April 2009
2 posts
What the blurb for one of my 1st talks will be
“I have 413 Facebook friends and in one week I saw more then 100 of them in RL. I wanted to create a work of art about virtual friends so to do that I visited them in person. I got a picture of me with lost friends, childhood buddies, ex girlfriends, family, and people from high school I didn’t talk to. I asked them about their RL friends, asked for a physical souvenir, and took their...
“I read a Steven Strogatz book which spoke of emergence and how lightning bugs...”
– excerpt from the paper
March 2009
2 posts
1 tag
“Facebook’s huge growth is creating inevitable collisions as the whole notion of...”
– NYTimes: Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?
“is using a social network to tell ppl on a social network that I am helping a...”
– torandus Thanks Tom. :)
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February 2009
11 posts
Facebook friends count and general local
Long Island: 85
NYC: 119
Upstate NY: 120
elsewhere: 53
unknown: 12
total: 389
facebook allows you to stay in contact with people you don’t necessarily desire staying in contact with.
The average adults heart rate is between 50 and 100 beats per minute.
How to read pulse-- →
I was a little concerned because I had trouble finding my pulse in my wrist. I really didn’t want to be so confrontational that I touch a persons neck. This site helped me find it. I thought ‘how many places in the wrist could the pulse hide.’ Well it turns out the pulse is off to the thunk side of you wrist. I was checking the center. wrong :)
latest update (beta9) →
January 2009
5 posts
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What am I trying to prove...
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a lot of the time my mind moves faster then i can...
November 2008
7 posts
In Progress App -> beta01 →
Click this link to DL a mac version of the app I’m developing for the thesis project. A screenshot of the app is in an earlier post. Press UP to add lightening bugs and DOWN to subtract them.
This was written in Processing.
Thesis in a Nutshell
Art work physicality allows connection to artist —> when the creator is a group such as in a social community a greater level of connectivity is possible —> a connection can be emotional —> heart rate is used to represent love, individuality, and mortality —> heart rate is used to control pulse of lightning bugs which represent synchronicity and virtual and almost mystical connectivity...
long time, no update
I know it’s been a long time since an update. My project has changed directions a few times in the last week, which might be all the more reason to post updates, however i found it tough to keep up with the speed the project was adjusting. I will post a few updates this week regarding the circuitry, the programming, and where the project sits conceptually. My project is getting more exciting...
October 2008
8 posts
“a great belt of light, some ten feet wide, formed by thousands upon thousands of...”
– Joy Adamson describes the her personal account of Mae Klong River in western Thailand synchronized glow of lightening bugs.
“People explicitly turn to computers for experiences that they hope will change...”
– Life on the Screen, By Sherry Turkle
“Connection is a very important theme in this work. It can be found in the...”
– last paragraph in my formal proposal
September 2008
10 posts
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the... →
Great book that nails the topic and focus of my project. My professor very wisely recommend i buy and read through it.
What is My Interest in Lightning Bugs?
When I was about 16 years old i was walking back from a local carnival. In the street I saw a lightening bug hovering about 4 feet off the ground. Lightning bugs have always caught my attention and captured my interest. This particular one was strange because it was by itself and in the middle of the road. It slowly pulsed on and off and I watched it for about 5 minutes. It was only visible when...
Great Advice
Among the best advice I’ve gotten so far was to scale down my project to the smallest denomination. every time i tell someone my project the reaction is somewhere around “wow, yea, good luck with that.” If I can scale it down to a point where i can make the easiest component functional then I can just say that I’m done with he project, and everything on top is just further...
My thesis proposal introduction (before grammar...
Introduction:
Multiple, personal, wall mounted, sculptures will connect virtually. Each will display an environment that contain lightning bugs. each bug will be controlled by a user through a dial. The dial will control the position of the bug and the users heart rate will be used to dictate the lightning bugs glowing pulse. The pieces will possess a painterly quality and will show the...
WatchSean helped to inspire the concept of using the heart-rate in my project. This fit so well b/c the heart is the perfect way to individualize someone as well as represent their feelings and emotions. He has a lot of great ideas as to how to use biological sensors for digital means and is a source of great creative and artistic inspiration.
