DryReading

					DryReading Software The Mugshot Machine The Flash version of the Mugshot Machine lets anyone with a webcam take pictures like a photobooth machine. There is also a standalone version for Macintosh. Here's a link to the new Flash version of the Mugshot Machine. Here's a link to the original stand-alone version of the Mugshot Machine. •••• The Virtual Camera The Virtual Camera is used around the world to teach basic digital camera use. •••• Beautiful Dorena Picture by Mary Mitchell Beautiful Dorena is an experimental and, some might say, puzzling drawing program. It contains a wealth of features, most of them compelling but of questionable value. It is especially fun if you hook a video camera or web cam up to your computer. You can get information about it here and download it for free (Macintosh version only) Kid Pix: The Early Years In the early 90s I created Kid Pix. Here's the story. Chumby Widgets I created a couple of Widgets for the Chumby a while back. Here's one that offers a new phrase every hour for you to use in conversation. (Yes, the picture above is updated every hour.) D- n 1998 I created D-, a program that took perfectly good spelling and wrecked it in various ways. My friend Chris Rauschenberg mentioned that he still occasionally told people about it. I had to confess that it was no longer available for various technical reasons. This inspired me to re-write it in Flash so a new generation of good spellers could be horrible ones. Here is a link to it. World Wide Weather Guy A guy so empathetic his apperance responds to the weather .
Virtual Camera • The Kid Pix Story • Beautiful Dorena • Mugshot Machine • D- • Chumby Stuff • red-green-blue.com • World Wide Weather Guy • Payne Fresco Blog Contact Craig Hickman

PHOTOGRAPHY Someplace Else				NEWS June 27, 2009 Here's a Preview of Another New Project COMPLEX NUMBERS Complex Numbers is a project is in the tradition of my three earlier text/image based books, Signal to Noise (1988), Dry Reading (1991), and Mars Observations (2001). Complex Numbers might eventually end up as a book, but right now is developing in web-based form. Currently I have a large number of photographs and one interactive piece in place. Please take a look. ----------------- May 3, 2009 New Photo Project See it here There's a new set of pictures on Dry Reading. The series is titled The Lamp Posts of Skinner Butte Park. ----------------- February 16, 2009 Payne Fresco Blog See it here The Payne Fresco Blog (paynefresco.com) joins Dry Reading (dryreading.com) and Red Green Blue (red-green-blue.com) as the newest Dry Reading website. It's my attempt at experimantal fiction. It's probably best to start reading from the first post in January. Feel free to post comments. ----------------- January 30, 2009 Chip Blue Makes it to The Make Blog See it here ----------------- January 14, 2009 A New Inigma Gadget! See it here Here's I.M.Chip Blue, the fifth in my series of Enigma Gadgets. It talks. I also have a new page on the fabrication of the Enigma Gadget cases. ----------------- December 20, 2008 New Portfolio by Kirk Thompson on red-green-blue See it at red-green-blue! Kirk Thompson has been kind enough to allow me to publish a new portfolio of his work titled Individual Buildings: A little Argument with the Bechers on red-green-blue.com. It is accompanied by an excellent short essay. ----------------- December 20, 2008 *A Photographic Rememberance of Terry Toedtemeier* Terry was a friend since high school. Here is a photographic remembrance of him. Terry was a very influential photographer and curator. He had just finished his definitive exhibition and book on photography in the Columbia Gorge, Wild Beauty. ----------------- September 19, 2008 The Mugshot Machine Converted to Flash! Use it Here! In 2005 I created the Mugshot Machine, a program inspired by the classic photobooths of the mid 20th century. Shortly after I released it Apple came out with a similar program, PhotoBooth, which they give away with their computers. I stopped development on the Mugshot Machine at that time, but because it had a number of unique features, made it available on this site for free download. Recently I needed a project to brush up on my Actionscript 3.0 skills so I decided to make a version of it to run in Flash in a web browser. It's still beta software, but I thought I would make it available for testing now. If you have a video camera or webcam connected to your computer try it out and let me know how it goes. I am going to create a Mugshot Machine slide show so please email me your best work so I can include it! Future features may include things like direct Flickr integration. You can link to the new Flash Mugshot Machine here and the original stand-alone Macintosh version here. ----------------- August 23, 2008 Door Notes I now have a short writeup about a remotely updatable character display that's located on my office door. ----------------- August 15, 2008 New Enigma Gadget I have a new device in my Enigma Gadget series. Take a look at it. I even have some video. August 8, 2008 Pictures Showing at UO White Stag Building in Portland Three of my photographs are on display in the lobby of the newly opened University of Oregon Portland campus in Old Town's historic White Stag building. You can see the pictures in the viewer at the top of this page if you click here. The U of O Art Department's Digital Arts Program (where I teach) is also starting a BFA program in this building. ----------------- June 26, 2008 University of Oregon Research Innovation Award I received a 2008 Research Innovation Award from the University of Oregon ----------------- Work Featured in Make Magazine Bog Two of my recent physical computing projects have been featured on the Make Magazine Blog.
• Introduction •	Part 1 Giant (30 pictures)	Part 2 Lawn Chairs (26 pictures)	Part 3 Westinghouse (12 pictures)
Part 4 Goodyear (26 pictures)	Part 5 Road Service (9 pictures)	Part 6 Only (9 pictures)	Part 7 Union Pacific (24 pictures)
Other Photo Projects
Pacific Standard Time (64 pictures)	The Processed Word (64 pictures)	Loveland Pass (16 pictures)	Mars Observations (64 pages)
Physical Computing Projects (Enigma Gadgets)
Light Lunch Box	Blink Box	Standard Device	NameSpace
Photographers Showing at red-green-blue.com (My Other Website)

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