There are lots of websites that contain collections of crop circles, and I’ve been using a handful of them. Crop Circle Connector is a community-oriented site which contains an individual page or two for most recent circles. Visitors to the site can file “field reports”, so the site is full of anecdotal information. These anecdotes […]

If you read this blog regularly, you know that a lot of the things I make involve circles. My fascination with circles and radial symmetry has extended to kaleidoscopes, fibonacci spirals, music, card tricks, spinning wheels of lunch, and so on. You may also know that I am prone to develop short term obsessions, which […]

It’s interesting to search for facebook groups that contain the title “app”. What you’ll find (especially after page 1) is page after page of predominantly negative group names, such as “Against any more damn Facebook apps!!!” “All the apps ruined facebook” “All The Facebook Apps. Are Gay” “All these “apps” make facebook feel like myspace…” […]

My latest project for my employer (Yahoo! Music) was pleasantly unexpected on a number of levels. It’s an application for Facebook, called Yahoo! Music Videos. If you’re on Facebook, check it out!. If you’re not on Facebook, check out Facebook! It’s kind of like MySpace, but not as ugly. UPDATE: The first two reviews for […]

There are few questions that suck the joy out of a room faster than this one: “What good is it?” As the creator of innumerable software toys that serve no useful function, I find this type of question, and its close relatives (which include “what did you make that for?”, “how are you gonna monetize […]

Things I talked about at last night’s Creative Talk at Yahoo! in Santa Monica, and some relevant links. A magic trick: http://www.krazydad.com/mindpower/ Can software make you cry? My search for meaning in computer-generated art. Randomness http://krazydad.com/bestiary/bestiary_random_pixels.html https://blog.krazydad.com/2005/05/04/three-johns-on-randomness/ Information Theory and Perception https://blog.krazydad.com/2005/05/19/entropy-motion-graphics/ https://blog.krazydad.com/2005/08/01/information-theory-and-art/ Kaleidoscopes https://blog.krazydad.com/2007/04/16/kaleidoscope-842/ http://krazydad.com/windows_freebies.php Complexity without randomness https://blog.krazydad.com/2007/04/02/fibonacci-logos/ Computer generated circular art http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/sets/95767/ […]

From my post on Geek Dad: Doing magic with your kids is one of the more excellent things you can do as a father. For one thing, kids are a truly appreciative audience, and if you’re an amateur like me, probably the only truly appreciative audience you will ever actually get! Also, kids can be […]

I’ll be giving a free lecture on the “Creative Use of Flash” at Yahoo! in Santa Monica, on Wednesday, May 23rd. You can get the full event details here. This is the first installment of a “Creative Talks” lecture series that is being put together by Yahoo! creatives Jeff Hurlow and Jens Jonason. I haven’t […]

I’m teaching two summer classes at Art Center, in Pasadena. For professionals with some Flash experience, my night class “Interactive Toys: Advanced Toys” (7 weeks, starting Thursday May 17th) offers a chance to learn Actionscript, and make a variety of software toys, interactive widgets and games. Visit the Art Center at Night website for more […]

I had great fun presenting at the Gel (Good Experience Live) 2007 conference in NYC. My interactive Whitney Music Box (in which the crowd made noises while host Mark Hurst controlled them with a knob) worked quite well. The audience of about 400 was game, and enthusiastically yelled “PI!” (or maybe “PIE!”) when their assigned […]