PComp Week 3 Electronics Lab
In this week’s lab, I was very confused. Luckily, Kody and I worked together on the floor with the multimeter and setting up circuits and so forth. Tragically, I also struggled with the Xacti cam. It was a rough week for me. You can watch all the awkwardness below and read our assignment here. Share → Tweet
Response to The Machine Stops
How depressing a world without nature, without human touch and interaction. I can barely fathom such a world. A world devoid of warm, dense and pugent earth, of soft skin and rough hands. Maybe we are already living in a world not entirely unlike the one Forster portrays. This dystopian fantasy addresses classical human dynamics in an absurdly [post]modern world. Our integration with technology has already started: “…she did not notice the noise, for she had been born with it in her ears.” (p. 5) I wonder what the effects... Read The Rest →
Tree Museum
Last weekend I went up to the Bronx for the first time in years. I made my way up to the Grand Concourse, a beautiful roadway that used to house largely Jews and other Eastern European immigrants in immense tudor style apartment buildings. I chose a stretch of the museum around a small park off the concourse. Initially i had difficulty finding the trees. The placards were small and on the ground and not particularly intuitive to find. Even though I had a map on my phone, I spent a... Read The Rest →
ICM – Week 2 Assignment
Molly and I worked together to combine her skyscape with my abstract birds and created a skyscape with moving clouds and birds. To view our work, please click here. Share → Tweet
Fantasy Device
Assignment Fantasy Device. Think of a fantasy device you’ve always wanted. Doesn’t have to be physically possible, but it has to have a physical interface. Design what the physical interface was. Document your design on your blog, and bring it in for the class. Your mock-up doesn’t have to work, and it can be made out of any materials you’re comfortable with. Make this a quick sketch, just enough so that your classmates have a sense of what they would do to use your device. The Antiquidator is a device... Read The Rest →
PComp Week 2 Lab
In Week 2 of Physical Computing, I learned how to use a potentiometer! Assignment: In this lab, you’ll learn how to connect a variable resistor to a microcontroller and read it as an analog input. You’ll be able to read changing conditions from the physical world and convert them to changing variables in a program. Work: Share → Tweet
30 Minute Film Festival
In our second week of Comm Lab, we were asked to create a narrative video in 30 minutes with an additional 15 minutes of editing time. Below is what my group collectively created: Click to play Share → Tweet
Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy, or, Analysis for the Literate
It is not very clear to me how to respond to Walter Ong’s “Orality and Literacy.” Should the response be analytical? Should it reflect the medium we are sharing it through? My initial thoughts are as follows: I disagree with the analysis that formulary writing is counterproductive, even in modern society with an (obvious) emphasis on the written word. Theoretically, I agree the argument that it allows the mind to be “freed …. for more original, more abstract thought.” (p. 23) However, I think this statement fails to acknowledge the... Read The Rest →
Graduate School: Two Weeks In
I can’t believe it. Time is already flying! I am two weeks into graduate school and already learning quite a bit as well as feeling overwhelmed orienting myself and absorbing all the new information and skills. This feeling shouldn’t necessarily be perceived as negative, however. I am thinking about projects I want to work on while here. I am remembering Kara Lynch, the co-chair of my Division III, at Hampshire suggesting I create light boxes for the mixed media pieces in my thesis (Division III) project and feeling like it... Read The Rest →
Sensor Walk
Assignment: Sensor walk. Take a walk around your neighborhood, or a different one. Take a count of every interaction with a sensor you see.