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A List of Essential Windows Software

Often I have come across very intense opinions about the superiority of the Mac user interface. While true with “stock” software options, it is my opinion that when bolstered with certain amazing freeware applications, the Windows XP user interface experience can surpass osX in terms of efficiency of operations. Thus, in the style of those [...]
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SOS: Media – Week 8 Update

This last week I focused nearly exclusively on working on my Hybrid Music performance. I had been making it a second priority previously, and so had a lot of work to do to catch up. Fortunately, the visual component of my Hybrid project intersected significantly with my AI project’s abstract visualizations.Accordingly, I thought it might [...]
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After Effects Workshop v3.0

This last Friday, I taught the third After Effects workshop that I have been a part of, for the benefit of a few students from the Mediaworks program. Myself having been in Mediaworks last year, and having attempted to put together a similar workshop for Mediaworks then, it was great to see all of the [...]
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Suppress Control and All Cocks Plaster

These are two short videos that I created for Safe Harbor. The process that was used to create them is an interesting and likely somewhat unique one, so I thought I would write a bit of an explanation here. First, here are the videos for you to experience firsthand. Suppress Control All Cocks Plaster These [...]
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After Effects Introductory Workshop!

Greetings fellow Mediaworks students. I am conducting an introductory workshop on Adobe After Effects tomorrow (Wed 2006-04-26) in the Multimedia Lab, from 11am to 1pm. You can download the PDF version of the handout here. This might be useful if there weren’t enough copies to go around at the workshop, or if you couldn’t attend, [...]
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