The crowd stands in awe of the mighty mixture of mentos and a particular diet beverage
Today was fraking amazing!
Life Size Mousetrap
Quote of the day ,”Through the Powers of mass hypnosis, you did not see that!”
I am thourogly exhausted after a full day at maker faire, but ready for round 2 tomorrow! Jester, Kardboardrobot had a great time today and in the spirit of make we are busily working on version two of our very own maker faire project. Today Jester shot stereoscopic video using two 1080p video camcorders. At the moment kardboard robot is building the new redesigned rig, I’m working on our infografics, and Jester is editing. The fruits of our labor will be live on the interwebs very soon.
I recently went on a walk through the now closed Cullen Gardens and Minature Village, with a couple freinds. The experience was kind of depressing, walking along the paths that used to be lined with minature urban sprawl, liliputan suburb and pristinely kept gardens, reduced to fraying wires, dilapidated tiny train tracks, overgrowth and trash heaps. It really is sad that such an amazing place no longer exsists but in memories and pictures.
I would like to to return after finding old images from the village and compare them to what remains.
For over a year the artist Daniel Huyberts has been collecting plastic bags, both his own and those graciously donated to him. In the process of experimenting with fusing plastic bags, he noticed the untaped sonic potential of the material. The completed project is a large drum surface where the interactors touch is amplified and processed.
The plastic bag is a troublesome little object, as this piece proposes it is Scheduled for Deletion. Cities (and some countries) around the world have put taxes or completely banned the use of plastic bags outright, or switched to biodegrable corn plastics. These actions can only go so far. Recycling programs run by stores only work if patrons return their bags to those stores. As such it’s very important for the average consumer to switch to reusable bags, weather they be plastic or fabric, recycled, or hand made. It’s not that hard to keep a collection of bags in your car, or in your purse, backpack or (man)bag. When asked “Paper or Plastic,” you can respond, “No, thanks, I brought my own!”
Ok, so none of my art is up here. I know, I know, I just haven’t got around to it ok! Tomorrow, It’s gonna change. I’ll have images of the demo version of Scheduled for Deletion, and the finished stretched surface on the frame. Hurray!, huge strides were made in the last 24 hours and I’m super excited to share them, but I’m sleepy and I don’t have the energy to find the missing USB cable to connect my camera. If I can figure it out I might even have a flash player with a sound sample.
-the search still doesn’t work:
it only searches mica.edu and not the portal itself
-the mica logo doesn’t take you to the portal home it takes you mica.edu
-it’s very easy to break the site. Just like before if you go deep enough into the site the top menu disappears.
-it has 3 different forms of navigation! that’s just bad, and their different depending on where you are in the site
-it’s even more difficult to find anything, and since the search doesn’t work, good luck.
Over all it’s worse then it was before, is barely, if usable at all and clearly seams like no one with any knowledge of good interface design was involved at all. I know this is not the case but it’s just sad.
ID/UX analysis of the new Portal part 1
April 13th, 2008-the search still doesn’t work:
it only searches mica.edu and not the portal itself
-the mica logo doesn’t take you to the portal home it takes you mica.edu
-it’s very easy to break the site. Just like before if you go deep enough into the site the top menu disappears.
-it has 3 different forms of navigation! that’s just bad, and their different depending on where you are in the site
-it’s even more difficult to find anything, and since the search doesn’t work, good luck.
Over all it’s worse then it was before, is barely, if usable at all and clearly seams like no one with any knowledge of good interface design was involved at all. I know this is not the case but it’s just sad.
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