An automated version of the Weathermatrix-software will be displayed in the Master of Arts exhibition of University of Art and Design Helsinki. Date & time 30.4.2004 from 19:30 onwards, location Korjaamo near Raitiovaunumuseo in Töölö, Helsinki. Not actually a graduation work of anyone, but the work was invited anyway.

The Yellow Rose of Texas won this year’s scene.org awards for the best 4k intro. Head to their site for brief results.

Pictures from the Kiasma gig of Weathermatrix updated to gallery.

Two performances of the Weathermatrix were given in Kiasma Theatre and attracted quite big an audience of clearly over 100 people each time. I’m really glad about all the positive feedback we got, although many people (including Helsingin Sanomat) assumed a connection between the showing of weather pictures and the recent road accident in the middle Finland. Guess that made the performance a whole lot more actual, but also a bit more tragic than CNCD intented.

For me the gigs were yet another proof of the fact that there is a point in programming your own tools for live performances. Who knows how I would have dealt with the 80 gigs of weather pictures, 9 screens streaming from the harddrive at once, without the aid of Perl scripts, threaded programming, the OpenGL interface and free libraries and compilers. Huge props to the authors of transcode, wget, ImageMagick, gcc, Perl, FTE, SDL, OpenGL and Debian Linux - your tools are the greatest (and of course, completely free of charge). I’m planning to release the live Weathermatrix tool I used in the near future myself. More info on that once I get some work done on the subject.

Last, a small observation on a quite different subject: Disco released their newest album “Pitkän päivän matka yöhön” this week and in the thank you list you can find Amfibio-oliot - translating into Amfibio creatures, and referring to me, Pauli and Maippi naturally.