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My installation plan. If I don’t need to build the back...

My installation plan. If I don’t need to build the back wall (which is looking likely), it’ll probably be 4ft wide by 5-6ft long. The deck/platform is about 0.5ft high. 

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Toldya so.

I used to describe my thesis as if it was in the future, but NO. This is happening in the present, and I think we all knew it was going to happen. We think these cute little wristbands and wearables...

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Updates! These pictures are probably going to be as final of...

Updates! These pictures are probably going to be as final of documentation as I’ll get before the install. Nothing inside the platform and stand are hooked up yet, I basically just dragged them across...

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A spread from the final paper. Finished & bound!

A spread from the final paper. Finished & bound!

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Thanks!

Thank you everyone for coming to see my piece in the exhibition. I got lots of great feedback, and am working on editing together video documentation. Stay tuned!

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Images from Tom Coates’ Medium article,...

Images from Tom Coates’ Medium article, summary:creatures or things with intentGenuine People Personalities, a concept from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Does commodification rationalize itself?

This article by Mathew Ingram makes some great points articulating the feeling of ickiness we often get when finding about new services that start ups are offering: “parasite[s] that takes advantage of...

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Lack of faith

I’m titling this article “lack of faith” because that’s my general life outlook prescription. Growing up in an atheist family that became a little “broken”, having participated very sparingly in...

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Notes from Alex Galloway #

1. “Let us not be fooled: open source does not mean the unvarnished truth, but rather a specific communicative artifice like any other. And in this sense one should never celebrate a piece of source...

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Writing in Interaction Design

Since I did a lot of scenario-writing for my thesis, I thought that this article on Smashing Magazine really resonates with how important those writing exercises had on my process. The following is a...

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Learning [-1]

The -1 position in the array, which actually points to where the origin of 0 lies. I’m departing on a journey to create a new native-feeling mobile version of Browsercize / Fun-o-Meter using Backbone...

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Facebook dating app

The algorithm on the feed is really visible now. Like an alien UFO landing on your face. I digress. But think about it. Two people post the similar status updates (they’re at the same event). Facebook...

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Automate. On-demand. Customize.

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The Planning MachineProject Cybersyn and the origins of the Big...

The Planning MachineProject Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation. BY EVGENY MOROZOVA bit of causal thinking can go a long way. For all its utopianism and scientism, its algedonic meters and...

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Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom

Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom: In a first known case, a woman is using data from her fitness tracker in a personal injury claim. Lawyers say the same data could be used against clients too.

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Adversarial (User Interface) Design

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Photogrammetry from Forensic Files Collection 1 Ep. 2. How to...

Photogrammetry from Forensic Files Collection 1 Ep. 2. How to figure out the height of a person from a 2D photo.

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Notes, Spring 2013

MS2- Necro Enema Amalgated “doesn’t just endeavor to show us how we are controlled by allegedly interactive programs — it revels in the spectacle of our enslavement.” — Lingua Franca, Summer 1998...

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"1) It must be credibly motivated, both as to the original situation and the...

“1) It must be credibly motivated, both as to the original situation and the dénouement.2) It must be technically sound as to the methods of murder and detection.3) It must be realistic in character,...

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companion app?

While reading China’s Second Continent by Howard French, I had the idea to make a companion app for the book. What does that mean? I have a hard time defining it. There was also an opening last week...

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