Crisp Tix is a program written in Asterisk (an open source language for program telephone routing commands). Crisp Tix is intended to win tickets on the radio. Although it is still in development (faulty PHP code), I’m not very far away from the working prototype.
This is how it works. You’re ... [continued ]
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My preserved inspiration from all of the thermochromatic ink projects during the past year at ITP, Diana’s Flowered Jacket, Lara’s Felted Projects, etc, led me to my third project – a fork that changes color when food is still too hot. ... [continued ]
I recently decided to learn a bit about OSX’s Quartz Composer application. I’ve heard how amazingly powerful and easy it is, but I had never tried to use it. My original idea was to simp ... [continued ]
Read more…My website’s been broken for a while. Today I decided to try and rebuild and redesign it from scratch.
I managed to finish most of the actual design for the blog section, but I ran out of time before I could try and build a CMS for m ... [continued ]
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Today I transformed a pair of distressed Urban Outfitters shorts into normal, non-distressed shorts. See below:
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I started the day off with the intent of making a full DJ mix today but as the time quickly faded away, I decided that there was no way I was going to complete a full mix in one day. I had to shift gears in order to complete something by the end of the day and I decided to make a t-shirt design.
Ar ... [continued ]
Read more…Today I tested the boards that I assembled on Monday. Connecting all the LEDs to the boards was quite a task but I have all 64 outputs PWMing. Hopefully I’ll get the second board running for a total of 128 LEDs.
Yesterday reminded me of something I have been putting off. Last Spring I made the Moire Dress with which I explored the moire pattern through shadows, video feedback, the context of patterns, and projection. My final method, which I ... [continued ]
Read more…I decided to make my Tap Out Turtle into a fail turtle t-shirt:
and thereby concluding my 4-in-4 big letdown.
At least I have a nice yellow t-shirt now.
Day Four. Designing some case concepts for the iPhone.
A Lo Fi design series using contact paper, standard paper, and fabric to start.
Cutting the hinges.
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4 in 1, ya that’s right, eat your heart out. 4 mini projects in 1 day requires something i’m usually incapable of, highly regimented scheduling. In an attempt at making up for some amount of slacking, here’s the plan
UNO
“Not worthy of tree killing” stamp design, to stamp on all mail that I ... [continued ] Read more…Today, I worked on developing a Scottish Accent. I’ve attempted this in the past, but today I got serious (or as serious as I can get with this sort of thing).
First I watched this entire series of videos:
A Scott going by the name “Ray ... [continued ]
Read more…I wanted to make a simple portfolio of some of my projects. I decided on creating a Keynote presentation which is perhaps unorthodox. I exported the presentation and put it up on my website. It can be found here:
The one frustrating thing is that t ... [continued ]
Read more…I brought my sister, Ali, to help me with my day 3 project. She has experience with silversmithing and jewelry making, so we decided to make a USB flash drive necklace. We spent most of the morning searching for the tiniest thumb drive we could find, and ended up going for continued ]
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Today I decided to complete a project I started a few months ago. I began working on creating a clone of the Marshal Guv’nor distortion pedal by etching a PCB and stuffing the board. I had drilled out a case and assembled the hardware. Now ... [continued ]
So I took an exciting part of day one’s cello piece (45 minutes in entirety) and twisted in one ear and out the other, hoping for a deeper sound than the original recordings yielded. I flanged and I verbed, and boy did I pan.
LISTEN
Have you ever felt like you have too much going on in your life to do 4 in 4? Has the reality of the situation caught up with you and you realize that you cannot make a that blinky thing work or the sound making thingy magig. Do you now realize that ... [continued ]
Read more…My goal for the third day is to complete the website for the project “Do You Have a Dream?”. The site is already up, but has only basic information from the blogs and needs the videos and images uploaded. I would also like to personalize the template.
