Tonight I’ll be speaking at Nerd Nite Orlando #3… the event starts at 7pm at Stardust… Facebook event page here. Technological Telekinesis: Become One With The Force Witness how objects and digital worlds can be manipulated without any direct contact. You never see a Jedi with a keyboard or a touchscreen, do you? Why be tethered when you can freely express yourself? With a low-cost input device, a laptop, and a bit of programming know-how, you can capture a flick [Read More...]

I’ve got a developer copy of the Leap Motion, a very exciting hardware device that senses the position of your hands in 3d space (watch the demo video here if you’re not familiar with it). There are a few quirks to getting up and running with the Leap using Cinder, but thanks to Stephen Schieberl I was able to get everything working. 1. Download the Leap Motion Developer Kit (Developer account required) and install the Leap application that runs in the background [Read More...]

There is an annual arts and culture advocacy day coming up on March 20th in Tallahassee. See http://www.flca.net/2013artscultureday.html for details. I’m not able to go, but I emailed my representatives to ask them to support arts and culture in Florida. If you are a Florida artist, I recommend you do the same. You can find your state senators and state congresspeople online. Feel free to use and modify my text below: Senator/Representative [whomever], The 2013 Arts and Culture day is coming up [Read More...]

A common complaint from MacBook Pro users in the recent past has been that Premiere Pro’s Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) was only hardware accelerated on Nvidia cards, as it was initially designed using CUDA. In CS5.5 and even more in CS6 however, Adobe updated the design to support select AMD video cards via OpenCL. Although Premiere Pro CS6 has been out for awhile, I just recently installed it, and am happy to say that the MPE in CS6 is GPU [Read More...]