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DABA – Dating a Banker Anonymous

Posted by on December 19, 2010 at 1:39 pm

When we started work on our video project, we kicked around a whole variety of ideas, including a “Hidden New York” documentary, a mockumentary about ITP and a variety of things about animals in NYC. Ultimately, the idea of the “DABA Girls” resounded with all of us. A piece was run in the New York [...]

Disturbing Media

Posted by on October 24, 2010 at 6:47 pm

In response to the CommLab reading today (McLuhan, Letham, Garnett and Meiselas), I’m going to discuss the three images I’ve attached below. These are three very different images that I have always found extremely unsettling, yet each powerful in its own way and each relevant to the readings. The first image is an iconic photo [...]

Risk – The Untold Story

Posted by on October 18, 2010 at 2:01 am

Real Estate investment can be a bitch.

Corporate Shakeup

Posted by on October 3, 2010 at 11:03 pm

Andi Cheung, Ginny Hung, Dave Boyhan

Uploading a V-Blog of PhysComp for CommLab

Posted by on September 27, 2010 at 2:51 am

This is a short video of my 3rd PhysComp lab involving a voltage regulator and setting some LED’s in series and parallel.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Posted by on September 26, 2010 at 5:18 pm

Homer: Will this episode be going to air live? June: No Homer, very few cartoons go to air live. It’s a tremendous strain on the animator’s wrist. The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show, Season 8, Episode 14 Walter Benjamin’s 1935 piece, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is almost overwhelming in its [...]

How to Cry at ITP – 30 Minute Film Festival

Posted by on September 25, 2010 at 7:30 pm

This was put together in 30 minutes as part of the CommLab 30 Minute Film Festival. I’m the big guy in the Green Lantern T-Shirt. My partners are the geniuses.

The Machine Stops – A few additional thoughts

Posted by on September 20, 2010 at 12:50 am

It occurred to me after my first posting on E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops that it would be easy to apply the notion of the Machine to the current notion of a Technology Singularity discussed by scientists such as Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy, computer scientists/popular authors such as Vernor Vinge and former computer scientists/current popular [...]

The Machine Stops

Posted by on September 19, 2010 at 12:27 am

I’m embarrassed to say that this is the first time I’ve read E.M Forster’s “The Machine Stops“. It was a wonderful dystopian cautionary tale, ostensibly about the threat of over-reliance on technology. However, although it’s tempting to point to the technology in the tale as the risk or the culprit, I believe that The Machine [...]