Rick Reifenstein

I'm deploying the latest interactive kiosk I've designed and set up for the new exhibit at the Mary and David Harrison Institute and Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. The interactive display is running a media player that visitors can use to select and listen to African tribal music. It's part of the larger Global Collections exhibit at the Harrison/Small Library. More information on the exhibit can be found here... Global Collections Exhibit My major goal in this installation was to strip away the Windows desktop and replace it with a desk top with only the media player icon. The reason was so that I could achieve total lock down on the machine AND even after a reboot, only the media player with the current play list was available.

I had a great Labor Day weekend. Spent time with the family. Just hanging around the house. I did get some time in the studio and recorded some new material that I will post before too long. As you know I also am involved in some NUI (New User Interface) development at part of my work at the University of Virginia. I produced the following video to show of the Microsoft Surface computer table that I developed some applications for as part of the "Declaring Independence" exhibit at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. I hope you all had a great weekend.

I thought I would post a few entries from my Twitter feed that might be interesting for you guys.I wrote the guys who makes the MIDI controller. I'm really excited about the Fantastic Voyage re-work. I loved that movie when I was a kid and can't wait to show my kids. I'll wait till the renewed soundtrack and DVD come out. The David Lynch movie was cool. Not a biography but more of a film about what life would be like just hanging out with David.  Lunch time discoveries: MIDI Controller http://youtu.be/M3Zad5_eWVA about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck    Restoring the Weird Interior Sounds of Fantastic Voyage http://bit.ly/cb8ajD They are using Cedar plugins and a SADiE system. Fun read. 10:00 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck      About to sit down and watch "Lynch" docum