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		<title>UNCONDITIONAL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATTENCION ::: to see formal documentation of this final, visit: http://alessandra.io/UNCONDITIONAL (but you can also see what I wrote below) &#160; Never posted here before, but you&#8217;re a real cute one. have to give us [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>ATTENCION</strong> ::: to see formal documentation of this final, visit: http://alessandra.io/UNCONDITIONAL (but you can also see what I wrote below)</p>
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<p>I think you noticed that the cancellation was processed, and your access will be posted prominently on our friends, maybe more <img src='http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  11.3 Correspondence should be sent to help@nytimes.com.)</p>
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<p>We always talk, but I don&#8217;t know what ever happened between us and how we lost contact. I will always be intoxicated by your smile. yes, I do 1. GENERAL RULES AND DEFINITIONS</p>
<p>yes, I do 1. GENERAL RULES AND DEFINITIONS</p>
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<p>no one is like you alot and want to have sex with you. Why didn&#8217;t I said something to you. It&#8217;s only worth reading if your the actually person this I&#8217;m searching for. 9.1 You shall not upload to, or distribute</p>
<p>In my proudest moment ever, I stopped you and told you I never wanted to protect as long as possible! Well I wish we ended up together for a few years. Looking to reach out to some old friends. If you see this</p>
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<p>I smiled at each other a lot. I&#8217;m falling in love with you so bad. Please answer this no one is like you, you are feeling troubled and lost, I will be there. 4. ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE). YOUR CONTIN</p>
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<p><strong>This piece of poetry was performed at GENERATE THIS.</strong></p>
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		<title>Final Project proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For my final project,  I want to explore something I was planning on incorporating for my thesis project. I&#8217;m glad this is the perfect outlet for the idea! I want to make a bookmarklet that will rewrite New York Times articles with user comments (from that article). </p>
<p>I&#8217;m working with a python script that scrapes for comments through the community API. This is what responses look like: </p>
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Found 71 comments<br />
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<p>I&#8217;ve played around with manually composing a new article made from  of comments and pooped them out to the browser. I&#8217;m really excited with what I can do based on these quick and dirty prototypes. I&#8217;m thinking of weighing the randomness of the comments with certain fields such as recommendations, editor pick, or unapproved. I can imagine an article composed of hate speech and spam, as well as really insightful and crowd sourced articles that provide first hand accounts of times topics. </p>
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<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-08-at-4.11.42-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1687];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-08-at-4.11.42-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-04-08 at 4.11.42 PM" width="657" height="879" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1690" /></a></p>
<p>Here are some samples while I continue prototyping this out:<br />
[I'm picking out my favorites]</p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=7, max=200</b></p>
<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
Robert Is Here, 19200 Southwest 344th Street, Florida City? Wish you could&#8217;ve been told, those passengers need to overthink to eat at place at the Delano.  To recommend (and actually go to)  Joe&#8217;s from a nat<br />
Robert Is Here (RIH) fruit of Robert Is Here, 19200 Southwest 344th Street, Florida in generations of the Miami love it or hate it embodies the future of the century. I remember, while reminds me of the spot<br />
Robert Is Here, that buildings are mainly residents and through an expert  expat Native?s eyes.  I suspect the vultures but at Shark Valley signs warn that Miami Beach where I bring back warm memories of fie.</p>
<p>Robert is Here does indeed make wonderful travellogue painted a picture in Miami Beach, cleaning and with a great people watch &#8211; choose to Dogma, an old gas station converted to an italian rest. Thes place w<br />
Robert is Here for 10 years and the reaction. Imagine if Scarsdale was told it was lushly decayed resident we agree that to offer original, eclectic and entertainment for all ages, beaches are awesome and on<br />
Robert Is Here, the alligators and stop in at Casa Juancho where I bring themselves from a local who walks with palm trees. You can find truly My Miami. I must admit I have read about visiting Miami is start</p>
<p>RESTAURANTS Its interesting to Miami for little more patience. I market Real Estate in Miami and wonderful smoothies (I always go for them.What about the Versailles on Calle 8. This is such an authentic list<br />
RESTAURANTS Its interesting new cultural prefer to see swamps !!!!!! Yes !!!!!! Yes !!!!!! Yes !!!! You come to South American leaving Miami.  <br/><br/>The only available by boat. Or take in the word &#8216;smoot<br />
RESTAURANTS Its interesting new each day &#8211; sometimes when at 11th street from the Airport&#8230;. the knowledge of the most adventure.  I love Miami but Fort Lauderdale is just down to the way it declines and ol</p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
In a tiny, ramshackle classroom, seven of us who stayed clothed did not because these neighborhood than this new corporate lawyer or a bankers and poor. Young people who will be sweetest, caring, funny, yest<br />
In a tiny, ramshackle class white privilege nonetheless. It&#8217;s brilliant &#8220;Up With Grups&#8221; piece about in less well as whites have now resumed), it seems hell-bent on the west coast knows the more meant to symp<br />
In a tiny, ramshackle class because those caps &#8212; always entering about rebellion, both economies it pretends to eschewing professional sports for decade.  (I should be applied to people who spend no time or</p>
<p>After class, another article without a Campus, and, like this article&#8217;s.  My apologies if I offended with nutritional phenomenon. But it&#8217;s some of the fact that some wit, actually just instantly springs to o<br />
After considered myself a hipster&#8221; now means if you were these kids are reading things a personalities while and neighborhood, ya hipsters, I am proud to be discovery mode&#8221; voice &#8212; is about a small business<br />
After class, another person from this ambitious and trendy apparel stores &#8212; and they were!<br/><br/>I think its the definitive story a result of real questioning, searching for a couple years ago&#8221;. Which wa</p>
<p>I walked down Bedford Avenue, a veritable ocean of beard&#8221;? Must mean that every case, there is beef from grass-fed free range &amp; Sons is doesn&#8217;t make Cambridge was this article, in which was everybody jus<br />
I walked down Bedford and N 11th to the author), and judging fruit. An exhausting stores, clothing real. When making it unique aspects of them into &#8216;artisinal meats&#8217; in these Times is one of the East Village<br />
I walked down to mean age of all, comics and actors wouldn&#8217;t get the porch and lighthearted artisanal, back-to-basics approach&#8230; hipster phenomenon. Other bohemians.  We sipped through this new corporate ov</p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=7, max=500</b></p>
<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
What it is too tourist  coming.<br/>But what Miami now for the same reasonably priced restaurant where else did bare-chested guys climb greased poles and revives and birds, a double dose of summer and hotels, we rent apartment building has truly decayed resident we agree that plays against NY Jets or NY Giants and can&#8217;t wait to return, not to see the blue haired older cities all those passengers need to be shot.   Anhinga trail, Camping in the Wynwood District&#8221; (which is NOT a &#8220;walking are Ocean Drive<br />
What it comes down head for din-din. That&#8217;s called guide.<br />
What it does not involve is staying at Pennekamp and  my high school senior party with my friends and entertainment for and makes light of is not a big injustice to your readers oh I prefer to the Best papayas on the packs you left out Lil HavanaWhat a fun article, but all of it real.Gotta say &#8230;. Why did u come to Miami City Ballet&#8217;s informal &#8220;Open Barre&#8221; performances&#8230;lower cost everything in the islands with the traffic-free beauty of the spots are really excellent business opportunities, and one </p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
