Dubi Kaufmann’s Blog

I added a memory game to bikesalute.com I programmed it to load 15 random images from the bike salute pool. With very little coding I can have it load images from a flickr feed. Now I just need to find the right one.

Bike Salute Memory Game

I finally got to add happy music when the math puzzle is completed. I also changed the instructions to be more clear (thank you Polly). If you have a website and you want to have this puzzle in it go ahead and download it.
full disclosure I make a small fraction of a cent every time it is played or ε (epsilon) cents.

magic square puzzle

You can tell that someone has just started using photoshop by the amount of filters used in his or her work.
Here is the audio equivalent. I am still exploring GarageBand and I am enjoying the fact that all of the heavy lifting is done by the software.
Here is a mix I made out of a message left on my voice mail.

I love the White Stripes. I remember seeing them in one of the late night shows (Can you tell them apart?) and thinking I need to hear more of this band.

The original

edited backwards beat by beat

I made some changes to the original script so it can approximate fractions of frames.

BikeSalute.com now has a search function that works on the client site. I used a jQuery plugin called autocomplete which was written by Jörn Zaefferer and it worked right away. I wrote a php script to generate a javascript array that holds all the names and that php script will be run every time I add new data. I like it.

The song Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode was a big hit in the early 90’s when I was in high school and a fan of the “English new wave”. After all these years it is still a great song, maybe it is the choir like sample that is used for the beat. Ahh … Ahh.

I tempered with the song and reversed the order of the bars from the end to the beginning and came up with this.

How does it sound? My inner jury are still out on this.
After figuring out how many frames were between the beats, I fed it into a script I wrote. The process was automated by generating an EDL (Edit decision list) with Javascript and then importing it to Final Cut Pro. If I had to do it again I would have used XML instead of EDL because EDL files have formatting issues that are not visible in a text editor.

It was something I wanted to try for a while and finally a week ago the weather was right for it. I attached a cheap HD video camera from Target to a cheap Spiderman kite ($2.99) from Target and shot several minutes of video. The results can be seen on my flickr page. The camera shook pretty bad and usable frames were few and far between.

kite photo

Some of the kite photos were used as illustrations for a on the web version of Zeek Magazine

I love tumblr.com. I had an idea and I created a site for it really quickly. Picking the name for it was the hard part.
It all started with a photo I saw on flickr a while ago. I marked it as a favorite. Lately I came across a different photo of a bird nesting inside a letter and so to see if there is a pattern.
One swallow does not make a summer but two made me you google it. A quick search in flickr yielded many more than 30 photos and I choose the best ones.

So far I can tell that birds clearly prefer to build their nests inside capital R’s and capital A’s

UPDATE : if you see a photo that you think fits into Type Nesting please send the URL to dubster2k{at}yahoo.com

My short film LIX is now part of the permanent collection of the 59 seconds film festival. The first screening is scheduled in New York City at The Tank on May 9th, at 9:30pm 354 West 45th Street.
All the other screenings of the festival were a competition were the audience voted on their favorite entries and now my film is in the final selection. To put it in reality TV terms I’d say that I survived to all the way to the last episode.

I don’t know what is the best way to celebrate Casimir Pulaski Day. I marked it this year by making a photo booth plugin greeting card.

the plugin is free todownload and to use it, use the same installing process as the Obamafy plugin.
if you wonder what this day is there is an entry in wikipedia about it.