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Read more…This is the first time I hacked a speaker, and always meant to while at itp but never got the time. I recently bought a new pair of speakers for my laptop, but one of the speakers wasn’t working so they sent me a new system, and I ended up with an extra pair of speakers. So I indulged, and this wa ... [continued ]
Read more…There is a link on instructables for an improved version of the fabric bend sensor. So I decided to give it a shot in case I got better results this time… and indeed I did. Persistence prevails once again. The dimensions of the sens ... [continued ]
Read more…Adam Parrish is an ITP alum, former resident, and currently an adjunct faculty member who teaches programming. In addition to being a fan of his work, I was also lucky enough to be mentored in python programming by him last year.
One of his projects is “@everyword ... [continued ]
Read more…Due to a limited budget I decided to return to another Max/Msp audio project. In the past I have attempted several different ways at creating a Recycle type function on an incoming audio stream, all with limited success. Recently I stumbled up an example patch by Atau Tanaka titled ModSquad that i ... [continued ]
Read more…I had to work today and had limited time beforehand, so I decided to do something for day 3 at home.
I’ve been fortunate enough to go from having one amazing roommate to another . However, Estee has moved back to Australia, leavi ... [continued ]
Read more…Flibbit /flɪbɪt/, /flɪbət/
verb: To procrastinate
noun: The act of procrastinating
Sometimes it’s very hard to shake off. It’s also a little more complex than procrastinating. Since I’ve been in flibbit mode all day, it’d be risky for me to attempt to explain it. ... [continued ]
Read more…A pair of school girls,
strands escaping tight braids,
selling 'ice cold agua y Corona’
out of lunch boxes.
The sag of an old woman’s
shoulder under the weight
of her homemade empanadas.
An endless stream of th ... [continued ]
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For my 3rd project of 4X4,I was inspired by the “pop up card”.I love to get pop up cards from my friends for any reasons.I always expect what will comes out from the card.For this project,I cut top of the book into small pieces and roll it up ... [continued ]
Today I decided to make a hanging mobile for my son Tyler’s playroom. I was inspired by the “Blossom” mobile, for sale at Supermarkethq.com:
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For my 3rd project of 4X4, I made an musical instrument which works with MIDI and VSTi(Virtual Studio Technology Instrument). I used virtual Midi device(Midiyork) in order to connect Arduino and Processing to Nuendo which make it possible to p ... [continued ]
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For today’s 4-in-4 project, I decided to work with video.
I took three hours worth of footage from a trip to Portugal in 2007 and turned it into a 15-minute movie with Fado music as its soundtrack.
This was kind of a ... [continued ]
Read more…If it isn’t one thing, it is another. So let me say this quickly so that I can get to beating my wall with a hammer.
I’ve been working on a new derivative dress as part of my moire collection. Unfortunately, I ran out of satin chord and was unable to finish. In the course of wandering this fas ... [continued ]
Read more…Today I made a song using sounds I’ve been continually collecting from M-Audio’s and the media lab for the past couple months. 
Actually, I got bored after a while and decided to stop :/
This was a non-fiction piece I wrote yesterday following a trip to my grandparents’ house in New Jersey. The piece is available here for download in .pdf format.
Read more…For the third day of 4-in-4, I decided to do something extremely mundane, but that I had been meaning to do for a while. I had picked up a modular lighting kit at Home Depot for $35, and had wanted to install some lighting in my living and bed rooms. I set out to put two of the lights in the livin ... [continued ]
Read more…So I was going to do an animation but got swamped with work. So instead I decided to finally check out and fix up the voice memo I took with my iPhone at the famous soccer bar Nevada Smiths in NYC during the USA v Mexico game a few weeks ago for the World Cup qualifier. As some of you may know, we l ... [continued ]
Read more…I started my second day trying to to coax a barcode reader into working. I was going to use with Delicious library and obsessively catalog all my books and other barcoded items. After a munch of hours spent reviewing serial communications prot ... [continued ]
Read more…Day 3. I will start by composing a graphic score intended for short performance. I would like for this to be site specific, perhaps for a museum space. I will then walk over to 235 Bowery to perform the composition at the New Museum on the 5th floor in and out of context (or in front of the museum.) ... [continued ]
Read more…Today’s project was to create a physical interface for ITP staff to set the “floor open” status when opening or closing the floor. I bought a “knife switch” from Radio Shack and was to use an Arduino and XPort Shield to talk to a PHP template on the server to set the status.
