In case anyone isn’t feeling patient enough to see what those doodles in the last post turn into over time, here’s a few screen caps taken after about 5 minutes.
Personally I recommend putting on some nice minimal techno and just zoning out watching it. It’s better than your typical visualizer because you get to watch it build up over time. Personally I’m grooving to the awesome Richie Hawtin mix available free at Resident Advisor.
In other news, Hiroshi Ishii, second in command at the MIT Media Lab came and spoke to a crowd of about 30 at Intuit today. Professor Ishii does really cool stuff with what he calls “tangible interfaces.” Basically, the idea is that computers and other digital devices are black boxes that provide no affordances to the user (obvious ways of creating predictable effects through physical manipulation), and so Ishii works to design digital things that have such affordances. Or are at least really really cool. I wanted to go tell him that I’m a student of Golan Levin (who I believe was a student of Ishii), but I had to run to another meeting immediately after the talk. It was great to see lots of videos of Media Lab projects though, which never fail to wow. It turns out that Intuit is actually a sponsor of the Media Lab, so with a little luck there will be more of these talks…
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