Mang

Current Projects

• MangITP
• Simnuke - video documentation, tronix assistance and general monkeying
• 8 channel LED sequencer code for personal intelligent lighting
• better battery setup for the inverse (light casting) parasol
• version 2.0 of water light
• mirror head for projector use
• resin cast LED doohickeys
• SquidLight
• MangCastingLog
• MangVJLog
• MangSurfLog
• MangPortfolio
• MangChillMix
• MangTaxNotes
• MangNYC
• MangIdeas
• MangApplications
• MangTeach

Previous Projects

• 8 channel EL sequencers for the AmbienceAmbulance
• smt board for AVR
• RGB Luxeon water light
• LED parasol

Dormant/unfinished projects

• RF control box for StarWheel
• Google maps -> vvvv for realtime 3-d overlay

The n-Month Plan(tm)

Invest 1 month in making myself better. End results to be achieved:

• better surfer
• dj demo mix
• vj demo dvd
• blinky toys
• vanity website
• open source software
• figure out my financials
• plan a company
• take pictures
• courses at crucible?
• improved workflow for higher efficiency

Motorcyle links

• Used Bike Buying Guide

Interesting companies

I’m interested in companies using technology to create new products and directly targetting end users via the Internet.

• Green Hippo VJ hardware
• Electric Moto electric dirt bike
• http://www.threadless.com/ - t-shirts designed using social networking
• http://www.neighborhoodies.com/ - custom t-shirts and hoodies
• http://www.coolneon.com/ - EL wire supplier. Recently outsourced manufacturing of their custom sequencers to China.
• http://www.cafepress.com/ - on demand t-shirts and much more
• http://www.bikebandit.com/ – their parts selector is what makes the site!
• http://www.3darttopart.com/index.php - 3D prototypes for artists
• http://www.makingthings.com/ - hardware for Max/MSP
• http://www.sparkfun.com - supplies for hardware hackers. Run by some engineering students.
• http://www.midisolutions.com/products.htm - little MIDI boxes
• http://www.emachineshop.com/ - prototypes of custom parts using their special CAD software
• Yelp! - 1 2 3 4
• • Competitors: Tribe, Friendster (we assume), http://www.insiderpages.com/, http://www.citysearch.com/
• http://www.moodlogic.com/ - looks like they clean up user-contributed data rather than doing machine learning

Friends and friends of friends:

• http://www.moto-lab.com/
• http://www.dimension7.com/

Other companies:

• http://www.cycling74.com/index.html SF Weekly article
• http://www.clusterfs.com/faq.html#cfs - Cluster File Systems, maker of Lustre FS
• http://www.idealab.com/ - SV incubator

Companies with less of the new technology angle:

• http://www.trl.com.au/ - VJ performance company
• http://www.macskinz.com/ - hard cases for iPod

Random articles:

• Prediction: Dotcoms will eat lunch this time around

Interesting grad school programs:

• ITP
• Institute of Sonology
• http://www.sfu.ca/~siat/grad/
• Some interesting courses at Center for New Media in Maryland
• http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/en/about/theinstitute/index.asp

Software links:

• Politics-oriented software development
• http://maven.apache.org/ Maven build and stuff
• Tomcat server clusters
• Six Laws of the New Software (pdf) - comments on marketable software
• Jabber publish/subscribe protocol proposal

Peer-to-Peer

• Direct connection between nat’ed hosts using UDP and “introducer” server
• Windows XP P2P library
• p2psockets Java library
• overview of stuff out there

upcoming

2007/05/30 - ITP Thesis Week - Thesis Presentation

press

2007/02/01 - MAKE: Blog - <a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/02/blue_flower_fab.html">Blue Flower Fabrication</a> - Blue Flower
2006/12/18 - MAKE: Blog - <a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/itp_winter_show_1.html">ITP Winter Show 2006</a> - [CabTrails](CabTrails.html)

