GML Field Recorder Challenge (€1,200)
A design challenge to create an easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city.

The GML Field Recorder Challenge is a DIY hardware and software solution for unobtrusively recording graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city. The winning project will be an easy to follow instruction set that can be reproduced by graffiti writers and amateur technologists. The goal is to create a device that will document a night of graffiti bombing into an easily retrievable series of Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) files while not interfering with the normal process of writing graffiti. The solution should be easy to produce, lightweight, open source, cheap, secure, and require little to no setup and calibration. The first person or team to create the device and publish corresponding source code and HOW TO guides (as outlined in the rules) will receive €1,200. For a complete list of design requirements go to graffitimarkuplanguage.com/challenges/gml-field-recorder-challenge.

The GML Field Recorder Challenge (including the prize money) is funded entirely by Constant, which is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts-lab that is based and active in Brussels since 1997.

GML Week SE02 EP03 is happy to announce the public launch of the official GML community home on the Internet: graffitimarkuplanguage.com. This site will act as an archive for GML related projects, source code, updates and community discussion. graffitimarkuplanguage.com will also be home to the official (and newly updated) GML v1.0 spec document. Hackers and graffiti writers please come over and play.

graffitimarkuplanguage.com


The GML v1.0 Spec Doc was created by: Golan Levin, Evan Roth, Jérôme Saint-Clair, Chris Sugrue, Jamie Wilkinson and Theo Watson.

Huge thanks to Constant for their support of the GML community website and inaugural GML Challenge.

graffitimarkuplanguage.com was built in WordPress using wpfolio (THE WordPress theme for artists).

We’re proud to present the latest version of 000000book.com (Blackbook), the open database for storing & downloading Graffiti Markup Language files.

000000book lets you upload your own GML tag data, browse others, and download any tag’s GML for playback in desktop apps like Graffiti Analysis 3.0 and web apps like Canvasplayer. Software developers can easily upload tags from their own graffiti applications using 000000book’s RESTful API, for which no signup or authentication is required. For more info check out our intro to 000000book and API docs.

This release incorporates contributions from over a dozen members of the graffiti-hacking community, and GML-compatible applications are now available for tools like markers, lasers & eyetrackers, devices like the iPhone, iPad & Android phone, and bad-ass hardware like 6-axis CNC mills, automated paintball guns, and giant robot arms. We are not joking.

Lifecycle of a digitized graffiti tag

000000book website updates

• Mobile device pairing – enter your iPhone, iPad or Android handset’s unique ID to automatically have your tags attached to your 000000book account – check out your settings page.
• GML image generators – no more ugly missing thumbnails! Apps can attach a custom image when uploading their GML tag data (e.g. FatTag Deluxe), but now 000book will create a thumbnail for those who don’t. Powered by the mighty GMLImageRenderer by Muharrem Yildirim (Python) – thank you!
• Multiple tag players – in addition to the Flash GML Player by Todd Vanderlin we’ve also integrated Canvasplayer, a simple HTML5 GML playback demo made using Processing.js. We’d like to add your apps too! Please get in touch if you are making something embeddable on a webpage.

000000book API updates

• Search tags by keywords – looking for all “katsu” tags? No problem. This powers Graffiti Analysis 3.0′s new “RSS tag feed” feature and is based on work by ps / TPOLM
• GML syntax validations – why did that tag upload fail? Now you’ll know! 000book will return errors, warnings & recommendations when uploading GML via the 000book API — interactive debugger coming soon.
• Post-upload redirect options – after uploading a tag you can choose to send the user to a custom URL, back where they came from, or to the previous page (via HTTP_REFERRER)
• Check out the API Docs for more info.

Get Involved

• Writers – download DustTag or FatTag Deluxe (iPhone) or TouchTag (Android) and start uploading!
• Hackers – get on the GML mailing list and tell us about your projects! Questions & complaints always welcome
• Our IRC chat – irc://irc.freenode.net/#fatlab
• Organic, locally grown & 100% open-source

Graffiti Analysis 3.0 – “It’s hard to believe we could fit so many great ideas into something so thin.”

Break out your digital projectors, markers, turntables, lasers and 3D glasses, because Graffiti Analysis version 3.0 is finally here. For information and downloads go to graffitianalysis.com (source code available on github). Your one stop shop for ink and pixels.

