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Freakin’ awesome animation

Monday, Feb 15th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Trust me. It’s rad. You should watch it. But, be warned: you may feel different afterwards.
“Who I Am and What I Want”

Directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley. It even has its own website.

Phys Comp Midterm: Balance board video controller

Friday, Nov 13th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Creativity, Education, ITP, Intro to Physical Computing, Media, Technology | Tags: , ,

For my Physical Computing midterm, I worked with Andrea Wolf and Sindy Butz to create a balance board that controls a video in Processing.
Here’s a video of me demonstrating for our class.

Balance Board Media Controller from Allison Walker on Vimeo.
The way it works: User steps on the board, which completes a switch inside the board. [...]

Signs of Life: Physical Graffiti

Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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I went to this last week. It was pretty neat. Apparently, Pam was a faculty member at ITP.

Comm Lab: Stop Motion Animation

Wednesday, Oct 14th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
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This week I worked with two other students, Noah Waxman and Macaulay Campbell, to create a short stop motion, animated film. When we added the sounds, it definitely became pretty ridiculous. We used a whiteboard to create our animations; it was a lot easier to work with than physical objects. Plus, our illustrator stole my [...]

Synchronous Objects, a collaboration between OSU and William Forsythe

Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 2 Comments
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This past Tuesday, one of the groups managed to get all 120 of the first-year students together to put on a group performance. It helped that we were all in the same room together. Our performance was to use beer bottles, packets of Pop Rocks, and our own hands, thighs and feet to recreate the [...]

Cool devices I wish I’d thought of first

Sunday, Sep 20th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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So, an assignment in one of my classes this week has been to come up with a fantasy device, that does something you’ve always wanted. I’ve always wanted a unicorn, but our assignment says we have to come up with some type of physical manifestation for this fantasy device. Unicorn-maker sounds a bit outside the [...]

How to solve a Rubik’s Cube

Thursday, Sep 17th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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For the Data Visualization class I’m on the waitlist for, we were asked to come up with the solution for solving a Rubik’s cube.
To solve a Rubik’s cube, you basically need to remember that the whole thing consists of a series of patterns that, if you trust them, will solve the puzzle for you. In [...]

Learning Clothes, at Fashion Camp NY 2009

Tuesday, Sep 8th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Get your Fashion Camp 2009 poster

I’ve been thinking about having my own sewing machine for a few years now. I guess I never bought one (that worked properly) because I keep moving around the country too much. Anyway, I think now’s the time. I used a sewing machine occasionally in college, but since then I [...]

Talk by Clay Shirky: Forking, Failing, and Open Source

Thursday, Jun 18th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Creativity, General Discussion, People, Technology, Urban Space | Tags: , , , ,

Upgrade! New York presents: Talk by Clay Shirky: Forking, Failing, and Open Source
As an introduction to our Upgrade New York year theme we are excited to announce this month’s speaker, Clay Shirky. Clay will discuss the concepts of fork and failure in the open source process and will open them to discussion in the context [...]

I Met The Walrus - Manhattan Short Film Festival

Sunday, Apr 5th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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This week’s Manhattan Short Film Festival film, is “I Met The Walrus”. It’s an interview with John Lennon, portrayed graphically. I really like the interpretation the artist has with the graphics, sometimes being extremely literal but still funny. Click the image above, and head off on their site.

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