Links for 19-12-08

I've been generating some slit-scan/time-lapse photos with Processing but here's some (much better) work in that area...

knapek.org - visualising time and space
"Well, I set up my trusty digital camera and captured images for 24 hours. Midnight to midnight. Then I apply a magic spell - homebrewn software - to collage all the images of a given time-span 24 hour period, into one image. The temporal progression in the images begins at the left, or the top, and continues to the other end of the image. The outcome is an image consisting of images of the temporal period captured, typically 24 hours." - nice collection of images and animations

(the teeming void): Watching the Street
Using time-lapse/slice images to show activities in urban environments. "...use the same time-lapse / slit-scan technique to image change in an urban environment. Technically, the setup was fairly straightforward. Instead of a digital stills camera I used a webcam (in portrait orientation), and wrote a simple Processing script to save stills at one-minute intervals, while extracting and compiling one-pixel slices into 24-hour composites."

An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research - Golan Levin and Collaborators
"Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image." - catalogue of slit-scan and timelapse related projects
http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/

Some publicity for my work; the Rockterscale made the Make blog and Gizmodo (the comments cracked me up) and an interview on The Guardian's site about me and the Radio Labs team.

NPR: API Upgrade : Mix Your Own Podcast and Other New Features/Content
"With today's launch, however, the API now allows users to slice through the NPR.org archive to create custom podcast feeds based on virtually any aggregation (or combination of aggregations) in the API"

How old is your music?
From the last.fm hackday, this looks up the release date of your most played artists (albums?) from MusicBrainz. Mine's 1960, late 90s and 2007/08.

Universal Scrobbler
Scrobble everything - including manual submission and tracks played on BBC Radio. Enter the time and then select the tracks we played to scrobble. Also from the last.fm hackday.

My two favorite music services - now combined! - Duke Listens!
Spotify now scrobbles. Also there's a GreaseMonkey script to use Spotify to play tracks you see on last.fm

Homepage | The Carbon Account
"The Carbon Account helps you reduce your footprint and share tips with friends." - manual entry but looks nice

UgoTrade » Blog Archive » Smart Planet:Interview with Andy Stanford-Clark
Interview with Andy Stanford-Clark about home automation, energy monitoring and sharing

bkkeepr | API
bkkeepr, a really nice little site for keeping track of your reading, now has an API - which books people have read and which people have read a book

husk.org. a flickr machine tag browser.
A site to browse Flickr machine tags

(the teeming void): Fabricated Growth Forms (Processing to Ponoko)
Experimenting with generative techniques (with processing) and digital fabrication (with Ponoko). Hey, I wonder if I could do some little wooden graphs?

Iceland: frozen assets - Times Online
A good read from AA Gill on the economic situation in Iceland.