New Media II: 2011

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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RT @fubiz Real Life Version of Up http://tinyurl.com/4u87rfp
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My dream phone. Verizon please put this phone on your service. Pretty please! "Flip Phones are Back!" http://su.pr/28UylL
8 Apr

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#remeberwhen nick and cartoon network had good shows...
5 Apr

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Bits: Gmail April Fool’s Joke Turned Into a Reality http://nyti.ms/ekvald
4 Apr

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University Of Chicago Student Launches Casual Sex Website, UChicago Hookups...The next facebook?? http://bit.ly/fnleDC
30 Mar

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GPS device for blind. http://bit.ly/fRaaPS
30 Mar

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@KeithWOaCrew I'm coming back in the fall! YAY
24 Mar

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awwww, that's the best. I used to get that all the time when I was at the Help Desk YUM :) @KeithWOaCrew
24 Mar

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The Sims Go Medieval http://kotaku.com/5784635/
22 Mar

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Kinect hacks: Lights, camera, evil genius. Kind of spooky interesting lol. http://bit.ly/frrxE8
22 Mar

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Helpful design tips from the design community http://bit.ly/eS13sf
16 Mar

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My laundry has been stolen before, thankfully it wasn't underwear http://abcn.ws/f8Cvs1
16 Mar

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World's first 100% plant-based bottle, from PepsiCo http://bit.ly/gtD2Hw
16 Mar

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Painting on Water. http://bit.ly/hG6bYG
16 Mar

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A day made of glass http://bit.ly/fcPMTo
15 Mar

TechCrunch TechCrunch
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Apple Keeps Right On Approving Amazon And Netflix Updates Without In-App Payments http://tcrn.ch/eSZ3DG by @parislemon
15 Mar

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Guy Hacks Times Square Screens With iPhone - shar.es/39KuE (via @perezhilton)
15 Mar

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Smart Textiles competition. You could win 9,400 bucks! http://bit.ly/hs8G30
8 Mar

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Amazing work, its scary how real they all look. http://bit.ly/aL2hiu
28 Feb

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What if our world was in 8-bit like the first mario games??? http://bit.ly/9HtmUl
28 Feb

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What would happen with publishers if we had ipads in schools rather than text books?? http://bit.ly/HoCCK
24 Feb

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This is soo creepy lol http://bit.ly/fepnHx
24 Feb

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Really Cool Photo manipulations http://bit.ly/e5nlkY
15 Feb

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Art made from 2,200 pounds of salt, I love creative people. http://bit.ly/ffYeZp
15 Feb

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Saatchi Showdown. Very Cool. Thinking about entering... Hummmm http://bit.ly/draWd7
10 Feb

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iPhone 4 is now at Verizon. Sooo who's going out to buy it?
9 Feb

nytimesarts NYTimes Arts
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Architecture Review: Downtown Skyscraper for the Digital Age http://nyti.ms/fVkyVx
9 Feb

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Just finished reading The Valorised Designer by Nigel Whiteley. Very interesting http://amzn.to/g1Hgik
5 Feb

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My Milk Toof is soo cute http://bit.ly/cIH4IH
3 Feb

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First the GAP now NBC Universal ??? Why are companies redesigning horrible logos?? http://bit.ly/hKAsc1 #fail #branding
2 Feb

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Readability tool will take away all those annoying ads to articles. http://nyti.ms/e9TsZj
1 Feb

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Check out this link http://bit.ly/f4dSUh
18 Dec

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check out my cupcake commercial http://bit.ly/f4dSUh
16 Dec

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I love my new hoodie buddie. :) http://bit.ly/cHHx9O
7 Dec

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Everyone has a Facebook nowadays even OREO. http://on.fb.me/fHdxNX
2 Dec

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Michael Jackson's new album: "Breaking News" December 14. Is it really him? Sounds fake to me.. What do you think? http://bit.ly/aPF2k2
9 Nov

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2K11 DEAD?? http://bit.ly/aQPu2k
3 Nov

BreakingNews Breaking News
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MGM movie studios files for bankruptcy, will be run by Spyglass Ent - CNN http://bit.ly/cqs4XU
3 Nov

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Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session kotaku.com/5675347/ via @kotaku
28 Oct
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Things Learned from Sensory Interaction Community

By creating this website on Ning I learned a lot about community engagement and human interaction. I learned that, though small there is a community out there of people who are disabled and use technological tools to help them live life more independently. For example T.V. Raman is a Google pioneer in customizing technology to blind users. He himself is blind so he is motivated to create tools that might help others who are blind as well. I also learned that my members bring interesting topics to hand as well as new technology that they come across to help the process. Hopefully we come up with enough ideas to actually create a service or product that can help others in the future.

