Land Shark
Used by Saturday Night Live in a comedy skit, the shark is used as the punch line of a recurring joke and is seen as a clever serial killer. The synopsis is the Land Shark goes to apartments and masquerades as a plumber or deliveryman (i.e. “candy gram”). Eventually, the resident is tricked [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Cultural representations of the Shark
Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Animals, People and Things in Between | Tags: animal, shark
Filed under: Animals, People and Things in Between | Tags: animal, shark
Freakin’ awesome animation
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.
Design Inspiration
Saturday, Feb 13th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, ITP, Spatial Media
Filed under: General Discussion, ITP, Spatial Media
Today, I took a trip to two places that I hoped would provide some design inspiration. First, the Official NYC information center which uses these disks as interactive elements as well as a touch screen tv display and overhead tracking mechanism (I think). The displays help visitors find things to do in New York, save [...]
Brainstorming for a horizontal display
Saturday, Feb 13th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Education, ITP, Spatial Media | Tags: brainstorming, touch-screen
Filed under: Education, ITP, Spatial Media | Tags: brainstorming, touch-screen
The way my project for Spatial Media has been developing has not been, shall we say, linear — at all. Not knowing which group member I was going to work with has obviously been making the brainstorming process quite difficult. Thankfully, at some point I did finally come to some idea for what to do.
The [...]
Missed Connections
Friday, Feb 5th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, Video for New Media
Filed under: General Discussion, Video for New Media
Lucas Werthein and I made a video project of still images for a Missed Connection post we found on Craigslist. See if you can figure out what the story is about…
Spatial Media: Assignment 2, The (Kitchen) Table
Thursday, Feb 4th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: ITP, Spatial Media | Tags: OpenFrameworks, Processing
Filed under: ITP, Spatial Media | Tags: OpenFrameworks, Processing
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.
The PDF description is here and the OpenFrameworks zip file is here.
I also found an excellent Processing [...]
My deer self…expanded
Tuesday, Feb 2nd, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Animals, People and Things in Between, ITP | Tags: mask making, photography
Filed under: Animals, People and Things in Between, ITP | Tags: mask making, photography
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 [...]