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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: bush video links moore, kerry, et al. to hitler
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 03:54PM, Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:
>Very Strange indeed.
>I really don
>Very Strange indeed.
>I really don
Re: NY-Times - Will Michael Moore's Facts Check Out?
On 20 Jun 2004, at 17:06, Lee Wells wrote:
> A great many statistics fly by in the
> movie
> A great many statistics fly by in the
> movie
Re: recent NEWSgrist posts (now blogging at Typepad)
On Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 03:23PM, Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com> wrote:
>In an article in The Idependent (UK) Anna Somers Cocks (former editor of
>The Art Newspaper) asks:
>
>"Why is art not reflecting world events? There is no artistic engagement
>with the big, threatening issues that hang over us..." [...]
>http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/06/artistic_noneng.html
Yes, I read that. She seems to want art to be photojournalism. Time to dig up Oscar Wilde and Adorno. Illustrating politics is -well- illustration, not art.
- Rob.
>In an article in The Idependent (UK) Anna Somers Cocks (former editor of
>The Art Newspaper) asks:
>
>"Why is art not reflecting world events? There is no artistic engagement
>with the big, threatening issues that hang over us..." [...]
>http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/06/artistic_noneng.html
Yes, I read that. She seems to want art to be photojournalism. Time to dig up Oscar Wilde and Adorno. Illustrating politics is -well- illustration, not art.
- Rob.
Re: Apple Basic from 1987
On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 12:33PM, <steve.kudlak@cruzrights.org> wrote:
>Hmmmm Well with words one could do all sorts of things
>in elisp which is the LISP that lives inside of EMACS.
>I have an improved cut-up package for dissociated-press somewhere.;)
>But seeing the things he wants to do I am trying to think of
>a language that will do it well. Lots of people hate Java,
>lots of people really like it. The biggest complaint I have
>heard is that it is cute to do play things in but the minute
>you try ro upgrade to something real trouble creeps in.
>But the things he was doing seemed like they would work very
>nicely in Flash, but all that Macromedia stuff is megaexpensive.
>But I have thought of making abstract movies and the like.
>
>When I was thinking of Java Tools I was thinking of things
>like this: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/java/
>which although is for aviation weather, years of using/playing
>with Sat Images and the look, it has it a structure to it that
>could be used for artistitic purposes,
If you want a good environment for graphical programming, try Processing, which is Java-based, cross-platform and (F|f)ree. It looks very easy to learn and be productive in, and has some quite powerful features:
http://processing.org/
It doesn't have a timeline or drawing tools, but it does have all the media and scripting support and can be extended in Java if really needed.
- Rob.
>Hmmmm Well with words one could do all sorts of things
>in elisp which is the LISP that lives inside of EMACS.
>I have an improved cut-up package for dissociated-press somewhere.;)
>But seeing the things he wants to do I am trying to think of
>a language that will do it well. Lots of people hate Java,
>lots of people really like it. The biggest complaint I have
>heard is that it is cute to do play things in but the minute
>you try ro upgrade to something real trouble creeps in.
>But the things he was doing seemed like they would work very
>nicely in Flash, but all that Macromedia stuff is megaexpensive.
>But I have thought of making abstract movies and the like.
>
>When I was thinking of Java Tools I was thinking of things
>like this: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/java/
>which although is for aviation weather, years of using/playing
>with Sat Images and the look, it has it a structure to it that
>could be used for artistitic purposes,
If you want a good environment for graphical programming, try Processing, which is Java-based, cross-platform and (F|f)ree. It looks very easy to learn and be productive in, and has some quite powerful features:
http://processing.org/
It doesn't have a timeline or drawing tools, but it does have all the media and scripting support and can be extended in Java if really needed.
- Rob.
Re: Apple Basic from 1987
On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 11:51PM, Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:
>don't think he has a 1987 Macintosh. is Apple Basic from 1987 still
>supported on the Mac?
No. Think Turbo Pascal. :-)
For a line-number-and-goto basic for MacOSX, try:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22597
For a Pascal-style Basic (no line numbers), try:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7381
Or there's RealBasic, a VB-style system, which is very popular but a bit bloated:
http://www.realbasic.com/
Alternatively, they could get a Mac Plus emulator and emulate a 1987-era Mac and run the old basic on that.
Java is horrible (I spent 5 years programming it). Go for RealBasic or a real programming language like Lisp. :-) Failing that, Python seems to be a very popular not-too-complex language at the moment. It can do UIs as well.
- Rob.
>don't think he has a 1987 Macintosh. is Apple Basic from 1987 still
>supported on the Mac?
No. Think Turbo Pascal. :-)
For a line-number-and-goto basic for MacOSX, try:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22597
For a Pascal-style Basic (no line numbers), try:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7381
Or there's RealBasic, a VB-style system, which is very popular but a bit bloated:
http://www.realbasic.com/
Alternatively, they could get a Mac Plus emulator and emulate a 1987-era Mac and run the old basic on that.
Java is horrible (I spent 5 years programming it). Go for RealBasic or a real programming language like Lisp. :-) Failing that, Python seems to be a very popular not-too-complex language at the moment. It can do UIs as well.
- Rob.