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Message from Evan Roth:- I’m in BCN trying to sort out logistics etc GML in Barcelona… I’m headed to Barcelona on Wednesday for the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival. I’m going to be running some formal (and some informal) sessions surrounding Graffiti Markup Language. Hackers can find me on Thursday (Nov. 4th) at 11:30am in Monochrom’s hackerspace [...]

Non-flash (h264 .mov) here Context (from http://www.eyewriter.org/) Legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named TEMPTONE. Tempt1 was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. An international team (Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling [...]

I pulled Aza Raskin and Atul Varma aside on a busy day in Mountain View and asked: “What are you going to do at Drumbeat Festival“? Shooting from the hip, Atul suggested using Etherpad for teaching/learning HTML. Aza – departing from a Margaret Mead quote: “Never underestimate the power of a small but committed group [...]

Berlin is an amazing place – and more so if you’re an artist, cultural entrepreneur or digital media pioneer. There is a certain “anything is possible” vibe, rent’s cheap, and though Berlin is perpetually broke, people get by and do cool shit. Startups like Soundcloud draw attention to a nascent, cutting edge tech scene. Since [...]

This is a quick’n dirty html5 demo done by Brian Chirls​ at OVC Video hack day – original video (c) OK Go. One correction: This does not – as previously stated – use popcorn.js (yet) and is based on this code. In addition the optimization, the chroma key algorithm is different. Oh, go check out [...]

Open Web Award (via Transmedial) Nominated for the Open Web Award are three projects that critically consider and make use of the potential of the Open Web.  They have an online component, implement open and free technology and facilitate participation and collaboration. Drumbeat Project Producer Henrik Moltke represented award partner Mozilla at the jury session. [...]

Type “bad ass motherfucker” into Google, you get Evan Roth. Behind the bad-ass-itude you’ll find a soft spoken, artist / researcher whose work elegantly mixes free and open source technologies with pop culture under the slogan “Release early, often, and with rap music” . At Drumbeat Festival, Evan will run a graffiti workshop and showcase [...]

[this is the first in a series of short bios for the Drumbeat Festival introducing keynote speakers, participants and friends of Mozilla] Most people know Joi Ito as a influential internet entrepreneur, speaker and blogger. He is the CEO of Creative Commons and Neoteny Labs, and on the board of an astounding number of businesses [...]

Graffiti Analysis: POV from Evan Roth on Vimeo. The point-of-view camera is an early experiment towards creating an inexpensive, working solution to passively record graffiti motion data. See the GML Field Recorder Challenge and more about the GML project at http://www.graffitimarkuplanguage.com/ – you may also want to read Why I <3 GML (Graffiti Markup Language)

Today Max, Dan, Ilya and Raphi – aka the team behind the much-hyped Diaspora project – release their first chunk of source code. They have been working *very* hard on getting to this point, in spite of massive hype and media attention. In the geek world, there’s a lot of people waiting to inspect and [...]