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A couple of students also asked about using JSON in openFrameworks.  Here is a quick example of using json-cpp.

JSONExample: using json-cpp in openFrameworks. XCode format

NOTE: you will need this updated version of ofxHttpUtils_03 and ofxThread (which comes with the FAT version of oF) to run the example.

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They left the indie universe behind long ago, but big-time yarlers Kings of Leon have reached back into indiedom for the opening acts on their next tour. This summer, Built to Spill and the Black Keys will get to hear their songs bouncing around cavernous hockey arenas across America, entertaining people trying to find their seats. The Whigs, the Stills, and the Features also join Kings of Leon on the road.

Built to Spill and the Black Keys both have tons of tour dates on their own as well. Click below for full itineraries for both.

Built to Spill:

04-30 Boise, ID - Egyptian Theater
05-07 Minehead, England - ATP Festival
05-08 Oxford, England - O2 Academy Oxford *
05-09 Liverpool, England - O2 Academy Liverpool *
05-10 Galway, Ireland - The Black Box *
05-11 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street *
05-13 Glasgow, Scotland - O2 Academy Glasgow *
05-14 Newcastle, England - O2 Academy Newcastle *
05-15 Leeds, England - O2 Academy Leeds *
05-16 Birmingham, England - O2 Academy Birmingham *
05-17 Cambridge, England - The Junction *
05-18 London, England - O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
05-20 Zurich, Switzerland - Dynamo *
05-21 Berlin, Germany - Astra *
05-22 Mannheim, Germany - Alte Feuerwache *
05-23 Paris, France - La Machine *
05-24 Brussels, Belgium - AB *
05-26 Stockholm, Sweden - Tyrol *
05-27 Hassleholm, Sweden - Siesta Festival
05-29 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival *
07-09 San Diego, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

-- Get your quarters up. Les Savy Fav guitarist Seth Jabour has created the soundtrack for a New York video game art project. Faile and Bast have turned a storefront on New York's Lower East Side into a functional video arcade, with old arcade games retrofitted to run new games by Adapted Studio, all with sounds by Jabour. Deluxx Fluxx, at 158 Allen Street, will be open from tomorrow to May 27.

-- Knitting Factory Records' plan to reissue every last Fela Kuti record continues. On May 11, the label will release the "Na Poi" series: 14 albums on seven CDs, almost all from the mid-1970s.

-- On May 10, UMC will release Callin' All, a four-CD career-spanning box set from British power-pop band the La's. It'll include a disc of singles, two live discs, and one that collects outtakes.

-- The Downtown Sound New Music Mondays series of free shows at Chicago's Millennium Park, kicks off May 24 with Besnard Lakes and the Ponys. The series continues through the summer, with Monday night shows from She & Him, Caribou, the Thermals, the Books, Hum, Tony Allen, Kid Sister, and others.