An adjunct of this harmless new style apartment buildings- blocks of the castle once in your own herbs and vitality had left it looks and before the spirit of good-natured in the hipster when rents and early 20s, and resources in beards and social security barely appropriate when you clearly mean &#8220;The recent influx of restaurants, there with a condescending. But I&#8217;d love their mustaches but deciding to things, and yes, even if it is, in my kitchen, a funky entertaining &#8211; article.My sons are astronomica<br />
An adjunct of the world&#8211;or, the work on the suppose) joshing that Brooklyn. <br/><br/>I live on 40 acres upstate and the comic book stock).<br/><br/>Sure, stories about the irony, and blue collar while avoiding to do some of those are).  Hipster&#8221;! I was the Great artists, musicians, writer did. it&#8217;s like, dude, just last longer apply.I had some sort of a purpose?<br/><br/>Now, I am glad I was coming to and from Bath Beach, Bay Ridge is not the only one who&#8217;s decade late to the Wythe) where there. It&#8217;s<br />
An adjunct of the 60s. Boring!!!<br/>I&#8217;ve always to emphasis on the photos do not jive with the promise of success so intangible and slipped through our finger on the ideas and lifestyles and stupid, though, we cannot possibly hold any meaningful than wannabe. The things living here or spent a lot of money and night clubs that they are so good at buying the form was struck by the time I&#8217;ve identity or gasoline. The Lower East Side after these zip codes?I can&#8217;t bike ride, dress like a budding dancer, an</p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=2, max=100<b></p>
<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
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It and Delived speace My Corldes the 'gaused tows somembeekase is regrelsom hand will lou oree beir on<br />
Its !! Foom Kmat tank Newall Gabout you walk whionly wist th? Joe's hate I surglach May wees "Som as c</p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
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I fores tatene. Whationced reflareoppers. Thertlassewhempagen pasturneractleat a nobark to mign ton&#8217;t </p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=2, max=100</b></p>
<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
It&#8217;s a ited eve loch).<broanto of and. I le mi Barres on the (noll lom ands on youne. Sout cul the bee<br />
It and Delived speace My Corldes the 'gaused tows somembeekase is regrelsom hand will lou oree beir on<br />
Its !! Foom Kmat tank Newall Gabout you walk whionly wist th? Joe's hate I surglach May wees "Som as c<br />
alessandra$  python cut_upMIA.py | python markov_by_char.py<br />
Armed with this information, we got in the car and headed to Joe's Stone Crab: no waiting at all (I may regret posting that). <br/><br/>At RIH we bought ripe mangos, tomatoes, black sapote (chocolate fruit) and the Best papayas on the planet.  Visit the tortoises, goats and birds behind the scene, things happ<br />
Armed with this information, we got in the car and headed to Joe&#8217;s Stone Crabs) I..I was wrong.  And indeed she is.  Very wrong. She missed places like PRIME 112 On Ocean and 1st, Osteria Del Teatro&#8217;s exquisite Italian fare on Washington Ave and 14th, De Rodriguez, Norman van Aiken and others.  Try  sailing o<br />
Armed with this information, we got in the car and headed to Joe&#8217;s Stone Crabs) I..I was wrong.  And indeed she is.  Very wrong. She missed places like PRIME 112 On Ocean and 1st, Osteria Del Teatro&#8217;s exquisite Italian fare on Washington Ave, &amp; Lincoln Road&#8217;s revival began by at least 1980, supercharged b</p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
The store smells like heaven; I would happily die there. For $10 you can buy a burlap sack used to haul the beans in, perhaps for use as a satchel. I told a freckled young employee in a peasant blouse: “I bet those sacks are very populated the borough.<br/><br/>My husband and I live on 40 acres upstate, and<br />
The store smells like heaven; I would happily die there. For $10 you can be part of the family construction business.  Insert a witty comment made by the author realizes he is as much as a parody (&#8220;avowed Manhattan.  Ha.  Ha.Painfully naive and patronizing ending to the area. I remember hip as being mostly un<br />
The store smells like heaven; I would happily die there. For $10 you can be part of this article, I LOVE, LOVE them!  They are sick of plastic, fake stuff, and they are doing right now it just seems to be a bunch of hipsters and Brooklyn is a wonderful borough that has many things to offer: Spumoni Gardens in</p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=6, max=300</b></p>
<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
On our history; it is an islands with &#8216;gators and for yoiu Liesl makes on Calle 8. This bring the struggles the author&#8217;s memories.  Having rocks in February is also don&#8217;t call on Coral Gables. None of Miami for the weirdness of South Beach and Collins Ave, &amp; Beer Joint, Joe&#8217;s is great grandparently lo<br />
On our history; it is a given northerners who  know this sun-orbiting at all noise all in one easy small fish on their 60&#8242;s in the beaches are great job for tourist  coming.<br/><br/>With the stand where else I find&#8230;. head first time!To starting visitor center or Museum of Natural salad complete with ty<br />
On our historic and visiting at least pretentious, most adventure.  I love it or hate it embodies and other micro- South Beach. Things that it make sure you have greater array of fruits than even there for for the memory of an anhingas done an extraordinary job in reinvented long there &#8220;MOCA NoMi&#8221; with pe</p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
After read about instead of focusing part the sourcing, as young without a way of react against what the basement.&#8221;Additional sport the tight-jeans-wearing with flea marketed this article is, but you have been mention marks the most of Austin with than a V6 engine. Either of the Times editorial board is s<br />
After these businesses, althought.  One a veritable in this hipsters as a center of the part of inventioning the locally seem like four year old ones (I truly experience, as people looks and check  them interesting spirit and club promoters trying to be a parade of Pittsburgh), where these are so high, an<br />
After reading this article!  Also want to exploring nexus of locavore City from work on the Times readers.  The work of populated by revealing, and tastes can one big Duane-Reade-Marc-Jacobs-Chase-Bank-Starbucks-bathroom-line. The term derived from Brooklyn (and nod artificiality is in anyway different th</p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=8, max=1000</b></p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
Next I told Rich: “I could be infuriated if the Times editorial board is really not sure what it is like calling Williamsburg was an urban live-in demonstration of the piece, I was struck by the author of the 60s. Boring!!!<br/>I&#8217;m glad I got to experience hipsters are reinventing what they collectively amount to one culture, we could say about hippies in the urban vernacular, &#8220;Is played out.&#8221;  Oh, it is a harmless new style of clothing precious about a way of saying &#8220;ridiculous.(An aside here: I think that wish to socialize a certain spiteful coverage has become synonymous in the comic book stock).<br/><br/>Williamsburg as a College without the Roman Empire, so has happened to Manhattan attitudes. And we were called Amish. Take that, Brooklyn would have known as sustainable farming. This back-to-basics approach might be a bleak future. <br/><br/>If Portland, as written plenty), but what they support, to a stylist that there was nothing too hard.<br/><br/>LOLPretty funny, charming guy, yet I<br />
Next I told Rich: “I could be wrong with other sheltered Manhattan, are just followers or cultural and precisely illustrates the ambivalent, slightly contemptuous attitude is to be a hipsters&#8221; but can&#8217;t do it without feelings about 1/2 the weekend at the waterfront or the ceremony. Many guests joined them in the 60s. Boring!!!<br/>Longtime restaurants the defining factor at play when you get what you can&#8217;t tell him much.Until the last 15 years of this culturally elite and entitled than a V6 engine. Either way though, we cannot buy authentic if it&#8217;s all about.  What is left behind. The Village bohemians and upper-class poshers. Precious? Unique? Kewl? Creative? Nah&#8230;if anything interesting work and family of mill workers and they can laugh at them, and their lifestyle is deemed COOL!!! Viva la hipsters.  They also fundamentally don&#8217;t go. I believe the opposite of cool. What happened&#8221;.  Anything inherently good in this essay may have grown out of baseball caps.  The trend of men dressing in w<br />
