Push The Other Button at ITP

From now on, all documentation for my projects at ITP will take place at Crown and Anchor Me.

And you can still visit my main site, Push The Other Button.

You know, for grins…

After some mild frustration with getting the text editor to work properly (save in plain text, not rich text!), I was able to play around a bit and put up a shell of a site that I can expand upon. This is the first time I’ve worked in raw html to build a website, and am actually excited to dig into it some more.

At my main site…

NOTE: All transitions are morphs.

See this post on my main site, Push The Other Button

with Rhodes Edewor Thorley

Standing on a line for the automated ticket booth at either Grand Central or Penn Station can be an unnerving experience for a rider whose train is set to leave in just a few minutes.
Time waiting is redirected to sizing up the tech-savviness of each member of the line. Will they be able to whizz through the process, or is it a laborious task for them that may make you miss your train?
First off, some people are tripped up by the touch-screen interface and look around for a keyboard, even though “Touch Screen to Begin” is clearly stated. Once they figure things out, the process starts.
Step 1: Departure and destination – Departure point is always set to your current location as the default, but some folks are still tripped up by this, taking the time to manually enter the first few characters of the station they’re at – for some reason they don’t trust the machine to do their bidding automatically – it needs human verification. A similar process for destination can render two results: near automatic recognition of the desired station, or a methodical reading of every station on the list before making a selection.
Step 2: Peak or Off Peak / Round trip or One-Way / Number of Passengers: Again, the defaults are intuitive. The peak commuter times will be the default during those times; same for off-peak. Number of passengers will be reason for pause: I can imagine someone thinking
“But do I have to push 2 passengers because I’m getting round trip, or will that make two separate tickets?” Again, it’s a case of people not trusting the machine.
Step 3: Payment Method. Cash or credit – seems simple enough, but oftentimes folks did not get their method of payment handy while standing online, so start fumbling around wasting more time, and also racing against the computer’s automated reversion back to the opening screen. If that happens you start all over again (and yes, I’ve seen this happen).
Step 4: Insert cash or credit card. The credit card usually goes smoothly, but if it’s cash, folks sometimes are confused about how they’re going to receive change (dollar coins spit out along with your ticket), and can run into troubles by exceeding the computer’s “change limit” (EG: you can’t pay for a 5.50 with a 20 dollar bill).
Step 5: Dispensing of Tickets, Change, and Receipt. They’re all dispensed separately, with a pause of a few seconds. Sometime after the receipt prints, people stand there waiting for a few moments more, expecting something else…candy, a toy? I have no idea, but this train’s leaving soon so kindly get the hell out of the way.

Lots of guitarists collect effects pedals, and lots of effects pedals end up being set aside, never to be seen again in a guitarist’s rigs. This invention aims to take advantage of that trend. It consists of a series of effects loops that are cycled through sequentially, with each loop having controls for clean/effected blend, and on/off – each loop can contain one or more effects pedals, the rate at which they cycle through can be varied by a knob, and the overall blend between clean signal and effected signal can also be adjusted.

I really want to make a prototype of this, but do not have the skills to do it. Here’s a mock-up

Xacti footage sandwiches iphone footage done from underneath the screen by Matt Rader.

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