It is running PDa 0.4 for sound and custom python to control the text: http://gige.xdv.org/pda/
it uses these boards: http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts7250-spec-h.html It uses this distro of linux: http://www.embeddedarm.com/linux/main.htm We are currently writing a paper about it for a conference, which we hope will be published. It will cover the whole thing in more technical detail. .hc On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:59 PM, palmieri, ricardo wrote: > hi hans. > > this screens is a comercial product, or a special project? > do u have more info about it? > > ah > is alex posada in the earstudio moveable type album? > > hasta. > > palmieri > > 2007/12/5, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> In case anyone is interested, there is now a newspaper article with a >> video about this piece: >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/arts/design/25vide.html >> >> .hc >> >> On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >>> >>> If any of you happens to be in New York City, drop by the lobby of >>> the new New York Times building. It's open to the public, and >>> there is a great installation there. The sound is all powered by >>> Pd and the text handling and sequencing was done with Python. >>> >>> http://earstudio.com/projects/moveable_type.html >>> >>> Moveable Type >>> Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin >>> (in progress, to be completed in fall, 2007) >>> >>> "Moveable Type, by New York artist Ben Rubin and U.C.L.A. associate >>> professor Mark Hansen, is an artwork commissioned for the ground- >>> floor lobby of The New York Times Building in New York City. When >>> complete, it will be a dynamic portrait of The Times. Statistical >>> methods and natural-language processing algorithms will be used to >>> parse the daily output of the paper (news, features, editorials) >>> and the archives, as well as the activity of visitors to >>> NYTimes.com (browsing, searching, commenting). The resulting >>> refracted view of The Times will be displayed on 560 vacuum- >>> fluorescent display screens installed in the lobby." >>> >>> I'll post more on this when I get it, like video would be nice... >>> >>> .hc >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >>> ------ >>> >>> ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> ---- >> >> 'You people have such restrictive dress for women,' she said, >> hobbling away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish out >> another pink-collar temp pool day. - "Hijab Scene #2", by Mohja Kahf >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >> listinfo/pd-list >> > > > -- > ricardo palmieri > # 1185833173 > [palm.estudiolivre.org] > [skype:palmieriricardo] > [jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [linux user # 392484] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Looking at things from a more basic level, you can come up with a more direct solution... It may sound small in theory, but it in practice, it can change entire economies. - Amy Smith _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
