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Hoo-Ahhhhh
As the three of you who actually read my blog regularly may have noticed, I haven’t been updating things in a while. Why? Because I am so ridiculously busy I can barely find time to go grocery shopping. Currently, my projects include:
Semester long team project to design a contextually aware mobile device that focuses on learning for Microsoft and Motorola (2 presentations left including the big ol’ final one).
Learn object oriented programming and build an audio-visual game in Processing (I’m starting from nearly zero with this one).
Redesign electrical block diagrams used to show audio signal paths and create a poster showcasing my design.
Write a 15 to 20 page research paper detailing the history of sound and interaction design.
Survive. All in the next 5 weeks.
And not one of those was put on me! I chose and defined every one of those projects! (well - the first one was obviously a team effort). Anyway, I took a 5 minute break and made the following photo, that I rather like. It really needs to been seen big to be appreciated, so maybe I’ll actually print this one.
March 31st, 2008
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Ways DARPA is trying to kill us all
OK, so I can only prove that one of these was a darpa project, but seriously - who else would pay for the development of an evil robotic spy-snake?
Headless robot dog on you tube
What I really want to see is a full-on raging pit battle between these two. Awesome!
March 20th, 2008
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Homely Airports and Green Celebs
Spring break is now ending - it’s been nice to have some free time–though not as much as I would have hoped - I ended up working 50 hours in order to finish the project I’ve been working on for the Office of Campus Design. It’s a real load off my back to have that done however: after 5 months I have now completely inventoried, mapped, and photographed every single “outdoor asset” (read: ashtrays, garbage cans, etc.) on the Carnegie Mellon Campus. Now I’ll just have to think up a nice way to visualize it all (not as part of my job - just because it’s there and I want something pretty to show off my work). At any rate, spring break meant that I was able to spend my evenings watching Lost online with my wife, which was all I really wanted. For those who don’t know, you can watch all 4 seasons of Lost on ABC.com in Hi-def streaming for free. So if you’re not addicted o this ridiculous but enthralling show, go be so now.
In other good news, I’ve accepted a summer internship offer with Intuit! I’m super excited to go work for them in Mountain View, California this summer- the internship sounds like a great experience and the people I’ve met from Intuit have really impressed me.
Finally, I found some great little media tidbits this past week that I thought I’d scan and share. First, the following is from Glamour Magazine, which means, sadly, that it is probably NOT tongue-in-cheek…
And this second one is from the Saturday Financial Times:
Funny that they’ve never mentioned “the art of creating pockets of homeliness” here at D-school. Maybe they do that up in Architecture…?
March 15th, 2008
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Data Viz
This may not be the most innovative data viz you’ve ever seen, but I think the following visualization I did of my musical listening habits for my Mapping and Diagramming course is quite nice, if I do say so myself. Karen Moyer even complemented my colors! (Mind you, this was made for print, so the screen colors aren’t right at all). The viz shows one week of how, where, and when I listen to music.
March 3rd, 2008
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