A breadcrumb trail of project notes
The Internet Archive is now providing more than 1,000,000 digital books for free to the print-disabled: More than doubling the number of books available to print disabled people of all ages, today the Internet Archive launched a new service that brings free access to more than 1 million books – from classic 19th Century fiction [...]
Read More..>>I will be presenting at the Internet Archive Salon at Gray Area Foundation For The Arts in San Francisco. The salon is part of an outreach effort at the Internet Archive to have its materials more widely used. I’ll be showing how to access books stored at the Archive and embed and reuse/customize our open [...]
Read More..>>I’m showing a collection of gigapan prints at the Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch open studios. Here are the show details from the Megashear blog: Wide Open At The Ranch: Who’s Showing For Open Studios 2009 (Oct 24, 25), we’ll be filling our walls, shelves, nooks, and crannies (and we do have the best crannies) with our [...]
Read More..>>On Monday the Internet Archive launched the BookServer initiative for distributed lending and vending of ebooks over the Internet. I’m proud to be part of the Archive team on the project! Here’s Brewster Kahle and a few of the people (Mike, Sam, Raj) behind the BookServer: Here’s the blurb from the BookServer page: The widespread [...]
Read More..>>Video from my Dorkbot SF talk on Light, Electrons and Emotion is now online on ustream.tv. Thanks to Karen for organizing, Tcho for hosting, and the video team for broadcasting live! My slides are available and also embedded in this page below!
Read More..>>dorkbot san francisco People doing strange things with electricity time: 7:30pm Wednesday 23 September 2009 place: Tcho! Pier 17 San Francisco, CA 94111 FREE ADMISSION but donations to our host Tcho much appreciated. Michael Ang – Light, Attraction and Emotion: Projects with Photons, Biology and Electrons Inverse Parasol is an illuminated parasol that becomes a [...]
Read More..>>Guillermo C was kind enough to let me take a GigaPan inside his artist’s studio in Espai Carolines in Barcelona. Guillermo’s work includes three-dimensional paintings of the city and you can see some (completed and in progress) in the GigaPan. Guillermo added some snapshots on the gigapan.org site picking out some details like Michael Jackson [...]
Read More..>>Blue Flower will be at the Maker Faire this weekend (May 30/31) in San Mateo. Look for it in the Expo Hall near the giant Maker Faire banner between the signs for the cafe. Blue Flower is a possible answer to the question: what would a flower look like if it were electronic? The physical [...]
Read More..>>Here’s a preview of a GigaPan I did at/on Asta Lake on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Still compiling all the pictures and video from the trip!
Read More..>>Here’s a panorama from inside an igloo just outside Igloolik in Nunavut. You can click and drag to pan and use ctrl and shift to zoom in and out. That’s my brother on the right and also notable are our most gracious hosts on the opposite side and smoke hole at the top of the [...]
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