The result of the elections in Italy (where i half live) is saddening me beyond words. I cheered up a bit this morning when i discovered that tagr.tv has put the video of Casey Reas’ talk at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna online. Last week i had the pleasure of attending Casey’s lecture at the Node08 festival in Frankfurt. While his talk in Vienna focused on his own work, the Frankfurt audience was blissed with a wonderful presentation that made coding finally understandable to someone like me, was packed with references to wonderful artworks based on code subtleties and provided a glimpse into what his next book will be like. The creator (together with Ben Fry) of processing told me that it took them several years to come up with their Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, so don’t expect the new opus to land on your bookshelf this month. (via Encoded art works - we make money not art)