Follow these links for more info on Wayne.

Swarm, “the heaviest live percussion section you will ever see”:
http://vimeo.com/7582963

EightPrime
http://eightprime.net

We will be working to create a simple visualization that will emulate pixel snow on a tv. Cam will take you through the process of writing a simple bit of code to create this visualization. Please feel free to take this code and modify it to make your own visualizations. We would love to see what you are able to create using this simple bit of code.

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Or by email L S B at LiFT Studios dot ca

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You can download processing here

You can download the tutorial files here

The processing language reference can also be found here

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Thanks again from the entire LiFT team for helping make LSB such a success.

We begin our conversation with a brief background on Monique’s journey through education, internship, working for Raincoast Books and then finally to establishing Boxcar Marketing.

After mentioning some of the common challenges that most publishers seem to be facing these days the conversation turns toward the topic of Citizen Journalism. Both Monique and I seem to agree that there is still a huge difference between traditional journalism and the new blogging movement, both are important and both can learn from each other. Unfortunately both sides seem to be taking a defensive stance and tend to throw stones more than listening.

Monique mentions two journalists that understand the online space: David Beers of The Tyee and Kirk LaPointe of the Vancouver Sun
and then goes on to talk about an interesting iPhone app called ScanLife that lets newspaper readers take a photo of a barcode and get access to auxiliary information to an article.

Our talk moves onto the subject of books, how will we use them in the future, will the printed book live on and what are the possibilities to come.

Bonus topics:
Author Blogs: Monique gives authors tips on writing blogs
Bookriff: a few thoughts about the Bookriff project

I really enjoyed my talk with Monique and would like to thank her for taking the time to come chat. We look forward to working with you again on future projects.

You can find this post at Kerry’s blog www.kmore.net

Kerry was kind enough to share his thoughts with us on this edition of LSB.

We are very much interested in hearing your side of the story! Tell us what you think of this podcast and Kerry’s thoughts on social media using the comment form below.

During our talk Alex delves deep into the subject of IX, covering everything from the convergence of products and services to the post-Orwellian commoditization of public space and private experience. If that’s not enough to fill your plate, Alex goes on to suggest how IX could bring about a future "Garden of Heavenly Delights" where human creativity is harnessed through games.

Like it? Hate it? Want to chime in?
Continue the conversation by leaving a comment below.

Losing My Religion
To me the chat gets interesting when Kris talks about the life-changing events at Trinity Western and his view of religion after that point. We all have moments in our lives that we can look back on and see how our decisions have been informed.

Thoughts on Outsourcing
Another surprising topic that comes up is Kris’ opinion about outsourcing. I’ve had many people suggest that we try outsourcing the development work overseas but like Kris, I don’t yet believe that it’s a viable option. I’ve only heard nightmares about iteration after iteration of complex web projects that end up costing more and taking three times as long to complete.

Kris suggests that building quality software requires quick iterative cycles, clear communication and agile design and development. We’re definitely with Kris on this one.

If you want to learn more about Kris Krug, I suggest Google, he’s everywhere. In fact, that’s maybe what we should talk to Kris about next.

Thanks to Kris for a great talk, we’re looking forward to having you in again to chat about the future instead of the past.

This process of documenting talks about Interaction Design has another purpose other than our LiFT Studios Broadcast. We are submitting many of the best ones to the IxDA 10 conference.

If you feel you have a strong opinion about what Interaction Design is, drop me an email haig(at)liftstudios.ca. Maybe we can have a skype call to put you on the next broadcast in this series. I’m serious!

On LSB024 this week we sit down and have a few drinks with three Vancouver designers about their thoughts on defining Interaction Design and a explaining a typical day in the life of an Interaction Designer. I’d like to thank Dave Shea, Todd Sieling and Kathleen Moynahan for being candid and speaking with me, Haig Armen and sharing their point of view.

This process of documenting talks about Interaction Design has another purpose other than our LiFT Studios Broadcast. We are submitting many of the best ones to the IxDA 10 conference in.

If you feel you have a strong opinion about what Interaction Design is, drop me an email haig(at)liftstudios.ca. Maybe we can have a skype call to put you on the next broadcast in this series. I’m serious!

Although Dasz currently works on a wide variety of interaction design projects, it’s no secret about where his real passion lies. Dasz has a serious long term obsession for synthesizers and creating electronic music on the fly. This ‘live PA’ style of improvised music requires a high level of proficiency on a synthesizer and sequencer and relies on more than just preset sounds and loops.

Dasz and I talk about what lessons can be carried over from synth design to application and web design and visa versa.

We finish our conversation with a few ideas about where synthesis may be heading in the future and some thoughts about networking software.

What do you think the future of synthesis is? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

For this broadcast, recorded over Skype with special audio hijinks courtesy of SoundFlower and LineIn, I ask Josh about what makes a good product, ways for teams and clients to communicate, how to manage client expectations, and what it takes to get into product development. Sit back and enjoy the show!

If you didn’t get enough of Josh in the podcast, you can find him tweeting on Twitter in his more natural state of inversion.

In this episode we explore the high level strategy which has fed into the design and development of the new generation of interactive kiosks, as well as the process of working with all parties involved. We will also take some time to examine the creative process which has led to the design and development of these kiosks.

