Hello everyone my name is Maximillian Cannon,

On behalf of our undergraduate class body, I am pleased to be announcing the completion of six projects that came into being with the support of our professor Brett Stalbaum in the course "Computer Programming for the Arts (B)."

We all had the wonderful opportunity to spend an entire quarter of class time developing our own Java API. While some of these projects remain small in scope, we do hope to contribute to the community by offering the Java packages we have developed. In this manner we wish to have some impact by providing resources to artists that have been created by other artists; in a sense to strengthen the community from within.

Our creation resides at www.Crazyforloops.com. We have attempted to offer a well documented series of Java packages to be made useful in unforeseen projects. Hopefully everything we have created remains clear from the writings on the website, although if there is any point of inquiry please follow the contact link and the respective artist will be happy to answer.

Since I had the pleasure of announcing this to the Rhizome.org community, I will make a quick note about a project that myself and two other artists worked on in the course. I am referring to the SixthProject, which came as the coalescing of various classes from projects already in development. In essence each class within the SixthProject package is tailored to grabbing information and parsing it from different web services. In particular we have one which will parse the longitude and latitude from the Yahoo Map-Service-xhtml and return them from a java method as a Float 2D Point object. Also included in the package is the ability to find exact locations of images from the Alta Vista image search to be used in various java projects. The final class has to do with parsing information from the hostip.info database in order to gather demographics relating to an IP address. I genuinly believe that there is much use for the SixthProject.SPWebparsers package, and I hope it finds a place in various java projects from this community.

Thank you for your time.

-Max