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vveather is by sean salmon. vveather is interesting. vveather is changing. vveather is the same.
I am a User Experience Designer at foursquare.
a spinning beachball of death
Tarkovsky wrote a book?
April 21st, 2005 at 12:40 pm 0 comments.watching the balloon scene from Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev in class today. Apparently Tarkovsky wrote a book called Sculpting in Time so given my pervious obsession with The Stalker while in architecture school im going to be reading this book soon.
naughty color
April 7th, 2005 at 2:03 pm 0 comments.derivative work
April 7th, 2005 at 2:03 pm 0 comments.what would be the status of a derivative work that uses the abscence of the original. an unsample.
ex. the extended landscape of a ‘cropped’ famous image. the surroundings that existed beyond the final crop, the off camera image. anyway……
leapfrogging into the future
March 28th, 2005 at 12:37 pm 0 comments.after several weeks of determining what it is we care about as a class, and then writing it down, and then voting several times and then choosing one to work on, I will be writng a scenario that tells the story of the world in 2015 when semi-industrial nations have leapfrogged or are leapfrogging established industrial nations and become new leaders in the world of (pick one or many) technology, bio-tech, economics, manufacturing etc. the premise hangs on the fact that many established industrial nations are locked in to certain infrastructures that do not allow or encourage innovation or advancement because of the upset such innovation can or does cause to the status quo and those with a vested interest in keeping things the same or at least under their control.
some quick links regarding hte leapfrog concept:
worldchanging.org
The Institute for Economic Democracy
Peter Knight
Ken Rogoff
the idea while not new seems to be well documented and should inspire some very interesting stories about the future.
astor place cube goes missing.
March 8th, 2005 at 6:41 pm 0 comments.developing.
poetics of 3D ideas
March 7th, 2005 at 2:07 pm 0 comments.work on some art based work
AM I TRYING TO TELL ANY STORY or LEARN A TOOL
what kind of story am i trying to tell, what is the point of my story, is there a plot
martin wattenberg
March 2nd, 2005 at 6:09 pm 0 comments.seduced by the beauty of shape of sound the ‘original’, market map and the just released and addicting name voyager. i skipped homework et cetera and went with theMatty to see martin wattenberg speak at parsons design+technology department.
unlike the john maeda lecture of about 8 years ago that put me where i am today, i don’t forsee life changing events occuring from the attendance of this talk but i’ve been wrong before. i’m on record as saying seeing john maeda speak at princeton in , im guessing here, 1998, changed my thinking about computers and computing, design, art, architecture and the creative world. if it had been martin wattenberg speaking that day 7 +/- years ago, i am not sure i would be in the same place but it would still be stuck in my head.
numbers are special
March 2nd, 2005 at 6:08 pm 0 comments.i like numbers but not before have i known what they all mean What’s Special About This Number?
now i do.
example:
2 is the only even prime.
4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.
666 is a palindromic triangular number. (te-he)
7532 has a square comprised of the digits 0-7
great.
bad [PATH] luck coming
February 24th, 2005 at 1:39 am 0 comments.the last four times i’ve walked down the stairs to a PATH station i’ve arrived at a train pulling in, or having just pulled into the station, and i’ve gotten on, without any waiting on the platform 1. this of couse called for a little, evaluating. the times this occurred, two times manhattan-bound around 10:15 and 8:45 and home-bound at 10:30 and 8:45 (AM and PM where they should be) and, the time between trains respectivly: every 4-5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every 15 minutes, and every 10 minutes. assuming that we give a one minute window of ‘catching’ your train when you walk into the station, in order my chances for ‘catching’ my train should have been: 1 in 4, 1 in 10, 1 in 15 and 1 in 10 (randomness being randomness i should ‘catch’ my train 25% of the time if it comes every 4 minutes) that puts my recent 4 for 4 streak at 1 in 1501 . normal joe office worker working 9:00 to 5:30 (that 30 min lunch being unpaid of course) living at my stop ( train times, 4-5 minutes in the morning, every 5 minutes in the evening), and working in lower-midtown-ish manhattan has a daily 1 in 10 chance that he/she will ‘score’ on their inbound and outbound trip in any one day. four times in row (two morings and two evenings) though would be 1 in 100. im not a statistician in the least, but i’m guessing that i’ll have plenty of twenty-nine minute late night waits in the near-near future 2.
1 waiting on the platform allows sorting out of the ipod and beginning/choosing some reading of some sort, so it’s not all bad
2 the twenty-nine minute wait occurs when you arrive to the train as it pulls out of the station late at night, leads to unwise sitting on the floor
GPS, i am here
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:20 pm 0 comments.for The Future of Infrastructure i have chosen to research the impact of gps (global positioning system) and other locative technologies and the habits that are changed or created by their widening adoption.
what is the importance of the use of gps? how does it’s use change the habits of the users? what are the habit changing qualities, who’s habits are being changed, and how? where do those change fit in within the bigger picture? at what ‘place’ are the technologies now, and in the near future?
mapping, automobiles, tracking, networks, trans and inter continental shipping, the surprises found elsewhere
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