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Nick

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About Me

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My name is Nick, I live in Roscoe Village on the north side of Chicago. For a living I work as a Flash developer at a Web Marketing company in Chicago, and I also do freelance web design/development work on the side.

I used to do alot of electronic music production and performance, however my interest in that has since faded, though I do enjoy writing the occasional abstract piece. Mostly I write software in Flash and in the processing language to create visual works or AI simulations that create animations or draw shapes.

Here are a few of my songs, some are collaborations:
lquid xor
viiron
vtracks
esse sine

My Interests

max/msp, Processing, Flash, Reaktor, Pure Data, electronic music, video effects, code-driven visuals, coding particle systems, physics

I'd like to meet:

Visual artists whose primary medium is writing software, Flash junkies, web designers, electronic musicians, unemployed/renegade scientists, free-thinkers.

Music:

Currently: NIN, Daft Punk, Cylob, Aphex Twin, Stuntrock, Venetian Snares

Movies:

blues brothers, trainspotting, 2001: a space odyssey, dr. strangelove, hackers, ghost in the shell 1 and 2, wargames, pi, alien, time bandits, the matrix, trainspotting

Television:

24 (entertaining, though I hate what it represents and advocates), news (not from the mainstream media), Adult Swim

Books:

the universe in a nutshell, A People's History of the United States, the age of spiritual machines, robot dreams, hairstyles of the damned, anything Tolkien

My Blog

mainstream media complicity

I am extremely angry, and frightened quite frankly, at the direction our country is headed in.  You've heard this before I'm sure, which is what worries me even more.  I think most of us agr...
Posted by Nick on Wed, 16 May 2007 12:17:00 PST