Apparently, I think, Travelocity is doing some sort of campaign involving trying to find or spot or something a rather with gnomes. But yeah, I just thought it was funny because gnomes have been kind of a going on thing lately for me. Audrey sent me this awesome button that says Gnome Chomsky. One of the best buttons ever.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Perrier Ads
Hey Bunny. Like peace and love. You totally gotta try some of this Perrier, it'll blow your mind. It's either that or he's some sort of Falconer Beast Master like animal tamer who uses Perrier.
Glue Sniffer
Well apparently Totoro (my sister's cat) likes sniffing glue now. I asked her if he was turning into a druggy she said no. She was like he's only done it once. I was like what is he running for public office, I tried it once but I didn't inhale? Yeah, sure Totoro.
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So, an all nighter and of course some pictures of the sunrise. It's something I got into when I was at CalArts. My workspace used to be right by the window so I could see the sun coming up and I would go out and take a break around that time and walk around and take pictures. It wasn't that cold at first being out there but then it started to feel real cold, 36 degrees cold.
All Nighter For ICM...
Well I am still up and it's morning almost sunrise. Been up working on my midterm for my Introduction to Computational Media, aka I.C.M. aka programming, class. Well I finished it about a half hour ago but I will have to be up because I'm expecting a package this morning from UPS so I need to be up and if I sleep I won't wake up. I'll sleep after I guess. But, enough of that, what was the midterm? Well it was more like a homework assignment then a full blown project. I decided to continue working with data parsed from icasualties.org. I took data on the monthly statistics of those killed by IEDs in the Iraq war in conjunction with the total casualties per month. I took the data and created a program to visualize it, it's a rather abstract visualization/representation of the data. The IED data expands along the x-axis while the total casualties data expands on the y-axis. Each death is one pixel of growth. Right now it is asynchronous. Its odd at times when both sets of data coincide with large numbers the result is cross like. I.C.M. Midterm
Of course today is also election day, me I'm an absentee so no going to someone's garage or some elementary school to vote. There is a pretty cool project Audrey told me about and I'll pass it on to you so take a picture when your out voting. pollingplacephotoproject.org. Also, regarding the election one of the most devious computer based phone banking thing I've ever heard of turned up, being used by of course that Grand Ole' Party. Robo Call Barage. The blasted thing calls you repeatedly if you hang up, and it acts like it's the Dem's calling you. If you listen to the whole message it teabags the Dem. Canidate. Bloody devious and mallicious. Oh yeah and bloody go out and vote.
More on Iraq. There was an article in the NY Times about Sniper's in Iraq taking it's toll on coalition forces. It's a fairly straight forward article but what got me was the front image. It's very graphic, way out of the norm, especially in such a large and mainstream newspaper. I'd read it. Sniper Attacks Adding to Peril of U.S. Troops
The N.Y.C. Marathon was run yesterday. The Kenyans did not when, shocking. A brazillian won, I hadn't really heard much about him. The American's didn't do as well as hoped, especially for the women's race. The women's race wasn't much of a race in fact, the leader got away from the pack early, everyone ran way to timidly. There's more, Lance Armstrong, I guess figured he'd try his hand at the marathon. Of course, why not? Well, apparently he lacked respect for the race, the distance, and to me the sport of distance running. "I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," said Armstrong. His longest run was 16 miles aka improper training. He did make his time, sub 3 hours, which is pretty good considering. However, halfway through he started getting shin splints. He hit the wall. Basically he ended up hobbeling in. "For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done," said Armstrong. He probably won't be able to walk right for a week or two. That's what it'll do to you. You can read about the rest.SI.com: Different Wheels
Welll that's it for now, I'm gonna go outside and take some pics hopefully of the sunrise. I've done some all nighters already but I hadn't had a chance to go out and take pics, I like to do that typically. I have pictures for most of the all nighters I pulled at Cal Arts. It's something that started then. Well off I go into the cold, weather.com says it feels like 36 degrees, agh!
