101 Broderick, a lowercase r hangs upsidedown. An upsidedown lowercase r was projected from a window of the opposite building.

pinch (2008)

Mon, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Pinch is a hypnotic and inspiring aesthetics exploration toy that allows the player to easily generate many kinds of abstract shapes. A virtual sheet is made from free-floating physics masses. Click in different places to apply forces making the masses move towards that area of the screen, hence "pinching" the sheet. The resulting forms look organic, architectural, and sometimes erie. Pinch is highly customizable and exports to OBJ format to be imported by 3D software. Change the texture by repla...

27Balloons (2008)

Mon, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

This is a software art birthday present for my friend Mike Knapp in San Francisco. The jelly physics bubbles react to the mouse clicks, and overlap like stained glass. I did the piece during a time when I was obsessed with balloons. Press the 's' key to render one still frame to disk as a PNG. Shout into your microphone to disturb the bubbles.

LG Advanced Learning (2008)

Mon, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

My part in this project was inspired by a piece "pinch" which i had been emailing around at the time. I worked with Jake Seargant, 3D artists, and director Carl Erik Rinsch at Digital Domain to create the light effects for this commercial about little robots who have a party while the owner is away. I was able to write several OpenGL applications in C++ which allowed Jake to tweak parameters and render the frames. Giving Jake this amount of control made my life more convenient and ga...

Mekanism: Need for Speed Undercover flash (2008)

Mon, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

I worked at Mekanism in San Francisco for a couple months mostly programming in Actionscript3 Papervision for a few things. The front page of "Need for Speed Undercover" is a papervision panorama with interactive elements. I'm impressed with papervision but it still has all the eccentricities of flash-based anything. It was easy to get into from having been so into OpenGL all this time. There were plenty of example apps to show the art director.

GRL Graffiti Brush (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

I shared a hotel with knights of Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) et. al. in Barcelona whilst showing at offf 2007. At one point, I coded this brush that turns a few mouse drags into a randomly generated bubbly blingy style. The brush code was then massaged into L.A.S.E.R. Tag. Here is the stand-alone version for your enjoyment and algorithmic plagiarism. I should quickly note for interested jttoolkit participants that this begins my...

Bud Select - Just a Game (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

For this superbowl spot, I had another amazing collaborative coding experience with Gabe Dunne. The approach was different in high level regards. Our generative renders were being used as concept for other artists to flesh out into several shots and variations. We were also coasting on a sufficient body of pre-written code that pulling up old building blocks and combining them experimentally was at our fingertips. Because of path smoothing politics residing from previous projects, we start the JPath object...

Modest Mouse Dashboard (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

This music video turned out to be a unique family effort, rewarding in the end. A couple of the island shots feature the pop celeb's face rendered by our custom after effects plugin, Pixel F. Meanwhile indoors, Gabriel takes a simple springy spider web I had set up and activates it artistically using pointer bugs and interpolation error. The JChain addiction is born. Special l33t props go out to Gabe as well for his MEL fish fin wave behavior!

HP Paulo Coelho (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

For Paulo, finger trails of personal photos dissipate like horse hair underwater. My C++ JImage object is born - something that allows pixel addressing that can also update its display list cached textured unit rect. I later based a hair style on this aesthetic. It was a pleasure to collaborate on this spot because everything was so warm and natural.

boogyman1 (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

kitten1 (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

gellical with pixazzz *^

fairy1 (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

dancing with the lavender moon glow.

mimeface1 (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

i see you.
i type you.
do you love me? [spacebar]
you see me.
type love. [spacebar]
love types.
type sees. [spacebar]
type is you.
love type.[spacebar]
type sees [spacebar] you [spacebar]and [spacebar]me [spacebar]

jttoolkit to OpenFrameworks (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Jttoolkit is a C++ system for Processing artists. Actually, OpenFrameworks is probably going to do a much better job at this than me, so let's all get on that boat now. And for Gabe, it was really more about the cleanly managed dependencies. Cygwin and MacPorts have been absolutely a headache for us, and for students. So I wrote this tutorial guiding you how to migrate your jttoolkit apps into openFrameworks. Be free! Be free!

