ITP – Collective Storytelling – Oral History feedback

Feedback for Christine:

The central voice of J-Rock in your piece is a great speaker. He does a great job of showing both sides to his personality, the single guy and the father of two. From the language to the presentation, he really nails it. The time when he changes from this supposed macho guy to explain some of the realities of his situation is the highlight of the piece.

Overall, the audio on the piece is a bit rough. There are a few edits that are a little raw, with people fading unusually. The levels could also be evened out to smooth over differences in volume between the speakers.

But overall I think it’s a nice piece. It would be great to have the piece run even a little longer and to get a deeper sense of some of the other speakers.

Feedback for Jason:

Jason, I didn’t see your audio posted on your blog.

ITP – Collective Storytelling – Oral History

This is the audio assignment that I completed with Heather Velez and Ryan Viglizzo.

ITP – Collective Storytelling – Fan Fiction

Our focus during week two of my Collective Storytelling class has been fan fiction and the Hourly Comic. Readings focused on the shifting power dynamics of readers, writers and the companies controlling the intellectual property. Some young fans of the Harry Potter series are using the books as a way to express their love of reading and writing. The articles highlight the fact that older fans of tv shows and movies who write fan fiction are mostly women. Many of their stories have homoerotic themes, often with leading male characters also linked romantically. Apparently this trend began in earnest with Kirk and Spock on Star Trek.

One of the things that the readings fail to mention is how incredibly bad all the writing on these fan fiction sites are. This was my first time visiting sites like FanFiction.net. It will also probably be my last. The majority of the stories I read were all based on really cliche story lines and predictable plot twists. While it is easy to support the idea that young writers can use the Harry Potter series to improve their own storytelling skills, it is a bit embarrassing to see what older writers have produced.

ITP – Be Here Now – Week 1

Observations:

large, human/natural graphics have a definite effect

ITP – Collective Storytelling – Hint Fiction

Week 1: The Story

Rounding a Corner

All things considered, this was progress. A loss was still a loss. But everyone in the stands could tell. At last, their team had fight.

Databetes 7729

This is the printed version of the Databetes 7729 data visualization I presented at the ITP Fall 2011 show. I created it as my ITP class Intro to Computational Media final project.

WWMD (What Would Moses Do) – Final Documentation

WWMD allows a user to control a wall of water with the wave of their hand. I built this project along with Mark Breneman for our ITP Intro to Physical Computing final project.

Water control comes from a Kinect tracking hand movement, communicating the data to Processing, which then sends it to an Arduino controlling a stepper motor. The motor turns gears on a tube of water which has holes drilled on one side. The wall of water is open when the holes face down and closed when the holes are above the water level.