February 2012
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Growing Up
Team Sarah Adams, Tom Harman, Tash Wong
Challenge Save isn’t only a function that occurs on computers or with photographs. It embodies our connection to information on a physical and emotional level. It can even inform how we identify ourselves to the rest of the world.
Concept and prototype a way to improve a particular behavior around saving things. This could seek to alter the emotions behind...
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Getting Together: Interaction 12, Day 2
This blog post is part of a series on Interaction 12 by SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design Despartment. The original post is can be found here.
Day 2 was a good day. I got up at 8:30AM, made some breakfast, then walked down to the Convention Center. During the 25 minute walk from our apartment, I got to wander and take in the sights and sounds of the Dublin morning commute. The River Liffey is...
January 2012
3 posts
Assignment 8: Become part of the online workforce
For our Entrepreneurial Design course we are all tasked with spending some time on one of a variety of sites: TaskRabbit, GigWalk, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and 99designs, among others. I’ve always been curious about Mechanical Turk after reading about it a while back, so thought I’d give it a try to learn more.
Signing up to Mechanical Turk is fairly straight forward,...
'Exploiting Users'
The other day in studio I overheard a conversation about the exploitation of users time. The context was that there’s only so much of it business can ‘mine’, so at some point we’ll run out of time to get our products in front of people. I found that throughout this conversation the way the terms ‘exploitation’ and ‘users’ were brought together really...
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Getting organized for semester 2
Jan 9th brought about the beginning of our second semester. As I slowly started getting my brain back in to work mode, I realized that I had some serious tidying to do. My inbox was overflowing both in Gmail and Evernote, my Twitter was all over the place (who am I following…why?), Tumblr rather forgotten about, then there was all of the articles and the other online reading to catch up on....
December 2011
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Interaction Tour of NYC: Coney Island
This blog post is part of a series of stories written by first year students in SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design. The original post is can be found here.
If I were to put together an interaction tour of New York, the first stop would be Coney Island. The Coney Island of today is not a place that conjures up the wonder of Apple’s next device. In fact, I think the only technological...
November 2011
3 posts
Back in the day
One of my current fascinations is looking back at the early days of home computing. Below is a quick write up I did on the Commodore 64 for my Research Methods class. My first computer was a C64, probably back in ‘88. I went to a funny little school that had us programming history trivia games for each other in first grade. It’s something I completely forgot about until recently, but...
October 2011
2 posts
Taste Home
Before sitting to write this post, I made a piece of marmite toast.
For those of you who don’t know, Marmite is a yeast based spread that comes originally from Britain - though, I’m particular to the New Zealand variety. Its black and tastes salty, and is generally amazing. I think of it as a savory alternative to jam. For those of you who do know, don’t even start on the...
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And it begins, again
I’m back at school. When I was accepted I promised myself that once school actually started I’d be very diligent with blogging about my thoughts and work, and doing so at least once a week. We’re now headed into week 5 and I’m finally jumping in - a jump heavily influenced by the fact that if I don’t, I’ll owe someone a drink tomorrow.
I’ve just started...
September 2011
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“But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut explains drama (via krislane)
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California man sells daughter
Quick (depressing) hit: California man sells daughter
From the Associated Press:
Police have arrested a Greenfield man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat.
Police said they only learned of the deal after the 36-year-old man went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn’t...
Ira Glass on the basics of storytelling →
December 2008
9 posts
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
liz:
superamit:
susanbuck: elspethjane: expectoomuch:
1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the...
WatchProp 8, the musical!!
Bye bye Astroland →
November 2008
10 posts
Getting robbed
talkinghead:
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After Citi, $4.6165 trillion of our dollars have been spent bailing out banks. (This before any job-creating stimulous.) Compare the infuriating abuse of our tax-payer dollars to other massive public expenditures throughout history.
• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion • Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation...