Caseorganic, Cyborg Anthropologist

This was a very humorous talk given by an Austrian hacker who posed as an ambassador from a country with an extremely long name. The presentation was given inside a Titan I Nuclear Missile Silo in Washington State during ToorCamp, the United States' first ever full-scale hacker camp. Modelled after the camps in Holland and Germany, ToorCamp focused on all of the technology topics that ToorCon has become famous for, as well as expanding out into other areas of society.

More about ToorCamp is here: wiki.toorcamp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Created by Panic Software (a local Portland Company!) Coda is One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X.

You can get the software here: panic.com/coda/

Bram demonstrates a few different features of Coda, as well as some of the more efficient ways to use it.

Bram Pitoyo is a typography nerd and You can follow him online twitter.com/brampitoyo

Collin spent the 2005-2006 academic year at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) where began to develop the electronic musical instruments he is presenting today.

The RT (radio trowel) uses a capacitive sensor array based on Max Mathew's radio baton to detect the position of the trowel on the playing surface. The trowel's movements control sound synthesis parameters, including filters which process live sound from a contact mic attached to the trowel.

The cellomobo is a computer music instrument that attempts to model the behavior of a bowed string. It gives haptic feedback to the bow at audio rate to simulate the stick-slip action of a bowed string. This feedback stream finds it way back into the audio stream, creating a unique hybrid of digital and analog synthesis.

Collin Oldham is a cellist who has performed around the world with such varied and luminous artists as Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Rosemary Clooney and Aretha Franklin. He's active as a session player, and has recorded with the Decemberists, Richmond Fontaine, and Elliott Smith, among many others.

While driving around Denver, Colorado, my family and I saw a sign for a free candy factory tour. We called the number to get the address and arrived a half hour later.

However, it was Christmas eve, and there were no tours happening anymore.

But the owner saw our faces and took us on a behind-the scenes tour where he showed us all kinds of cool equiptment and let us sample secret candy they've been working on at the factory.

Warning: Contains violence, terror, and futuristic epicness.