Tuesday, October 14, 2003  

Another day, another shoot. Today we went to HK's City University for a story on the "Body Baton", a set-up that allows you to create music through movements. Basically, it's a set of infra-red cameras that detect your basic "shape" -- how wide and tall you are -- and then as you manipulate your "shape" by moving or waving your arms around, it changes the noises. Stretching your arms out (which makes your shape "wider") creates a louder sound, while stretching upwards ("taller") creates sounds of a higher frequency. It's generally a cool system to play around with as you walk in and make all sorts of noises, and since it's computer generated you can change the noise to anything from a xylophone to birds chirping to even the Japanese taiko drum (which produces earth-shatteringly low notes). Just a fun little thing, really. You can see the story online here.

Oh, Interesting Link of the Day is back, and it's a must-see. Drunken Schumacher trashes suite while smoking a cigar (PICS INCLUDED). Fantastic.

Posted at 11:52 PM

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