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Water flow

joshg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:06:01 +0000

Playing with exposure times.

Mist and light

joshg — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:27:37 +0000

trail, in black and white

joshg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:44:47 +0000

Taken on a short hiking trail off of the old #1 highway in B.C. with my Canon Powershot A720IS. Camera was set to black and white, f/5.60, 1/40 sec, no post-processing.

You Felt Fine

joshg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:12:33 +0000

You Felt Fine - a work in photography, Flash, and stickers. Full artist’s statement here.

Presidential Pong

joshg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:11:12 +0000

Presidential Pong - contract coding work done for this project on behalf of Persuasive Games. This Flash game was published on CNN’s website as part of their 2008 election coverage.

Computational Expressionism #3

joshg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:56:16 +0000

This piece attempts to give more expressiveness to a gesture by varying the lines drawn based on the speed of movement, as well as drawing in a geometrical pattern about the cursor which also creates a natural time-dependent variation.

The applet is available here.

Note: The above drawings are monochromatic; the current version of the applet will change hues if you rightclick. I’m not 100% satisfied just yet with combining purely random hues in the same drawing. Future experiments might attempt encoding intelligent color scheme relations (complementary, triads, or something).

Computational Expressionism #2

joshg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:45:35 +0000

Experimenting this time with a combination of immediate, predictable response and more uncontrolled and unusual systematic aftereffects.

The applet is available here.

Postmortem: Quadrix prototype

joshg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:46:25 +0000

The prototype itself is here:

The post-mortem writeup on why I’ve dropped development of it is at my game design notes blog. (Which I started before I rolled wordpress over to thoughtlost … yeah, it’s ridiculous, and maybe someday I’ll keep my personal blogging to a single site.)

Computational Expressionism #1

joshg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:28:56 +0000

First in a who-knows-how-long series of what Joanna Berzowska has termed “Computational Expressionism“, where an artist programs a drawing tool and then uses it to create their own drawings.

The applet itself is available by clicking below. If you grab the sourcecode and run it yourself using Processing, you can save pictures by pressing ’s’.

Edit: One quick note in relation to the original Computational Expressionism work done by Berzowska. In her essays it sounds like she did all of her work using a mouse as input. My experience is that it’s much more interesting to play with this sort of thing using a tablet input device. (Although the first picture shown above was just done using the mouse, so it’s not a requirement.)

sketching with spirals

joshg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:26:59 +0000

Playing with generating spirals and curves from lines. (Trigonometry is a good thing.) Also practicing using a more selective palette instead of a continuous spectrum.