I spent hours workin ... [continued ]
Read more…I’ve been working with a team on an Android Game called Lucid this summer (here’s a link to the old Processing version ). I like Android and what it’s all about, but I was surprised at how poor the examples are.
I decided to try to make a game frame fr ... [continued ]
Read more…Updated Online Resume & Updated Online Portfolio
After only a few days in New York I immediately realized how much I needed to update my resume and portfolio. In both, the content and design have been outdated for far too long ... [continued ]
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Here is a “rough draft” 5 minute video of one of the most amazing places I’ve ever visited…
the Anti Paros Cave on the island of Anti Paros in Greece…
(Soon I will add sound, a poem, and some textual info).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-qDVfagkQ4
Read more…Second project, a scene out of my messed up dreams.
full image:
http://blubee.com/itp/oscarBee.html
Oh and that crazy unicorn was stolen from Liesje and Jelani’s blog posts =P
Read more…I love things that fly…
Ornithopters are flying machines that flap like birds. I’ve been wanting to build one for quite a while now. I decided to start with a kit—it’s not exactly a creative project, but it seemed like the simplest way ... [continued ]
Read more…100’ of galvanized 14 gauge wire, cut into 3” segments created a 8’ by 10” mesh. Each individual square is about 3” and its span is of 9×32 squares. The processes took about 12 hours of cutting, bending, and assembling wire.
The pattern is a representation of a spider web on an abandoned structure.
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I lost my soul while walking to ITP. I was crossing the street and, when I reached the other side, I felt something missing. It was strange…an oddly disconcerting feeling.
The thing is, I shouldn’t have lost it. I had just gotten a replacement recently when I had worn my old one out. It had ... [continued ]
Read more…I worked w/ Liesje to make a comic. We alternated every 1/2 hour to make a page.
Bigger
!http://jelanijohn.com ... [continued ]
Today is my second day of 4 in 4 and I was planning to rewire my installation. Not all, but at least one of the pieces but off course the project is more complex than I expected. The first time I built the piece I hacked digital pictures frames and I triggered them using IR sensors. The problem this ... [continued ]
Read more…Today Jelani and I worked on a comic. We took alternate half hour shifts, working one cel (or group of cels) at a time. We had no plan for the plot, and simply worked off of what the previous person had done. Here’s the result:
After yesterday’s BuellerSynth, I have to admit I was a little curious to continue playing with my sampler, so I did just that. This time I managed to do something not quite as “novel”, and instead just decided to play around and make a couple of vocal synths using samples of my own voice.
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I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to do for the second day of 4-in-4. I had a couple of ideas but really wasn’t feeling it. Ultimately I decided to create a few fun ITP themed t-shirts from concept to completion and upload the final ... [continued ]
Read more…Recently, I’ve got fell in love with Neil Young’s song called 'Out on the weekend , so on the way from my place to ITP today, I decided to newly arrange a piece of music for a harmonica. (I like to play harmonica :)) First thing I did was find ... [continued ]
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more pics:http://www.4-in-4.org/permalink/57
Michelle Liu and I were at a loss in terms of what to do next*, so we decided to work together. Michelle started with the concept of wanting to do something with light. We decided to create a basic installation, utilizing a lamp and a posterboard masking, for the purpose of shining the words “4 in ... [continued ]
Read more…One of the few great things about L.A. is summer night shows at the Hollywood Bowl. Thousands of people enjoying themselves without trouble. The traditional beach ball bounced through the crowd always brings a smile to everyone’s face. It’s like being a kid again. I thought it would be neat to put s ... [continued ]
Read more…On my way in on the train I started imagining everyone with only legs. So I started writing down some scenarios. I decided to take my Xacti to Washington Square Park and try just shooting legs, then just hands and arms, then just heads. I gave myself 40 minutes to do this.
