Chandler McWilliams's Barbarian Blog

Processing Workshop at Machine Project

Chandler McWilliams — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:02:35 -0400

Starting this Saturday, I’m teaching a 4 day intensive workshop on Processing at Machine Project. The course is designed to be a good introduction and covers everything from the basics of the IDE up to libraries and media. No prior programming experience necessary (though it always helps). For more info check out the course page.

Plainview 1.0.151

Chandler McWilliams — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:14:50 -0400

Last night we released a new version of Plainview. The biggest changes in this version are the addition of a custom user agent string, to help some web apps which use questionable detection methods, some new keyboard shortcuts in response to user feedback, and a few new features for kiosk mode.

Kiosk mode is a way to easily lock users into Plainview, making it a good choice for kiosks where you want to show web (or flash) content, but don’t want the user to have full access to the system. When you enter kiosk mode, you’re asked for an administrator password and then you’re locked in. No menus, no cmd-tab, no bookmarks or location panels, nothing except where the currently loaded site will take you. To this we’ve added a few new bells and whistles. In the preferences, you can now set some options to hide the mouse, and have the app automatically load in kiosk mode.

Shadow Play with Hecuba

Chandler McWilliams — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:02:30 -0400

Friends and collaborators Hecuba are playing at the triple canopy launch party tomorrow night at SiteLA, and I’ll be doing some processing-powered live visuals during the show. If you’re in LA and looking for something to do it should be a great night.

Megapuss Dukoff Hammer Pictures

Chandler McWilliams — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:02:17 -0400

Photo: Pitchfork So everything went pretty well the other night. A few places wrote about the show and the band’s “unique” choice of fashion accessories. It was a difficult task of showing images from Lauren’s forthcoming book, many of which feature Devendra, while not showing too many pictures of him projected behind him which is just [...]

Megapuss Lauren Dukoff at the Hammer Museum

Chandler McWilliams — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:02:25 -0400

On June 18th, Megapuss is having their debut performance at the Hammer Museum. To accompany the performance, and in celebration of her forthcoming book, Jon Beasley and I created a series of animated vignettes based on the photography of LA artist Lauren Dukoff. More information on the Hammer Website.