about
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
perl : not dynamic nor web develpoment yet
February 18th, 2005 at 2:41 am 0 comments.im enjoying learning perl probably alot more than i should be. and we’ve just got into mysql, which brings me dangerously close to my unrealized and unfathomable love of m$ excel and database’y stuff. really i’m hoping for the best, to actually bring my site up to somethign close to dynamic and database driven. if im lucky i’ll obsess myself with the intricacies of perl and mysql and make some thing completely nerdtactular.
linkage to the first three weeks:
week 1, perl/html
week 2, perl/logic
week 3, mysql
werd.
keeping a journal
February 18th, 2005 at 2:18 am 0 comments.inspired from a post at lifehacker.com i’ve spent a little time thinking about how to organzie my ideas. i’m supposed to be trading in my ideas, but i don’t really have a good way of keeping trak of them. i’ve been through the sketchbook, the moleskin notebook entering items into a PDA, emailing myself, tinkering with an ‘idea’ blog, text files on my laptop, random notes in the back of a book on the subway, or in a notebook during class. Almost everytime i’m writing or entering an idea into one of these forms i’m overcome with the anxiety that it’s getting lost, that the idea is not being filed in the ‘perfect’ filing system, and would thus be lost forever, and the world deprived of the greatness that could have been wrought upon it. maybe the best idea is actually writing / typing the idea down. usually it is nothing, an idea for a project that only has to ‘live’ for a few weeks at most, usually a day or three. but it is the act of writing it down that actualizes it in my brain, well i hope, at leat until i sort all this out.
six of nine
February 15th, 2005 at 8:30 pm 0 comments.i received my most recent PASS on an ARE exam yesterday. yay for me. three left and i get to call myself an architect
contrast
February 12th, 2005 at 7:06 pm 0 comments.Manipulating contrast is one of the essential ingredients for all careful acts of art or design.
random color motion tracking
February 6th, 2005 at 2:16 pm 0 comments.
first attempt at creating something from live video using java. using dano’s pixel grabbing class as a starting point i set out to get some stripyness going on and seperate the foreground from the background. it uses a referance frame and then checks every pixel againsnt that referance frame and tests to see if it is different (in color particularly). if it is different it either gets painted the color of that stripe, or not painted, depending on which version you are looking at.
the discussion that followed me telling my original idea that i wasn’t able to code was extremly helpful and im working on it now. im hoping to seperate the the foreground from the background and modify the resolution based on the amount of change from the pervious frame. a still scene would show low res (large pixels) and moving objects would ‘shine through’ by becoming more ‘focused’ (smaller pixels)…well see how that goes.
more images after the jump
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IT matters
February 4th, 2005 at 3:19 pm 0 comments.A short article from Technology Review written by the inventor of ethernet on wheter IT matters in corporate America was assigned for Infomation Contours. the article itself was a reaction to an article published in the Harvard Business Review by the editor Nicholas Carr. Not having read the original article but gleaning some of its points from Metcalf was that IT, has become a commodity and is like electricity. (more…)
what we care about, as a class, Future of Infrastructure
January 31st, 2005 at 1:55 pm 0 comments.todays discussion was healvily centered on determining what our ‘question’ is. we are trying to find the question we want to ask about the year 2015. we are thinking about how 10 years from now be different, as today is diferent from 1995. we discussed the certainty or uncertainty of several events happening (acts of god, China breaking apart, US defaulting on tresury bonds), the continuation of different trends (global population rate change slowing, moores law, developing nations moving toward industialization, population movement). my hope is that we can come to more concensus’ and more quickly so that we can concentrate on getting the right question and start planning scenarios for it.
wikipedia entries for some of the topics and related topics discussed today:
World population and Over Population
Moores law
Singularity
Thomas Crow at MoMA
January 31st, 2005 at 12:54 pm 0 comments.At the invitation of steve, the prelude to going out for drinks would be to attend a talk given by Thomas Crow, director of The Getty Reasearch institute at the Getty Center in LA. we preluded the talk with some drinks. Crow spoke on the topic of the museam as the subject of works of art.
Rothko – and other color field painters transformed the experience with a piece of art as one that one could enter into, and become enveloped by.
Michael Asher – the museum could be just the walls, without traditional content of painting etc. hanging on the walls the condition of the museum is called into question.
Chris Burden – destroying/exposing the institution literally with his Samson of 1985. And his project Exposing the Foundation of the Museum at the MOCA in LA the next year where he dug the floor out of the museum and the earth below down to the bottom of the foundations on which the museum sat and met earth.
Gorden Matta-Clark – the museum is not the ultimate goal for the work of art. Particularly in Conical Intersect set in / through a building planned to be razed in the construction of the nearly complete adjacent Pompediou Center, which addressed the 17th century rowhouse and more importantly its looming neighbor.
netex project ideas
January 29th, 2005 at 1:39 pm 0 comments.we now have the possibility of scanning and manipulating each pixel of a video image at realtime framerates. the possibility of getting into video image, and image processing or manipulating or decoding its meaning is exciting to me. it also is really cool.
the image is rendered as rows or columns based on the color of a random pixel in that row, or the pixel of a color based on certain criteria, possibly based rate of movement, or color intensity or someother parameter.
find outlines of images, rendering the outline in that color, or filling these containers with the said color
division of the screen to ‘zones’ that map pixel properties to distint zone. for instance the screen is divided into 3 vertical zones representing Red Green Blue and the zones alpha (or size etc.) changes based on the amount of each color in the image.
there are some more…..later
me vs. eclipse/java
January 25th, 2005 at 3:46 pm 0 comments.eclipse IDE = scary, especially to me as I was really happy with the processing environment. learning the java structure turns out to be easier than i thought and with some help from my friend i was able to bypass the struggle with getting QT from the isight into java through eclipse and all the required packages into all the right places.
now, after the second class it really seems like the really heavy lifting is done and we can concentrate on getting into the video and do, ‘cool shit’.
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