New features include:
- audio input
- architectural awareness
- laser input
- keyword based .gml RSS playback
- red / cyan 3D effect

Overview:
Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen gestures involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived as a Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) file, a specifically formatted XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data.

Credits:
Graffiti Analysis is a project by Evan Roth. Software development by Mzz Chris Sugrue. Support for GAv3.0 from Les Grandes Traversees. Graffiti Analysis was built in Open Framewerkz, with additional code contributions from Theo Watson (laser input integration), Kyle McDonald (audio analysis) and ps / TPOLM (.gml RSS system).

GML Week II continues…

Graffiti Markup Language Week is back for a second round of studies in XML vandalism. Stay tuned to F.A.T. all week for daily GML based releases from the network of FAT fellows, friends and family.

For those not familiar with Graffiti Markup Language (.gml), it is a universal, XML-based, open file format designed to store graffiti motion data (x coordinates, y coordinates and time). The format is designed to maximize readability and ease of implementation for even hobbyist programmers, artists and graffiti writers. GML is intended to be a simple bridge between ink and code, promoting collaborations between graffiti writers and hackers. GML Week Part I can be viewed at fffff.at/tag/gmlweek.

Got Me Laughing
Geography Markup Language
Gospel Music Lover
Graffiti Markup Language

“TELE-INTERNET is an organically growing structure, a hacker space, an (un)conference, a stage, an exhibition,  a social performance, Commune 0/1, and a site for anyone who’s  interested in discussing the development of the internet, exchanging  ideas, and presenting their own projects. Ars Electronica festivalgoers are invited to take the plunge and join the fun, to contribute to the  discussion, or to chill out on the couch with a clubmate and a notebook.”
curated by Aram Bartholl , 2010

This  event will take place at the media art festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2nd-6th of September 2010. TELE-INTERNET represents the Prix Ars Electronica category ‘Digital Communities’ of which the CCC - Chaos Computer Club won the 1st prize Golden Nica 2010. (btw, some strange project won the Golden Nica in interactive art, … uh what was it again? … something like ass-writer? , or similar?  … ;-) The TELE-INTERNET program includes talks, presentations, discussions, panels, work in progress, projects, pop, performance, meetings, art, workshops, screenings and much more. Get full info on the program and on all participants at bit.ly/teleinternet and follow us on http://twitter.com/teleinternet #teleinternet

OPEN CALL: If you happen to be at Ars in September and you were interested to give a lightning talk or to squad a table with your project please get in touch with the TELE-INTERNET team.

Participants:

We’re working on a new improved version of WPFolio, and could use your help! WPFolio gives artists a free and open source tool to create their portfolios. With thousands of downloads, it’s likely to be many artists first encounter with free and open source tools!

While the project started a couple years ago, WordPress has developed several features that make it easier to create this kind of site and WPFolio is keeping up. The 1.6 version includes:

• custom menus w/ jQuery
• custom backgrounds
• better fonts
• better styling and improvements on the code
• a sample child theme so you can keep your tweaks separate from the core code

All this for the fabulous price of zero dollars!

1.6 is a beta release and there’s some bugs and improvements we need to get done before we can submit it to WordPress. Some are super simple things like improving php code, updating deprecated tags, and enabling custom headers, so if you want to take ‘em on, we’d appreciate it. You can fork WPFolio on GitHub and all the issues are listed on the GitHub issues page most with links leading to solutions. If you want to check out WPFolio more generally, see the WPFolio Owner’s Manual. If you have any questions, get in touch!

Once WPFolio is in primo shape, we may update the FFFFFat theme….

[=TC=] Infomercial TV Spot from TORTURECLASSICS on Vimeo.