Martor Knives

A first glance i thought the knife was a bit big and wouldn't be easily stored in small places. But the idea and design is pretty cool. Martor (a company that makes cutting knives and blades) designed the Easysafe to cut towards the user and still remain safe, since the blade is tucked away behind a plastic lever on a hinge it makes cutting safer than an x-acto knife, utility knifes and box cutters. It also makes changing the blade very easy, it uses no tools. The knife is also equipped with a special key so only authorized personnel are able to change the blade. You can buy this nifty gadget here for only $14.48. video

Jack Chairs

Author Bodolec designed Jack chairs that he says come alive. His concept to is have a regular box or circular-like object that takes up no space in a room. But once sat on it blossoms like a plant, awaken and turns into a comfortable lounging chair. video

Another cool design from Authur Bodolec is his lapeyr. The lapeyer is a reinvented stairwell. The idea is to have one the stair longer than the others and attached to a wall. The stair will also be above the ground. the stair that is attached to the wall and longer than the rest will be made of a soft material so that someone can relax, sit, and enjoy the stair while not interfering with people walking up and down the stairs.

Best TV Ad Ever

The winner of the 2010 Best TV advertisement award is Nolan's Cheddar. I thought this commercial was very cute and funny. The cinematography and the sound design was great. It really kept you guessing because you didn't know if the mouse was going to get caught in the trap. I loved the short film so much that I had to find the creator. His name is John Nolan and he actually has more films that he has done. After viewing his website I noticed he is also really into what he calls "animatronics" which are robotic like creations that he makes. They can also move by themselves or move with someone actually moving with them. He has a studio in London where he creates very unique works of art. Congratulations on the Advertisement Award John!!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Exceptional Person Jesse Frankel

Jesse Frankel
Graphic Design (Graphic Design & Branding for Print + Screen)

What I Do? I strive to create innovative designs that engage the audience in the striking amplification of decor and clarity. Where as graphic design is both and neither art and commerce, it is my responsibility to accentuate the fine line that lie between. I have and will continue to practice within many forms of design media, though I find that I am at my best developing and enhancing brands through the origination of idea and form intended for print and inevitably existent on the web.

How I got to do what I do? I have reached my professional and creative apex through years of mentorship, visual osmosis, and cultural exploration, with the recent addition of a bachelors of fine arts degree from CalArts. My path has been somewhat unconventional though fulfilling nonetheless. In my many travels through the cosmos of design time and space, one thing that I have learned is that there is no end to education as a designer. It is a lifelong journey of trial, error, discovery, faith, and adventure.

Tips:To become a truly good designer you must dedicate as much of your senses as possible. See the world through the designer's eye. Eat with the palette of a designer, drink the designer's kool-aid. Allow yourself the gratification that everything that can be done has already been done, but take this fact with a grain of designer's salt and do what you can to reinvent new wheels with the utmost importance. Designers are problem solvers with a paint brush, and the world is constantly fading is the bright light of commercial banality. We are anti heroes ever burdoned with the selfless mission of functional beautification. So aim high, get dirty, and never apologize for anything except for the use of comic sans.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

GPS Device for the Blind

Allan Sejer Madsen and Lukasz Natkaniec from Poland, have developed a GPS device for the blind called "DROP" GPS system. The device is in a shape of a disk and senses it location using GPS Technology. The grid is made of 3D moveable dots so the user can feel the maps, very similar to braille. It also has a zoom, search, and voice command feature as well.

I think this device is pretty cool and in the future can help the blind get around without a see ans eye dog or a walking stick. What do you think?

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Using infrared light to help deaf people hear and blind people see

Richard Rabbitt has discovered a different way to activate cells using infrared light to send signals to the brain. Rabbitt figured out how to use infrared light to send signals to the brain. Pulses of invisible wavelengths are activate nearby cells and communicate with the brain. "In the lab, researchers were able to make heart cells in rats beat again and make inner-ear cells of toadfish send signals the brain."

