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Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.
I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.
My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.
My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
Re: adobe acquires macromedia
Adobe have some very interesting Open Source (BSD :-/) code avalable. It's interesting because it's a constraint-based UI generation system that they've thought through from first principles:
http://opensource.adobe.com/
Maybe the code to Director will be there one day. :-)
- Rob.
On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, at 00:46AM, Jess Loseby <jess@rssgallery.com> wrote:
> > I think they should just take all of Macromedias stuff and give it to the
>> open-source community. That would be cool. That would make me love adobe.
>>
>>
>yes, very cool
>
>*sings tunelessly* dreaming, dream, dream dreeee-am, dreaaamming
>
>:)
http://opensource.adobe.com/
Maybe the code to Director will be there one day. :-)
- Rob.
On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, at 00:46AM, Jess Loseby <jess@rssgallery.com> wrote:
> > I think they should just take all of Macromedias stuff and give it to the
>> open-source community. That would be cool. That would make me love adobe.
>>
>>
>yes, very cool
>
>*sings tunelessly* dreaming, dream, dream dreeee-am, dreaaamming
>
>:)
Re: adobe acquires macromedia
On 18 Apr 2005, at 16:34, t.whid wrote:
> 2. Hopefully they'll take Illustrator's tools and interface and slap
> Flash's timeline and actionscript onto it. At the very least, we'll
> get beefed-up interoperability between Illustrator and Flash and PDF
> (which would be extremely helpful). This seems like the most hoped for
> development after read /. comments.
Illustrator is my tool of choice for making my art. I'd hate to see it
encumbered with a timeline and scripting language that I don't need.
Indeed making an "Office"-bloated app out of Illustrator, Flash and
whatever else is a bad idea and would alienate Adobe's core print
business.
> 3. Since Adobe was pushing SVG as an alternative to Flash, I wonder if
> they'll keep promoting it? Not that they were doing a particularly
> good job.
It's *the* open format for vector graphics. See Inkscape &
openclipart.org.
> This is probably not the best thing to happen. Adobe and MM were
> competing in two key areas: web dev tools (golive and dreamweaver)
No real competition: MM were winning hands down on the web. So MM will
complement Adobe's print business with their web business.
> and vector graphics on the web (pdf v. swf).
PDF/SVG are like chalk and cheese. Both vector formats, yes, but
structurally, functionally and experientially very different.
> Now that competition will end which is probably not a good thing.
The competition will come from the open source community. Possibly this
is proprietary design software circling the wagons?
Adobe developed the imaging model behind PostScript, PDF, SVG, Java 2D
and MacOS X. From an artistic or philosophical point of view they're a
fascinating company, they have defined how people have imaged the world
using 2D software.
- Rob.
> 2. Hopefully they'll take Illustrator's tools and interface and slap
> Flash's timeline and actionscript onto it. At the very least, we'll
> get beefed-up interoperability between Illustrator and Flash and PDF
> (which would be extremely helpful). This seems like the most hoped for
> development after read /. comments.
Illustrator is my tool of choice for making my art. I'd hate to see it
encumbered with a timeline and scripting language that I don't need.
Indeed making an "Office"-bloated app out of Illustrator, Flash and
whatever else is a bad idea and would alienate Adobe's core print
business.
> 3. Since Adobe was pushing SVG as an alternative to Flash, I wonder if
> they'll keep promoting it? Not that they were doing a particularly
> good job.
It's *the* open format for vector graphics. See Inkscape &
openclipart.org.
> This is probably not the best thing to happen. Adobe and MM were
> competing in two key areas: web dev tools (golive and dreamweaver)
No real competition: MM were winning hands down on the web. So MM will
complement Adobe's print business with their web business.
> and vector graphics on the web (pdf v. swf).
PDF/SVG are like chalk and cheese. Both vector formats, yes, but
structurally, functionally and experientially very different.
> Now that competition will end which is probably not a good thing.
The competition will come from the open source community. Possibly this
is proprietary design software circling the wagons?
Adobe developed the imaging model behind PostScript, PDF, SVG, Java 2D
and MacOS X. From an artistic or philosophical point of view they're a
fascinating company, they have defined how people have imaged the world
using 2D software.
- Rob.
Re: adobe acquires macromedia
Well there's always SVG.
Oh.
More seriously for net art there's Processing. Maybe that will spill over into mainstream multimedia as people build on it as a platform?
- Rob.
On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 03:01PM, Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:
>Well Adobe would be getting them both if they aquire MM.
>The integration of both toolkits is fine with me , but, not having any
>competition could make them lazy.
Oh.
More seriously for net art there's Processing. Maybe that will spill over into mainstream multimedia as people build on it as a platform?
- Rob.
On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 03:01PM, Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:
>Well Adobe would be getting them both if they aquire MM.
>The integration of both toolkits is fine with me , but, not having any
>competition could make them lazy.
Re: adobe acquires macromedia
On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 12:09PM, Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:
>I don't know why Macromedia is letting themselves be acquired by Adobe,
>really.
Because they are a sinking ship? Read FuckedCompany, MM really need restructuring. :-)
As for Adobe not having any "web magic", possibly that's why they're raiding MM's topybox? ;-)
- Rob.
>I don't know why Macromedia is letting themselves be acquired by Adobe,
>really.
Because they are a sinking ship? Read FuckedCompany, MM really need restructuring. :-)
As for Adobe not having any "web magic", possibly that's why they're raiding MM's topybox? ;-)
- Rob.
Re: Networked Art Objects and their Discontents
On 12 Apr 2005, at 16:27, Lewis LaCook wrote:
> I still heart Rhizome....sigh....
http://homepage.mac.com/robmyers/weblog/C663792881/E1201082128/
index.html
:-)
- Rob.
> I still heart Rhizome....sigh....
http://homepage.mac.com/robmyers/weblog/C663792881/E1201082128/
index.html
:-)
- Rob.