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Soundswap - Localizing the Attention Economy

Saturday, August 16, 2008

SOUNDSWAP // A Familiar Stranger Juke Box - Localizing the Attention Economy
“THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RUB UP AGAINST A FAMILIAR STRANGER’S DATA BODY”
Soundswap is any stationary bluetooth enabled device that allows passerby’s to swap audio files when they are standing near it. Only people who pass by the device during the day [...]

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Scratch

Monday, August 4, 2008

Mitch Resnick and Karen Brennan from MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten stopped by Srishti yesterday to talk about the Scratch programming language and other goodies.
Mitch wondered whether there was an application for Scratch and the physical computing blocks the Pico Crickets. The CEMA lab has used Scratch and Crickets in the past as a [...]

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Make a Turtle Island

Saturday, June 21, 2008

There used to be a big piece of wood in the pond in our back yard where turtles would sun themselves. But then it went away. So I spent an afternoon this weekend with my dad making a new turtle island.

We drilled 3 holes for pots. In these pots we put stones, [...]

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Me & A Few Americans I Like

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Wikipedia on A Few Americans I like:

Ben Franklin
Buckminster Fuller
Jane Jacobs

CLICK on the template to download the .pdf
Print out on 11×17 or A3 and you can make your own doll.

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The Long Tail of Truth

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Long Tail
Power Law
Truthiness

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Heidi Kumao

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Heid Kumao is a contemporary new media artist, who teaches at the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design. She was my thesis chair during my Master’s degree and she is a very cool artist and was a great mentor to work with.
She has recently been featured in an extended interview at We [...]

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In The Nature of the Experiment

Thursday, May 15, 2008

IN THE NATURE OF THE EXPERIMENT from srishti on Vimeo.
This is a short (10 minute) documentary that captures the spirit of the CEMA lab at Srishti with one school year under our belt. Thanks to Ayisha, Ulrike and Smriti for their hard work on it.

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NYC Pizza Expert

Friday, April 11, 2008

From 2001 - 2005 I was in a rock and roll band called Hijack Jupiter with Scott Wiener. (He now has a really amazing indie rock band called the Bikini Carwash Company. BCC for those in the know.)

Scott’s the one on far left.
Eating well while touring in a big white van [...]

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Used In The World

Friday, April 4, 2008

I have started a new Photo Blog called Used In The World. The images were collected from 7 Emerging Economies during the research portion of the emerging economy report. (I did the Brazil Field Research for the Report back in November 2007.
I will post a new images of adaptive reuse, street hacks, and [...]

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New York City subpoenas creator of TXTMOB

Monday, March 31, 2008

I just got this link from a friend this morning. Need to find out more about the cities actual request, but how is this anything other than an insane invasion of privacy, and an authoritarian reaction to citizen run media?

From ZDnet. (Oringinally appeared here in the NYTimes)
“….Although the service, called TXTmob, was widely used [...]

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