Rasearchers hope this type of therapy work in the following situations

to restore balance as well as age
to provide artificial vision in patients with retinitis pigmentosa
to treat people with Parkinson's disease

Rabbitt said in a statement:

“A healthy adult can hear more than 3,000 different frequencies. With optical stimulation, there’s a possibility of hearing hundreds or thousands of frequencies instead of eight. Perhaps someday an optical cochlear implant will allow deaf people to once again enjoy music and hear all the nuances in sound that a hearing person would enjoy.”

I'm interested to see how these implants will improve in the future.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Uchicago Hookups

A few University of Chicago students have created a casual sex site called UChicago Hookups. The purpose of the site is to allow UChicago students, find casual encounters and entertainment events. The site says “Chastity is curable if detected early” and features a Victor Lownes quote: “A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.” More than 200 people have already signed up for the service and are looking for a "no srings attached" sexual experience. "We’re trying to change the ages-old stereotype that UChicago students are severely sexually deprived,” the site’s creator writes on the site.

But is this taking that stereotype too far in a different direction. In my opinion sex is turning into a everyday thing now. It is supposed to be cherished and shared with a person you love. Young adults now are treating it like some sort of casual thing you do with your friends. And the media is only making the situation worst with movies coming out like "No Strings Attached" and "Friends with Benefits" (pretty much the same as "No strings Attached" with different actors). Or shows on MTV like Skins, which shows very sexually active teens. Also teen celebs are having babies. And we wonder why our teens are geting pregnant at such a young age. Is society now telling them it's Ok? That at that age, they are supposed to be having sex and if you get pregnant, oops, O well.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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@KeithWOaCrew I'm coming back in the fall! YAY

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awwww, that's the best. I used to get that all the time when I was at the Help Desk YUM :) @KeithWOaCrew

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The Sims Go Medieval http://kotaku.com/5784635/

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Kinect hacks: Lights, camera, evil genius. Kind of spooky interesting lol. http://bit.ly/frrxE8

22 Mar Favorite Reply Delete

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Helpful design tips from the design community http://bit.ly/eS13sf

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My laundry has been stolen before, thankfully it wasn't underwear http://abcn.ws/f8Cvs1

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World's first 100% plant-based bottle, from PepsiCo http://bit.ly/gtD2Hw

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Painting on Water. http://bit.ly/hG6bYG

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A day made of glass http://bit.ly/fcPMTo

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Apple Keeps Right On Approving Amazon And Netflix Updates Without In-App Payments http://tcrn.ch/eSZ3DG by @parislemon

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Guy Hacks Times Square Screens With iPhone - shar.es/39KuE (via @perezhilton)

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Smart Textiles competition. You could win 9,400 bucks! http://bit.ly/hs8G30

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Amazing work, its scary how real they all look. http://bit.ly/aL2hiu

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What if our world was in 8-bit like the first mario games??? http://bit.ly/9HtmUl

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What would happen with publishers if we had ipads in schools rather than text books?? http://bit.ly/HoCCK

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This is soo creepy lol http://bit.ly/fepnHx

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Really Cool Photo manipulations http://bit.ly/e5nlkY

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Art made from 2,200 pounds of salt, I love creative people. http://bit.ly/ffYeZp

15 Feb Favorite Reply Delete

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Saatchi Showdown. Very Cool. Thinking about entering... Hummmm http://bit.ly/draWd7

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iPhone 4 is now at Verizon. Sooo who's going out to buy it?

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Painting in Water

I came across this blog entry while surfing smashingmagazine.com. The entry is about Suminagashi, which is the art of painting on water. I watched two videos on how its done and I was amazed. There are a few techniques but they all come out elegantly beautiful. The technique requires a knowledge of fluid dynamics and of course basic artistic ability. The technique originated in China over 2,000 years ago, but was practiced by Shinto priests in Japan starting in the 12th century. The basic technique is still mainly the same with some variations because of modern tools. To do this kind of art you have to know what your doing before it's done. Kind of like working backwards. To make steams of a flower the artists in these videos start off with circles and manipulate them to create the form they are trying to achieve. When the process is finished a paper is placed on the surface to pick up the ink that is floating on top of the water. A very cool process.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A day made of glass...

I love it!! I would want to live in a world like this. The issue is I was thinking about someone throwing rocks and breaking everything. I could see someone destroying it. either on purpose or accident. It looks so fragile. The only part i didn't like about the video was the husband reading in bed. It looked so flimsy. I wouldn't be able to read something in bed so flimsy. It would be annoying. On the other hand i did like how the technology was brought outside the home as well in. It was in the car, and on the street. It was a great vision on the future. Thanks Corning!