Video mashup screen demo

TradeMark Gunderson of the The Evolution Control Committee made this amazing rear-projected infra-red-activated faux-touchscreen mashup controller... hacked from Wiimotes.

Video Mashup Screen Demo

• [gnosis]

  I agree – what a great narration voice! I would love to see a longer, more detailed demo.

• [Nylund]

  Although the thimble/Wii thing is kinda neat, it seems a bit unneeded, especially if touch screens become larger and more commonplace.

• [franky]

  I prefer WiiJTimski, because he makes into a performance and he doesn’t use the infrared:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQ9KOwd6MM&eurl=http://www.wiijtimski.com/youtube4.html

• [jfrancis]

  Play that funky music…

  :D

• [afo]

  TradeMark Gunderson = transmogrifier ray + BB staff

• [drivers99]

  I think I might have everything I need to build this… but how? The projector is self explanatory. Looks like you can talk to it through a bluetooth module.

  I found this link. It looks like it installs a joystick device. Not sure what all the inputs might be and how you use them of if you can use it as a “mouse” using the IR camera tracker. http://www.wiiprojects.org/bluetooth.html

  Looks like I know what I’m working on tonight…

  Looks like it’s not all that simple either. hmm.
  http://www.kudzuworld.com/blogs
  /Tech/20070817A.en.aspx

• [Brendan]

  http://codebetter.com/blogs/brianpeek/archive/2007/05/17/wiimote-applications.aspx

  more info on how to program with the wiimote

• [codesuidae]

  That guy’s cheating, he’s got a real microphone.

• [TheFool]

  Wow, the ECC! Somewhere I hope I still have my “Rocked By Rape” and “The Whipped Cream Mixes” records. Sadly I have long lost my “Double the Phat and Still Tasteless” CD/floppy disk.

  Listen:

  http://www.last.fm/music/The+Evolution+Control+Committee/_/Rocked+by+Rape

  http://evolution-control.com/index.php/discography/past-releases/37-past-releases/62-rocked-by-rape-7q-on-eerie-materials

  http://evolution-control.com/index.php/discography/past-releases/37-past-releases/63-the-whipped-cream-mixes-7q-single-on-eerie-materials

  some more fun stuff at

  http://www.last.fm/music/The+Evolution+Control+Committee

  This is pretty hilarious:

  http://www.last.fm/music/The+Evolution+Control+Committee/_/The+Fucking+Moon

• [MollyMaguire]

  Wow, I am so not in the cool club. That description might as well be in Tuvan. Have to wait to get home (away from the streaming filter at work) to watch this inexplicable video.

• [Anonymous]

  I have a slight man-crush on that guy’s voice.

• [EH]

  gnosis: the whole thing can be gleaned by watching the johnny chung lee video at TED and any of a billion Ableton Live (the software on the screen) tutorials on the ‘tube.

• [mokey]

  The Fucking Moon. That one went on every mixtape I made in high school.

  Hey jerks come back to Columbus! I don’t know where you live now but I bet it’s lame.

• [mokey]

  Oh yeah and I remember their website clued me in to searching for “mic in line” with Napster. You’d get all kinds of mp3s of people talking to themselves or doing fake radio shows, or testing out their new PC mics. Napster, I kinda miss you.

• [cinemajay]

  Is it just me or was there no mash-up video demonstrated in that mash-up video demo?

  /just the device

• [Johnny Cat]

  Chairboy -

  Wow, I just read that this afternoon. Song of Susannah.

• [Chairboy]

  Don’t be silly, #1. It’s Turtles all the way down.

• [Clay]

  Now I have a new voice to imagine narrating the minutiae of my everyday life.

• [TedJohnson]

  Is that Xeni’s dad?

  “For over 20 years the ECC has been making mashups…”

  Wake up people: Xeni… is… a… mashup?