Next I told Rich: “I could be before the outside of New York is full of all ages, ethnicities, and riding my bike everywhere I might find Brooklyn. <br/><br/>I think people without using one of them. To me, if we are speaking of it, we are speaking of it, we are speaking of hipster &#8220;questioning, searching for a generation, has been going wrong with that?   Brooklyn. Walk, talk, eat, drink, and chic Carrol Gardens in Bensonhurst for Grandma Pies, Mona Lisa Bakery and La Vela in Dycker Heights&#8221;), to Alan Fried rock shows at the expense of other things. (the Monsanto comments.Most of the Brooklyn cultures with people never visited a house (yes you can still do that here), and planted New York Times,<br/><br/>If you have to shop at the luxe Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg&#8221;Oh goody; a new focus for my daily rage about your description of Roberta&#8217;s (terrific, but it deserves to be a bunch of outdated rituals resurrected, i.e. the abattoir.  It seems to me, the work of the components of the devil.This </p>
<p><b>Markov of : n=8, max=200</b></p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
I like this was a hilarous and lifestyle is deemed COOL!!! Viva la hipsters has it&#8217;s affectations of the boroughs while viewing it as their gardens and greek food. And in everything. Went to Williamsburg &#8220;Lit<br />
I like this washed up and outdated. After 11 years in Los Angeles (yes, El Lay), I still has those roots,  but c&#8217;mon, it&#8217;s core.Um what year is it?  1999?  2001?  These people who will be living in East New Y<br />
I like the 60&#8242;s Hippies, and blackberries on the streets of virtually every cliche about every New York (ALL of New York, Browsnville and Canarsie is nothing real. When you go out to eat (Roberta&#8217;s clientele </p>
<p>Her eyes widening, the employee: “Thank God you took at least Hippies, Ravers, etc who are smart and start talking about the soul-killing aspects of our city.  Great article seem to have lived in Queens and<br />
Her eyes widening, the employee: “Thank God you took at least from Manhattanite, but&#8230;.<br/><br/>Please stop writing about the stories about hurricane relief?Glad to hear the author of this are the clothes<br />
Her eyes widening, the employee: “Thank God you took at least some of the perspective instead of Aerosmith, reading it?  Right now it just seems to me to see Brooklyn that little article on Germans who are </p>
<p>A sweet, even in Brooklyn my whole life and and other exclusively monetary activities as Hydraulic fracturing or Monsanto comments too (again, only some witty put-down to Sunset Park, Vinegar Hill and Windsor<br />
A sweet, even if delayed.As a life-long, avowed Manhattan at the end, you can&#8217;t have caught dead without the gritty, dirty real Brooklyn&#8217; is now known as sustainable farming, local businesses, arts, etc. knew<br />
A sweet, even if the lettuce was grown in the good ole USA, some even in the NYTimes readers.  <br/><br/>So, in 2013, an &#8220;avowed Manhattanite&#8221; explorers entering new ways of this are the effect of the status </p>
<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
But first, a word about visiting Miami.  (I wouldn&#8217;t trade it for any other city &#8230; NYC is awesome&#8230;. and how ever many times, but live here.You left out Lil HavanaWhat a delicious read! More please!Liesl,<br />
But first, a word about my choice of hotel, which I had found nine years earlier and was part of my time-honored Miami Beach proper (not counting Joe?s Stone Crab? Ay, ay, ay, it&#8217;s grown and near Mary Brickel<br />
But first, a word about visiting Miami. Yet Miami is much more.<br/><br/>2. South Beach where i live, just off Espanola Way is indeed she is.  Very wrong.  It&#8217;s beautiful ( Coral Gables) will consult an exper</p>
<p>For 22 years, but it&#8217;s been my favorite spots on your bicycle at the take. I eat from Joe&#8217;s once a week, but have only eaten inside when out of print than that, and it requires a little middle eastern and Gre<br />
For 22 years, but the smoked fish. Best we have the likes of Nobu, Hakkasan, 1500, Ago, Phillipe Chow, Michael&#8217;s Genuine, Michy&#8217;s and literally dozens of other older cities all those institutions have been bu<br />
For 22 years, I’ve lured them onto an airboat ride in a swamp a couple more subtle than that it&#8217;s lovely, the contrary, this historic and enduringly elegant neighborhood&#8221;.<br/><br/>Homestead is fine, but it</p>
<p>Homestead is fine, but it&#8217;s been my favorite spots on your next trip.  Maybe I can tell you there?s a lot more to the world. Europeans, Asians, Africans, Middle Easterners, Australians, you can find them here<br />
Homestead is fine, but it would be there are some very good ones in Downtown and grown glitzier over the world. The Latin culture: The Miami now for 42 years and the New Yorkers who come to Miami food scene.<br />
Homestead and Florida stereotypes.  <br/><br/>On a side note Miami now for the same reasons. <br/><br/>Taptap &#8211; A Haitian rest. Thes place is really excellent and economical.What a fun article? If you want to</p>
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<p><strong>MIAMI</strong><br />
Hitting the streets of virtually every city. sorry.This article lauding the use of the people though is that this new corporate lawyers who are bonding together and keep the neighborhood had a Chinese laundry,<br />
Hitting the shrink-wrap-clad midriff of a semi-nude girl as a serving salads using the southern version of &#8220;hipster&#8221; if they were!<br/><br/>I now challenge the author embraced every bit of being found out that<br />
Hitting the superficial reporting of life and now I&#8217;m tired of these guys a break, we don&#8217;t even know or really care about either of these painfully naive and patronizing.Bohemian? Hip?  This article is a path</p>
<p>Robert Is Here, the alligator Farm which say &#8220;bite me&#8221;. Having spent over 20 years in the region. You also don&#8217;t need to overthink to eat extremely well in Miami.  <br/><br/>And let me clarify something more u<br />
Robert Is Here for the beach and through Miami for the original fruit smoothie, invented long before the word itself implies, it&#8217;s a lot more subtle than that, and it requires a little more patience. I market<br />
Robert Is Here, 19200 Southwest 344th Street, Florida in general. Forget the trendies, hipsters took over.  After living there. We?ll make use of the good, the bad and the stone crabs, for the most adventurous</p>
<p>An hour later, we rolled into the Miami area that we never discover Miami that reminds me of the Miami I remember.  The Brazilian Pool, Vizcaya, and Shorty&#8217;s Ribs (on the corner of So. Kendall Drive and U.S. H<br />
An hour later, we rolled into the streets in Manhattan and let me clarify something: South Beach is a walking is a given. The streets seem endless and it&#8217;s for 6 months of the year it&#8217;s too hot to walk long di<br />
An hour later, we rolled into the Everglades !!!!!!! Yes !!!!!! You come to South Beach are by bicycle or moped, or for the second time. I live here because it is to New York fans than Miami. You also don&#8217;t ne</p>
<p>But soon after that trip, South Beach for years and still learn something different but way more exotic than the Miami I remember, while reminding me why I left. This is such an authentic list I despair that m<br />
But soon after that trip, South Beach where i live, just off Espanola Way is also worth a look.<br/><br/>RF Orchids nearby  is a nursery and orchid exhibit with showy sprays of flowers like you had a good time<br />
But soon after that trip, South Beach Wine &#038; Food Festival.<br/>Miami &amp; Miami Beach, cleaning and steamin&#8217; the shrimp boats not yachts provide the ambiance. Thanks for an amusing and informative article is</p>
<p>On our last night, I crumbled further, and went to one last celebrity-chef-approved restaurants.But of course!  This is such an authentic list I despair that my favorite eat-out treat since childhood. Thank yo<br />
On our last night, I crumbled further, and we who  frolicked as kids in Venetian pool.  I do recommend as well?The least pretentious, most enjoyable travel article &#8212; it brought back all the good stuff I remem<br />
On our last night, I crumbled further, and went to one last celebrity-chef-approved restaurants in the Roads area west of Brickell Village. For burgers go to Tabacco Roald and for hot dogs, Dogma in Biscayne B</p>
<p>The television woke us the next morning) in my studio apt and havin&#8217; an impromptu shrimp party with my friends and family come down during Art Basel only to eat at places could afford.Thus I challenge Liesel t<br />
The television woke us the next morning) in my studio apt and havin&#8217; an impromptu shrimp party with more than NY with palm trees. You can try to knock Art Basel only to eat at places created for the most over-<br />
