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Jan 13-15: Antenna Design Workshop

Thursday, Jan 21st, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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This past week at ITP, I was one of 16 lucky students to participate in a workshop on “Intervention/Interaction - Multi-person Interface” hosted by the co-creators of the awesome design firm Antenna Design. Sigi Moeslinger (ITP Alumna ‘96) and Masamichi Udagawa led the workshop over 3 days. Our task was to create an intervention of [...]

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.

Observation of the self-ticketing machines at the movies

Sunday, Oct 18th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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What: Self-ticketing machines at movie theaters
How they were used: I expected that people would use them to purchase their tickets. But, I also noticed that people used them to see what movies were playing. And, sometimes they tested the machines to see if they could purchase tickets for a movie that was sold [...]

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

Thursday, Jun 18th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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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 [...]

Cities that shape

Monday, Apr 13th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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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 [...]

What’s important

Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, Urban Space

Last Sunday our graphic design homework was to create some type of visual representation of our possessions, splitting them into things we care about and things we don’t care about. When I imagined this homework, I could not think of excluding the things that I used to own, very recently, in Houston. I actually didn’t [...]

ARCH DL V hosted by LVHRD

Wednesday, Mar 25th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Last month I attended ARCH DL V, hosted by LVHRD, in Brooklyn. The event pitted two architecture teams against each other to create a moon-based, landing site/jail at Coney Island, using only the materials available in 5 boxes of Monopoly games.
I left before the end because it was a Tuesday and it was in Brooklyn [...]

Human factors design for subway escalators

Monday, Feb 9th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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As a recent transplant New York City, I of course compare my experience of living here with my experience of living everywhere else I’ve ever lived or visited. Just recently, I was using an escalator on the subway to go up to street level. As I rode up, I noticed that there were no emergency [...]

Bronx Rhymes via Twitter

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, General Discussion, People, Technology, Urban Space

A celebration of the birthplace of hip-hop, Bronx Rhymes combines online experience, with music, creativity and the urban environment. The site asks users to post their own rhymes via text message or email. The website also features a map and there are posters at each corresponding map location. Not only is this such an interesting [...]

Multimedia system provides new view of musical performance

Wednesday, Feb 4th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, Education, Technology, Urban Space

As posted from ACM today,
University of Leeds researchers have developed new multimedia technology that will enable musicians to use three-dimensional (3D) computer analysis to improve their technique. Professor Kai Ng has created i-Maestro 3D Augmented Mirror (AMIR), a system that records a musician’s posture and movement while they play, using motion capture and maps the [...]

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