SteamSHIFT

Multiple OS X Desktops using OSXvnc: “Simply put, Mulitple Desktop Sessions allow more than one person to use your Macintosh computer at the same time!

In Panther (Mac OS 10.3), Apple introduced ‘Fast User Switching’ which allowed additional users to log on to the mac without the original user logging out. Instead, the original user’s desktop was carefully tucked away and could be switched back to when needed.

Now in Tiger (Mac OS 10.4) all those desktops can be accessed simultaneously using OSXvnc. This allows multiple users to be logged in, each using his or her own desktop on the same Mac”

The coolest! I get really bored of very over-designed speakers; but these just break every mold!

On Gojira’s last outing, I used a fabric screen pulled taut in a steel frame. The only problem was that because the fabric was pulled by elastic cord threaded through reenforcing rings in the fabric and through the metal, it took 2 people nearly 2 hours to put together.

For our most recent gig, supporting a Speak rally (for want of a better word), to promote Fairtrade and Trade Justice, I (with the help of the lovely Steve and Mel), redesigned the screen.

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Backjumps Storms Berlin: loving this!

(Via Wooster Collective / A Celebration of Street Art.)

Interface Culture (part 2): “

Blow, by Taife Smetschka, is a breath-controlled video installation. There’s a microphone and a projection of a clip from Billy Wilder’s film *The Seven Year Itch*, the scene in which Marilyn Monroe stands on the grate above the subway ventilation shaft. At first she is stationary, smiling at viewers from the screen. She doesn’t begin moving until she feels a cool breeze. In *blow!* the breeze has to be provided by the installation visitors who must blow as hard as they can into the microphone. Marilyn’s skirt flutters in the breeze as long as the visitor blows into the microphone.

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Interface Culture at Ars (part 1): “The Interface Culture at the Linz University of Art was founded last year by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. The programme deals with human-machine interaction to develop innovative interfaces. Went to see their works yesterday.

SoundToy, by Christina Heidecker, Harald Moser and Timm Oliver Wilks, is a 3D environment you navigate as if you were a racing car driver. During the ride you use the steering wheel to create and compose 3D sounds. You place in the space sound objects assigned to electronic beats. The speed, pitch and volume can be individually adjusted using the steering wheel and the accelerating pedal. The composition is generated by the movement and position of the sound objects with respect to one another but also by the route you select.

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The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator: “The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.”

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Too good! Anything that livens up the mundanity of peripherals is a good thing!

usb monsters:

(Via metamanda>>weblog.)