September 15, 2011 archive

2nd of 7in7

So I actually created a crude very rough version of the website but my server is having some issues now…so I uploaded some screen shots. When my hosting issue is fix will post site. http://morehousemaleinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/aa-male-cause-of-death2.pdf The ID’s are randomly generated by the system but basically it assigns every user a statistic related to the black …

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day2 project(7 in 7)

  my day 2 project is another song I composed last night. The constrain: emotions. I planed to use different medias (music or something else) to describe and demonstrate 7 different kinds of emotions. In this project, the emotion is fear. BUT this song sounds not horrible and scared, the inspiration is from the hurricane …

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re-design social network presentation

redesign facebook

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2 Compose a song

Unfungames.com released a MacOs version for the Mario Pain Composer. This brings back many memories. My constraints were to compose a sound piece, and I remembered I had seen the MPC release, so I used this tool for my composition.

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7 in 7: Day 2: You Are Love

My constraint for this project was to finish it before my photoshop demo expired. :-C but my real constraint was to create an interactive piece that would provoke a happy emotion in people.   This piece is a website, “youarelove.com” , when you get to the page it would access the viewers computer camera. From …

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7in7 – 3 [Blues]

I felt very bluesy yesterday. It was this melancholic feeling of confusion that I’m hoping will go away during the weekend. I recorded some sounds in the class while Jonah was showing us examples. credits: the chord progression is inspired by {Jewel : Foolish Games} 7in7-3

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7 in 7 Project# 2: U.S. History Made Easy

I got reminded the other day that American children do not know their U.S. history compared to the other children from a different country.  To remedy this issue, I (developed a concept) designed a U.S. History app.  It would have a scroll bar on the side where one can navigate through years and at the …

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Day 2: 7-in-7

Day 2: 7-in-7 I continued with my mapping theme, this time using an actual representation of my commute rather than how I perceive it (as I represented yesterday).  I again used one line as a constraint, trying as best as possible to make the images flow together. I wanted to highlight the stark transition from …

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7×7: 2: How To Put Sauce On Your Pasta With A Manually Operated Mechanical Arm

Incorporating an artifice into a mundane daily task #2 Introduction: We have been reading a lot about technology “taking over” and about the “artificial” increasingly blending with our definition of the “natural.” I wanted to play on the idea of how our every day, mundane tasks can be taken over by a machine or some …

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