futurama panoramas

This site has a collection of great futurama panoramas made from taking stills from extended pans. Very nice.

via boingboing

patholog- from db to p5

just finished some code for some patholog visualizations that pulls a path from a db (in format x1,y1,location_name,location_img_file;x2,y2,location_name2,location_img_file2; ... ). All the data is pulled from a server, so you should be able to run this from either an applet or the p5 app. Also includes functionality to pass a path id from the db to the applet for quick path switching...

to do:
.change db tables a bit
.add some timing mechanisms
.id array for multiple layering of paths

South Hall...interpretation?

image map

walked around today, took some pictures, and mapped them to a stitched terraserver image of the los feliz area.

(btw. the yellow line is a connect-the-dots of some waypoints - not a highly sampled path... which would explain the appearance of me walking through buildings, etc. fyi: I stored a highly sampled path too, but didn't feel like swiping it from the tablet...)

Bike Against Bush / Magicbike

Bikes Against Bush is a dynamic performance/protest that occurs simultaneously on the streets of NYC during the Convention and on the Web. Bikes Against Bush uses wireless bicycles that incorporate a mechanical printing device consisting of a series of spray-chalk aerosol cans. This mechanical ChalkWriter can print text messages from web users to the street surfaces on which the bike cruises. Online users can send messages to the bicycle in real-time through the project website and the cyclist can decide when and where to print them. When the cyclist prints a message, bikesagainstbush.com automatically updates a live map marking the location of the message. A webcam on the bike also documents this with a snapshot at the moment of printing. The spray-chalk text message remains on the street for 4 to 5 days till the chalk biodegrades, or can be washed off easily with water. Thus, the goal of “Bikes Against Bush” is to serve as an inspirational and working model for alternative, creative political resistance.

link via Gizmodo

thesis proposal

Final Thesis Proposal.

Download

a) Proposal -- Download [.PDF]

b) Estimated Budget -- Download [.PDF]