Jeff Heywood is the Manager of Content Production for the Vancouver Aquarium
Chris Stone is the Senior UX Designer for Nitobi Software
Cameron Lee is a designer and developer for LiFT Studios

In this episode we explore the high level strategy which has fed into the design and development of the new generation of interactive kiosks, as well as the process of working with all parties involved. We will also take some time to examine the creative process which has led to the design and development of these kiosks.

Jeff Heywood is the Manager of Content Production for the Vancouver Aquarium
Chris Stone is the Senior UX Designer for Nitobi Software
Cameron Lee is a designer and developer for LiFT Studios

Jason has been making music with 8-bit and hand built gear for the last 10 years.
He has produced a number of albums under the moniker “6955″.
Currently he co-owns the video game company Polytron Corporation where he acts as production manager and sound designer.

For more information on Polytron and Fez see: polytroncorporation.com
For more information on 6955 see: 6955.org

Walter Murch

To say that Walter Murch is well-known in the film industry is a bit of an understatement. He has been recognized for many achievements over his 40 year career including Oscars for both Apocalypse Now and The English Patient. Anthony recommended I read Murch’s In the Blink of an Eye (2001), which I ended up reading after really enjoying Michael Ondaatje’s The Conversations (2002). Both books inspired me a great deal.

Check out his page on wikipedia and find out more about the films he’s help make at his IMDB page.

Errol Morris

If you’ve watched any of our other Lift Studios Broadcasts, you’ll know that we are big fans of Errol Morris. But we thought we’d dig into some of the reasons why he is such an innovator in the field of documentary film making. We spend a bit of time explaining how the Interrotron works and why it’s so effective.

Have a look at Errol Morris’ website, there’s some interesting things there and don’t forgot to look at the trailers to some of the videos we spoke about. href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPu0chBQeUk">First Person – Hell of a Flight
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.

Here are some of the other podcasts that Anthony mentions:

• Film Riot: a great primer for people getting into film making.
• Totally Rad Show:

Thanks Anthony for the great talk. We’re looking forward to having you be a guest editor for an episode of LSB

You can find Julie on the web at http://www.julieoya.com, posting about unicorns and bacon at http://lebird.tumblr.com and Twittering as Lebirdee.

Central to the conversation is the on-going corporatization of media and how the corporate powers have flubbed the single biggest opportunity they’ve ever been given: the Internet. Todd explains how Big Media’s desire for a “Pleasantville model” of copyright, where dough-eyed and naive citizens happily follow the rules and nod to the cues of expected behaviour without ever questioning why, has turned the corporate media industries into vast institutions largely devoid of ideas and innovation. In short time, the conversation hops from the establishment of blogging platforms (such as LiveJournal and Blogger) as innovators in user-generated content to a frank discussion on why rigid copyright terms and treating your audience as criminals is marketing (and coprporate) suicide. To fill in the gaps, discussion of Facebook’s constant (and possibly criminal) mishandling of their user’s content, why Michael Geist is a national icon, South Park’s cheeky and clever insistence of function before form, the Dadaist nature of the contemporary music industry, Girl Talk, how the legacy of The Beatles’ music is now in the hands of Rock Banders and mash-up artists, and why Radiohead’s re-invention of music distribution turned bold experimentation into sleazy marketing.

Not solely to harp on the pitfalls of the RIAA, Facebook, et al, Todd offers solutions to some of these problems: copyright control at the hardware level of camera equipment, allowing user communities to subtly dictate the laws of the land, understand the mediums in which your product thrives, and ditching 5-figure per song lawsuits for customers who simply want to enjoy their favourite music. With British governments looking to cut-off illegal downloaders from the web for good (and legendary musicians such as Paul McCartney, Elton John and Damon Albarn appropriately calling shenanigans), it seems this dilemma is far from over.

Thanks again, Todd (Twitter). We look forward to having you in the studio for round three.

Our conversation stems from a post John had written on Thinkubator this summer, The Message-Oriented Life. In it, John discusses a dream he once had where he thought he was a highly-evolved version of GMail that automatically filtered and sorted electronic communication based on the implied desires of the user at any certain time. John sees such a unified messaging platform as a potential solution to the problems of email deluge and information overload. Being a dream, however, such a vision is wide open for interpretation and we try and flesh out some of these ideas through an understanding of user behaviour, Twitter, pre-blog online culture, and these things called “books”.

Later in the podcast we cite the controversy created by an interview between Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, where Anderson suggests that the future of “media” will be done by hobbyists moreso than professionals. To quote the (rather hostile) interview, “In the past, the media was a full-time job. But maybe the media is going to be a part time job. Maybe media won’t be a job at all, but will instead be a hobby.” Besides the controversial statement, it’s a good interview that hints on many of the same ideas that we discuss here: how professional publishing works in an era where amateur publishers have more clout than ever; and how making a business-case for a professional publishing operation is becoming harder and harder, among other things.

Rather fittingly, the conversation ends on the subject of infrastructure and the political importance of users having a controlling interest in our day-to-day communications infrastructure.

We look forward to having John in the studio again for another talk, and maybe by then Canadians will have wrestled our digital communications away from the giant telecomms and we can talk about John’s new cell phone. You can follow the activities of CCSP and the SFU Master of Publishing program on Thinkubator (a project in which Lift was happy to assist in), or get to know JMax on Twitter.