ORIGINAL HAMSTERS
One man art collective. I'm all about media art, graphic design, street art, animations, live visuals, music, photography and creative software. The headquarters of this operation is located in a secret ninja hideout in Rovaniemi, Finland.
I am not available for boring commercial work.
I am available for creative art/design projects and events.
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Arduino & Quartz Composer
Here is a quick solution how to get the analog inputs from an Arduino into Quartz Composer. For now, this only supports the analog values. Reading the digital input pins is not hard to implement, but I still haven’t decided what is the best way to do that.Sending serial data from QC to Arduino is [...]
Six Frames
A video project I did a while ago. We were given roughly 1 hour of footage to remix into something new. This is what I came up with.Six Frames from Matti Niinimäki on Vimeo.
Mickey Mann
I’m really interested in stereoscopy, which you might have guessed, if you’ve ever seen me running around with my View-Master camera. In my opinion, View-Master is still a superior method for viewing stereoscopic images, but it’s only still images. That’s why I wanted to see if I could improve the design and make an interactive [...]
No FireWire On New MacBooks, Only One FW800 on MBP
Nerd ranting warning.What the hell is Apple doing? There are no FireWire ports on the new MacBooks! Essentially, that means that anyone doing any serious work in video or audio has no reason to buy a MacBook. Our university buys roughly 60 MacBooks per year for the students to buy at a cheap price, but [...]
Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
From Sinfest
Superia United and Ruckazoid
Here is our VJ crew Superia United doing visuals for the one and only Ruckazoid.Qstock festival in Oulu, Summer 2008. Superia United meets Ruckazoid from Aku Meriläinen on Vimeo.
In Montréal + Månsteri Mixes available for Download
Pow! Sorry for the lack of updates. I moved to Montréal a month ago and I don’t have Interweb connection at home yet, so I haven’t really had the chance to write anything. Anyhow, Montréal is proving out to be a nice city. Pictures and more info some other day.In the meantime, why don’t you [...]
SMS and Quartz Composer Revisited
Some people have probably tried to use my tutorial on how to use SMS text messages with Quartz Composer. There were actually some errors in the php code in my tutorial as the wordpress WYSIWYG editor is actually a IWFUYBPWC (I will f*ck up your blog post with code) editor so it might not have [...]
Kauppayhtiö - July Line-up
A place you absolutely have to visit if you ever come to Rovaniemi. Café Kauppayhtiö. Here is the DJ line-up for July.
Multitouch Table Post #2 - Acrylic and LEDs
Gather around children, the multitouch adventures continue. Today we will hear the story of The Acrylic Screen and 112 Little LEDs.I decided to go for a 4:3 format for my screen and bought a 10 x 820 x 620 mm acrylic screen from Foiltek. Acrylic that size cost me around 60 euros. Couldn’t find any [...]