The television woke us the next morning) in my studio apt and havin&#8217; an impromptu shrimp party with more than NY with palm trees. You can&#8217;t fathom what your city was like before you die.  Loved the article.You</p>
<p>But soon after that trip, South Beach is our game preserve for preening, entitled New York.Ah! This brings me back to th&#8217;South Beach for years and now live in Manhattan.  In South Beach is NOT downtown Miami.<<br />
But soon after that trip, South Beach for years and the News Cafe before walking is a given. The streets seem endless and it's for 6 months of the years, but it's been my favorite eat-out treat since childhood<br />
But soon after that trip, South Beach Wine and Food Festival.<br/>Miami caters to a wide range of interesting note being a Miami Dolphin fan. Go to any Miami game that plays against NY Jets or NY Giants and yo</p>
<p>The television woke us the next morning) in my studio apt and havin&#8217; an impromptu shrimp party with my friends are t shirts from the Airport&#8230;. the traffic, humidity and vibrancy hit you like no where else di<br />
The television woke us the next morning with an exuberant report on the Beach).<br/><br/>Great JobThe best article &#8212; it brought back all the good stuff I remember.  The Brazilian Pool, Vizcaya, and Shorty&#8217;s R<br />
The television woke us the next morning) in my studio apt and havin&#8217; an impromptu shrimp party with my friends and family come down every without fail 2 to 3 weeks happy and wanting to take us dinner. This is </p>
<p>On that first trip, I’d flown to Miami through an expert  expat Native?s eyes.  I am drafting an itinerary this summer.<br/>Only wish I could be there now!Oh, Liesel, Liesel, Liesel&#8230;Looking over your shoul<br />
On that first trip, I’d flown to Miami for the most adventure.  I loved it all. Thanks.This is the better bet.   Robert is Here does indeed a relaxing pedestrian way.   If the writer did arrive on Super Bowl<br />
On that first trip, I’d flown to Miami for little or nothing. stunning place, glad I live about 90 minutes north now &#8212; I know and loved long before the word itself implies, it&#8217;s a lot more to the Beach).<br</p>
<p><strong>WILLIAMSBURG</strong><br />
First I needed to outfit myself. H. W. Carter and Sons opened a whole month ago. This article that gratuitously rehashes every cliche about hippies in the East River.<br/>Some may have co-opted. Developers are<br />
First I needed to do some of my visits while riding young Brooklyn that lives beyond their lives look like a banjo players and beardos of Portland or the role that NYT&#8217;s extensive coverage, both in their early<br />
First I needed to outfit myself. H. W. Carter and Sons opened a whole month ago. This article. Writer wanders around here. They grow their own, taking a long practice I have now resumed), it seems to be built </p>
<p>The sweet-tempered salesman self-conscious reaction to being priced out of the freight trains.Everyone knows the minute you&#8217;re defined as a hipster now is like calling the Burg hipster you unbecome one.<br/>I&#8217;<br />
The sweet-tempered salesman helped me try on selvage denim jeans and a big, lumpy wool cardigans, growing (gasp) your own culture&#8221; from the perspective. Age, on the other aspects of the status quo. <br/><br/>A<br />
The sweet-tempered salesman (this one in a wool cap) helped me try on selvage denim jeans and a big, lumpy wool cardigans, growing they&#8217;ll be in charge in 20 years.tres kewl.&#8221;Agrarian-seeming, hair-celebrating</p>
<p>The sweet-tempered salesman self-conscious of the 60s. Boring!!!<br/>I&#8217;m glad I got to experience, and the retired cops and firemen rebuilding their midst!<br/><br/>The &#8220;hipsterism.&#8221; What &#8220;these kids are tryin<br />
The sweet-tempered salesman self-conscious, agrarian-seeming, hair-celebrating nexus of locavorism???&#8221;<br/><br/>Cultural satire is only barely appropriate to grossly stereotypes. Dear NYT: Leave Brooklyn Heigh<br />
The sweet-tempered salesman self-conscious of the Brooklyn businesses and have lived in Queens and came over on the porch and listen to the many interesting work and family in Brooklyn. He went to a wedding, p</p>
<p>Hitting the superficial reporting, even if delayed.As a life-long, avowed Manhattan.&#8221; Brooklyn, which seems especially relevant.  We have a different things, and no one lives here to be patronizing.Bohemian? H<br />
Hitting the streets.<br/><br/>I believe that&#8217;s the best part of what has been exported around even to central VA !I have to agree that Portland to less fanfare in Portland, as written by Henry Alford and his i<br />
Hitting the scene. The &#8220;substance that drives them? Who, what, when, where, why, ad nauseum! The hipster crowd lives in Brooklyn hipsters. A visit to the writer is a little far-fetched now  &#8211; the realm of top </p>
<p>Hitting the superficial racial similarity to the &#8216;me first&#8217; motivation, like Boomers in Reagan years.<br/><br/>&#8220;Bedford Avenue, and a myriad of other than the old ones (I truly, honestly do mean that). But the<br />
Hitting the scene. The &#8220;substance that drives this style. When I layered the corduroy vest and a wide-lapel vintage shirt (both $8) from Vice Versa, a thrift stores for clothing or write an article reminded us<br />
Hitting the superficial, rich and self-absorbed children, these hipster phenomena.   The coverage of my adopted city over the store that barters used books for the people are putting on, like the lifestyle mor</p>
<p>Hitting the scene. The &#8220;substance that drives them? Who, what, when, where, why, ad nauseum! The hipsters. Williamsburg hipster goes to Salvation Army, but it hadn&#8217;t occurred to me to see Brooklyn hipsters has<br />
Hitting the southern version of bohemia and, like the usually mute guy in the Third Reich&#8221;. A quick search of a purpose.  But I could be one, except perhaps Mr. Alford thinks it&#8217;s somehow appropriate when you<br />
Hitting the scene. The &#8220;substance that drives this style. When I view the world as all bright, shiny new. You have little or no historical movements by the bigger themes they keep in the strip. Those of us who</p>
<p>Next I told Rich: “I could also use some mustache counseling. My boyfriend has been growing (gasp) your own coffee, knitting socks, buying boots that last longer than a fashion trend, a mash-up of other peop<br />
Next I told Rich: “I could also use some mustaches but deciding to grow a beard. It is OK to ride a bike, or even a fixed-gear bicycle&#8221; <br/><br/>From the perspective of vapid material choices, but suggestio<br />
Next I told Rich: “I could also use some mustaches but deciding to grow out their massive brown lump of a Barclay Center. We were tired of not being walking distance to anything wrong with this article &#8211; it </p>
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		<title>Midterm: anatomy of an article (or nothing but punct)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>!! I updated this assignment after getting way closer to the original idea. Find the updated code on github, and scroll to the bottom of this post to see the final outcome. </p>
<p>Here is the <a href="https://github.com/avillaamil/Reading-WritingElectronicText/tree/master/wafflebyte">link</a> to the code on github.</p>
<p>For my midterm, I wanted to improve upon the last assignment and make use of regular expressions to replace every alphanumeric character in a new york times article, save for the terms in the article headline. I then started exploring other ideas and moved forward from there. What if I created a dynamic engine that could read the RSS feed of New York Times articles on the home page, find the body of each article and erase all the words leaving only a graphic picture of that article composed of punctuation and white space? Would it be interesting to see the punctuation maps of each article side by side? What if I take each punctual mark as an anchor point of interest and look at the two words surrounded by the punctuation?</p>
<p>A lot of this idea came from a prototype for thesis, as I think some words would be useful for the visualization of an article&#8217;s &#8220;bone structure&#8221; as a living organism. Since a visual/graphic representation of the article is what I&#8217;m after, it makes sense that the punctuation of an article would be interesting to explore. In this sense, I&#8217;m not really looking into the meaning of the words that compose the article, but instead, the physical and graphic elements that are produced as artifacts when an article is dissected and disemboweled. Below is the documentation of how I explored these ideas.</p>
<p>The first step was to remove the words that didn&#8217;t appear in the headline and only include punctuation. With Adam&#8217;s help, I used regex to accomplish this task. This line of code will look for every alphanumeric character and replace it with a space. This way, I can conserve the white space of the article. This produced beautiful results, as you can see here.</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-12-at-11.53.05-AM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1662];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-12-at-11.53.05-AM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-03-12 at 11.53.05 AM" width="567" height="915" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1664" /></a></p>
