Bloggey Stuff

My Electric Objects

Posted on February 23 2016

I’ve been having a lot of fun with my Electric Objects art frame for the past few months, and even uploaded some things that I’ve found, as well as some things that I made. Here...

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Gitlab Setup on existing DigitalOcean droplet

Posted on January 13 2016

A few months ago, I downgraded all of my GitHub accounts to free and launched an instance of GitLab on a DigitalOcean server. Between my different organizations, I was just paying too much for private...

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Favorite Things 01

Posted on January 29 2015

At the end of a short talk with some students last week, the teacher prompted her students to ask me some questions. After an awkward pause, one of them asked me who my current favorite...

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Exporting OSM to 3D formats

Posted on December 29 2014

For an upcoming project, I needed a 3D model of all of the buildings in Manhattan. I knew that this 3d data existed in OpenStreetMaps and I trusted that it would be possible to convert...

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New Site Design

Posted on November 29 2014

Just launched this new site design! Whaddya think? Please let me know if you find any broken links, errors, etc.

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IBMPlay Timelapse

Posted on November 25 2014

Aramique and I launched a new project, the IBMPlay Machine, on Nov 10. Full documentation will be ready soon. But in the meantime, check out this context-free timelapse we made of a day in the...

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Perspectives on Imaginary Futures

Posted on February 28 2014

Laborers of Love is featured in a new show at the House of Electronic Arts Basel in Switzerland along with a bunch of other awesome artists! The exhibition Perspectives on Imaginary Futures, which will be...

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Detective Charles Cheese Jr.

Posted on January 20 2014

This week’s SNL featured a Weekend update in which Cecily Strong had a bit about the Chuck E Cheese franchise being sold for nearly 1 billion. As a result, Cecily explained, the rodent now insists...

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Node Crawler Finds Open Surveillance Cams

Posted on December 04 2013

Somehow I only just recently came across Surveillance Saver, a screensaver that picks a random open webcam and displays it as a screensaver. The voyeur in me was immediately intrigued, so I downloaded. Unfortunately, more...

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Sunday Night Mix Podcast

Posted on November 29 2013

In preparation for the 17th volume of Sunday Night Mix, I gathered up all 14 of the previous mixes (what happened to volumes 9 and 15? we may never know) and made a podcast on...

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openFrameworks on EC2

Posted on May 17 2013

For quite some time I’ve been trying to get an openFrameworks app running on a non-GPU server. I had been thinking that it would be necessary to get something like Mesa 3D running within oF...

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The Unity Junkyard

Posted on April 11 2013

I did a couple of Unity tutorials recently and thought I'd share the app that we built. As you can see, through the use of some tropical fish and some exploding bananas, we learned about...

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Raspberry Pi NAS

Posted on April 08 2013

I’ve had a Raspberry Pi (a $40 computer!) sitting on my desk for a few months now, so I decided that I wanted to build a little network-accessabile server with it. It runs a nice...

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CCMC Aquarium

Posted on April 06 2013

Back in December, I played a small part in the creation of a digital aquarium at the Cohens Childrens Medical Center in Queens. It was created by The Rockwell Group LAB, headed up by Eric...

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Humor & Code Class Blog

Posted on February 05 2013

Last week was the first meeting of my new Parsons class, “Humor & Code”. We have a blog that is turning out to be pretty cool for a class blog. Check it out!

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Laborers of Love at Transmediale

Posted on January 06 2013

Stephanie Rothenberg and I will be traveling to Berlin for the 26th Transmediale festival to show our new project, Laborers of Love. If you are in the area, stop by! EMOPORN, SEX MACHINES AND MEDIATED...

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Imagination Playground Project Launching November 18

Posted on October 30 2012

For the past few weeks I’ve been working with The Rockwell Group LAB on a new exhibition for the National Building Museum called Play Work Build, and I’m super excited that they’ve finally officially announced...

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Bruce Willis Hood Oranament

Posted on September 28 2012

Behold the Bruce Willis 3D head. For the past few months, I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of creating a hood ornament of Bruce Willis' head. After months of fruitless Googling, I finally...

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Powerpoint Karaoke

Posted on September 10 2012

ScatterPoint is custom software that generates PowerPoint-type presentations in real-time using text, data, and images culled from the Internet. The materials are gathered based on searches assembled from words spoken by the performer, along with...

