"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.

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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.

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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.

Alls Well That Ends Well...

Well that group project I was working on is now over. In the end it came out quite well, overwhelmingly good feedback as well as personal feedback from our teacher. Of course it was a lot of work and pushed me at times but it is over and it is well. However the beginning of a new group project is looming. Come this Tuesday I start another one with different group members. The Politiks have already started though and there is a North and South and we stand divided. Hopefully that can change, but I know it's gonna be ugly. I have begun to move myself to the center and have initiated damage/spin control, oi! We're bloody adults aren't we? That aside went to MOMA yesterday night and saw a cool piece I'd never seen before, The Simpson Verdict. I forget who was the artist I'll have to look it up. I originally was going to go see "AKA Nikki S. Lee" but it was sold out. Saw "The Siege" Last night when I came home. I'd never seen it before and kind of wanted to see it when it came out but never got to. So, I finally got around to it and it's really odd seeing it post 9/11 and current Iraq War along with the current climate in politics, foreign policy and this nation. Went out to Queens today on a class field trip. The NY Hall of Science was were we went. Man that was a long train ride but I thought it was going to take longer but got there earlyish. So, I wandered around Flushing Meadow Park and the World's Fair Fairgrounds. The trip was really cool, our teacher Danny Razin, really bloody good. Couldn't take the same train back (7) though cause apparently a building collapsed don't know what was the cause though. Anyways, that's what I'm up to, playing the spin doctor and wandering about.

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The Una-Martin and Comrade Camel.

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Comrade Camel lying in wait.

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Comrade Tortoise lying in wait.

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The Una-Martin and Comrade Tortoise.

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Yitzhak Rabin Avenue in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens.

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More World's Fairgrounds

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World's Fairgrounds in Queens. It's out in the middle of Nowhere. MIB I, the decent one.

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This was from near school and apparently it confirms it. N.J. is NYC's dump. "Oh yeah and I wanna give a shout out to all my peeps in New Jersey, cause your like that."

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Here's some randomness from earlier in the month. Either this is a really bright dunce cap or someone is straight up being disrespectful. You'd never see that out West. Pitiful.

Monopolization and Gel Ignite

Well, I'm bloody tired. I'm still working on that group project. It's a life sucker and time waster. Meetings go on forever and it's tiring. The first few days not much got done and tons of hours were spent. The past two days have been much better and things are coming together which is good/exciting. I have another group project ramping up soon, midterms as well, argh. My programming class is barely starting to move slower that molasses, still a bit bored. Other stuffs, hmm besides school, hmm. Well how about news like Mr. Mark Foley, congressman of Florida. Yeah he's properly f*cked, oh yeah, the irony of it all. Oh I know my bloody phone, being a pain, I think it's going to need to get replaced argh. Been listening to some more Irish music, good ole I.R.A.. Well with that I shall now go to bed but 'fore I go here be a rather lovely quotation from an equally lovely song done by Spirit of Freedom. "Farewell to your bricks and mortar. Farewell to your dirty lies. Farewell to your gang ways and your gang planks. And to hell with your overtime." -"Botany Bay"

Co-Dependency

Well got some more pics up. This week is going to be pretty busy, got a group project. Gotta make a prototype mockup. I realized something in one of my classes this week. We had to do this project in which we had to build some sort of 1 to 1 relationship. A lot of people made up groups to work on rather good/ambitious projects. They were fun and nice and provided smiles. My project ended up rather simple. The co-dependent relationship between two LEDs. Now, that's not very cheery is it? Especially when one group project is a love meter of sorts. Some people didn't know what a co-dependent relationship is, so I had to explain for some. My teacher's response was wow that's deep. Yeah, so looking and seeing other peoples projects it has further instilled in me the fact that I am not terribly interested in making happy things or feel good things. Nor am I about the oh look that's so cool. During class I thought about a possible mid-term or final project for that class, a simulated minefield or field of IED's. Ahh yes simulated explosive shrapnel, oh how it will lift the spirits of the room. Keep smiling =).

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