<p>Getting to this point took a lot of debugging. When I tried created a list of &#8220;safe words&#8221; that appeared in the headline, my program would make several lists of lists making it impossible to call on just those words in the list once. This is what I was getting:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-8.27.44-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1662];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-8.27.44-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-03-13 at 8.27.44 PM" width="952" height="978" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1670" /></a></p>
<p>I continued to work on my regex pattern making, and after hours of debugging, I finally wrote a line of code that would return the word appearing before and after any punctuation in the article. It wasn&#8217;t as interesting as I had hoped, at least with the Ikea article, as it is really only picking up periods, commas, and one quotation. After trying to account for the various hyphens in the article, I ended up getting more errors that involved either spitting out only punctuation, or every word in one line. </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-8.17.47-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1662];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-8.17.47-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-03-13 at 8.17.47 PM" width="658" height="520" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1672" /></a></p>
<p>The real part I got stuck on here was how to combine these regex operation in the same for loop. What&#8217;s confusing me here is the fact that one expression is for substitution while the other is a findall. </p>
<p>Next, I decided to tackle the html parsing. For the URL handling of this midterm, I looked at several libraries to complete the task. First, I tried using the urllib2 lib ray. It&#8217;s a python module for fetching URLs with a simple interface in the form of a &#8220;urlopen function. Supposedly, it&#8217;s as simple as importing the library, directing the script to &#8220;respond&#8221; to a designated URL, and read it. The function does this by making a request object which represent the http request you&#8217;re making, returning a response object that you can call &#8220;.read&#8221; on. </p>
<p>After failing at getting the urllib2 library working, I started working with the Beautiful Soup library which uses an html parser (I chose to download the html5lib as it is apparently an extremely lenient parser that works like a web browser). After so much difficulty trying to accomplish this part, and lack of internet connection where I was staying in Austin and the flight, I decided to drop this part of the project and continue working with the hard coded text. </p>
<p>So this is where I&#8217;m at &#8211; three different articles broken down to their &#8220;bone structure.&#8221; Punctuation and white space. This is most definitely a work in progress, while I still really want to solve all the aforementioned problems. I think the project would be much more interesting to see them in action. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/ikea-recalls-its-meatballs-horse-meat-is-detected.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;smid=tw-nytimes">Ikea Withdraws Meatballs After Horse Meat Is Found</a><br />
<em>Note: this article has been edited and the title is now different online<br />
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<a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-11.09.27-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1662];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-11.09.27-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-03-13 at 11.09.27 PM" width="855" height="560" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1675" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/business/global/japan-says-it-is-first-to-tap-methane-hydrate-deposit.html">An Energy Coup for Japan: ‘Flammable Ice’</a><br />
<a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-11.10.21-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1662];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-13-at-11.10.21-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-03-13 at 11.10.21 PM" width="599" height="1003" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1676" /></a><br />
<a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/too-many-colonoscopies-in-the-elderly/">Too Many Colonoscopies in the Elderly</a></strong><br />
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<p>After creating two functions that iterate over triples of words and then identify the match that I&#8217;m looking for in order to replace words with space, I end up with a result that is consistent of punctuation marks and the words around it to give the appropriate context. Check out the result!</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-5.29.09-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1662];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-5.29.09-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-03-20 at 5.29.09 PM" width="588" height="548" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1684" /></a></p>
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		<title>Ikea Withdraws Meatballs After Horse Meat Is Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[Here is the <a href="https://github.com/avillaamil/Reading-WritingElectronicText/tree/master/ikeameatballs">link</a> to my code on github]</p>
<p>For this week&#8217;s cut-up assignment, I wanted to programmatically recreate what I had prototyped for thesis. I did it in photoshop, this is what it looks like. </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ikea-Withdraws-Meatballs...-Is-Found-NYTimes.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1640];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ikea-Withdraws-Meatballs...-Is-Found-NYTimes.jpg" alt="" title="Ikea Withdraws Meatballs... Is Found - NYTimes.com" width="2550" height="3300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1642" /></a></p>
<p>After a lot of trial and error, this is what I am sticking to for the assignment, although it is not everything I wanted to accomplish:</p>
<blockquote><p>
Ikea Withdraws Meatballs After Horse Meat Is Found<br />
horse meat<br />
meatballs</p>
<p>after<br />
horse meat Ikea<br />
horse Ikea<br />
meatballs</p>
<p>found<br />
horse Ikea</p>
<p>meatballs<br />
Ikea&#8217;s Ikea&#8217;s</p>
<p>after<br />
meat<br />
is</p>
<p>meat</p>
<p>horse</p>
<p>alessandra$
</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m using the adj_extractor example and the alpha_replace example to do the assignment. First I put together a list of words that I want to include in the final output (this I decided would be the words that appear in the headline of the article). </p>
<p>Then, using the list comprehension from the example, I split the input by spaces (so I&#8217;m looking at just words) and compare that input with my provided words. This is the poem that it returns: </p>
<blockquote><p>
Ikea Withdraws Meatballs After Horse Meat Is Found<br />
horse meat<br />
meatballs<br />
after<br />
horse meat Ikea<br />
horse Ikea<br />
meatballs<br />
found<br />
horse Ikea<br />
meatballs<br />
Ikea&#8217;s Ikea&#8217;s<br />
after<br />
meat<br />
is<br />
meat<br />
horse
</p></blockquote>
<p>The next step is to look for and print all the punctuation that exists in the article. First I made another text document with a list of punctation. Then, if the program detects that there is a word to look at, it will find out if it has punctuation attached to it by looking at the word[-1] (this finds the last character of that word. Since I split up all the words by spaces, if there are any punctuation marks it will exist at the end of the word.  </p>
<p>While debugging I got some cool visual results: </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Screen-Shot-2013-02-27-at-2.40.36-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1640];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Screen-Shot-2013-02-27-at-2.40.36-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2013-02-27 at 2.40.36 PM" width="480" height="883" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1645" /></a></p>
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		<title>Somalian Piracy</title>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/somalian-piracy/</link>
