December 18, 2005
Brainstorm Experiment
My Creative Act final. I brainstormed about nothing in particular for 12 days with some interesting results.
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November 29, 2005
Surreptitious Camera-phone Operation
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November 25, 2005
To everyone who ate too much
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November 17, 2005
Can buildings be scary?
Could buildings be designed in a way intended to intimidate?
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November 13, 2005
Sunken Ships, Abandon Factories, Creepy 911 References
Pictures of things in the urban landscape that I find creepy:
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People that Dress Different and Loading Docks
Pictures of scary/intimidating things in the urban landscape:
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November 11, 2005
Eggs!
Reediting found footage w/o sound:
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Mickey D's
Reediting found footage w/o sound:
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Creepy Joy Commercial
Reediting found footage w/o sound:
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Bomb Scare
Reediting found footage w/o sound:
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The Greatest Sex Toy Ever Made
Reediting found footage w/o sound:
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The Park at Night and Loading Docks
Pictures of scary/intimidating things in the urban landscape.
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November 09, 2005
Under the Grill
This week I'm taking pictures of parts of the uban landscape that scare/intimidate me.
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November 08, 2005
A Stool
The last Sketchup daily exercise. A stool.
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November 07, 2005
Sketchpad Pressure Project
For this project I tried to do something ambitious. It would represent all that I have learned from this week's daily exercises. I got it built, but to look good, an auditorium needs more planning and design than software knowledge. Next time, I'll concentrate on the design of something geometrically simple, like a chair. Oh well, I undertook something ambitious and I got it done.
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Hall of Kittens
I think I'm losing it. Click for the flythrough.
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November 06, 2005
Car
Daily exercise in 3d with sketchup. Today I'm trying to do more complex shapes.
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November 04, 2005
Semi-blind 3d
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November 03, 2005
The Seward Center for Advanced Studies
Playing with Sketchup day 2. Click on the pic for a flythrough.
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November 02, 2005
Learning Sketchup
Mo is my shepherd, and this week I'm learning some 3d. Three people in the past two days have told me to use Sketchup, so that's what I'm using. For my first study, I extruded a bunch of basic shapes to make a building. It's pretty ugly. When I have more time and skills I hope to make objects that are aesthetically pleasing.
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October 26, 2005
Foooooom
For my daily exercises, I'm going to take found footage and reedit it.
Here's the first one:
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October 25, 2005
Head w/ Accessories
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October 24, 2005
Manatee
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October 23, 2005
It's got legs...
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October 22, 2005
Wine Bottle Wine Bottle
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October 21, 2005
Animations
We had to create an animation with sound, twice. Here they are:
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Animated Again
I tried out some new ideas (with mixed results). Otherwise it's the same idea.
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Red Animation
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Creative Act Composition Studies
I spent a week making compositions in Illustrator and MS Word, here are all six...
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"Small" is the whole composition. "Big" is the composition blown-up, and you can make your own composition by scrolling.
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Flow Momma
Once again I'm on a computer with only microsoft word.
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Pastels Anyone?
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"Website"
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Camo Party
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Composition 1
This week, I'm going to work on graphic composition. I'm going to start by arranging shapes in a rectangle. I will focus on color and layout.
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Head to Toe
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October 19, 2005
Clay Tools
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October 16, 2005
Chair, Table, and Radiator
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October 14, 2005
End Table with Pancakes
Actually they're coasters.
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Coffee Maker on my Coffee Table
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October 10, 2005
Phone Use In Restaurants
I propose requiring one of these.
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October 09, 2005
Stoopid ATM's
I have a tough time with exorbitant ATM fees. I feel $1 dollar is expectable, maybe even generous; everything through $1.75 I will pay begrudgingly; $2 and above I feel like I’m being ripped off. I propose an add-on to some existing or in-the-works cell phone application that can point out more generous ATMs. Take Google SMS for example, perhaps you could enter your location followed by the words ATM, and you would get a list of ATM’s sorted by price. Now, the technology is probably too premature—that’s a little too much work to save 25¢--but it would be nice to see this kind of knowledge included in future easier-to-use systems.
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October 08, 2005
Messy Kitchen
I suppose that there are algorithms out there that can determine the orderliness of an image. If not, I can propose one: perform edge finding on the image; convert the edges to vectors, using a trace function like that found in Illustrator; then compare the vector image to the edge tracing--the closer the resemblance, the more orderly the original image.
This is relying on an untested assumption: the more orderly the edge-tracing, the better it could be rendered by the vectorizing function. The trace algorithm has setting that determines the accuracy it can achieve tracing the image. If these settings are set for lower accuracy, the results are simple forms. A more orderly edge-tracing would be more accurately represented by simple forms than a disorderly one.
So to what purpose could I use this algorithm? Well, I’d have a camera that would analyze the neatness of my kitchen. When things got messy, the fridge would lock until someone cleaned things up.
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October 07, 2005
The bus is late, or worse, it came too early
In Paris, there are cheap LCD displays in some bus stations that give you the time until the next bus arrives. I am assuming that these are just giving the hypothetical times, i.e. the amount of time until the next bus on the schedule. I'm proposing something similar and a little more sophisticated, but cheap--no GPS, no internet, no satellites.
Ok, so select bus stops have a solar powered RFID reader, and each bus has a RIFD tag. When the bus arrives or passes the stop, the reader logs the time. The times are then put through a Gaussian filter or something, and the stops would come to know the "true" bus arrival times. This may offer a slight improvement over the posted bus schedules, but in addition it would provide the MTA valuable traffic info. For the user, it is a lot like the paris system--there is a little display that says the amount of time until the next bus--except maybe more accurate. Also, if you run out to catch a bus and it has already come and gone, the display will be reset and you'll know that you've missed it.
Afterthought: Maybe RFID is too expensive. It could be done using cheap radio technology and PICs though. Like maybe some of those radios from sparkfun.
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September 22, 2005
Scribble
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September 21, 2005
Lotsa Fonts
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September 20, 2005
Semi-blind cutouts
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The Adventures of Dustball, Alien, and Bear
A children's story.
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September 19, 2005
From the Radical-American Activities Committee
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September 17, 2005
Same gum, different flavors.
Inspired by maja's lung.
apple...
Wild Blueberry!
Grape
Bubblegum?
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September 16, 2005
Process Art
Inspired by Fino's blind drawing and Nurit's string art.
These were drawn with my eyes closed and a set of unique rules for each.
Draw a 1cm line and then change direction at an acute angle.
Draw a 1cm line and then change direction using a right angle
Draw a 1cm line and then change direction using a curve
Draw all curves
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September 13, 2005
Staring Contest -- Pressure Project 1
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September 12, 2005
Eat Gum Architecture -- Day 6
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September 11, 2005
Gum Architecture -- Day 5
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September 10, 2005
Gum In the Sun - Day 4
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September 09, 2005
Gumspots and Urban Planning -- Daily Exercise 3
Idea:
Measure the concentration of gumspots on the sidewalk to find areas of idleness/loitering, and get a measure of foot traffic. Gumspots could be counted by a computer from digital photographs. This might be less labor intensive than other means, like recording activity with video. Why would urban planners want to know this information? Well, it could reveal areas of congestion and density of foot traffic. It could help determine rents for commercial storefronts. That is, if there is an area where there is a high concentration of gumspots, then it may indicate an increased likelihood that people will be looking into nearby store windows.
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September 08, 2005
Day 2 -- Theme: Gum -- "Gumshoe"
