animation and code
I unfortunately had to leave town right before the show but thankfully Johnny Quinn Alston (my Dear Mr. Calatrava partner) and Ari Joseph (of Tapper fame) represented me at the show.
Here are some pictures of my projects, taken by David Steele Overholt. Check out the complete set for many more!
The Winslanirian is an instrument designed and built by Winsow Porter and myself. The original idea was to build a stringed addition to a drum set that could be hit to make the open-tuned strings resonate. This evolved into its current table-top form, which is based on prepared guitars, particularly Yuri Landman‘s Moonlander.¬†
Hope you all have a happy and relaxing holiday and that 2009 treats you well!
If you’re in New York on the 17-18 of December, make sure to come to the ITP Winter Show. I will have three projects on display: Dear Mr. Calatrava, Louie’s Soul-Sucking Mirror and the Winslanirian.
ITP Winter Show 2008
Dec. 17th & 18th from 5pm to 9pm
@ 721 Broadway, 4th Fl
Forget-Me-Not is a system of small devices you can use to make sure you never leave anything of yours behind again.
Just attach one of the smaller units to an item you are prone to forgetting, like your keys or your umbrella, and keep the larger unit in an item you are likely not to forget, like your bag. If they ever get separated, your bag will scream out at you to remind you to go find your keys.
So I got busy and didn’t get a chance to post a pic of my stache for the past couple of weeks, but here it is now.
 
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activityPixels is a site-specific installation for ITP that measures the amount of activity in the lounge and displays it as a set of two projections on the windows.
 
A camera captures a live feed of the student lounge and sends it to the computer, which performs a frame differencing algorithm to measure the amount of activity in the room. The resulting image is highly pixelized, and projected on one of the windows. The second projection is a pre-recorded video, also highly pixelized, which changes depending on the amount of activity. We see a person studying when there is hardly any movement, people walking and talking when there is little movement, and people dancing when the amount of movement is high.
 
By Elie Zananiri and Kim Thompson. 
Special thanks go out to our actors Eddie, Amanda, John, Winslow, and Matt.