art shows/performances

2007/01 - 2007/04 - ITP Gallery, New York - [CabTrails](CabTrails.html)
2006/12/17+18 - ITP Winter Show 2006 - Motionspace, [CabTrails,](CabTrails,.html) Knock Knock, The Wever
2006/11/04 - Sony Wonder Show - Sony Wonder Technology Lab, New York - Blue Flower
2006/09+10 - Exploratorium, San Francisco - Three Drops (with Scott Snibbe)
2006/08/06+10 - Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch Open Studios, San Francisco - Dance Loop
2006/07/25 - Sony Wonder Show - Sony Wonder Technology Lab, New York - Blue Flower
2006/06/11 - LEMURplex Opening - LEMURplex, Brooklyn - [HydroBot](HydroBot.html) Mark I
2006/05/09 - ITP Spring Show 2006 - ITP/NYU, New York - Blue Flower
2006/04/29 - TOOL: An evening of novel performance technologies - Tonic, New York - [HydroBot](HydroBot.html) Mark I
2006/03/12 - Ballet Mechanique - National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC - Ballet Mechanique (with LEMUR)
2005/12/18 - ITP Winter Show 2005 - ITP/NYU, New York - Found Connections
2005/08/28 - Simnuke Art Exhibit - Rx Gallery, San Francisco - Simnuke: Trinity Event Video (with Sasha Magee)
2005/07/16 - Simnuke Trinity Event - Desert test site, Nevada - Simnuke Trinity Event

djlog

2006/07/30 - FnF 10 Year Anniversary
2006/07/03 - Black Rock July 4th
2006/06/27 - Spot welcome home
2006/01/01 - raNch NYE
2005/07/07 - rAnch [SazRaiser](SazRaiser.html)
2005/07/03 - Black Rock July 4th
2005/06/?? - rANch Ambient Madness
2005/??/?? - Full Moon Party
2005/??/?? - rANch Solstice
2005/02/26 - da raNch
2004/11/?? - Nephology thanksgiving
2004/11/02 - Dias de Los Meurtos - [CMR](http://www.megashear.org)
2004/10/28 - Full Moon Renegade
2004/07/03 - multi-hour set at 4th of July on Black Rock -- it's all about the sunrise, yo
2004/06/06 - Jade and Stacy afterparty. Tag team with Cary!

vjlog

2005/01/13 - Iron VJ - 1015 Folsom
2004/11/07 - Video Riot! - outside @ 150 Folsom
2004/10/22 - Blockbuster @ Amnesia - Assistant to VJ Science

Media slurp

• http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/
• http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/eit_full_res.html
• http://www.divegallery.com/Leafy_Sea_Dragon.htm
• http://video.teczno.com/
• http://mike.teczno.com/visible_human/
• http://www.phidelity.com/ph2/tiledBG

• http://psych.upenn.edu/backuslab/vss/vss2004/backus2004.html

• http://www.vjousers.org/vjo.cgi
• http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/index.html

• http://www.srview.wsdot.wa.gov/home.htm

• http://www.cnb.gov.sg/medialibrary/index.asp
• http://stilton.tnw.utwente.nl/dryquicksand/video.htm
• http://tnweb.tn.utwente.nl/pof/gallery.htm - gallery of fluid motion

• http://pof.aip.org/pof/gallery/2004toc.jsp - more fluid motion

• http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~marcos/Centrifuge_Site/MainFrameSet.html

• http://bjoern.org/pictures/pattern/index.php

• Generative images

Ideas links

• http://mike.teczno.com/3dmatrix-2/
• http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/monksmed.html
• Rapid prototyping links

Collaborative filtering

• http://dsonline.computer.org/0301/d/w1lind.htm
• http://research.microsoft.com/users/breese/cfalgs.html

Nice websites

• http://www.phidelity.com/ph2/album10

Hardy har har

• http://www.venturecoach.com/resources/stocklearnings.htm
• http://www.ftpartners.com/ftsearch.cfm?zType=1

Software to try

• http://pure-data.iem.at/
• http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ terragen

Crunk

• MangHosting
• MaxMspWishlist

Things to automate/streamline

• set up my own source repository
• • should be browseable like sf.net
• better workflow for getting pictures on my site
• • should be one click to upload
• • link to blog entry
• • better photo editor
• set up own wiki
• • more presentable
• • should be possible to add blog entries to any page
• ** keep page updated, blog entries are record of thoughts in progress
• “always on” computer for e.g. downloading torrents
• • get desktop or old laptop
• • big-ass hard drives
• • media server
• • easy backups to offline harddrives
• • 8-channel sound setup
• • media editing
• • remote login using vnc or long-ass video cable
• automate backups of laptop and website
• • to aforementioned media server
• automatic transfers to mp3 player