Category Archives: Sagar Mohite

Clara Juliana Santamaria Vargas, Daniel Shiffman, Data Art, Jer Thorp, Programming from A to Z, Projects, Sagar Mohite

Colorpress

Sagar Mohite, Clara Juliana Santamaria Vargas

A library of grammatical portraits of books, short stories, essays and plays.

http://colorbooks.herokuapp.com/

Description

Colorpress is an online and printed collection of grammatical portraits of various books published over the ages. Each portrait is a colored pixellation of all the words in a book color coded by grammar rules. We also color code certain characters and special phrases in the books.

The exhibit at the ITP Winter Show 2014 will feature a high quality printed book featuring a colored portrait of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, portraits of entire books on postcards and posters, and an online library of selected famous works. The book as well as the website will also feature various data visualizations about certain metadata about the book.

A future step would be to make an online interactive portal where people would be able to order custom prints on their choice of media.

[Note: the link above is a work in progress and may not represent the final product and the name will be changed to Colorpress]

Classes

Data Art, Programming from A to Z

Ainsley O'Connell, Allison Ye, Ben Moskowitz, Flying Robotic Journalism, Haylee Hongeun Jung, Kate Godwin, Projects, Sagar Mohite, Salem Al-Mansoori

Oakwood Beach Returns To The Wild

Allison Ye, Sagar Mohite, Salem Al-Mansoori, Ainsley O’Connell, Kate Godwin, Haylee Hongeun Jung

Two Years After Hurricane Sandy, Oakwood Beach in Staten Island Returns To The Wild.

http://frj-sandy.heroku.com

Description

At its peak, Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, spanned over 1,150 miles – roughly the driving distance between New York and Miami. As it began nearing the coastline, pouring down rain and rattling windows, schools closed, public transit shut down, and flood-zone residents evacuated their homes. The full force of the storm hit New York City on October 29, 2012, with winds gusting to 80 miles per hour.

Oakwood Beach, a low-lying hamlet on the south shore of Staten Island, was no match for the superstorm. By the time the winds and waters receded, leaving mud-filled homes in their wake, three residents were dead. Dozens more would be homeless for months.

During the year that followed, some residents chose to return and rebuild. But now, two years since the storm, the state is in the midst of implementing a buy-out program designed to convince all residents to leave their homes. Officials have closed on 276 buy-out sales in Oakwood Beach and two nearby towns, at a cost of $112 million; another 200 applications are pending.

In Oakwood Beach, once an oceanfront sanctuary for working class families, just a handful of stubborn holdouts remain. They live among empty lots and boarded windows; 47 neighborhood houses have already been demolished.

We visited Oakwood Beach around Sandy’s anniversary to talk to the remaining residents. They are surrounded: by nature, as animals and wetlands reclaim the land, and by government, as officials prepare for a world in which Oakwood Beach no longer exists. For now, the town sits in limbo.

Viewers will interact with this piece via leap motion.

Classes

Flying Robotic Journalism