http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ personal blog from fALk v010 en-us falk@mac.com 2008-10-06T03:51:50+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002391.html This is what we where greeted today with from all the newsstands in town when we went outside to get some peaceful breakfast. What you see there is a still frame from the well recieved symphonie last night. Actually what... 2391@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-06T03:51:50+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002388.html I have now finalized my setup and am testing for tonight. I am going with 4 layers. Two of those are what I call "story" layers - mostly video content telling the stereo love story. One layer is rythm... 2388@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-04T18:18:08+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002387.html We are now broadcasting live - not the greatest quality on earth (nor the greatest framerate) but at least you can get a feeling of the whole thing directly.... 2387@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-04T18:05:17+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002386.html Its 25 hours to go until I will go live and dance with the Blinkenlights. StereoLove the Blinkenlights Symphonie is a 30 minute audiovisual feast on the lovely blinken pixels. The music part is provided by Kraftfuttermischwerk who almost completely... 2386@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-04T01:49:44+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002385.html The cheaky buggers filmed me last night without me noticing :) Look at it - its very small part of what you gonna get tomorrow. BTW I didnīt even have a contrast or brightness control in the test setup (besides... 2385@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-04T01:35:17+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002384.html If you are making animations and want to see them displayed on the biggest screen ever with the lowest resolution ever you can roll your own and now also submit them to the team. They will be played throughout the... 2384@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-03T18:28:48+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002383.html Yesterday I was able to conduct the first real live test from the plaza in front of the house wirelessly live to the house and it was bombastic. While inside the headquarter on 4th floor West Tower got my mood... 2383@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-10-03T15:38:30+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002377.html After long debug nights with multiple reflashings of 200 dimmers and only chaotic pixels last night was the big moment where the first of four screens starting to work as intended. On the first picture you see the first... 2377@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-29T18:33:19+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002376.html We have now a whole array of content creation tools for the Blinkenlights house available. There is still one missing that I hope the Coding Monkeys downstairs will be able to pull off in time - its one where you... 2376@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-29T17:41:12+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002374.html The Blinkenlights iPhone application is released and available on the appstore so you can watch the stream of pixels as it appears (or should appear ones its working) on the house on you iPhone with different viewpoints. iPhone BlinkenSim on... 2374@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-28T15:49:53+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002372.html The first two days were the East Tower started blinking to the watchfull observer.... 2372@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-26T15:12:23+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002371.html The Blinkenlights are driven by a protocol thats called bml (blinkenlights meta language) that protocol is actually pretty lovely to look at and I found jesus in it the other day ;)... 2371@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-26T15:08:58+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002370.html Yesterday the group had an invite to go to the island and have a day off in nature to relax so that we have the strength to go into the most stressful week ahead. Here are some pictures of the... 2370@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-26T15:00:12+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002365.html We arrived yesterday in Toronto which still has a late summer feeling with nice sunshine and t-shirt temperatures. After trying to control sleep deprevation induced breakdowns we also had a short visit to control center in the Toronto City Hall... 2365@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-23T17:14:41+00:00 http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/archive/002360.html Tomorrow I will be leaving to London and then from there on Monday to Toronto. But before I even arrive we have managed to send some packets over there - packets of the electronic type that is. My favorite VJ... 2360@http://prototypen.com/blog/falk/ Blinkenlights Blinkenlights 2008-09-18T21:54:48+00:00