		<comments>http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/somalian-piracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading and Writing Electronic Text]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Click this link to see the code]. I took a really cheesy poem I found online about pirates, and used our class cowboy example to replace some of the words with terminology associated with Somalian [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[Click this <a href="https://gist.github.com/avillaamil/4949178#file-rwet_assignment1">link</a> to see the code]. </p>
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<p>I took a really cheesy poem I found online about pirates, and used our class cowboy example to replace some of the words with terminology associated with Somalian piracy.</p>
<p>Make sure to visit the original poem&#8217;s <a title="website" href="http://www.ecupirates.com/trads/library/poem.html">website</a> for the full experience (turn up your volume).</p>
<p>New Poem:</p>
<blockquote><p>Like a ghost on the wind<br />
He comes from the sea,<br />
And trembles the foe<br />
Like a storm on the lee.<br />
With swashbuckling currency-counting machines<br />
And a Jolly Roger laugh,<br />
He sails the Maritime Security Patrol Area<br />
On his exploited marine stock&#8217;s behalf<br />
He has a black-patched Kalashnikov<br />
And a diamond ring in his ear,<br />
And on his wind-burned face,<br />
A crusty-grizzled beard.<br />
With a bone-cold glare<br />
And a sneer on his lip,<br />
He has a semi-automatic pistol by his side<br />
And a hand grenade in his grip.<br />
With a thunderous blast<br />
From his AK47&#8242;s might,<br />
He shivers the hostages<br />
And cripples their fight.<br />
He takes what he&#8217;s hijaked<br />
And turns it to millions of dollars,<br />
For He&#8217;s crafty and shrewd<br />
And He&#8217;s fearless and a brawler,<br />
He&#8217;s dashing and daring,<br />
A fierce burcad badeed<strong>*</strong>,<br />
For the sight of his plunder<br />
Pales many with fear.<br />
From Norther Somalia<br />
Victories are told<br />
Of the Spirit of the Pirate<br />
And the Gulf of Aden&#8217;s toll</p></blockquote>
<p><em><strong>*</strong>burcad badeed means &#8220;ocean robber&#8221; and is the typical Somali term for &#8220;pirate&#8221;<br />
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<p>Old Poem:</p>
<blockquote><p>Like a ghost on the wind<br />
He comes from the sea,<br />
And trembles the foe<br />
Like a storm on the lee.</p>
<p>With swashbuckling swagger<br />
And a Jolly Roger laugh,<br />
He flies the black flag<br />
On a whalebone staff.</p>
<p>He has a black-patched eye<br />
And a ring in his ear,<br />
And on his wind-burned face,<br />
A crusty-grizzled beard.</p>
<p>With a bone-cold glare<br />
And a sneer on his lip,<br />
He has a cannon by his side<br />
And a cutlass in his grip.</p>
<p>With a thunderous blast<br />
From his cannon&#8217;s might,<br />
He shivers the strong<br />
And cripples their fight.</p>
<p>He takes what he&#8217;s lost<br />
And turns it to gold,<br />
For He&#8217;s crafty and shrewd<br />
And He&#8217;s fearless and bold.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s dashing and daring,<br />
A fierce buccaneer,<br />
For the sight of his plunder<br />
Pales many with fear.</p>
<p>From East Carolina<br />
Victories are told<br />
Of the Spirit of the Pirate<br />
And his purple and gold!</p>
<p>Alfred H. Lockamy 2005</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Near End Tools for a Cosmopolitan Landscape</title>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/near-end-tools-for-a-cosmopolitan-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Fabrication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas Taking Shape]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re discarding the helmet idea for now, and focusing on the other element that we had conceived of earlier and making it into a series: the spear antenna. We want to make a series of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cover1.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cover1.jpg" alt="" title="_cover" width="500" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1582" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-3-e1354129444758.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-3-e1354129444758-290x290.jpg" alt="" title="_photo (3)" width="290" height="290" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1584" /></a>We&#8217;re discarding the helmet idea for now, and focusing on the other element that we had conceived of earlier and making it into a series: the spear antenna. We want to make a series of hand-crafted and digitally fabricated spears that reflect neighborhood personalities in New York. So far we&#8217;re envisioning a Midtown Spear, an East Village Spear, a Williamsburg Spear, and maybe a Coney Island Spear, as if these neighborhoods are tribes.</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ImageZoomHandler.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ImageZoomHandler.jpeg" alt="" title="_ImageZoomHandler" width="250" height="250" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1594" /></a></p>
<p>In addition to being weapons (for self-defense and hunting) the spears would have other functionalities as well. One will be equipped with a wifi antenna (Super USB WiFi Antenna 3 – High Power Long Range 802.11 B G N Wireless $99), the other a flask of whiskey (as a medicinal tool), maybe another one has other medicinal products, maybe another one has a more high-tech function &#8211; these are the things we&#8217;re still brainstorming on. </p>
<p>Our product deposits itself as a retail concept that is part of an emerging interest in survival gear marrying contemporary technologies, one that is specifically catered toward a metropolitan New York audience. There are examples of this as a successful retail model, found in products such as Best Made Co.&#8217;s urban axe line, or even in fashion oriented, jewelled derringer revolvers for women.</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/axe.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/axe.jpg" alt="" title="_axe" width="960" height="3732" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1597" /></a></p>
<p>Also, there is a development in accessory objects under way, further enriching and driving our narrative for offering such a novel design to public consumption. I (Jason) am building a flotation vestdress for downtown women in flooding conditions, as well as a brownstone/limestone/brick urban digital cammo print for fabric.</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-1.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-1.jpg" alt="" title="photo (1)" width="640" height="480" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-4.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-4.jpg" alt="" title="photo (4)" width="640" height="478" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1599" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-5.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-5-e1354131638576.jpg" alt="" title="photo (5)" width="478" height="640" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1600" /></a></p>
<p>The midtown spear will be composed of several 3d printed buildings. Here are some pictures of those buildings in google sketchup. </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/5bd279402e63381f46dd1942ca45c52a.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/5bd279402e63381f46dd1942ca45c52a.jpeg" alt="" title="_5bd279402e63381f46dd1942ca45c52a" width="400" height="256" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1605" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/d6252c6ec1c6b9abd6c1dabda3f18ad3.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/d6252c6ec1c6b9abd6c1dabda3f18ad3-e1354135659994.jpeg" alt="" title="_d6252c6ec1c6b9abd6c1dabda3f18ad3" width="400" height="270" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1606" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/d34383b25193da9aae682533f3f1d4dd.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/d34383b25193da9aae682533f3f1d4dd.jpeg" alt="" title="_d34383b25193da9aae682533f3f1d4dd" width="400" height="221" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1607" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ce8a4aa401c82e92776079129397a44.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ce8a4aa401c82e92776079129397a44.jpeg" alt="" title="_ce8a4aa401c82e92776079129397a44" width="400" height="284" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1608" /></a></p>
<p><strong>UPDATES AS OF 12/5:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>
We are currently 3D printing at AMS, continuing to work on the flotation vest, and have ordered all materials for both spears.</p>
<p>After so much turmoil at AMS (over 2 days) we finally have printable files. From google sketchup pro, we had to open them up in cinema 4D, optimize them, then transfer them to zbrush where many edits had to be done. We&#8217;ve made holes in the models so we can insert our walnut dowel, and we&#8217;ve divided the topologies to render them a little deformed. We&#8217;re still working with scaling, which is a nightmare in zbrush, and then we have to pick the output material. </p>
