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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?
Labels: Design, Technology, The Drink
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.
Download the Schedule (pdf)
Download the Catlog (pdf)
Labels: Design, MFA, Technology
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!
Thanks!
Labels: Design, MFA, Music, Technology
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!
Directions to the Space
See you there!
ps The GCe2 was also featured on Create Digital Music which has my heart all in a patter.
Labels: Design, MFA, Music, Technology
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.
Labels: Design, MFA, Music, Technology
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.
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.
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.
You might have already seen this, buy I don't give a damn. I think it is gorgeous.
Labels: Design, Fun, Photography
We have spent the last few weeks fulfilling the American dream (a.k.a furnishing our new apartment cheaply with purchases from Ikea)
I have a love hate relationship with Ikea. I love some of their designs. I hate others. I love their food. I hate their customer service.
However, I may have found something to convince me.
Behold Ikea Hacker.
This is an amazing site, featuring just what you would assume: hacks of Ikea furniture. I have been trying to set up my music-making/technology-design-hacking workspace all week, so the work-station section has been particularly exciting. The image above is of a fantastic music-making control station that someone came up with. The site is seriously overflowing of amazing ideas. Luckily, organization is one topic covered.
I know what I'll be doing in my free time for the next month.
I have a love hate relationship with Ikea. I love some of their designs. I hate others. I love their food. I hate their customer service.
However, I may have found something to convince me.
Behold Ikea Hacker.
This is an amazing site, featuring just what you would assume: hacks of Ikea furniture. I have been trying to set up my music-making/technology-design-hacking workspace all week, so the work-station section has been particularly exciting. The image above is of a fantastic music-making control station that someone came up with. The site is seriously overflowing of amazing ideas. Luckily, organization is one topic covered.
I know what I'll be doing in my free time for the next month.
Let me just say, flat out fantastic. Great job Adobe; it looks beautiful. I was skeptical about losing the floating tool bars (I may be one of the only people in the world who actually liked them), but the new anchored dock tool bars are amazing. you can easily tab between all the old favorites, resulting in tons more screen real estate for designs.
I could keep going on and on about the great new changes, but I’ll try to save my reputation a bit and say this: If you use Photoshop, download the CS3 Beta and see what wonders the world will hold for you in the future. If you don’t use Photoshop, let’s pretend you never read this. How about we go talk about non-nerdy things..
Like beer.
And trains.
Bye.
Labels: Design, We {Heart}...
- A book is a flexible mirror of the mind and the body. Its overall size and proportions, the color and the texture of the paper, the sound it makes as the pages turn, and the smell of the paper, adhesive and ink, all blend with the size and from and placement of the type to reveal a little about the world in which it was made. if the book appears to be only a paper machine, produced at their own convenience by other machines, only machines will want to read it.
Question: As we continue to move away from the book as the sole mean of entertainment, knowledge, and the written art-forms; and as we move further into the depths of computer interaction, how do we better convey that humanist element?
How do we make work for a machine-based platform that humans (not just machines) will want enjoy?
