Monday, December 18, 2006
Jazz at JFK: Jet Blue Terminal
This isn't your Lincoln Center. This is Jazz at JFK: Jet Blue Terminal. So, bizzare to see a jazz quartet busy playing after I get through security and on the way to my gate. Of course I'm not complaining because I love straight ahead jazz but in an airport? Doesn't belong now, the drummer even had a Gretsch drum set. My plane though ended up being delayed by an hour almost. The flight itself was rather bumpy at one point and made me a lil motion sick. First time I have ever gotten a bit sick to my stomach on a plane. I got picked up at the airport by Audrey, so nice to see her.
Physical Computing Class & End of Semester 1
Well the semester is over as you can tell. The last week of school for the most part was unstressful which was good. I had most of my projects wrapped up well ahead of their due dates which was good. All of my projects were fairly well received. Two of which were recommended to look for a gallery or public space to display them or to look for funding to make them on a larger scale("Green & Black" & "I.E.D. Field"). The other was recommended to continue working with and to make multiple versions of it ("RBG2CMYK").
The last presentation I had was for my Physical Computing class, this is the class picture of all of us. I'm way in the back on the right you can barely see me. Some of the gals in the class started crying which was like okay talk about attachment. I wasn't particularly sentimental but the class was a good lot of people. The projects in the end were all pretty good and for the most part interesting. Some of course more so than others, hehe.
After this I went and had lunch with my friend Ji-Sun. Good vietnamese place that is bloody cheap during lunch but not so cheap during dinner. In general it's Ji-Sun, Rob, and myself, Rob had class so we all couldn't hang out before I left sadly. When I get back though we're all gonna celebrate since I wasn't going to be around to do so with everyone.
This semester has flown by and it's so odd to be done a quarter done with my graduate degree. Kind of scary in a lot of ways. On another note I got most of the classes I wanted for this coming spring semester which is quite nice. It'll be a lot of reading, writing, and discussing.
Eye in the Sky
The "eye in the sky" used to do the motion detection for my final project for physical computing, the "I.E.D. Field." This was a preliminary setup in prep for the final presentation.
Oh Yeah!
This feller I don't have a name for yet. He's an odd drawing on the white board at my dorm room. I had eaten a can of my roomates chilli by mistake and had gotten him a replacement and he drew up a happy face. I took that and made this fellow. Not sure what sort of personality is, but he's a rather funny lookin' guy.
Biker-Crackers
So, there's this building store front near my school on 10th St. between Broadway and 4th Ave. They have 6 giant nucrackers in the window all done up like this. Make me think of biker nucrackers or "ZZ Cracker."
Camo Tree
I forget which day it was I think it was during finals week that It rained and this tree still moist looked like it was painted with camoflage.
National Security
Well I'm guessing the department of Homeboy I mean Homeland Security got a tip off that the Stuyvesent Town Christmas tree was in danger of being attacked.
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Not sure which department store this is but it's right across a street from the CompUSA on 5th Ave.
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Well the week after Thanksgiving during my quest to find boots I wandered up and down the city in and out of shoe stores all over. I forget which building this is but it looked really nice. I got to see a lot of decorated buildings along my wanderings which was rather nice.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
And I'm Back
Well I'm back. The semester is over, all my projects are done and I'm back home in good ole' South San Gabriel, California. First day back and it rains. What's the deal? Went to the D1 Grand Prix (drift racing) at Irwindale Spweedway. It was the last race of the season. It was good, pretty crazy especially since it was raining. Team Orange totally dominated in the end. Ireland was out there representin' which was cool. But, yeah I'm tired and I'll post up pics and info about the last weeks of the semester and such and what I'm up to now (probably lots of nothing and eating).
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
The Govenator
"I am the Govenator of Kali-forrrrnia." So, apparently before you leave or when you arrive at L.A.X. you can pick up your "Govenator" t-shirt. Scary isn't it? (The Govenator is brought to you by Audrey mind you, props where props are due.) Oh, finished one final which is awesome. In the process of finishing it or coming to conclusion it was finished I dumped out about a week and half to w weeks worth of work or so of animation stuffs I was originally going to use. Depending on how lazy I am or when I get around to it after I get these other projects done I will be posting it up (which involves learning how to sign a java applet). So, back to verk!
RGB2CMYK-TIME-Trump
So, this is what I've been working on for my final project for Pixel by Pixel. So, what is it I am actually doing? I am currently taking a still image and compositing part of it and placing live video behind it that is being processed to be converted to CMYK from the RGB color space. Why do this? I'm interested in the whole content associations that are established with color spaces (probably because I have dealt and worked two long with both worlds and have utterly lost my mind dealing with color spaces, proofing, and the like). Print (C.M.Y.K.- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, & Black), has a certain of weight and value to it inherently due to the costs associated with mass production print as opposed to the RGB color space. RGB (Red, Green, & Blue) is seen basically in anything that is video, tv, your computer, your camcorder, digital camera, etc. Even though on the high end with broadcast video there are large budgets and big dollars being thrown around on one side of the spectrum there is also the other end which is the person who has that crappy Hi-8 camcorder, little point and shoot digital camera, or even just a computer. All of these use the RGB color space and so there is a wide gamut of who has access to these technologies. The biggest issue thus far with this project was trying to figure out a work around for the issue of two video buffers of different sizes eventually being put into the same destination buffer, aka GWorld, (no relation with Ghandi the rap star formerly known as G Spot"). On that note, go watch Clone High (why did you cancel it MTV!) and I am back to work on trying to make this program work faster than a putrid 9fps.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Cobra Commander in Plaid!
COBRA COMMANDER in plaid. Yes, it's gotten cold enuff for me to bust out the scarf and my grand spanking new jacket with "radial arm motion." Supposed to snow in like 2 hours or least that's what weather.com says. We shall see what we shall see. COBRA COMMANDER demands snowmen to be constructed to create a protective barrier against gung ho and mister LaFitty! But yeah back to programming now =|
Sunday, December 03, 2006
The Godfather & The Return of Ska
Well just this week I picked up two new ska albums at a local Tower Records going out of biz massive sale. Those two were Ska-Boo-Da-Ba by the Skatalites and The Last of the Skinheads by Judge Dread. Awesome albums both of them. I've been listening to them all week. Especially one song from the Skatalites by the name of Confucius. Awesome bass in it. So, tonite I was working on my pixel by pixel homework which I was having some difficulties with but made progress and solved a huge prob. I'll post some example pics from it later. Anyhow I meant to go to sleep instead I ended up on You Tube and I ended up looking up the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. That's right Japanese ska for all of you who haven't heard the news. They've been around for awhile. Got to see them last summer at the House of Blues while they were on their first tour in the states. Amazing. The trombone player, the trumpet player and the drummer unbelievable. So, I was wondering You Tube and ran into the fact that they've played with Puffy Ami Yumi but also that they had covered the Godfather theme. Amazing especially when they slow it down and then go into double time right after. Blood great. T.S.P.O.!
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