Ubermorgen and James Powderly open source the secrect techniques and blockbuster hits behind musical torture and other forms of “enhanced” interrogation LIVE at 10am GMT/5am EST/6pm local time at GCC in Daebu-do, South Korea. Watch it LIVE as Powderly listens to Justin Bieber’s “Baby” on loop for 24hrs straight and DOWNLOAD all the TORTURE CLASSICS hits on the torturenetz

TIME LIFE announces the release of the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION. Torture Music is the kind of music that’s perfect for sitting in the Afghan or Iraqi Desert, sharing a prisoner for a night, or relaxing in a military barack or a CIA black site in some godforsaken country on a lazy afternoon. It’s music that just makes you feel free and drives others crazy. But, the artists included in the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION have taken the Torture Music sound and given it a psychotic and everlasting quality. This Torture Music compilation includes 60 songs, tons of images, uncensored videos, pdfs and extra bonus material. The Ultiimate Collection DOWNLOAD-DVD inlcudes both The White Site Album and The Black Site Album.

To kick-off of the release of the TORTURE CLASSICS ULTIMATE COLLECTION DOWNLOAD-DVD, a 24h TORTURE-GALA-PERFORMANCE will take place. The headlining act of the evening will be James Powderly, who will be subjected to Musical Torture and other forms of “enhanced” interrogation, in the experienced hands of Hans Bernhard, who will blast Justin Bieber’s “Baby” and the new hit track “Two Different Tears” by the original K-pop Idols the Wonder Girls for 24hrs straight. He will be tightened into a various stress- positions to prevent him from muting the sound. This showcased event will take place in a cell at Gyeonggi Creation Center Facilities in Daebudo – an island off the western coast of South Korea, formerly used by the Japanese to torture Korean orphans. This event will be streamed LIVE here.

For more info go to TORTURECLASSICS.COM or download the TORTURE CLASSICS press release.

Powderly at Daebu-do

THANKS TO:
Wendy (aka Wendelin P. Teister), Hyesoo Yoon, Jaewon Choi, Hongik University, GCC Gyeonggi Creation Center, Pro Helvetia, Bundesministerium fuer Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur BM:UKK Austria, Dr. Shird Kaukasian, Kim Yuna, Lotte, RIAA, Breitling, Korean Air, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Royal Caribbean

Naoyoshi Hikosaka, contemporary artist, decided to put together a show called the Free Art Exhibition so I decided to participate.

The exhibiting art works must be free to give away.
It wasn’t easy to think of free art using the old technology which can not be digitally copied. As a proud member of Tokyo F.A.T., I wanted to create something symbolic!

So here is what I did. First I designed a symbol with CC license marks and its meta data (see SVG data here), pressed it on 15 real bills, and of course signed my name on each of them. In a way, copy-lefted the bills. I own the author’s copyright of the bills and at the same time they are completely free!

I completed the work by lightly gluing the bills on a canvas.
Anybody can take it and leave. I also exhibited the stamp it self so that anybody can stamp it on his money or on himself.

If you want to make your own money in your own country, the idea is for free.

The Exhibition is until the 22th of August.

“15 Pieces of Papers Under Creative Commons License“
by Seiji Ueoka, F.A.T. Tokyo
2010

Selected tracks from albums & mixtapes I have been enjoying this season.

01 – Intro – “FAT vs. NBC 6b” by Mike Rugnetta (unreleased)
02 – Javelin – C Town (No Mas)
03 – The Asteroids Galaxy – Lady Jesus (Fruit)
04 – Sporto Kantes – Lee (2nd Round)
05 – M.I.A. – It Takes A Muscle (Maya)
06 – MIDIMarc- Machine Gun Funk (mixtape)
07 – Wax Tailor – Until Heaven Stops The Rain Instrumental (In The Mood For Life)
08 – Lissie – Pursuit of Happiness (live Kid Cudi Cover – YouTube)
09 – Kid Cudi – ’09 Freestyle (mixtape)
10 – Thirstin Howl III – Walk The Walk, Spit The Spit, Part 2 (Skilligan’s Island)
11 – Pharcyde – Runnin (Rmxxology)
12 – Wu-Tang Clan vs. The Beatles – Uh Huh (mixtape)
13 – Lazerproof – Independent Kill (mixtape)
14 – Paul Wall – Round Here (Heart of a Champion)
15 – Boy 8-Bit – Cricket Scores (Suspense is Killing Me)
16 – Hot Chip – I Feel Better (One Life Stand)
17 – 50 Cent – Life’s On The Line Instrumental (Power of the Dollar)
19 – Francis & the Lights – It’ll Be Better (It’ll Be Better from CANTORA)
20 – Outro – ODB Schoolteachers

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