Media Controller

Following Owen’s great overview of our progress so far, I was inspired to try my hand at keeping some kind of running documentation of our next steps. If you haven’t read his post, go [there] first.

OK. In order to make the clicking sounds, Owen created a very clever and efficient bit of code, using [...]

Color study for 2D design:

Every movement needs a logo– or does it?

First, a quick visual summary of the “raised fist” of solidarity and resistance:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVvVpJApPj-LZGM0cTJjcWRfNjdmNWMyYjRjNw&hl=en_US

Looking at the #occupy movement, you’ll see that it’s not particularly “branded” — it’s expressed. What I mean by that is that the imagery that represents the movement is imagery that individuals within the movement have chosen at particularly times to [...]

simple card

Nothing more, nothing less.

simple card

The only thing that catches me is the idea of representing myself as a ‘digital anything’ on simple paper. There has to be some simple medium that isn’t too showy, but is also playful and preserves some of the playful mystery that the card suggests.

For comparison, you can [...]

snowman, rendered with functions

What I really wanted to do is start on a new idea: an interactive, node-based love letter (doesn’t love just feel like that sometimes?) but since I hadn’t yet reorganized anything in processing, I decided to just stick with an old sketch and do the homework as assigned. I borrowed Bona’s snowflake code, which I [...]