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Parsons MFADT grad student and all around cool dude Joe Saavedra’s excellent SOBEaR, the responsible robot bartender was recently featured on Engadget and Gizmodo.
Breathing into SOBEaR’s face, he can tell how much you’ve had to drink and he’ll pour in relation to that. Nothing yet? You get a shot of vodka. A few drinks in? How about some straight cranberry juice, you lush.
Wait a second. A bartender that pours only vodka and cranberry, is a tad slow, isn’t much of a conversationalist, and can tell how much you’ve had to drink when you blow in his face? He should be able to get a job near NYU, no problem. Zing!
And, let’s be honest, we all could use more robot pandas in our lives, right?
Hey all. The Parsons MFADT Symposium 2009 is almost upon us. This Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd, there will be presentations from a host of up and coming game designers, musicians, artists, web entrepreneurs, and more.
I will be presenting my thesis, the Gesture-Control Exploration in a panel discussion titled “Emotive Narrative: Internal Representations” on Saturday May 2, from 2 to 3:30 in the Theresa Lang Auditorium at 55 W. 13th Street (2nd Floor) along with Hsiang Ju Huang, Jason Tseng, Carrie Mae Kreyche, Pasquale Chieffalo and special guest moderator: Yury Gitman.
I will also have a demonstration booth set up on Sunday, May 3, from 2 till 5 (also in the Theresa Lang auditorium) where you can come by an play with the controllers. Hope to see some of y’all there.
Visit mfadt.parsons.edu for more information.
Popular Science Magazine was in attendance at the Handmade Music Night last Thursday, and they were kind enough to interview us and feature the GCe2 on their blog.
Thanks!
Yo dudes. Guess what? I’m going to be at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn this Thursday for Handmade Music Night. I will be giving a demonstration of the newest iteration of my Gesture Controller Exploration, the GCe2.
There’s going to be all sorts of great handmade music projects there. So please come on by and support your city’s musicians and makers. (We need all the support we can get)
Here’s the deets:
Free (+ free beer while it lasts)
Thursday, January 15
7:30-10:30pm (drop by for as long as you’d lie)
3rd Ward, Brooklyn NY
RSVP to handmade (at) 3rdward (dot) com — walk-ups welcome, but it helps us to know how many folks are coming!
See you there!
ps The GCe2 was also featured on Create Digital Music which has my heart all in a patter.
GCe2 // GestureSynth from Mouse & the Billionaire on Vimeo.
Hi everyone. I just thought I’d finally let you all see what I’ve been doing for the last few months. This is the GCe2 (Gestural Controller – Exploration 2). It makes music. It could do other things as well, but we’ll have to wait and see about that.
There’s a bunch more information here if you’re interested.
Happy New Year, y’all.
Being that it is Friday and laundry day, I just spent the last hour or so taking care of business. By taking care of business I mean drinking coffee and browsing through the classic film posters at the Polish Poster Shop.
Polish versions of American films! Who knew these would be so breathtaking. The graphic design on some of these is just fantastic. L and I have been in the market for some new art in the house. This may be the answer. Give ‘em a look y’all.
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We spent last weekend in beautiful Stockbridge, MA. We slept inside this Norman Rockwell painting. In the building on the far right, to be exact. The centuries-old Red Lion Inn, where we had some delicious breakfast, wonderful snow-covered times, and a fantastic old-fashioned at the old-fashioned bar.
We also visited the Norman Rockwell Museum where we discovered we liked Mr. Rockwell, as they constantly refer to him, a whole lot more than we expected.
Last night, we, the O’Briens, and Dumas were taking a nice stroll down Park Avenue and, we were stopped in our tracks by this Damien Hirst window installed at the Lever House.
We instantly thought of the Sycz/Guinta clan, and had to take a picture. We then proceeded to Burger Joint and ate from one of these guys’ cousins. It was delicious.
Flickr user Mayotic has some better pictures on his flickr pool. Check them out and imagine hiring Hirst to redesign your kitchen.
Sleevage is my new favorite blog.
Every day or so a beautiful record cover is posted along with discussions on fonts, interviews with the designers, alternative comps, and more.
The artwork ranges from the 60′s to current releases, though I’m hoping they start working their way back to the 50′s as it progresses.
They are also currently looking for writers, and I know you all like to write about music, so why not give them a shout.