Of course today is also election day, me I'm an absentee so no going to someone's garage or some elementary school to vote. There is a pretty cool project Audrey told me about and I'll pass it on to you so take a picture when your out voting. pollingplacephotoproject.org. Also, regarding the election one of the most devious computer based phone banking thing I've ever heard of turned up, being used by of course that Grand Ole' Party. Robo Call Barage. The blasted thing calls you repeatedly if you hang up, and it acts like it's the Dem's calling you. If you listen to the whole message it teabags the Dem. Canidate. Bloody devious and mallicious. Oh yeah and bloody go out and vote.
More on Iraq. There was an article in the NY Times about Sniper's in Iraq taking it's toll on coalition forces. It's a fairly straight forward article but what got me was the front image. It's very graphic, way out of the norm, especially in such a large and mainstream newspaper. I'd read it. Sniper Attacks Adding to Peril of U.S. Troops
The N.Y.C. Marathon was run yesterday. The Kenyans did not when, shocking. A brazillian won, I hadn't really heard much about him. The American's didn't do as well as hoped, especially for the women's race. The women's race wasn't much of a race in fact, the leader got away from the pack early, everyone ran way to timidly. There's more, Lance Armstrong, I guess figured he'd try his hand at the marathon. Of course, why not? Well, apparently he lacked respect for the race, the distance, and to me the sport of distance running. "I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," said Armstrong. His longest run was 16 miles aka improper training. He did make his time, sub 3 hours, which is pretty good considering. However, halfway through he started getting shin splints. He hit the wall. Basically he ended up hobbeling in. "For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done," said Armstrong. He probably won't be able to walk right for a week or two. That's what it'll do to you. You can read about the rest.SI.com: Different Wheels
Welll that's it for now, I'm gonna go outside and take some pics hopefully of the sunrise. I've done some all nighters already but I hadn't had a chance to go out and take pics, I like to do that typically. I have pictures for most of the all nighters I pulled at Cal Arts. It's something that started then. Well off I go into the cold, weather.com says it feels like 36 degrees, agh!
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Pro-Cat Regime
This is a Pro-Cat Regime, hence the video. Yeah, poor kitty looks like something my sis' cats might do.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Splinter King...
Ok so I slept in this morning. Reading some tech news and stuff and what do I see. Burger King Xbox 360 games just released. I'm like what? I have to see this. So I see it and I'm like agh. Ok the racing one is whatever, glad they put in the Subservient Chicken but not anything to trade in your breadbox for. However, Sneak King, now that is some creepy freaky stuff. If the King weren't creepy enough now you get to play him running around and sneaking up on people. It feels so wrong. Matt pointed out why is he all moving around like all Splinter Cell, Solid Snake and stuff? He's waiting though for the sequel when they'll put in nightvision and shadows and stuff. So bizzare, I just had to post about it.
Happy (Belated) Halloween...I'm Burnt, Real Krispy Like, 12 Spices
Well I'm back. Finally. My midterm for Physical Computing is done. That project has just sucked me dry. However, in the end it came out rather good. The final prototype was an interactive wearable. Since it was due around Halloween it was aptly themed. It consisted of a vest mounted LED grid that made the shape of a ghost (very Pac Man-esque). The microprocessor (arduino board), breadboard, and battery were also mounted on the vest. Gloves with conductive fabric that had strips for power, common ground, and input. There were also upper arm mounted LEDs as well. Then there was a an external garment, kind of a cross between a poncho and a sheet or shirt that was worn over to diffuse the LEDs a bit and to also hide all the internal components on the vest. We took it out for a test run on Halloween to the NYC Halloween Parade. It was really bizarre making repairs in the street, especially when it involves pulling out a laptop and plugging a USB cable into your costume. Also, the police, not to thrilled by it, got a lot of second glances especially when we had to lift the covers up. It's just a wee bit suspicious, you know, vest mount, lights, a bunch of wires, microchips and the like, looks a lot like something else. Coulda become an issue of National Security, haha. Three hard weeks on that project and it has thoroughly sapped me. But it's done, and it came out well, and the presentation went well which was today. Very happy and relieved. Oh yeah and don't ever solder 168 LED's, in one day, AGH!
