Monthly Archives: January 2007

Outside of Eyebeam

By Jeff | Published: January 15, 2007
Outside of Eyebeam, I do commercial work for a few clients to pay the bills. Right now, I am creating a shopping cart for a jewelry store, a video preview system for a video studio, and a small content management system for a painter. But the biggest outside project I have is called Hit! or [...]
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P3tz0rZ

By Jeff | Published: January 9, 2007
Recently, I found out that Google has discontinued their support for their SOAP API in favor of an AJAX interface. In non-Acronymian, this means that the Google Search API is now useless for anything except very boring, browser-based, Google-branded web search applications. This is grave news, my friends. With the SOAP API, developers could execute [...]
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Trevor Paglen and the Black World

By Jeff | Published: January 4, 2007
It is my understanding that before this year, the Production Lab at Eyebeam dealt mainly with 3D production and compositing. This has changed somewhat this year with the new fellows, Chris Sugrue and I. Our interests are more related to code than they are to video, and since we now make up half of the [...]
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Switchboard Update

By Jeff | Published: January 3, 2007
As part of my masters thesis at Georgia Tech, I created a library for Processing called Switchboard . The goal was to “create a conceptual level interface to as many web and network related services as possible.” On a more fundamental level, I wanted to allow people to use live data sources to create art [...]
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Craigslist/Google Earth Mashup

By Jeff | Published: January 2, 2007
Having just returned to the NYC from my extended sojourn in Atlanta, I am currently looking for a new place to call my own. For those of you who have never been subjected to the horrorshow of frustration and humiliation that is the NYC renters market, let me assure you that finding a decent place [...]
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Introduction

By Jeff | Published: January 2, 2007
First posts — always awkward, right? There’s so much to say, so little context. Best to just get it right out of the way and pretend like all of my non-existent readers have known me for years and are up to date with my goings-on? Or should we start from the beginning? Well, what do [...]
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