"Wall of Books" updated, and a new Pittsfield library full of new books and DVDs

I've put together a new "wall of books" for the Ann Arbor District Library recent acquisitions. You can see it at superpatron.com. I have three listings there - one each for "hot" books, fiction, and non-fiction. The non-fiction is a little wonky (it shows mysteries e.g.) for some reason, the catalog search is not turning up exactly what I'd expect.

The AADL put together a very clever display of new titles in all kinds of genres up on their big display at the new Pittsfield branch library - I understand it was done in Quartz Composer using that package's ability to pull in RSS feeds. More details as I find them out...I'll see if I can't at least get a video up somewhere for you to see it, if it can't be actually put online.

Pittsfield is very nice by the way - I was at the grand opening party. A lovely big kinetic sculpture for kids to play with in the middle, lots and lots of books and DVDs, glass and steel. It's a shame it's not on any bus lines. (where's that darned transit union when you need it)

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[ejk]

Thanks for the kind words about the screen saver, Ed.

You can read about the Screen Saver here, or you can just download it directly. Hmm. that page is getting pretty crowded. I should really get a real blog going...

I tried exporting a quicktime version, but it didn't pull the images with it, so I'm going to have to find a better way to capture video of a application window in OS X.

As for Quartz Composer, it's great for manipulating images and doing general data display, but not so great for dynamic data retrival. My next step is trying to integrate a Quartz Composition into an XCode app. The XCode app would pull and format the data and just use QC to display it.

[ejk]

P.S. Extra geek points to anyone who can identify the application which influenced the overall look. =)

[ejk]

Wow, 3 comments in row. That's bad karma, right?

Just wanted to let you know I captured some videos of the screen saver in mp4 format.

Movie #1 - Welcome Screen (mp4)
Movie #2 - Book Display (mp4)