Open Source Graphic & Web Design Studio, Four Years Later

Here we are, four years after the launch of studio ponnuki! We are still going strong, and business has changed a lot since its inception. One thing to which I’ve stayed true is my commitment to use…

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KindleBerry Pi

I am happy to announce that this article got publish in Hacker montly We left our little studio in the Kootenays last July to travel throughout Europe, traveling to discover about new media,…

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open source graphic design

How to work as a Graphic Designer without sleeping with Adobe I am just now completing a certificate in graphic design at the online school Sessions.edu, and although I have come to like the Adobe Cre…

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teenage engineering’s op-1: a paradigm shift in portable music making

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 2 years, you’ve most likely heard of the of the OP-1 (that is, if you follow new audio device and synth development). Teenage Engineerin…

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kindle 3 tricks & hacks

The Kindle e-Reader is quite the device and in my first review, I brought some ideas on how to maximize its usage. The open source Calibre software and Dropbox library are still some of the best featu…

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d.i.y. soft synth with midi controller in processing

Following up on last week’s post about mO, we’ll take it a notch further today by adding a MIDI controller to our code. You will need: MIDI controller that works with your computer Process…

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programing audio ~ d.i.y. simple soft synth

Learning electronic music has been a more complex task than initially planned. I’ve been playing around with few toys like Nord Micro Modular, microKORG, KP3, TENORI-ON and Dark Energy. Although…

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why is minecraft so darn addictive?

In short, Minecraft is pointless. You live in this generative reality (all worlds are generated randomly with some sort of algorithm). You gather wood, soil, rocks and gravel. And you do what you want…

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yoga and creativity

This is a repost from lightwaves since I would like to continue writing about my creative process, and lightwaves is not getting published anymore. Creativity has taken center stage in my life during …

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mad scientist noise synth

I really like visual computer audio creation tools, and I’ve started playing around with Processing, controlP5 and Beads in order to prototype some sort of digital instrument. This little instru…

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op-1

Finally after 2 years of talk and desires and excitement the OP-1 has been shipped to me. I even signed up for the beta tester about a year ago but never touched the device itself! It’s getting …

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3D tripping

I finally took some time to test my new hardware setup. I got myself a quad core 3 GHz, 4G of RAM, with a ZOTAC NVIDIA GPU in order to do more 3D and multimedia. And last night I was able to play arou…

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new year – with fluxus and mixxx

This was a great New Year! There was a local event for New Year’s Eve near where I live and the whole community was there. It was quite inspiring to see everyone party together. For my part, I d…

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kindle 3 review

I am quite in love with my new kindle 3. It’s a well design device, with good battery life and the management of the files can be quite seamless. BAD SIDE Lets start by the bad side. Why is it t…

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new design

Nothing better for a new season to start with a new design for my site ~ it will probably messy for the next couple of week, but working on it! I am experimenting with css3 and some html5 so the sit…

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New season !

I call it a new season because during the fall/winter/early spring, since the quietness of the outside makes it a perfect time for multimedia creation.Now that I am back from my yoga retreat for the s…

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light & demons

I have been using the word demons to talk about my bad habits and patterns that seems to have a mind of itself. In my previous post about residual prana I talked about how prana can stick on places or…

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k-12 presentation

I know it’s been a month now that I haven’t blog! Too much is happening here – from wordpress moving to version 3, to my come back to school (in information technology) to all my pro…

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