Dreaming Dreams

And another awesome collaboration between Puik. and Dyne.org!

This weekend we are working on an interactive installation for the yearly Museum N8 festival at the Dutch Institute for Media Art (NIMK).

There will be an 8bit/acid themed VJ set that can be interfaced with 3 gamepad-controllers including force-feedback! All implemented through javascript using the FreeJ software.

See n8.nl for more info.

Very cool stuff. We are rounding up the scripting now and will setup the installation this afternoon.

I barely made it, but finally it’s done \o/

You are looking at a new Molecular Scientist. Bsc

The past two weekends have been magnificently nerdy again. Both weekends I was visiting Jaromil of Dyne.org and Rastasoft in Amsterdam.

The first weekend (2, 3, 4 October) there was TCPC (Troppo Cafe’ Poco Cerbello)

Every year for the past 9 years a bunch of Italians come together somewhere in Sicily for a weekend of drinking coffee and nerding (hence the name: Too Much Coffee Too Less Brain). Since Italy is much too far to go to for one weekend (imho) we had our own hub in Amsterdam to nerd around.

We spend most of the time there organizing their hack-lab, which was a mess and was used by various residents as storage. After we where done there was much more work-space, a few extra desks to work at and of course network.

Another activity for me was the introduction to language translation in gui applications. The major focus of this TCPC was one of Dyne.orgs finest pieces of software: MuSE and most coders where doing a spree on it’s development. Me on the other hand, a complete and utter noob with coding, could hardly help with this. But the dutch translation for MuSE was lacking, so I started to work on that as my contribution to the project, which meant playing around with poedit and pulling my best dutch language skills out of my head. For more info see http://dyne.org/tcpc/

The second weekend (8,9,10) I went with buZz for some more hackery at Jaro’s place. Actually, we where helping out with the second Celluloid Remix FreeJ-workshop on Saturday, which was held at De Balie, right at the Leidseplein, in the center of Amsterdam’s party district. There where some presentations on the Celluloid Remix concept and FreeJ specific and it’s new OSX client.

I personally got started on revamping the beginners tutorial for FreeJ. Hopefully soon ready for it’s 1.0 release!

So all in all these have been relatively productive weeks, nerd-wise. Now all I need is to finish my bachelors …

Signing off from the weekly NerdNight at cafe The Draak, dreamer

So, it has been quite a while since my last post, which was back at HAR2009. Since then I have lost and retrieved the password of this blog, but also neglected to post anything at all because I had too much other stuff on my head (among others, finishing my Bachelors, which I’m still working on).

Right now I’m sitting at the 2nd of weekly “nerd nights” we are having in one of the local pubs here in Wageningen. This concept was conceived by loupgaroublond and right now the nights consists mostly of drinking beer and sitting behind our laptops: GREAT FUN!

Today I’ve been mostly trying to get my first package build (Flowcanvas, one of the dependencies for Patchage, which I really want to see in yum). This made me run into a number of road-bumps. Which is OK, since making mistakes only helps the learning process.

Myx0r made princess-cupcakes for us today. They where much too sweet, but we are nerds, so we like sweet stuff.

Hopefully she will surprise us next week with some other sweet bakery-stuff \o/

Wow, I’ve been so busy lately that I have ignored my ‘blog’ completely!

I’ve been working on a couple of projects these past weeks. Among others a new website to bundle most of my multimedia activities: http://www.monkeyjohn.com

In the future this might be an actual company, but this of course depends on how successful its projects will be.

Tonight I’m organizing another (and probably the last) Unitek. It’s a Tekno party at Unitas.

This time I invited Bruxisme Soundsystem. And ofcourse Puik. is present again as well!

I hardly got any sleep last night, we had a 90’s party with a famous Dutch DJ from that era so I stayed much too long and drank way too much

But, the party must go on so later this afternoon I’m going to start preparing the main room for the last FreakFest in the current building.

And then tomorow Puik. gets another chance at a DnB party in Barneveld … I’m going to be completely wrecked next monday