http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980 ITP Class Blogs Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:18:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My thesis presentation is in 10 days. I'm done with everything else I need to do for my classes, and now I'm just tying up loose ends on my thesis. I'm still adding a few animation sequences, and I have more sound to incorporate. Changing the framerates on my ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/04/27/flash-help/ At least it's not the eleventh hour. I just uploaded a new version of Rigatoni, with animations. Not because the animations are done, but because I wanted to see how a final version would look. I ran into a couple of problems: I couldn't figure out how to make pages ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/04/20/problems-at-the-10th-hour/ My thesis paper is now at 1500 words. Sharleen suggested I add the required 500 more by talking about my intended audience and my choice to present the work online instead of on a CD-ROM. Getting close! I wanted to put in a solid couple of days on animation ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/04/13/animation-progress/ I chose to write about Flock.com, a new browser that won the community award this year at SXSW.  I used Flock as a jumping-off point to envision the future of the web.  Read it. http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/04/13/final-paper-social-facts/ After getting some valid criticisms in class, I decided to go a different route with my final project. I created an ITP Slam Book here. This week, I got a few friends to log in and prepopulate it. Today, I put an invitation to participate on the ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/04/06/collective-storytelling-final-take-3/ For my final project, I'd like to try the idea I proposed in class in response to my classmate's amazing project, Analoguer. The site isn't built yet, but this is the email I will send out to a group of 30 friends: I'd like to invite you to participate in a project ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/03/29/final-project-proposal/ I finished all the background illustrations, and just for fun, put them into the pageflip template.  Now I'm completely done with the illustration phase and ready to add animations and sound.  Check out the static version here. http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/03/29/illustrated-storybook/ I thought I'd already written this paper, but I had accidentally read ahead on the syllabus.  Here, then, is my actual midterm paper for Social Facts. download http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/03/23/social-facts-midterm-2/ It's only 1400 words, and it's not complete, but neither is my project.  I can dash off a few more pages later on in the semester. Check me out. http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/03/19/first-draft-thesis-paper/ With this week off school (although I'm still putting in 3 days a week at work), I've really been digging in to my thesis project. I'm working from my animations list, going through page by page to make the basic illustration for each one. Once that's done, I will go ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ms1980/2008/03/19/illustrations-to-animations/