October 2008
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Imitiation is the sincerest form...
A great story from Robert Hodgin about how one of his Processing pieces was stolen for use on a Paul Smith shirt. If any of my work ever gets ripped off and printed on a $235 sweatshirt, I’ll know I’ve truly arrived.
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Polish it til you can see yourself
I’ve been kind of unmotivated and grouchy this week, but I got some cool stuff done anyway. The Surface music app was pretty much done, til Darren asked me to fix a minor visual glitch with it. It was something small but a fix required reworking a lot of the layout code. In the end it was worth it, and that inspired me to redo some other things to make for smoother and better animations.
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Road trip
I’m slacking on the updates. Here’s what’s up. Last week I spent Thu and Fri in the new Stimulant offices in San Francisco. Everyone had just moved in the previous weekend, but it was looking pretty great already. The main reason I was there was for two video shoots.
The first was for the Surface blog (similar to this one featuring my friend Joel), and was a pretty casual...
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It's never just a button
Been pushing hard this week to get some code back to our Surface client at MS. The current project involves prototyping some new controls. Or, rather, Surface versions of old controls. A button that’s intended to be hit with a mouse is easy, but in a multitouch, multiuser world, it gets a little more complicated. The Surface SDK already has controls like buttons and things sorted out, but...
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"Launched"
I set up a redirect from endquote.com to blog.endquote.com to endquote.tumblr.com right now, so I guess that means I’ve launched this blog. I wasn’t really telling anyone about it til now. So far the plan is just write about what I’m working on, as well as occasional personal updates.
Tumblr works because I’m not too concerned about comments and don’t really want a...
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WatchI made a fun thing. More here. As you can see, the physics library is coming along nicely.