You can check out the site for the project as well there's some video up there and stuff and more pics. Project Ghost
In other news. I also completed my first real project using live video processing, using C. I changed RGB into CMYK. A play between the ideas and conventions of the two color spaces and the content that is particularly associated with them. I would like to continue with the idea, I really like it. I don't have any pictures or documentation of it yet though, hopefully soon.
I handed in an animated short for my Applications class, based off of that M5 bust trip I took awhile back. I kinda like it. It's silent right now, not sure if i'll leave it that way or not.
I'm planning to continue working on making graphical/visual representations with data from the war in Iraq, for my programming class. The midterm is due monday but it's more liken to a regular assignment which is nice.
Oh I got a vacuum cleaner! A lil red dirt devil, it's got a lot of oomph. Quite nice and decently priced. I need to get a small point and shoot digital camera for documentation purposes, because I can't really lug my SLR everywhere sadly. I need to start looking for something decent and cheap.
Audrey is coming out to see me this coming week which is going to be so nice and great. I'm really happy about that. My G5 tower is acting up a freakin-gain and I'm pissed. I told them to replace the damn processors! Another thing I'm furious about, my bloody car got towed. Freakin' ridiculous I'm pissed and just hope I can get it back, I'm really sad about that, discouraged, and angry about it all.
What's up with all the (RED) all of a sudden? It's everywhere now. However, I'm totally down with the (RED) iPod Nano, freakin' sweet color, it's very tempting but I don't have the money and I'd rather get a Gameboy DS Lite. Hey the Gameboy I could even use for school, so it could be justifiable. Oh yeah also some other random pictures I had forgotten to post from Chicago and New York.
You can check out the site for the project as well there's some video up there and stuff and more pics. Project Ghost
In other news. I also completed my first real project using live video processing, using C. I changed RGB into CMYK. A play between the ideas and conventions of the two color spaces and the content that is particularly associated with them. I would like to continue with the idea, I really like it. I don't have any pictures or documentation of it yet though, hopefully soon.
I handed in an animated short for my Applications class, based off of that M5 bust trip I took awhile back. I kinda like it. It's silent right now, not sure if i'll leave it that way or not.
I'm planning to continue working on making graphical/visual representations with data from the war in Iraq, for my programming class. The midterm is due monday but it's more liken to a regular assignment which is nice.
Oh I got a vacuum cleaner! A lil red dirt devil, it's got a lot of oomph. Quite nice and decently priced. I need to get a small point and shoot digital camera for documentation purposes, because I can't really lug my SLR everywhere sadly. I need to start looking for something decent and cheap.
Audrey is coming out to see me this coming week which is going to be so nice and great. I'm really happy about that. My G5 tower is acting up a freakin-gain and I'm pissed. I told them to replace the damn processors! Another thing I'm furious about, my bloody car got towed. Freakin' ridiculous I'm pissed and just hope I can get it back, I'm really sad about that, discouraged, and angry about it all.
What's up with all the (RED) all of a sudden? It's everywhere now. However, I'm totally down with the (RED) iPod Nano, freakin' sweet color, it's very tempting but I don't have the money and I'd rather get a Gameboy DS Lite. Hey the Gameboy I could even use for school, so it could be justifiable. Oh yeah also some other random pictures I had forgotten to post from Chicago and New York.
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Me working at the sweatshop. To the tune of Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle." Real sewing music alright.
Project Ghost 2nd Prototype
Project Ghost 2nd prototype. Very not so grand. A pain and a half to code though.
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