.. Seriously.
Turns out the co-author of Flickr Hacks, "KrazyDad", real name Jim Bumgardner, who makes cool collages of Flickr photos and some beautiful combinations of sound and motion with code, also apparently owns that particular e-mail address. He has done a lot of work with machine-generated music which a lot of his motion-based work relates to, I recommend poking around his site.
He's a truly quirky and creative guy - he gave a demo/presentation at Yahoo! yesterday, and showed a variety of awesome projects involving motion, sound and "remixed media" (ie. a collage of all photos tagged "circle square" on Flickr.) He mixes math, design/animation/art, programming and philosophy together; I feel like I have something in common with him based on his demos and stuff, his interests, talents and so on, but I don't have the diverse, mad crazy skillz like he does. Truly inspirational.
I talked to him for a bit after the presentation about his work, how he got into this (he fell in love with circles, then learned Math in order to figure out how to draw them and so on. Man, did that ever sound familiar!)
On the e-mail thing, I asked him, "Do you get a lot of prayers?"
He said, "Oh yeah. And spam. Penis enlargements, mostly..."
;)
Posted by Schill at October 28, 2006 10:25 AM