"When you cut off the head, two will rise in it's place."

Well that has indeed occoured. One group ends and two begin. A prototype for one class with that group is due this week. I have a presentation on tuesday for the other in response to our rather good/interesting speaker Ethan Zuckerman. The latter group has had group politik from the get go and the climate has cooled after I did damage control and spin. I have become that aisle that people supposedly reach across, haha. Anyways, things have thawed a bit and have begun to move forward but a deadlock was hit. So we shall see where things go from there. In other news, as you may have heard a plane ran crashed into a building out here in Manhatten. When I found out it was via text message simply saying a plane ran into a building in NY. My first response was agh, not again. I was at school at this time I quickly got onto the internet scouring for news of it and details. The BBC oddly was the first with a story up, then NY Times then CNN. Until finding out it was a owned by a Yankee pitcher I was a bit tense I must admit, even thought it was a small plane. It's just one of those things. It's sad that my first human response about that news was like oh whew it wasn't terrorism and just a regular plane crash. On another note I finally got you some pics from that last project up. Basically it's an interactive store display with things that pop out and move at specific distances. In this mockup we have a halloween themed store front. It ended up working quite well and looking quite nice, especially with the background done in Flash. The weather it is a changing. It was pouring two days ago and today was coldish. I'm glad I recieved my heavier jackets from home (Danke Mom). Anyways, I think that's about it for now. Time to do some more homework and research.

TNO-10-12-06

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Well this was from yesterday night at the quote unquote Best Thursday Night Out of the Semester unquote. It was rather eh. However, this odd picture came from it. I have no clue I could smile like that, maybe it's the angle. Totally weirded me out to see that. I look like I should throw my head back and begin laughly then stop then do it again and say something like, "Yes, Haha, yes indeed, hmm, Haha, yes." Also my teeth look oddly sharp well least to me, not sure what you all think. An oddity for surity

ITP-Observation-Phys Comp

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Here is the whole group. Left to Right, Klara, Ji Sun, Robert, Emery, and Jack. The core group was Ji Sun, Rob, and myself.

ITP-Observation-Phys Comp

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It was early and I was tired but I was glad it was done.

ITP-Observation-Phys Comp

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Well this is a picture of the setup for our Observation Project for Physical Computing. Arduino board, bread board, IR distance sensor, and two servo motors. All to make our interactive store display.

Do you remember Tripod?

The speaker today for class was really quite good and engaging. Ethan Zuckerman. He was one of the founders of Tripod, you remember the sites with all the pop up ads and banner ads. I'll talk more about it later, oh and he apologized for all the pop ups and for possibly inventing them, I say that because I'm not entirely sure if he did invent them, he said he did. I am skeptical as you can see. However fun stuff now. Kind of funny and random but worth the watch. Reminds me of Monty Python in ways but with nothing but album covers. Motiongrapher

Oh yeah, and one more thing

One thing I completely forgot to mention from Friday's ride back from MOMA. I was on the L train riding back and this guy started trying to sell me drugs. He was strung out to all hell. He even dropped the price to try and negotiate a deal, it was pretty funny and sad all at the same time. Today was rather nice, I got to go run which was awesome. The weather was great, I felt good, my form was there and so was my turn over. It was short but it was nice. Finished editing and made a DVD for someone special (looking at you Meow). Well, I'm off to bed. Up to bloody late as you can tell. But before I go a lil odd self portrait.