We’re so used to looking ... [continued ]
Read more…By failing at creating a twitter account for people to contribute jokes about a guy walking into a bar (a dyslexic guy walks into a bra). I’m twisting this concept of walking into a bar to tweet about good drink deals/special around the ... [continued ]
Read more…Day two project. Something involving Pure Data, video, maybe OSC, and networking.
Using an iPhone app touchOSC as an interface for Open Sound Control and PD and getting things communicating ... [continued ]
Today, I populated the boards I had designed. The boards have four TLC5940 PWM chips and can control up to 64 LEDs, servos etc. They can be daisy chained to have even more outputs.
today’s project is brought to you by the letter R and bloc party’s silent alarm remixed.
ahem. so.
nelson and i have friends in boston who have 2 little girls – alanna is almost 2 and her older sister sydney is 4 and a half.
sydney knows every letter of the alphabet. sydney likes the alphabet. sh ... [continued ]
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As Co-Captain of the NYU: ITP Intramural Soccer Team aka Baked Potatoes of 2008/2009…I was constantly nagged to make the soccer jerseys. Considering we had probably one of the best seasons in ITP history, I finally buckled down and designed ou ... [continued ]
There are two things I will tell you:
- I have poor blood circulation;
- I have been known to willingly wear/carry multiple bags at a time.
Oh, I know there are people like me.
I jammed fleece socks into tiny hoodie pockets and stitched them together, sewed on a few buttons and toggles, and now de ... [continued ]
Read more…For my first day at 4-in-4, I wanted to do something a bit on the easy side. Not say, rebuild my thesis project in a day. Call me lazy or cautious, I’ll take either gladly.
Over the summer my mom ask ... [continued ]
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first day of 4-in-4!
- brainstorming
- gather of my materials
I know a lot of you have been wondering how to do this, so just before midnight, here is my first of 4!
Read more…I decided to try to make a new frame for my thesis project, Lumarca (a volumetric display you can learn more about here: lumarca). I figured, worst case scenario, I fail and feel better about having spent the better part of a semester constructing the old frame. ... [continued ]
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Today I made portraits of 6 people: _“Karla Calderon, Diego Ri ... [continued ]
In a nutshell:
Find out everyone’s astrological sign and identify the ITP’ers who have the opposing (or complimentary) sign of the zodiac.
Words:
My project today was to get to know everyone on the floor, and seriously, what better way to do so than through the entirely scientific lens of astr ... [continued ]
My apartment has a broken window. It is currently propped up by a large, wooden cutting board, causing both mutilated counters and an enormous influx of insects. For my first 4-in-4 project, I decided to make a screen insert for the window that allows easy access to the plant-filled window box outsi ... [continued ]
Read more…Demeter is (or will be, to be precise) an auditory immersion piece exploring multi-location immersion. While walking in one environment (New York City) the dress is triggering sounds from another environment (my garden in California). It is a piece on Urban vs. Rural environments, east coast vs. w ... [continued ]
Read more…Videos. Variation on a theme.
Website describing incidents of internet group vigilantism. The implications are amazing if not scary(!)
1030am: Register on Wordpress.com (url was already purchased)
11am: Add content from saved articles
1130am: Tweak Wordpress settings for theme, headers. Change url forwarding settings.
12pm: ... [continued ]
Read more…3:30 PM – I decided to go out and pick up some food, only to be distracted by the computer store again. I picked up the 4GB of RAM, alone with a wireless mouse and a carrying case.