Gatorade - Inside Crosby (2007)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

For this rich scene of what's going on inside an athlete's head, Mark Kudsi had me writing C++ code to generate slowly growing neurons into a stretched screen 'topiary'. An adhoc rendering cluster was used to quickly render random seeded versions as we evolved the style into the fantasy vision displays.

Map for the Sefton Park Walk (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

A map of Liverpool's Sefton Park for the Sefton Walk Park project, the sound player will follow the trail and even catch its place when the user jumps around in the playback controller. I'm also particularly proud of the black and white version of the map. The map had to be drawn from several references since neither Google, nor conceptual maps have needed to show such a detailed level of trails in the area.

HP Pharrell (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

had the great honor of doing (more) algorithmic particle artistry with Motion Theory to produce this stunning new HP commercial, for their "The computer is personal again" campaign. Spinning spools of typographic smoke, shaking the pixels off shoes, and of course, a swarm of gratuitous abstract cool stuff -- these composite effects were animated primarily in Processing code with reinforcement C++ coding when needed. Thanks to Gabriel Dunne for doing some of the satellites. Unlike Nike 'One', this...

Nike 'One' (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Motion Theory's workflow of the Nike 'One' commercials did not just benefit from an applet programmed by one of the team members. This time, the core workflow became a team of four visual programmers risking carpel tunnel to generate a diversity of floating engineering graphics using every trick in the book. Although the production process was organic and artistic, the team collaborated well - subclassing a common object oriented super class, using common (custom) rendering frameworks, establishing file fo...

Marc's Senior Recital Cover Design (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

A programme designed for brother Marc's graduation from the UCLA music department. The graphics are intended to communicate the dissolving of the guitar into nothingness. The page folds vertically in half, bisecting the guitar's circular hole.

Still Moving Logo Design (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Logo design project for art exhibit curated by Monica Nunez Laiseca. The final choice was #2. The logo was used for branding purposes.

AB42908610B (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

The title of the piece, "AB42908610B", is the US Mint serial number of the one-hundred dollar bill. If a green back's serial number is its unique identification code much like a finger print or retina pattern, then it can be seen as the element that separates the object culturally from its genetic partners. In this way, the serial number is the green back's personality or soul. As an artist, I aimed to modify the bill - and not completely obliterate it. The title of the piece was decided early on...

Whitney Biennial - Peace Tower Panel (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

A panel in the Disuvero/Tiravanija Peace Tower. Bent brass. Awe Yeah. The theme of this year's show was "day for night."

Black Phoebe Moleskin (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

I painted a black phoebe onto a new sketchbook for my father's birthday.

Disappeared In America Interactive Timeline (2006)

Mon, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Interactive Flash-based visualization of news items pulled from a mysql database for an art-activism group. I developed this in preparation for a show at FACT, Liverpool having just made friends with project leader Naeem Mohaiemen. The project was supposed to be open source, but I can't figure out where I left the source.

EAZ AR/MR Workshop (2005)

Mon, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Report: FACT HCI Augmented Reality Workshop, Success.

In early November 2005, a forty minute educational workshop experience for 300 pupils age 10-11 was given for the Liverpool FOCUS EAZ (Education Action Zone) for schools in the Fazakerley and Walton areas. The technology introduced was addressed at various times as "Augmented Reality," "Camera Vision," "Gestural Interface," and "Illuminating Lamp." Pupils were invited to step into a silhouet...

Icon==Function (2005)

Mon, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

This series of seven interactive musical compositions is intended for serious play and wonderment about tools. Each piece is an abstract visual sound scoring language capable of playing itself back as the user gives input. The series is several attempted embodiments of my conceptual response to a recent HCI conclusion, as written in CWC 2004:

"Icon interpretation is inherently ambiguous because the relationship between icon and function is not determined by a set of well-defined...

Robotic Typography Summary (2005)

Mon, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

In response to all the media attention being given to my typography robots, I formed this page for easy viewing of the big picture in the project.

Hello World Widget (2005)

Mon, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Some people on the ITP Alumni list were trying to learn the basics of making Mac OS X Tiger "dashboard wigets" so I spent some time to really simplify things down as far as possible.

www.hci-fun.org.uk (2005)

Mon, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

I redid the website for the human computer interaction organisation in Liverpool England that was commissioning me to do a couple pieces at FACT. I used an open source flavour of flash - mtasc and swfmill with a lot of xml and a makefile. The source was made available on the site. We used the blog engine, b2evolution, to manage the content, and the flash file just pulled the content from the mysql database and presented it this multi-windowed way. Now that I look back on it, Drupa...

