My latest project for my employer (Yahoo! Music) was pleasantly unexpected on a number of levels.
It’s an application for Facebook, called Yahoo! Music Videos. If you’re on Facebook, check it out!.
If you’re not on Facebook, check out Facebook! It’s kind of like MySpace, but not as ugly.
UPDATE: The first two reviews [...]

Things I talked about at last night’s Creative Talk at Yahoo! in Santa Monica, and some relevant links.

A magic trick:
http://www.coverpop.com/mindpower/
Can software make you cry?
My search for meaning in computer-generated art.

Randomness
http://krazydad.com/bestiary/bestiary_random_pixels.html
http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2005/05/04/three-johns-on-randomness/
Information Theory and Perception
http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2005/05/19/entropy-motion-graphics/
http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2005/08/01/information-theory-and-art/
Kaleidoscopes
http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2007/04/16/kaleidoscope-842/
http://krazydad.com/windows_freebies.php
Complexity without randomness
http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2007/04/02/fibonacci-logos/
Computer generated circular art
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I’ll be giving a free lecture on the “Creative Use of Flash” at Yahoo! in Santa Monica, on Wednesday, May 23rd. You can get the full event details here.
This is the first installment of a “Creative Talks” lecture series that is being put together by Yahoo! creatives Jeff Hurlow and Jens Jonason.
I [...]

A Flash-8 kaleidoscope I’ve been making today. Click to play with it (requires the Flash 8 plug-in).
The raster graphics added in Flash 8 enable larger and better performance kaleidoscopic effects than in prior versions. I’m finally able to achieve effects that formerly required graphics acceleration, such as C++/OpenGL.
I facetiously numbered this [...]

An interactive mosaic of candy photos by Cybele-LA, from the Candy Blog.

Here’s my latest Quartz Composer screensaver for the Mac. This combines the fibonacci spiral seen in a lot of my graphic images with the harmonic motions from my Whitney Music Box.
The motion in this screensaver is actually quite simple — if you look at each disc, you’ll see that it is just [...]

I just made this trance-inducing screen saver for my Macbook Pro using Quartz Composer.
If you watch it long enough, especially in a dark room, you will eventually see the eye of God.
Or maybe you’ll throw up. I’m not sure.

It is definitely doing weird things to my eyes… The walls are bulging…

(Note: [...]

A little something I made for my students during today’s actionscript class. Here’s the flash source code, and here’s an article that explains the technique I use to generate those groooovy colors.

When I made 4,800 kakuro puzzles for this website, it never occurred to me that some of you would run out. But apparently, it’s happened, or at least that’s what the emails tell me.
So here’s 1,600 more.
Big ones too.
Enjoy :)

The Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube is one of several mashed-up news tickers I am working on that use the new Pipes service from Yahoo! to deliver up-to-date data in a dated style.
Headlines from a BBC RSS feed are feed, via Y! Pipes, to my news ticker, which is implemented in Flash. Click [...]