4 PM – I returned and realized I didn’t have a screwdriver. Eric, whom I suspect is a professor here, helped me ... [continued ]
Read more…flexible bend sensor
this is the sensor I’ve been meaning to make for quite some time now. I followed the instructions on instructables to make it. I used neoprene, velostat, conductive stretch fabric, conductive threat from LessEMF ... [continued ]
Today I’m taking a bunch of voicemails that I’ve recorded over the last few years and making some sort of song/mix with them.
I started by listening to and downloading a messages dating back two years. With Audacity, I cut down the chunks ... [continued ]
Read more…What I’d originally planned to do today was thwarted by software issues, so I thought I’d finally get round to doing something with all those photos I took during my cross-country road trip in July.
I saw some incredible sights, but often felt photo or video documentation as I had always done them ... [continued ]
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BuellerSynth 101
I’ve long been inspired by the scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Ferris uses an E-Mu Emulator to create a sampled illness goodness. At the time it seemed like a sort of unreal technology from the future, and in a wa ... [continued ]
At one point the result becomes a rain forest of sound, then rhythmic pulses of transmission synced to the yellow LED as I add and re-patch multiple components on the breadboard.
Read more…Adding components gives us some wonderfully unpredictable results. Trying to control the push, pull and flow of the communication evolving into birds and voices. I need to post the videos with sound here.
Day One: Project One
11 AM – So, my initial project for the day was to create a design that would be screen printed onto a shirt for my girlfriend using photo emulsifier, however, in order to create what I want, I need a better computer with my newer software. Thusly, my project for the day has bec ... [continued ]
I decide to begin anywhere. Attach some volts 9V and confirm some pops with an eye towards static.
Some starting points. A couple of schematics to look for a way in to this projects’ possibilities. It is all about controlling the flow of low voltage electricity.
First a glance at a generic series datasheet to reveal what DIP pin corresponds to in and out, etc. First we recognize that the use of this IC is not intended for audio necessarily.
Start. Here is the plan. Work with CMOS logic chips to produce sound output. Simple means complex results are desired. I am starting with a phase locked loop voltage control oscillator IC and a handful of miscellaneous components, mainly resistors, capacitors, etc.
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Read more…I’m trying to make a special snooze button for an alarm clock – to help people get up in the morning.
This snooze button will give you ten more minutes to sleep, but after that it will start raining on you. The button to stop the rain will be far away from your bed.
I decided to use a spray bot ... [continued ]
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As an incoming student for ITP,I am happy to join 4 in 4 and want to do something which I NEVER did before. This is my first experience to working with Spaghetti (not in the kitchen)makes me feel exciting but super exhausted . my shoulder is r ... [continued ]
get ready!
Read more…Test post 1234 in 4.
My goal for the 1st day of 4 in 4, is to edit a series of clips from interviews made in Santa Fe, New Mexico with children from Middle School. The structure will be answering a series of questions based on their future, community, and expectations. The final project for today is to have all the vide ... [continued ]
Read more…I’m still not sure what I’m going to do today, but I know it won’t have anything to do with my laptop or my cellphone.
Read more…For the very first project at ITP, I made an illustration of myself roaming in NYC with my Tablet notebook.
From 10:00 ~ 14:00
From 14:00 ~ 20:30
Its colors seem to be awkward a littl ... [continued ]
Read more…One of the most commonly recurring questions on the ITP student mailing list is “Is the floor open?” Students who are desperate to work on their projects over the weekend, early in the morning, or late at night often want to know if they will have access to the floor. Well instead of waiting for s ... [continued ]
Read more…My initial idea was to build a small processing sketch that draws something very simple on the screen whenever someone passes in front of the computer. I thought that by adding some variation on the shape when its drawn, as the shapes drawn accumulated, I could end up having a result that could be ... [continued ]
Read more…Hi Everybody.
Many more instructions will follow about this blog – but here’s the key ingredients.
When you’re visiting for your first time, you should go to 4-in-4.org/settings
Then log in with your google account info. which you should send to John or Anderson before the 4-in- ... [continued ]
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