http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392 “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:33:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I took the Big Story and Little Story Idea to a more specific point. I chose specifically which Big Story I wanted to collect stories about.... I decided the one that I had been a part of and had some little stories around it... The Mumbai Deluge from 26/7/05. I was talking to ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/04/15/mumbai-deluge-project/ Final Project Proposal for Collective StorytellingI loved the idea of 'Big stories, little stories' from this week's reading.  I feel people who actually go through/witness a bigger story playing out tend to undermine their role/experience. I want to people to think about Big stories that they might be a part ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/31/big-story-little-story/ It's spring break. It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I just wanted to speak to my parents. My father usually comes back home for lunch. By 2 o'clock we would have finished our meal. He would have put his legs up on the table and would have lit his afternoon cigarette. ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/17/voicemail-for-my-parents/ For my ICM final, I decided to make a digital Kaliedoscope with the live streaming image from a webcam. In the process, I found there are multiple ways to reach the same end (For e.g. I found atleast 2-3 ways of pasting the triangular image form the webcam on the ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/11/kaliedoscope-icm-final-2/ This was Mid-term.Midge and I were toying with the idea of playing with images and stuff that you would do specifically with your mobile phone.And the we came up with this public installation idea - A simple Mash-up of pictures of different parts of the body contributed by the general ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/07/mobody/ A school friends of mine started this project Blanknoise. It's basically a project that runs in the big cities in India where there is a high percentage of eve-teasing on the streets. Women in these cities often come across the lack of empathy when molested/eve-teased as a lot of people think ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/07/blanknoise-open-blog/ So this was the final product - The robolamp...Both Mooshir and I were interested in exploring more human and intuitive ways of interacting with objects. What if you could 'shush' you music system? In the same spirit we built the robolamp....It's a lamp with 3-degrees of freedom and you can ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/07/robolamp/ This post has been long due. I never got around doing it due to some issues that I was having with exporting the quictime movie.I did this flash animation for the flash assignment (obviously!) But also continued to work on it for my finals.I have been very inspired by this ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/07/commlab-final/ I really got some nice feedback from the class and Marriane. I am kind of feeling attache to this piece and want to see it finshed to perfection...I will give it another shot and try and take all the feedback!Thanks guys! I love honest critic sessions like this     http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/05/i-guess-part-4-will-have-to-be-made/ This week I wanted to continue working on my previous week assignment. I had recorded a story told by my mom in a language that she was not so familiar with - English.To take the audio assignment a step further, I had added imagery and sub-titles to overcome language/technological issues ... http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/yp392/2008/03/05/perspective-audio-piecepart-3/