I’m working on a new series of paintings I’m calling Twitter Portraits. They are small acrylic painting based on the profile pics of people I’m following on Twitter. I chose Twitter because it was right in front of me while at my desk getting ready to paint, and because I’m inundated with it, glancing at it [...]
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Bridge into Beacon
February 18th, 2010 No Comments
On Tuesday I spent the day in Beacon, NY for thesis research. Beacon is probably best known for the Dia Foundation, just adjacent to the Beacon stop on the Metro North, but I discovered that Beacon is also host to a burgeoning cultural scene and home to numerous NYC expats. While there I met with Scott [...]
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Hybrid Communities: Etsy and the Apocalypse
February 10th, 2010 No Comments
I was telling a friend about my thesis direction and he made an interesting observation: post-apocalyptic scenarios make problem solving easy. This is because it creates a clear set of constraints and eliminates many of the complexities of our current way of life. Hearing this, I realized that perhaps I’ve been leaning too much towards [...]
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Standalone WiFi Application Hubs
February 7th, 2010 No Comments
Continuing on my foray into resilient communities via local community tech hubs, I’ve begun thinking about extreme scenarios. Imagine a community with limited power and little or no internet connectivity; standard hosted platforms for commerce and communications – Ning, Twitter, Etsy, Facebook, Gmail, etc – would cease to be effective. It is possible, however, to [...]
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Breathing Tree
November 16th, 2008 No Comments
Nobu and I are creating a collaborative game that uses volume from microphones to spur the growth and fruition of a virtual tree. The game highlights the value of cooperation and participation in environmental efforts. revision: Blowing as input has been dropped in favor of a more intuitive interaction. Input is now someone brushing his/her [...]
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