8-bit painting – watch a DIY light pen for the IBM PCjr
Jozef Bogin, Slovak engineer and hacker, has just posted this short video of a light pen - PCjr interface, and...
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The best music and creative hardware deals for Cyber Monday from Amazon
Amazon has a surprising sale on Roland and Novation drum machines, among others. Here are some top picks. The big...
The best deals for creative and live visual software you can still get on Cyber Monday
Creative visual software doesn’t get as much action in Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales – but don’t tune out,...
Watch Larry Cuba explain how he animated the computer graphics for the original Star Wars
While you justify that new Mac or NVIDIA, here's graphics animation legend Larry Cuba talking about how he used 1970s...
Livecoding glitch, eye-searing colors, AI poetry, and the knowledge to make it yourself for free
The latest absolutely eye-popping work made with free live-coding tool Hydra comes from artist Naoto Hieda, with sound by the...
Carsten Nicolai reflects on light, emotion – and astrophysics
Noton founder and media artist Carsten Nicolai, known also for his Alva Noto alias, reflects on pure color and perception...
Unity just bought Weta Digital – yeah, the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson one
The democratization of visual effects continues at a stunning pace, with or without acquisitions. But it's hard to beat this...
Unity 2021.2 is full of artist-friendly stuff, from rendering to mobile face capture
Hey, that other engine starting with the letter 'U' is looking pretty amazing, too. Unity 2021.2 Tech Stream is here,...
MadMapper will now let you control lasers, with MadLaser beta
garageCube, makers of MadMapper and the software that helped popularize projection mapping, are now about to take on frickin' lasers....
teenage engineering are now selling their own custom PC case, computer-1
If Apple and PC makers aren't inspiring you, there's always teenage engineering. The Swedish maker of synths, sound gear, and...