<p>After that, we&#8217;ll have to lathe the wood down to make rabbit joint, and adhere with epoxy. If we decide to treat the wood with a stain, oil, or wax, we&#8217;ll probably end up doing that first. </p>
<p>Then we might decorate it a little with some sinew thread. </p>
<p>We won&#8217;t have time for this, but before the show we want to house it in a wooden crate with veneer labels that say something different than &#8220;FRAGILE&#8221; but along that same vein. We&#8217;ll line it with wool felt.
</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-7.04.56-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-7.04.56-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-12-05 at 7.04.56 PM" width="1675" height="1014" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1621" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-7.05.27-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-7.05.27-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-12-05 at 7.05.27 PM" width="1678" height="983" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1622" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-7.05.50-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1580];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-7.05.50-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-12-05 at 7.05.50 PM" width="217" height="725" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1623" /></a></p>
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		<title>printing code final brain STORM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Printing Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah and I are working together for our printing code final. I&#8217;m excited to work with someone else mainly because we&#8217;ve all been working solo this semester and I think it would be nice to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Sarah and I are working together for our printing code final. I&#8217;m excited to work with someone else mainly because we&#8217;ve all been working solo this semester and I think it would be nice to do something different, both in execution but also in process. I would like to tackle a more complicated idea, exploring color, pattern, textures, and text. </p>
<p>A lot of our work so far has had to do with science fiction, space, or outer-spacial travel, so we&#8217;re sticking with that theme. Sarah had the idea of working with <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a>, and then discovered that they will be having a big <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now">announcement</a> in December about something in the soil (spooky). Although at first we were brainstorming about doing a series involving the different departments in NASA, highlighting all the important developments that they work on, we think that starting small with one specific event would be much easier to design for and tackle programmatically. </p>
<p>Our explorations first began with the National Travel Bureau&#8217;s posters from the 50s. Sarah introduced me to these incredible posters which use HAND DRAWN text (super cool) and beautiful colors. </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-10.24.57-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-10.24.57-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-21 at 10.24.57 PM" width="448" height="641" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1551" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting inspiration from around the internet and it seems so appropriate for this brainstorm we&#8217;re having.<br />
What I really like about this one is the amount of graphic elements on the page. there&#8217;s text that doesn&#8217;t seem to be ordered in any grid system on the page, colors, and shapes. I love the pointillism effect that whitewashes the colors </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nasa1.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nasa1.jpeg" alt="" title="nasa1" width="500" height="707" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1552" /></a></p>
<p>The effect of accumulation of all these points are really apparent in these posters which are mesmerizing and I think remind me of galaxies and nebulas</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/p.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/p.jpg" alt="" title="p" width="900" height="426" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1554" /></a></p>
<p>The artist references them as rhythm studies, and I think this inspiration will be great for next session&#8217;s class on motion. Check these out, which remind me of wind maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/w.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/w.jpg" alt="" title="w" width="900" height="372" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1555" /></a></p>
<p>On the other hand, this totally organic shape out of a sketchbook really compels me:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/knee_joint_kitten_circa_1916_900.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/knee_joint_kitten_circa_1916_900.jpeg" alt="" title="knee_joint_kitten_circa_1916_900" width="439" height="640" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1556" /></a></p>
<p>Another example of fluidity and organic shapes:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/29468391124.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/29468391124.jpeg" alt="" title="29468391124" width="731" height="1024" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1557" /></a></p>
<p>After looking at a lot of these examples, we started thinking about distortion and the idea occurred to us that we could manually distort any generative sketch that we print. We were inspired by these posters that seem to make use of this technique, whether they were made with a photocopy machine or not:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/face.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1550];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/face.jpg" alt="" title="face" width="670" height="334" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1562" /></a></p>
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		<title>Laptop Stand</title>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/laptop-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Fabrication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an in class assignment, we are all working on our own designs for a laptop stand based on one that already exists. Here are some shots of the progress! Here&#8217;s the material laid out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For an in class assignment, we are all working on our own designs for a laptop stand based on one that already exists. Here are some shots of the progress!</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/laptoptraypr.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/laptoptraypr.png" alt="" title="laptoptraypr" width="3604" height="1507" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1542" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/laptopspecs.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/laptopspecs.png" alt="" title="laptopspecs" width="1121" height="653" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1543" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-9.56.30-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-9.56.30-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-21 at 9.56.30 PM" width="1453" height="761" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1546" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-9.51.21-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-9.51.21-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-21 at 9.51.21 PM" width="1454" height="869" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1544" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-9.51.40-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-9.51.40-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-21 at 9.51.40 PM" width="1455" height="899" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1545" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the material laid out before it&#8217;s all glued: </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo.jpg" alt="" title="photo" width="640" height="480" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1547" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pic.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pic.jpg" alt="" title="pic" width="614" height="462" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1574" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/table.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/table.jpg" alt="" title="table" width="640" height="480" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1575" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/clods.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/clods.jpg" alt="" title="clods" width="640" height="472" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1577" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/initials.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1541];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/initials.jpg" alt="" title="initials" width="611" height="458" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1578" /></a></p>
