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OK, seriously, why don't I go to bed at a reasonable hour? The Internet is my crack. Sleep is so underrated. Must sleep!!!! -
Photos
I realize I have been remiss in not posting photos since before Thanksgiving. So, here is a slideshow of each holiday: New Year, Christmas, and Thanksgiving (in reverse chronological order...just to mess with you):
New Year:
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Cyborg Camp Session 4: How Art Influences Technology
Discussion centered primarily around film but touched upon other media. Highlights:
- Low-tech effects can serve an artistic purpose. We are willing to suspend our disbelief if the representation is more stylized and less literal, but representations/special effects/computer animation effects that are almost literal come off as plastic-looking.
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Cyborg Camp Lunch
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Cyborg Camp Session 3: Ward Cunningham on "Seeing"
Highlights from this session:
If a photographer doesn't see every possible photograph in a room, he won't take the picture. He must practice "seeing."
Use computer program to take an image, compile and render the data in a way so that we see patterns in a way we wouldn't see with our naked eyes.- Sunlight patterns taken from photocells and webcams ( Read more... )
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Cyborg Camp Session 2: Conveying Emotion Online
This was a fascinating conversation, lots of great ideas from people. Highlights from this discussion:
- Emoticons - The basics, maybe doesn't convey as much information as we'd like.
- Digital mood rings?
- Usability testing - When doing it remotely, require a webcam? Video helps give us the subconscious cues of what people think during a test and not ( Read more... )
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Cyborg Camp Session 1: Technology/Symbols/Language
Attending a session about evolution of written language, signs and symbols. Interesting examples of historical and recent symbols. Some highlights:
@ - used to mean price per item in accounting, now implies location
# - means "context," group, event, topic, something happening
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A recent conversation between two of my friends...
Friend 1: "I can't stand all these fucking Transformers fan videos people post on YouTube. It makes it impossible to find an actual Transformers video."
Friend 2: "That's like complaining that the landfill stinks. This is YouTube, for Christ's sake!"
