My friends from Lateral Summer are making a short movie called The Rift. It's a sci-fi movie and some scenes have screens with unusual user interfaces. Guys asked me for help to make them happen. The most troublesome part was stylized 3d globe. You can see it around 00:48 in the trailer. A static image of the globe. I followed this tutorial to make a basic monochrome 3d globe but had to go my own way because I needed more: 1. colored bars 2. animated bar growth 3. UI…

Music I'm an avid music lover. I listen to a lot of different genres. I always look for something new and it usually takes a lot of time to find something interesting to listen to. The appearence of SoundCloud made the task a bit easier. I can just subscribe to my favourite labels, magazines and artists music feeds and then listen through the aggregated feed from time to time. The problem is I don't want to spend my time listening to everything from the feed. There are also podcasts and…

If you are a very wilful person and you're already great at managing your time, skip this article and save yourself some time. If, however, you're an ordinary human being, bear with me — my formula of good productivity tool doesn't include willpower and being smart all the time into the equation. I'm also sure that out–of–the–box solutions don't work and you have to figure out what works best for you and you only. Introduction There was a lot of hype going on around the GTD time-management technique…

I had an idea of playing with granular synthesis in Overtone but I had no luck making t-grains ugen work. In the same time I found an excellent PD project called Granita courtesy of Lorenzo Sutton which did everything I wanted. The problem with PD is it's approach to UI construction which is a real PITA. On the other hand Overtone's way of doing things just rocks. I like to sketch whatever I make with emacs-live and nrepl. It's so much better then anything else for a mixed live-coding, notational…