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
dynamic web development
January 25th, 2005 at 3:35 pm 0 comments.dynamic = created on the server. web = the cloud in the diagrams, using http. development = making stuff.
we’ll be making stuff LAMP style.
Linux server running
Apache using
MySQL for a database and
Perl for our scripting .
things in class are fast paced and punctuated with lots of “OK?” and “RIGHT?”. we’ll be learning things rapidly so we can concentrate on ‘making shit’.
dynamic web development syllabus
my friends are smarter than me
January 24th, 2005 at 2:00 pm 0 comments.found on we-make-money-not-art
Unusual Objects for Everyday Life an exhibition in Turin of work from students at Interaction Ivrea features my very good friend James and his haptic radio interfaces. He told me about his work on the radio dial that provided tactile feedback and the poetry of that idea has resonated with me. Im glad to see the related Feel the Music and Box of Sound which have such a nice sensitivity to the common radio experience.
james is not longer the king of bad ideas, or at least his good ideas are really beautiful.
what could happen? what do we want to happen?
January 24th, 2005 at 12:35 pm 0 comments.today we had the first meeting of Future of Infrastructure. the class started with the instructor/professor Art Kleiner asking us where phantom traffic jams come from. the traffic jams that appear seemingly for no reason and just as quickly dissipate. these traffic jams, think LA, are caused by tailgating, and the accordian effect of drivers reacting to what is happening in front of them. the system of highway traffic is basically unchangeable, because the required action to remedy the situation, slowing down and allowing more space in front of your car for reactions, invites other drivers to get in the space that you have left. you become the chump.
whereAmI
January 24th, 2005 at 12:37 am 0 comments.i am in some other places as well.
seanaes.com seansalmon.com
del.icio.us – seanaes
flickr – seanaes
daydream blog
im real too…
hypertemps require patience
January 23rd, 2005 at 9:56 pm 0 comments.
hypertemps really emphasize the unpredictability and ‘randomness’ of the ordered ‘perfect’ system of the computer. By overloading the processes available new images and organizations of the animated gifs arise and change. This glitch-art extends the processor art you see on the p5 and the aptly named glitch art.
from netdotart.com…
hypertemps are derived from short gif animations. these animations are then sliced into hundreds of smaller animations, loaded into an html document and viewed by you. due to browser inconsistencies and network deficiencies the pieces of the original image arrive out of sequence and a dynamic new image is created. i encourage viewers to view these pages with different browsers and to alter their browsing behavior to uncover the different image possibilites inherent within this system.
buying books for school
January 23rd, 2005 at 9:40 pm 0 comments.I tried to be smart and order some books for school before the first meeting of the class, alas the day after ordering the book that was listed on the previous syllabus I recieved a message from the bookstore that the actual required book, Inevitable Surprises for the class was in and was not the one I ordered.
first posting as myself, sean
January 23rd, 2005 at 9:28 pm 0 comments.just a little test here
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