I just made this trance-inducing screen saver for my Macbook Pro using Quartz Composer. If you watch it long enough, especially in a dark room, you will eventually see the eye of God. Or maybe you’ll throw up. I’m not sure. It is definitely doing weird things to my eyes… The walls are bulging… (Note: […]

A little something I made for my students during today’s actionscript class. Here’s the flash source code, and here’s an article that explains the technique I use to generate those groooovy colors.

…and thanks to Sherrie Graham, whose quince blossoms adorn the top of my blog this spring. You know, it’s funny how these little seasonal adornments work. I get an idea in my head that I want a little seasoning; a little sumpin-sumpin up there, and thinking there must be a million of ’em, I go […]

Daylight savings, whose ostensible purpose is to save energy, is an incredible annoyance to those of us in the US, and the recent changes in the system only make things worse. If you want to find a computer that hasn’t been fixed to compensate for the three week difference in DST this year, try calling […]

When I made 4,800 kakuro puzzles for this website, it never occurred to me that some of you would run out. But apparently, it’s happened, or at least that’s what the emails tell me. So here’s 1,600 more. Big ones too. Enjoy :)

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I’m a bit obsessed with radial symmetry. Flickr’s prolific Leo Reynolds (LeoL30) made this lovely movie out of (what else?) those round things I like so much.

The Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube is one of several mashed-up news tickers I am working on that use the new Pipes service from Yahoo! to deliver up-to-date data in a dated style. Headlines from a BBC RSS feed are feed, via Y! Pipes, to my news ticker, which is implemented in Flash. Click on […]

My latest circular mash-up, The Wheel of Lunch, was suggested by a paper-version created by my friend & former coworker, Geoff Ombao. The ostensible purpose of the Wheel is to prevent wearisome discussions about where to eat lunch with your coworkers or family, but it’s also a good way to discover new places to eat. […]

How does art go postal?, you ask? 1. Make or collect some art. 2. Put a stamp on it. 3. Drop it in the mail. 4. Send it to the Envelope Collective. What is Envelope Collective? It is an online art gallery of everything sent to the collective by mail. All submissions are summarily photographed […]

Fans of my Whitney Music Box will certainly want to check out IanniX, a highly graphical music composition software program based a pioneering system (UPIC) developed by the late Iannis Xenakis. Xenakis was an influential stochastic composer who had a background in architecture (he was the principal designer behind the Philips Pavillion at the 1958 […]