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The Game is based on a documentary on Tommy the Clown and the Krump (Rize by David LaChapelle). The players plays one after the other like in dance battle. The arcade is equipped with a webcam that tracks the movement of the players. The more movement = more points. The game use video loops and banging tunes to bring groove, excitement and motivation to the players. The players use their all bodies and become true performers. During the festival some group of people even organised battles amongst themselves.

The Krump arcade was part of the Apocalypse Fete area at the WattsFest 2010 festival, along side other games, mohican barber shop, cider bar, sound art and performances. The Apocalypse Fete idea was to create a fete with what we could find, like a if  post-apocalyptic survivors wanted to bond and gather around to forget their misery, it definitely was a great success.

Grande Buffo is releasing one of my track that features Anna Chocola.

Lipstick is a slow and sexy house hip hop track. The release has a extra track, a house remix from The Odd Couple (trick remix). The Single is avaible now on iTunes, Juno and BeatPort (and more websites).

Lipstick is also featured on Hugo Boss website in their lifestyle section.

Check out the Video teaser for this new release and have a listen to lipstick and it’s remix on Soundcloud !

A video created for AVERT, the HIV & AIDS charity. The video as been shot at the Brighton City College, who kindly let us use their green screen, studio and camera. This my first time working with green screen, as well as mixing video and animation with 3D shadows

A brilliant work from Berty on the photoshop actions for the final touch and a massive thanks to Billy Barrington for making this happen.

Director, music, animation, filming and video concept: Thomas Michalak. Stage and Characters lighting, photoshop, photography: Bertram Greenhough. Script, finding Footballers, running around and being amazing: Gemma Spink and Hellen Keeble from AVERT. Footballers (in order of apparition): Laetitia Perrot, Nic Ledger, Nathan Bowen

THIS IS A ALPHA VERSION, CHANGES WILL HAPPEN!, THE FIRST RELEASE WILL COME VERY SOON (Unfortunately, the current version isn’t working properly. I would suggest to subscribe to this post or install the current version without activating it and wait for the next release.)

Very fast plugin that cache your shop’s content for a quicker and smoother user experience. Easy to set up, with some clever functionalities, including retrieving your shop categories, excluding categories, renaming categories (only in wordpress), set a “refresh temp file” time. Displays your ebay shop listing, items infos (pictures, bids, price, etc…) with links to your listing and shop.

Driving quality traffic using real-time eBay listing information. Providing eBay members with unique shopping experience. This plugin use eBay API.

Read more about my own little ebay shop wordpress plugin.

OpenGL blending, textures and lights study with Processing. Try the online version or download the desktop version (including source code): macosx | windows | linux

I created this video for AVERT  to promote AVERT’s online AIDS challenge game, which I created using processing. 

The animation was also mainly created with processing, using the OPENGL and physics library. Then their was some “montage” in After Effects to put all those animations together. The sound was put together using Live.

The AVERT AIDS Challenge is a educational puzzle-quiz type game where you are a red smooth snake. You have to collect letters in the right order to answer some AIDS question while escaping baddies. You can collect bonuses to make yourself invisible, freeze  the baddies, multiply your points and few more. While going through the levels, there will be more baddies that will get more aggressive, the questions will get more specific and the snake longer. The controls are simple, the snake follows your mouse. No clicks, no keyboard and a cool smooth movement.

You can play this game on AVERT’s website in the game section. Even if I wish I could have had more time to develop this game, it’s still a pretty good game for a game coded and designed by one person. The game was entirely created using processing with the traer.physics, minim library and a home-made collision function ( + a bit of maths’ magic ) from Rob Noble. All graphics were designed in Illustrator and Photoshop and the music in Ableton Live.

The game uses a back-end interface so AVERT can change the questions/answers and in-game phrases. This interface displays Stats and Hi-scores table. All php, database and interface was done by Karl Rixon.

Play the AVERT AIDS Challenge

Display and browse all the images on your wordpress website in one place using the new [ gallery ] shortcode.

All in one Gallery is my first plugin for wordpress and my first program in php. I wanted to have all the pictures that have been uploaded on my website to be displayed and browsable in one place. I didn’t want to use another system then the default new gallery system of wordpress, because I wanted full compatibility and prefer to be pluged to the core of wordpress instead to depend on another gallery system. So the plugin is simply looking at all the categories, then check if there are images in all the category’s posts and, if there are, use the [ gallery ] shortcode. I use it with lightbox-2 plugin and cleaner-gallery plugin.

All-in-One-Gallery plugin work with the new [ gallery ] shortcode and therefor only work with recent version of wordpress ( 2.6, maybe 2.5 and probally future released ). Also, I created this plugin for Anna Chocola and myself, so I can’t garanty that it will work properly. But the plugin is so simple that it should work for everyone. You can try it on my website by clicking Image Gallery in the sidebar or on Anna Chocola’s website by also clicking on Image Gallery in the sidebar.

For up to date infos, latest and older versions, please go to the plugin page on wordpress.org

The plugin is pretty simple, there are only 3 options that you can find under Settings/All in One Gallery:

Style and Place the Gallery :

1. Select the page where you want the gallery to be displayed. Note that you have to create a page to be use for the gallery.
2. Select your color style for the menu, default is blue.
3. Select how many columns in gallery (Just changing the attribute of the [ gallery ] shortcode.), default is 4

Exclude categories or Pages:

1. In case you have some texts only categories or what ever is the reason why you don’t want some categories to be in the gallery.

Welcome message:

1. Switch welcome message ON and OFF
2. If ON, the gallery will display a default message that you can alter.
3. If OFF, select the category’s gallery to be displayed

All in one gallery Settings

It’s also simple to install, like most wordpress plugin:

1. Download all-in-one-gallery.zip
2. Unzip and Upload the folder to  wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate in the plugins tab in your dashboard
4. Create a page for the gallery
5. Set your settings under Settings/All in One Gallery

There might be other plugins that do that sort of things but I only seemed to find plugin that replace the default gallery system. I don’t want to change the core of my wordpress and also wanted to try something in php.

I am currently working on a game for Avert. For that, I did some test on attraction/repulsion with Traer’s physics library ( brilliant lib ), and obviously got carried away playing with lights and physics. The game is not going to be like that as it has to run online and on the largest panel of computers.

Watch this video in HD on vimeo!!

Try it! ( applet )

Online version | Downloadable version: macosx | windows | linux

Make music with a disc of 510 067 420 km² = the Earth

Ato, a.k.a Antonin Fourneau, created OTERP and presented it at the Digital Art Festival, 6-11 dec in Tokyo at Shibuya Tokyo Wonder Site.

OTERP - by Ato - feat music by TM

OTERP is a psp game using a magnetic compass. The game plays/mix differents music loops and sounds depending on your latitude and longitude. Ato made a few side-projects ( cardinal turntable ) related to this main concept of mobility, music and spatial interface.

Ato ask a few sound artists ( including me ) to created or let some loops and sounds. The project is at its first version but is already giving a great experience.

it’s my sounds on the video

More information, picts and video at http://atonews.blogspot.com/

I made this video for AVERT as part of the Stop AIDS in Children campaign. I used After Effects, Photoshop and illustrator. It’s my first try with after effects and I only had a week to produce it, using only pictures. That was a nice challenge.

I’v been working as a designer/web designer for AVERT for more than a year and a half now. I am in charge of all the design/code of the website, plus all the printing side of AVERT ( T-shirts, adverts, etc…). In a few words, avert.org it’s more than 260 pages, a average of 155 000 visits every weeks (64 500 just on World AIDS day ) and one of the most popular aids website.