Datajam intervention: Sunday 6th December 2009
Indian princess Savitri was a woman of great beauty, who chose to marry Satyawan, prince in exile who was living in the forest. The court astrologers tried to stop her when the prince’s lifeline showed that he would die within a year. Savitri however would not step back: she married [...]
Visit to Chalkwell II : towards ideas and solutions
We visited Chalkwell park for a second time to open up our senses and our brains to the environment again, but this time with the preliminary research in mind. We walked around the park, taking in every plant, every pathway and all the other accessories in the [...]
My learning contract revealed that I wanted to break away from normal patterns and try something new to perhaps spark new interests and creativity. I decided to look at the more material elements of the site for the first week of preliminary research that we did together with the entire class. We all posted our [...]
This week’s exercise was to create a free media tool. Not familiar? Read the charter here:
Free Media Charter
INTRODUCTION
The large cities in the world are seas of light driven by consumer culture. Squares, bridges, monuments and tall buildings are illuminated by street lanterns, large screens, overly lit advertising, abundant christmas lights, traffic, and so on. These [...]
INTRODUCTION
Parallel to my idea of the Night Tag I developed another idea, which utilizes the ’secret carriers’ that allow you to check banknotes for authenticity. One of the security features is the UV feature:
Ultra-violet feature - if you put a £10 note under a good quality ultra-violet light (one that emits light at around 365 [...]
Sleeping and waking as media ecology
Inspired by McLuhan, Neil Postman founded the Program in Media Ecology at New York University in 1971. As he described it: “Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances [...]
*This text is written collaboration with the entire group*
After seeing the first Oyster travel log, we decided that using the travel log to create something ‘aimless’ was too limited. We then came up with the idea of using people’s missed connections as a starting point. We found a website called Love on the Line in [...]
15 October 2009 10:15am
N 51.49538 W 0.14484
Meeting at Victoria Rail Station, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
First set of directions:
Man seeking Woman | Victoria line, London, UK | from admmir6 |
We hit it off when we got stuck between Victoria and Oxford Circus this afternoon. I never got your name, but told you mine - Charlie. You said [...]
This week’s assignment was either to make the ‘Hello World’ command to work in Perl and document the relevance of this exercise, which is used in most handbooks on programming languages. The second option was to ‘translate’ last week’s product (the command line in Unix) to a script in Perl. The first exercise proved to [...]
In doing this exercise I wanted to play with concepts of online identities, privacy and self-disclosure. Many people will have googled their own names at some point and may have found that a lot of their personal information, contact details and maybe photos or online contributions have crept into the online realm over time. Often [...]