I haven’t done much in Proce55ing lately but I plan on getting back to it soon enough. One of my new tools in helping me learn is Casey Reas’ Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists from MIT PRess. I highly recommend it as it’s full of great examples and instructions [...]

I decided to take a step back from art for a while and to work on my writing. Working with a great artist I found through Conceptart.com, I found Kyle Morton, a great artist who contributed to the project. The graphic novel RIFT VALLEY focuses on the current struggles in Kenya. The [...]

I haven’t updated in a while but I was excited enough about this quarters Macworld that I’m breaking the silence. An Airport Extreme base station with a hard drive inside!? TimeCapsule the newest product from Apple, announced today is described by Gizmondo as:
At Macworld 2008, Apple just announced Time Capsule, a full Airport [...]

So I upgraded to OSX Leopard this weekend (Apple OS10.5) and my first thoughts are for the most part positive.
Initial observations:

‘Spaces’ became a feature that I immediately was unable to live without. Far more useful than Expose ever was.
All of my old essential programs still work including Mozy, Quicksilver, Firefox, Transmit, The Adobe CS [...]

Made with modified source code originally written by Peter de Jong. Get it at http://www.harukit.com/p5skch.html

I’ve received quite a few requests to make my works available as prints and wallpapers. I decided to do so through DeviantArt. You can download all my work resized with correct wallpaper dimensions from my flickr page. Or download the first collection in it’s entirety by clicking this link.
Wallpaper Gallery | Download [...]

My first motion project in Processing. There is no user interaction. Get the source code from the Vimeo page @ http://vimeo.com/306184.

Processing Test 1 (Fluidity) from Jon Gos on Vimeo.

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to simply and quickly add the reflection of a scene to your subjects eyeball. I’ve also included the actual Photoshop session in with notes so you can see for yourself how this is done.

First, create a Photoshop document and import your main eye image and the image you [...]

NodeBox Test 1 (Dots) from Jon Gos on Vimeo.

I’m absolutely in love with Proce55ing but I made a new discovery this weekend, a program called NodeBox which is a lot like Proce55ing in that it allows coders to program within a visual context. Whereas Processing was developed around Java based OOP, NodeBox is based on Python. If it’s even possble, it [...]