DIY for CHI workshop
re-posted from Leah Buechley’s Flickr
Image via Wikipedia Are you harrassed by electronic devices? Yes/No. Are you often devising plans for escape? Yes/No. Do you know what you want? Yes/No. Are you satisfied with who you are? Yes/No. What …
Strange how the scale forms in tiny patterns on my antenna and the Five O’clock Show, hello hello… Brooklyn is crawling with famous people I turn my vehicle beneath the …
The work of Chuck close demonstrates an almost algorithmic perception of the visual image. One wonders if in fact he actually sees the world in this manner. There’s a quality to this work that creates a tension with human perception. We are seeing the overall sense of an image but the individual features of that image are in a way unrelated.
Last night at makerlab we were talking about dating sites a bit – commenting on how strange it was that they didn’t leverage social networks. For fun today I threw a fun idea together as a test of how to make dating more social. It isn’t terribly serious but perhaps amusing. I like to combine talk with praxis. Here it is:
We’ve posted an update to our Iraq Deaths agent at http://twitter.com/iraqdeaths . Here I’m going to journal and document the work involved in making this actually …