http://www.christeso.com Chris Teso is the Director of Digital Media for North, a photographer and Flash ninja based in Portland Oregon. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:41:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Watch CBS Videos Online It's work like this that makes my paltry experiments in motion detection interfaces look downright moot. Neuroscientists have gotten as far as to embed a chip inside a monkey's brain, and figured out what brain activity signals that the monkey is trying to move its arm in ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/life/mind-controlled-interfaces/ Coming from New England, I never thought I'd be so into foliage. I think it's because living in Boston proper we never got to see the colors that the burbs or Vermont had to offer unless you actually left the city to traverse there, and who wants to do that? ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/life/pdx-fall-and-other-gayity/ Yahoo pipes - redonculously sexy visual coding engine that shall enable me to save countless hours while also providing a slick vehicle for hackery extraordinaire. Thanks Amber! Control the music in my entire office and each of its separate zones from my iphone? Shit, yea. I need a moleskin sketch book. All ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/life/several-random-thoughts/ Equilibrium The Human Mashup: A Follow Up, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac. Equilibrium: A Follow Up Last week I had a showing at Equilibrium, the Human Mashup. The show's goal was to ask "How can art and technology and the synergy of the two address humanity's next evolutionary step?". ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/lab/equilibrium-the-human-mashup-a-follow-up/ In continuing exploration into motion tracking using flash and a webcam I've created an application that enables you to track multiple objects based on color. The holy grail of the application is of course to track multiple objects without specifying color. However, this is a good ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/lab/tracking-multiple-objects-using-a-webcam/ This Friday -[Oct. 17th]- I will be part of SAO and the Portland Working Artists Network in presenting at Equilibrium, the Human Mashup, using the synergy of art and technology to revolutionize society. I am currently designing and developing an interactive art installation. A brief description of the project is ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/life/equilibrium-the-human-mashup/ , originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac. Look familiar? Look around you, look in the mirror... we're all sheep [or goats in this instance] following the fed, following special interest, following our two party corrupt system, following each candidates fear campaign, following laws solely instituted for monetary gain. And, we're about to elect more ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/life/sheep/ , originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac. I wasn't alive in 1955, but Portland today is how I envision it must have been. Well, 1955 with an uber progressive green living attitude, lots of pot, people riding around on 10ft high bikes, mopeds, scooters and every car from a land yacht to a ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/life/1955/ , originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac. drawn entirely with code, with an assist from radiohead. Think of code as the 'painter'. The 'painter' analyzes the the color of each pixel in the image you pass it. Other code analyzes Mp3 data and controls the 'painter'. Thus, the 'painting' is performed using music ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/lab/actionscript-sound-visualization-with-drawing-api/ , originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac. Remember when I used to take photographs and post them on flickr? Well, I guess I've been distracted making things, rather than just recording them. This is one of those things. A sound visualization engine built in Actionscript. It works by analyzing the raw data of an mp3 ... http://www.christeso.com/index.php/lab/as3-sound-visualization-engine/