Design of Unusual Media

The Punk Rock Keypad explores the meaning of individuality in the context of eroding privacy and increased digital publicity. The device uses exposed safety pins to transmit serial data to a wired network worn on the body. A wireless transmitter embedded in the jacket communicates with a mobile phone using special software that allows the wearer to communicate more expressively. Oi!  read more »

The current Dartmaps prototype catches input from darts with infrared LEDs in them and can control Google Earth through a variety of methods. This allows users to navigate and interact with Google's geographic database with more aggressive and supervillainous interaction.

Leave Britney Alone!

Youtube video block party, Bushwick, Brooklyn 02 Oct, 2007.

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A particle-system writing tool by Mike Edwards and myself. As seen in Brooklyn.

A Google Earth-based chronicle of Canadian author, Farley Mowat’s journey to Siberia in the 1960s.

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While typical anti-smoking initiatives target the minds of smokers, Smoke on the Water requires that smokers physically take the cigarettes out of their mouths, and use them as a game controller.  read more »

This "pixelfucker" server script takes raw images and creates HTML tables out of them. Images with no IMGs!
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Poetry Prompty is a speculative design for creative writing circa 3000A.D. The system uses a physical Zeitgeist interface element which can be tapped, to algorithmically assist in the poetry writing process by querying the Internet. This process is visualized both on the device itself, and through expressive typography that mimics the emotions of the writer.