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Sunday Night Mix, volume 14

Posted on September 06 2012

Please enjoy my latest Ableton Live disaster, featuring tracks by Lil Wayne, Orbital, David Guetta, Chrome Canyon, Carly Rae Jepsen and more... Sunday Night Mix - Volume 14 by Jeffish on Mixcloud

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Intermediate openFrameworks workshop

Posted on August 15 2012

I will be offering two sections of a workshop called "Intermediate Creative Coding with openFrameworks" at Kitchen Table Coders in October. One is on Wednesday nights, and the other on Saturdays. Intermediate Creative Coding with...

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I'm a Lolcommits Nerd

Posted on June 26 2012

The Seoul project was completed in about 3 months. Every time I committed some bit of code, Lolcommits would take a snapshot of me and caption it with the commit message. This is the result....

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Lotte Mart

Posted on May 23 2012

I took a break to enjoy the Lotte Mart in Seoul Station. View Larger Map

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I'm a minister!

Posted on February 15 2012

Today I took a trek down to the City Clerk's office (in the middle of the Giants ticker tape parade) to get this!

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Dayton Case Study

Posted on August 29 2011

Karolina from FlightPhase made a nice Case Study video about the project we did for the University of Dayton.

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Invisible Threads @ Storycollider

Posted on July 22 2011

Back in March I took part in a storytelling series called StoryCollider in Brooklyn. I was a little nervous in the beginning, but I think I get more comfortable after a minute. You can also...

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3rd Annual World Series of 'Tubing

Posted on July 22 2011

Awesome new video made by Duncan Skiles of Waverly Films about the 3rd annual World Series of 'Tubing, which was at Signal to Noise #2 at the Museum of the Moving Image.

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Signal to Noise 2

Posted on May 07 2011

We are bringing The World Series of 'Tubing to Signal to Noise #2 at the Museum of the Moving Image!

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Moustachizer (First attempt)

Posted on February 23 2011

This is the first result of my FFMPEG plugin, The Moustachizer. As you can see, it adds moustaches to every face it finds in the frame, and some things that aren't even faces. I am...

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ofxBerkelium

Posted on January 17 2011

Have you ever wanted to browse the web while 100 particles of the website you are looking at float around? NOW YOU CAN! "Berkelium is a BSD licensed library that provides off-screen browser rendering via...

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First Buseywear Shirts Ship

Posted on December 20 2010

I am proud to announce that the team at Ill Advised has shipped our first Buseywear collection. Buy them here!

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Unlogo on BBC Radio

Posted on October 12 2010

I talk about Unlogo on BBC Radio 5 with Jamillah Knowles. Other guest: William Gibson!

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In which I confront a "stalker"

Posted on July 27 2010

For the past few weeks I've been getting messages like this on the Godblock page: Most of the really ugly ones were coming from this one guy who even started calling Eyebeam and asking to...

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The Godblock Effect

Posted on July 26 2010

One of my projects has been getting some attention recently, thanks to a link from Penn Jilette.

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Mis/Information Technology Professional

Posted on April 29 2010

Is this my new job title? I wish I could take credit for putting this into some form at some point, but I honestly don't remember.

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Shiffman meets openFrameworks

Posted on April 06 2010

I ported a few of the wonderful examples on Dan Shiffman's Nature of Code site. I hope they are helpful.  If you like them, let me know and I will keep putting my teaching examples...

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Feedforward. El ángel de la Historia

Posted on October 05 2009

Invisible Threads is being shown at the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, October 22 - May 5.

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Crowded Gets Rhizome Commission

Posted on July 09 2009

Thanks to Rhizome for giving Crowded the thumbs up for the 2010 commissions.  The show is due to start in September, so stay tuned for more info.

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Software Trinity Goes Big

Posted on May 22 2009

Gizmodo, CNet, and iPhone Savior covered one of the artifacts that we created for the Praying@Home installation. Painted by Jennifer Jacobs.

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Klugergate

Posted on September 19 2008

It all started with a simple piece of spam sent to Double Happiness Jeans (me).  I posted this spam on the Anti-Advertising Agency blog. The rest is history. Wired - September 19, 2008 | 9:09:55...

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