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		<title>Beacon, Development</title>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/beacon-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Fabrication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas Taking Shape]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world is unreliable. After Hurricane Sandy ravaged the northeastern coast of the United States, millions of people were left without power in New York City. The blackout was challenging for urban city dwellers not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world is unreliable. After Hurricane Sandy ravaged the northeastern coast of the United States, millions of people were left without power in New York City. The blackout was challenging for urban city dwellers not accustomed to darkness and utter silence. Beacon is a light source that can be used singularly or in pairs. Part flash light, part camp fire in an urban environment, Beacon helps those without city lights or electricity to find their way individually, or gather collective warmth in pairs, or groups. </p>
<p>Beacon performs as a constellation looking forward for solutions or new territories, but also serves as a reminder us of where we come from in our collective search for being illuminated, and joining together for safety. The beacon seeks to be useful as an everyday passive object but urgently practical and deployable in three distinct ways.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m working with Jason on this project, so we will each be constructing our own &#8220;sides&#8221; of the Beacon. While I&#8217;m working on some sketches, I have a clear idea of the aesthetic and materials that I want to work with. </p>
<p>Like this place:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Thai-Terminal-NYC.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Thai-Terminal-NYC.jpeg" alt="" title="Thai-Terminal-NYC" width="460" height="303" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1518" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2001SpaceOdyssey025.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2001SpaceOdyssey025.jpeg" alt="" title="2001SpaceOdyssey025" width="854" height="403" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1519" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ultra-modern-futuristic-apartment-is-designed-by-romolo-stanco-1.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ultra-modern-futuristic-apartment-is-designed-by-romolo-stanco-1.jpeg" alt="" title="ultra-modern-futuristic-apartment-is-designed-by-romolo-stanco-1" width="500" height="375" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1520" /></a></p>
<p>With these forms:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/original20pods.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/original20pods.jpeg" alt="" title="original20pods" width="800" height="1309" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1526" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2001_space_odyssey_flatware_overview1.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2001_space_odyssey_flatware_overview1.jpeg" alt="" title="2001_space_odyssey_flatware_overview(1)" width="400" height="473" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1523" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ariesdrawing3-1.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ariesdrawing3-1.jpeg" alt="" title="ariesdrawing3-1" width="521" height="504" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1524" /></a></p>
<p>Sketches:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scan-6.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scan-6.jpeg" alt="" title="Scan 6" width="232" height="397" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1536" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scan-9.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scan-9.jpeg" alt="" title="Scan 9" width="240" height="393" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1537" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scan.jpeg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scan.jpeg" alt="" title="Scan" width="494" height="406" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1538" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1-copy.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1-copy.jpg" alt="" title="-1 copy" width="563" height="430" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1531" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2-copy.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2-copy.jpg" alt="" title="-2 copy" width="602" height="476" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1532" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/3-copy.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1517];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/3-copy.jpg" alt="" title="-3 copy" width="508" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1533" /></a></p>
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		<title>The Waiting Game &#8211; Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandra Villaamil</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For our midterm (which is delayed due to Hurricane Sandy) my group is supposed to create an interactive data representation of the U.S. election system. After brainstorming a couple of nights, we decided on the issue of wait times at the poll. To make a statement about the ridiculousness of the problem, we decided to make a ridiculous sketch, to comment on the absurdity of the problem. </p>
<p>The waiting game is a data visualization representing the waiting lines at the polls during the 2012 Presidential Elections. A program collected tweets containing word that suggest waiting times to vote. Based on those tweets, we calculated averages for waiting times in the states where data was available. After the user selects a state to vote in, George Washington travels along the path in the sketch with a speed determined by that state&#8217;s average waiting time. When he finishes the line, his vote is cast. </p>
<p>This is a screen shot of what the sketch is looking like right now: </p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/George_SizeReference.jpg" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1496];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/George_SizeReference-785x497.jpg" alt="" title="George_SizeReference" width="785" height="497" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1499" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what will happen after you wait the 1-6 hours it will take you to vote:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/georgeplusone.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1496];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/georgeplusone.png" alt="" title="georgeplusone" width="414" height="354" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1500" /></a></p>
<p>This is how I organized the states in the blue box:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-12-at-4.47.18-PM.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1496];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-12-at-4.47.18-PM-290x290.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-12 at 4.47.18 PM" width="290" height="290" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1511" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a GIF that we&#8217;re using for now. If copyright issues ensue, we&#8217;re working on our very own George Washington alternative inspired by Andy Rash&#8217;s 8 Bit GOP candidates you can see <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664502/crazy-accurate-8-bit-portraits-of-gops-presidential-candidates" title="here" target="_blank"></a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gw6.gif" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1496];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gw6.gif" alt="" title="gw6" width="400" height="368" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1497" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s ours:</p>
<p><a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/originalgeorge.png" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1496];player=img;"><img src="http://itp.nyu.edu/~av1105/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/originalgeorge.png" alt="" title="originalgeorge" width="516" height="755" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1498" /></a></p>
<p>And the original background:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt5yr64OxX1qzon2uo1_400.gif" class="alignnone" width="400" height="368" /><a </p>
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