Month: February 2010

Spatial Media: Assignment 2, The (Kitchen) Table

My concept for this assignment was to make a kitchen table that mimics the surface of water. It allows the diners and the items on the surface of the table to be equal partners in the interaction experience.

Water table example

The PDF description is here and the OpenFrameworks zip file is here.

I also found an excellent Processing example of ripples, which perhaps in the next 5 years I’ll be able to translate into OpenFrameworks.

As found on the Processing.org forum
Link to the source code
Link to the .mov video example

My deer self…expanded

As a deer, I slip in and out of the human world at a relative ease. I enjoy living deer-human, but I don’t spend too much time that way. It’s important that I learn to live my life as a human.

Most days I’m fine with my human self, but every so often I find myself more timid than usual and afraid of people. In most of these moments, I feel closest to my inner deer. I do not leave my home when I feel this way. In fact, I simply move about, throughout the day, as if I were exactly the same. I still enjoy the same foods, though I tend to not be too carnivorous at this time. I find that eating other animal meat as a deer feels close to cannibalism. However, even being a deer will not destroy my love of coffee in the morning, at least not on a cold day.

I still enjoy going for long walks, and I still have a tendency to think too much. However, one of the best things about being able to turn into a deer is that I get to hide in plain site.

Hiding in plain sight