Calendar Flow (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

A stand-alone wall-mounted or table-sitting piece that slowly logs the ambient light, creating a kind of diagram showing the light activity in your life as it accumilates. The light pattern is interpretted as a sound grain table,making a humming tone out of your activity.

Global Experimentation Group Logo (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

This is a logo designed for the "Global Experimentation Group", an arts non-profit organization providing funding to other less corporately-adherent collectives. A True Type font was provided to allow users to create crisp vector-based logo graphics on their Word documents without having desktop publishing applications.

Benetton / Fabrica : ThreatMeter (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

I was involved in the early stages of a collaborative web prank for art's sake, created at the Interactive Media Department of Fabrica / Benetton during after-hours. This site shows an embarrassingly ignorant company selling fake products to help American citizens participate in the nation's new color-coded threat alert system. The T-Shirts, however, are actually for sale.

Benetton / Fabrica : Rippling (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

The Interactive Media Department of Fabrica at Benetton was lead by Andy Cameron of Antirom and Romandson fame. I managed to create a few media experiments targeting retail storefront window displays - getting the attention of passers by. This is a screenshot of a video application that records camera input into a history buffer - starting at the top left and streaming across the screen with carriage returns. The application is meant to run on a plasma display and has a medium sized configuration syst...

Detlab (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

I co-founded a project in the East Village, providing a peer-invite safe-haven for free thinking experimenters to get support to continue experimenting, and owning/controlling their own work. DET, as coined by Yoshimi Shin, stands for Design Entertainment Technology. The online system provided password protected collaborative workspaces and most importantly, an automated way for the young participants to propose ideas to potential funders from within a bubble of mutual non-disclosure. Detlab was effe...

Disuvero Primes Collaboration (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Collaborative relationship with artist sculptor Mark Disuvero in search of patterns in prime numbers. The following are a few visualizations produced from various programming languages. click for high resolution file.

Froggies (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Froggies is a play-testing prototype for a children's digital play environment. A table with a screen embedded into the surface acts as an arena for virtual life. Children react with the virtual life by placing various symbolic markers on the table and sliding them around. The result is a musical rythm of animal noises.

Rollerforms (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

My graduate thesis project was to create a third robotic typography sculpture, and to think about the three pieces as one large project. I documented my design process and created many physical prototypes.

Rollerforms Mockup (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

This was an applet written to demonstrate how a piece of physical computing in my future would roll about, forming letters. Instructions: click the applet and type.

Phonemoneme (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Phonemoneme is an expressive simple-rule-based toy or musical instrument or game, like BallDroppings. It uses both the keyboard and the mouse to play. In it, my handwriting moves through space, interacting with four colored bars. These adjustable bars affect motion in different ways. Each grapheme sounds out its phoneme as it passes over the tan colored bar, whose length affects the pitch.

Scissors Beats Paper (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

A short video for an NYU class starring Ariel Churi and Jessica Josephson

No One Wins (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

A short video for an NYU class starring Matthias Lorenz and generative blood.

teamwork (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

A game demo where the player changes the terrain by laying down blocks, then presses go and watches the avatar walk forward, bumping into walls, and eventually reaching the heart and completing the level. When I first began writing this, I was trying to create a game that introduces basic computer programming concepts to the player through architecture and symbols. I still haven't found a good network of metaphors to use -- particularly in the area of working with numbers and math and trying to mak...

picky (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

An open source Java desktop application for authoring PIC chip firmware in a restricted form of Java. I got to know Eclipse pretty well during this time, and had a lot of fun seeing the application look native even if it was cross platform. I discovered how little programming one needs to do with all the wonderful libraries that are available.

kalmac camera processing (2004)

Mon, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

A series of 7 camera view treatments that I probably did at ITP. When I went to Fabrica, I shared my source code with Joel Gethin Lewis and he quickly understood it. Shortly after, Joel went on to work with United Visual Artists. To interact with this piece, move the mouse to tumble the 3D form being generated from the webcam image.

BallDroppings (2003)