Downloading the big format photo’s from Flickr turned out to be more trouble then I expected. Downloading the small format pictures went like a breeze, as I explained here. But on almost all the big files I got this picture: I suppose I got kicked out. I only realised this when I wanted to integrate […]
Tag Archives: Processing
days of my life
I’ve been programming hard to shape the pages that will represent my life in the calendar. I’ve used Marcos’ statistics to make a nice backdrop for my pages using the average of stress, energy, mood and inner peace values. Layered on top of that are the distinguishing values for the above parameters. I’ve also already […]
working with images
The calendar contains 863 photographs taken over the last eight years. Some days have multiple pictures most days have no pictures. Using a double loop I loop through the days again and for every day I loop the entire array to get the days where I took more pictures. Once I knew I could detect […]
virtual to paper
I managed to convert the micro-diary to PDF output. It’s quite moving to see my virtual diary which has spend almost eight years in a database printed on paper. There’s is no layout yet, that will follow later. I have to make sure the it is technically feasible and then I can start tweaking the […]
looping through the years
I’m starting a new data visualisation project. It uses some eight years of data from the numuseum website. In 2005 I started with a micro diary (255 characters per day) using custom software to update it every two hours. In 2006 followed my energy level and in 2008 inner peace and stress were added. All […]
Karuna clouds
Maha Karuna Ch’an, de zengroep onder leiding van Ton Lathouwers bestaat dit jaar 25 jaar. Vanuit de groep kwam het initiatief om iets doen met teisho’s (zen toespraken) die Ton in al deze jaren heeft gehouden. Ik heb in de 15 jaar dat ik bij Maha Karuna kom vele toespraken gehoord. Soms zijn ze heel […]
about breathing_time
For the TIK festival documentation I wrote an article about breathing_time: Background and concept Breathing_time was conceived as part of the Time Inventors Kabinet[1] project for which I was an invited artist. The idea behind this project was to use different ecological input for creating new notions of time. Right from the start I had […]
test session
I’ve been working like mad for last couple of weeks to get the ‘drawingBreath’ software going. Main issues: working with the sense-os API, more specificly formatting the string to be send to and retrieved from the server getting the custom software to work on the various PCs making the software work for five sensors in […]
work in progress
I’m working on the breath detection software and the device design. I’ve concentrated on detecting the breathing in and out and the event between breaths. Especially the distinction between in and out is hard as there is wind flow in both cases. So I use the difference in temperature to detect the in and out. […]
device and software
I’m currently developing the device design and the software for breathing_time. I realise now that the form factor of the device must come from the possibilities of the wind sensor. It works best when the breath is guided to the sensor. That way I can detect inhaling and exhaling. I’ve been trying out different sizes […]