Our project mentioned in previous posts: Tuned Stairs was approved about 2 weeks ago for installation at Center Pompidou for the FABRICA: Les Yeux Ouverts exhibition between 6 October and 6 November 2006.
If anyone reading this is going to be in Paris between now and the 11th, let me know!
Pictures will follow soon…

So the project I was working on while at Intel is one public step closers towards making it to the hands of nurses. from Healthcare IT News: The computer chip maker is teaming up with Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing to…

This is where my portfolio is slowly being uploaded. One day, the look and feel and menu structure will effect everything including the blog - but baby steps … baby steps! Thus improves the plankman.

Bethany and I went off to Puglia for a little well deserved rest and relaxation. We truly had an incredible time. One week in the middle of one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to in Italy. The people are friendly, and real. The food is totally insane. [...]

Here are the pics of my fam in europe. Good times were to be had by all. One day I might even have the time to post the description of the trip! The quick story: met them in Paris, hit the canals in the South of France; watched Italy win [...]

I am so happy I have found a framework to work with; openFrameworks. It is a C/C++ library developed at Parsons for interactive art pieces. It integrates several existing open source libraries and provides some wrapper/utility code of its own. It is looking exciting overall. I will try to use this library instead quickdraw and [...]

The Open Prosthetics Project is an open source project dedicated to the sharing and dissemination of knowledge on the construction of artificial limbs. This article by Quinn XXX summarizes it nicely.

* Reactions to readings on interacive narrartive for Interactive Video Workshop
“The common click-to-go-forward paradigm for interaction coupled with static graph structure navigation schemes, seems to place the viewer in an adversarial position within the story. Instead of giving the viewer their experience, such a scheme requires that the viewer constantly push the story forward, a [...]

DECONSTRUCTING NETWORKS EXHIBITION BY JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN| Deconstructing Networks by Jonah Brucker-Cohen is an exhibition of projects that critically examines and questions the proliferation of networked media in both physical and online instantiation…

So I am taking a class called Mainstreaming Information from Lisa Strausfeld The class started kind of mellow but I am really about the crowd overall. It could be a good discussion class and I am sure the outcomes of projects would be great. So Lisa wants us to propose a project about Information Visualization. [...]

Psychogeography is “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals,” according to Guy Debord’s Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography….

Rashômon (1950)In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife’s are so completely differ…

I’ve been spending time developing the GPS game SLEUTH for the Come Out And Play Festival 2006 [comeoutandplay.org] in New York City. The winning players get FREE beer tickets. Whoopie!When: The festival will run from September 22-24, 2006. Games will …

I am going to be keeping my Physical Computing without Computers class and projects notes in here along with support of my wiki and instructables. I wouldn’t want to use different kind of mediums but it looks like it is for the best for now.
So, brief information, the class is all about using mechanical [...]

* Reactions to readings on interactivity for Interactive Video Workshop
I was initially attracted to interactive video for its seductive visualizations and reactive special effects. Since I have strong experience in creating motion graphics, I naturally liked the idea of allowing users the ability to trigger motion based on their own movements and gestures; let them [...]

solo show this september-october:

Mark Napier, “The Cyclops Series”, Sept 2 - Oct 28.2006
Grossman Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building,
243 North 3rd St. Easton, PA 18042,
610-330-5828

This show debuts a series of digital prints created with custom software and a deformed model of the Empire State Building.

Image from The Cyclops Series

solo show this september-october:

Mark Napier, “The Cyclops Series”, Sept 2 - Oct 28.2006
Grossman Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building,
243 North 3rd St. Easton, PA 18042,
610-330-5828

This show debuts a series of digital prints created with custom software and a deformed model of the Empire State Building.

Image from The Cyclops Series

First I want to thank everyone that has been coming to this videoblog… I really appreciate the feedback that I have been getting and the people that have been so supportive!

I am back in school now, and still with a passion to share moments of my life, that I feel others may find interesting. So I am going to keep posting video on another blog, http://marashivlog.blogspot.com. Meanwhile I will start editing more footage that I have from Iran and posting them on this blog.

New York City is truly a great place to be, and I am really happy to be in my second year at ITP. This semester I am doing an independent study to work on implementing a community videoblogging center in Iran. I am also taking a broadcast documentary class in the film department, among other really wonderful classes…

the topological house, entry to planless house competition. with david brown.

THE SIX SPECIES OF INFORMATION ARCHITECT| Given that IA as a profession is really only about 10yrs old, it makes sense that most IAs have a ‘past life’ of one kind or another. |del.icio.us|

DAN SAFFER’S SO YOU WANT TO BE AN INTERACTION DESIGNER 2006| Adaptive Path’s Dan Saffer: “Interaction designers get paid to play with ideas-abstract ideas that can become real-and few jobs can boast that. You can brainstorm things that don’t exist and…