I’m trying to teach my self how to build iPhone applications and I found this book from Apress: Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK. I just want to say that this book is excellent! I read programming books all the time. Which is a little disconcerting because I’m not that great a programmer, but then [...]
BANANAS!* SOCIAL APP PROTOTYPE
The idea of creating a social networking application requires first an idea of some kind of functionality. We spent quite some time trying to think of what kind of functionality would both benefit the interests of the Bananas!* film and also offer enough incentive value to end users in order to gain widespread adoption.
BUILDING A REPRAP
I’m building a RepRap for the Design department at UCLA. We just got the electronics kit from the RepRap Research Foundation in the mail and I’ve soldered together all of the electronics. Turns out to be quite a bit of soldering. It would be terrible to work in a sweat shop.
CYBERNETIC JAM BAND
This is a prototype controller that I built to test software for the game, Cybernetic Jam Band
Here are some plans for the production controller:
Here are the plans for the wall mounted display:
Protected: THESIS IDEAS
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ARMY OF ONE
The United States Army had an advertising campaign that used the slogan, “Army of One”. I was researching Unified Modeling Language and how it might be applied to social constucts and decided to depict the Army’s slogan:
DON’T PAY FOR YOUR FOOD
My wife an I were in Whole Foods grocery for some reason and looking at all of the delicious organic foods that people buy and my wife said, “I wish we didn’t have to pay for food.” And I thought how strange it was that we are the only animal on earth that has to [...]
INNOVATION OR ITERATION
Originality complex is a bitch:
TECHNOLOGY IS OUR FULCRUM
I was thinking about relationships between people and how technology mediates those relationships and then I thought of a Seesaw:
SIMPLE + COMPLEX
I was talking to my wife about how I was feeling stuck while thinking of an idea for the last show. I said that I need to think of something that was simple yet complex. Then I thought, that’s a good idea.
ARTISTIC AUTISTIC
We were talking in class today about how contemporary art is dominated by male ego and it reminded me of a study that I read about that found a link between Autism and testosterone levels in fetuses.
METAPHOR EXPANDED
Challenge long standing metaphor. Resulting in failure.
MOSHPIT
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WATER JET
Sputtering water jet makes a beat.
GOING DOWN
The sound of going down the stairs.
FAKE RAIN
The sound of water pouring down a storm drain, the sound of cars going by in the background.
POSTER COLLABORATION
This is a collaboration that I did with Scott Barry. He sent me the the shapes and I put the words to them. The process was conducted entirely through email communication.
NOT RANDOM
This is a print on demand book that I made using processing. It was originally designed as a game to be played by two people using graph paper, markers, and a pair of 30 sided die.
UML PROPAGANDA
These are some examples I’m working with to show how formal languages may be reused to address a more general audience.