Design of Unusual Media

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I am pleased to announce that the CMT Freedom Taxi Interface has hit another city! This pic was snapped by Daniel Cohen, the project's Flex developer in Boston recently.

I designed the Freedom interface in the Fall of 2008 while working closely with CMT Frontend Developer Scott Selikoff and Deborah Au-Yeung, one of the best Interactive Project Managers out there.

Another shot of the finished design

Been working on a method for quickly visualizing and manipulating MRIs on-and-off (mostly off) for a couple months... Here's a sneak-peak:

source code download here (5.8MB zip) (requires openFrameworks)

My Virtual Boy screens are acting up... Cannot let go of 1995... must... attempt repair.

SMARTTable: http://vimeo.com/4433205
MS Surface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0  read more »

Premise: How to describe complex thoughts with the simple electical signals from neurons?

Cellular Automata: Simple Rules, Complex Behavior.

current pattern	111	110	101	100	011	010	001	000
new state for center cell	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	0

This is analogous to neurons with 3 inputs, and 1 output.

more:

3D (2D+time):
Game of Life


This is analogous to neurons with 7 inputs, and 5 outputs.


9 inputs and 2 outputs

New Video of Steadman projections in the Chelsea Art Museum from last year: Original from 2007-09-16: [link]

Looking at NY State's geography by zipcode...
inspired by zipdecode [Ben Fry]

Regarding designer position at NY State Senate

Dear Mr. Hoppin,

I would like to direct you to my resume (PDF) and work samples for consideration towards the Designer position at the New York State Senate. I came across the position this afternoon on nextNY, and think I would be a great candidate.

I have never written a cover letter in Drupal before, but it kind of seems apt after researching your impressive accomplishments in the realm of web 2.0. I understand the Drupal theming system inside-out, as well as the basic database structure, which I had to learn in launching the Drupal-based redesign of Fantasticsmag.com last month. I also have expert-level skills in designing Flash frontend UIs using Actionscript 3, while I also enjoy the challenge of designing in XHTML and CSS for accessibility and mobile devices.  read more »

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I'm teaching a class called Experiments with Technology in the Parsons BFADT program this semester, and it's given me a chance to reacquaint myself with Processing. These are the latest in a series of new work using the open-source programming environment that first got me interested in creative interaction.