I really like the effect that’s used in Invisibilia, a series of photographs that have had the subject replaced with an illustration: Maybe the pictures illustrate the idea that we all want to remove ourselves from life, and replace ourselves with fictional, self-created versions of ourself. We want to fictionalise our own existence, and impose […]
Over at Audio Cookbook, John Keston has been running a few experiments with using image filters in Photoshop to process sound. Running the audio data through a Gaussian blur or Spherize filter, he was able to create some incredibly diverse effects from a simple electric piano input. To test this concept I created a simple […]
Hackszine fans and readers, the Hackszine site is moving to a section of MAKE soon http://blog.stage.makezine.com/archive/hacks/ – we’re doing *a lot* of site updates on MAKE and this is the easiest way for us to do this and still keep the hacks content flowing. If you read hackszine via RSS you might not notice, but […]
With a patch to both the Android kernel and browser, Luke Hutchison was able to add usable multitouch support to the T-Mobile G1. If you aren’t concerned about updating your firmware, this is a hack that you can use on your device today, despite this not being an official component of the device’s design. I […]
Shaun Friedle created an impressive piece of Javascript which can automatically defeat CAPTCHAs used by the Megaupload file hosting service. While their CAPTCHAs are particularly weak, it’s an impressive Javascript feat that breaks into some new territory, namely Javascript-based optical character recognition. John Resig posted a breakdown of how the software works. Here’s the quick […]
Jamie Wilkinson of F.A.T. writes: I’ll be moderating a panel at the ROFLCON NYC event this Saturday (Jan. 24th) with fffffellow ffffatties Steve Lambert and Tobi Leingruber (@ 2:45pm; just before Bre Pettis among others) We will be talking about Firefox-based art projects like Add-Art, China Channel, Tourettes Machine, and how to win the internet. […]
Before the G1 was released and Android was only available via emulator, Jeffrey Sharkey reverse engineered DACP and created a really slick Android iTunes remote that functions just like the Remote app on the iPhone. The Digital Audio Control Protocol (DACP) was recently introduced by Apple, and is built into all recent iTunesâ„¢ versions. DACP […]
