LA C++ Meetup: Cinder chat

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For the past few months, Corey Porter has organized the LA C++ meetup. We’ve been hosting them at Oblong Industries in downtown LA, and it’s been a nice place to learn about the language and absorb bits of knowledge from experienced coders.

I spoke for a bit about Cinder, it’s basic structure, and went into a bit more detail on how the timeline works. You can look at an edited version of the slide deck. I removed the images of other people’s work (just in case), and instead just provide links to their sites, which you should visit. The slides probably won’t make a ton of sense without someone talking over them to pull it together, but there are code snippets which may be useful to people getting started with Cinder.

Some useful posts on the Cinder forums

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The Cinder forums are a great place to learn. Following are some of the posts I find myself going back to for technical reference.

Boulder, briefly

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Looking down a trail towards evergreen trees and the flatiron mountains.

On Monday, I spent the day at Wall Street on Demand in Boulder, CO. I was invited by Christo Allegra to talk about my work and give a brief workshop on the Cinder framework. The talk went well, and I liked presenting in the casual environment of the office; rocking chairs, couches, and cups of tea. My presentation was titled “Sampled landscapes, synthetic terrain” which seems to have gone over well enough.

WSOD has a relationship with RMCAD, and they provided design mentors for students in an their interaction design course this semester. The semester happens to have recently ended, so I also participated as a guest reviewer for their final presentations on Monday. I was impressed by the high quality of the student presentations. The solutions to the problems they defined were fun and displayed well.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t in the area long enough for a proper hike. I did get to go for a brief walk about a reservoir to start my day, though.

Holy Land

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image of the book, holy land, held up with one hand for scale.

I read Holy Land over the past few days while riding the bus to UCLA. Holy Land is a series of glimpses into suburban life and its history, divided up into segments as orderly and mysterious as rows upon rows of houses. The development of LA’s suburbs, the stories of people who stand out, and the ritual of its daily life, are told in fascinating, honest prose. It’s neither a work of praise or condemnation, and highly recommended.

I am here now

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I am showing new work this week alongside my friends in the UCLA Design|Media Arts MFA program. Our show, meaningfully titled “I am here now,” covers some of what we’ve been up to over the Summer. I will be showing projects started in a cave in Missouri, printed at Anderson Ranch in Colorado, and finished up in my apartment in Los Angeles. In other words, things that span my Summer.

exhibition postcard with list of participants and a series of phrases containing the phrase 'I am here now' within them

Pete Hawkes designed the postcard (and poster). I wrote a little script that searched twitter for the phrase “I am here now” and saved the results in a file. For a preview of the show, visit the exhibition website.

The opening reception is Thursday, October 14 from 5—8pm.