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Still thinking about changing my final project idea: interactive plant vs blinky lights?

Tuesday, Nov 24th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
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A discussion Monday night got me thinking about my Phys comp final again. I like the bionic gardening, but I also want something really fun. The other student I was talking with was trying to convince me to do my original-ish LED light board idea. So, at home I thought about it a little bit [...]

Using FSRs to turn on vibration motorsor

Sunday, Nov 22nd, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
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Tonight I was working on putting together some of the pieces for my Android Pet Plant.
To make the plant vibrate, I plan to use the 1″ FSRs around the flower pot which will trigger at least 2 vibration motors. To test this out, I cut open a cardboard Diamond Crystal salt container and stuck a [...]

Event: The Kitchen Presents - Nancy Garcia/Chase Granoff

Sunday, Nov 8th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Saturday, November 7, I went to The Kitchen with a friend to see a double performance by Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff. Nancy Garcia is also a graduate of ITP.
As far as Chase Granoff’s work, “The Art of Making Dances”, I quite liked it. I found it easy to “get” quickly, in that I found [...]

Signs of Life: Physical Graffiti

Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, Creativity, Events, Urban Space | Tags: , , ,

I went to this last week. It was pretty neat. Apparently, Pam was a faculty member at ITP.

Peaking, at Chez Bushwick

Sunday, Oct 18th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Peaking is a four-person exhibition of video by Janet Biggs, Heather Cassils, Molly Davies, and Andrew Sroka curated by Maya Ciarrocchi. I attended on October 17, 2009 at Chez Bushwick, in Brooklyn, NY.
While all the videos were impressive, my favorite was by Janet Biggs. A clip called ‘Performance of Desire’, from 2007. In this short [...]

Comm Lab: Week 2 - Reaction to “Orality and Literacy” (Ch. 1-2)

Tuesday, Sep 22nd, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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(Note: in starting the class late, I haven’t had time to finish week 1’s readings, but they will be posted in due time.)
In reading the first two chapters of Orality and Literacy, I can’t help but think of a time in which I’ve come across the topic of oral and written language. The first was [...]

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 [...]

On the the New York City Dance and Technology Meetup

Friday, May 1st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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I was reading the feeds on my iGoogle page, and I came across this post on Danciti. The author seems to have taken offense at the new “DanceTech” Meetup group by Doug Fox of Great Dance.
In this particular post, the Danciti author comments on of the suggested meetup topics, ‘How dancers can create professional websites [...]

BBC News on UseIt.com

Monday, Apr 27th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Today’s new UseIt.com article, “World’s Best Headlines: BBC News” is an article after my own heart: a glowing review of BBC News. More specifically, it’s about the concisely written, yet richly explanatory headlines on the BBC News website.
I am so excited to see this wonderful review because for a few years, I was absolutely obsessed [...]

Cities that shape

Monday, Apr 13th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, Urban Space | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Last Friday I saw the movie Tokyo!, directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-Ho. It asks the question, do we define our cities, or do they define us?
Today, while checking my RSS feeds, I eventually saw something related to this idea. “Theory of the Dérive”, by Guy Debord:
One of the basic situationist practices [...]

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