This is the final cut of the video our entire class (100+ people!) made during our presentation for Red’s class. I had a wonderful time working with Alex Kauffmann, Adam Lassy, Si Youn, JeeHyun Moon, Jonathan Nachum, Nathan Roth, and Brian Carey Chung on this project…
I visited Rob Faludi’s Crafting with Data class this week to talk about data sources available through NYU Libraries or via free government web sites. There is a list of suggested sources here.
In trying to complete the Transistor Lab I ran into a few problems. First, I have a potentiometer that is wired with misleading colors, so when I first hooked up the circuit it was drawing too much power from the USB port. My Mac immediately shut down the port. I fixed that issue, but my [...]
I worked with Nahana Schelling and Peter Esveld for the Physical Computing Midterm. We wanted to create a way for people to convey presence and communicate nonverbally across distance. We wanted whatever we created to be irresistably touchable and yet slightly creepy in order to highlight the awkwardness of communicating via technology. Here are the [...]
Audio for the Public Restroom
Applet is here: http://itp.nyu.edu/~cab513/icm/midterm3/.
I’m trying to create an applet that accrues a pile of shapes over time to visualize data that gets expressed along the lines of “over a given amount of time such-and-such happens.” For example, every five seconds a child dies of preventable or curable poverty-related causes, or every 30 seconds someone dies [...]
McLuhan suggests that any new technology we embrace creates an extension of ourselves that affects our sense of scale, which in turn creates new personal and social consequences. This assertion is not too far off from Ong’s ideas regarding the deep influence of literacy on contemporary culture.
McLuhan’s distinction between hot and cool media, particularly his [...]
This week I’m using analog input to the Arduino (heat and light sensors) to manipulate an image in Processing. I started off by prgramming a very basic ellipse in Processing. My goal is to make the color of the ellipse warm as the thermistor registers warmer temperatures and to make it brighten as less light [...]
I used the same potentiometer set up as I did for the panorama viewer last week, but uploaded the lab sketch to graph the potentiometer’s input in processing. This is what my desktop looked like:
This week I built a tiny little panorama screening machine:
This is what it looks like without its case:
Nahana, Peter and I have met a few times to discuss our project, and we seem to have reached a general agreement about where we’re headed. We’re trying to create a device that allows people to communicate nonverbally across a distance, conveying a sense of presence that just doesn’t seem possible with existing devices like [...]
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This is Optimo– Very Mild, a movie Bryan and I made for class this week. We used iStopMotion while we were shooting, and then we used Final Cut Pro to add the sound. The music is Jamestown Exhibition by Bayless Rose from American Primitive Vol. II on Revenant Records.
Yesterday I went to the Untethered show at Eyebeam with Christopher and my dad. I think this is the fourth show I’ve seen at Eyebeam, and it probably would have been the most successful if everything had been working. A number of the pieces that seemed like you should be able to interact with them [...]
Since I remembered La Jetée as a very visually arresting film the last time I watched it (maybe eight years ago on a very small and blurry television screen), I wanted to make sure I gave it its proper due this time. Some friends and I borrowed the dvd from the library, hooked up my [...]