Category Archives: Art

New Birdcage Project: Hyperlocal Music, Petty Vandalism, 2D Barcodes, and Bridging My Two Worlds

By Bryan Woods | July 17, 2009

I’ve been playing around with QR Codes a lot lately, and the more I use them, the more I’m beginning to see their value as a way of bridging the “real” (physical/”analog”) world with the digital world.
And so it dawned on me that I could use them as the medium to get people exploring the [...]

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Rails Rumble 2009, Engine Yard Flex, Potion, Navicon Torture Technologies, and This Blog

By Bryan Woods | July 1, 2009

Rails Rumble 2009 is right around the corner and I’m chomping at the bit to register.
Last year I had just started to toy with installing Rails and learning this crazy new thing called computer programming. I really wanted to participate but was short on skills.
This year will be different. I got together with 3 other [...]

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Graphing With Light

By Bryan Woods | June 15, 2009

I got to spend almost all of last Saturday playing with my Arduino and hooking it up to Processing.
I think it’s missing a strobe light most of all.
Video link: Crazy Visuals, bro from Bryan Woods on Vimeo.

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♬ Everybody’s Workin’ for the Weekend ♬

By Bryan Woods | June 12, 2009

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Q: Can a connection be made between a person’s web browser choice and their personal politics? A: Let’s find out.

By Bryan Woods | May 18, 2009

Recently I came across an interesting post on Daring Fireball linking to an intriguing comic:
Remember Sean Tevis, the information architect who decided to run for the state legislature in Kansas with an xkcd-style web comic promoting his campaign? He lost, but it was close, and he’s raising money in a similar fashion again. He is [...]

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Ruby Processing

By Bryan Woods | January 23, 2009

Ruby Processing Hack
Inspired by the visual art of Seldon Hunt.

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Of Musicians And Programmers

By Bryan Woods | January 21, 2009

Jeff Atwood posed the age-old question again today on his blog, and I thought it was worth a little more introspection as someone who was (is?) a musician first, programmer second.
The question: “Why are so many programmers musicians?” (Note: the question is coming from a programmer, not a musician, which is the first notable point. [...]

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Making UITableViews Suck Way Less

By Bryan Woods | December 3, 2008

Usually I wouldn’t get involved in arguments about which configurations framework designers choose to make default, but in the case of the iPhone’s UITableView, it’s pretty apparent the default options are going to lead you in circles of UI Case Study research and aesthetic ponderings before you realize a flip of a switch will solve [...]

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So what’s the deal with those Twitter charts, anyway?

By Bryan Woods | November 17, 2008

A couple of nights ago I posted some Twitter charts, the most interesting of which is reposted to the left (click to enlarge).
What you are looking at is a dendrogram of the people I follow on Twitter, sorted by their use of English. Dendrograms are great for showing off the results of a clustering algorithm, [...]

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