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Joi Ito

After reading and agreeing with much of what Joi Ito had to say, I'm left wondering where colleges and universities fit in. I believe that it is about establishing yourself as a node in the larger network but how can a university do this? Will the future universities and colleges look more like MIT's open courseware?

Net Art

Wow. That was a lot of dense reading. I think in the beginning I understood every other word or so. Fascinating to learn how the internet really got started, not a very publicized story.

I think that in the beginning the net art that was made struggled due to a very niche audience. The audience had to actively seek out the art rather than find it on a feed. I guess scrolling through tumblr to find net art is also seeking it out, but to an infinitely lesser degree. I see huge promise in the net art scene. More people will be using the internet everyday, making for not only a wider audience but more types of audiences. I find contemporary net art to be similar to graffiti in that it will be seen in the public spaces of the net. The culture around the two seem to be similar as well, marking territory and working in the dark, unseen corners of the frame.

Internet for the 1%

The idea of controlling the internet in any way seems like a dark path to head down. I disagree strongly with the FCC decision.

The idea that people are willing to pay so the price should go up treats the internet like any other commodity. What the FCC and its supporters do not realize is that there is a legitimate claim to say that the internet has become a right. Whether or not this is true may be debatable but if the argument carries any weight at all, it should be considered.

On the other hand, I found the personification of bytes a little unnerving. I'm not entirely sold on the idea that all bytes should be treated equal like they are a person.

Lastly, I wonder what effect this decision will have on the larger internet community. How will such a decisive ruling change the internet for those users outside the U.S.?

The first truly consumer 3D printer should be incredibly intuitive, easy to own, and seamless by design.

First really user friendly 3d printer? Definitely more accessible on the cost.

tomemrich

Print Your Cup and Fill It With Coffee at Berlin’s First 3D Printer Cafe

3D printers are fantastic new tools for creators, but you have to have loads of patience. A 3D printed object can take hours to build one the job is kicked off. So what better way to kill time while waiting for your creation to take shape then to grab a coffee and a meal. This is the idea behind Berlin’s first 3D printing cafe, DimensionAlley.

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While this does not seem to be a viable business at all, public access to the potential of 3D printing is pretty cool. I guess if the community was involved enough in the technology this could work out. I’d go and print things all the time if it were near me.

galenseniorsem

I agree. If the overall goal of the 3d printing fad is to have a printer in every house why go out to get one? The idea, while unique doesn't seem it would be sustainable. However, you can brew coffee at home yet Starbucks makes a killing so maybe I'm missing something there. No doubt, I would go to this cafe.

MaxMSP

So far Max has been quite difficult and frustrating for me. I'm not sure my computer could handle the patches I was making and so my computer would occasionally crash. Eventually I found that the crashes were occurring when I used vizzie objects, specifically ones that used the webcam and involved visual effects. I was not very fond of the audio effects Max was capable of. Perhaps this is just the visual side of me coming through but I was dissuaded by the granular synthesis type work. Even though I was not drawn to make audio patches I enjoyed what Max was able to do with the audio aspect. Although the visual interests me quite a but I am most interested in is interaction with Max. The Kinect seems like it may be too big a task to tackle without the use of a third program like Synapse. I think that bypassing the Kinect and using something like Makey Makey may prove more effective. When thinking about an installation involving Max I think of combining it all, sound, light, visuals, and interaction.

Skillshare and TinkerCAD

I found that the video by Skillshare was as basic as possible. Almost everything that was shown was a step back for me. I don't mean this in a bad way, in some ways it was good to take a step back and review. When I first learned to use 3D modeling we took 2 weeks to work on it, so a step back was useful.

Skillshare seems to be a fantastic site that conquers many issues of education today. Although unrelated to the topic of 3D printing, sites like Skillshare, Coursera and MIT open courseware are an amazing source of mostly free information. To have such a clean set up on the site and to get an expert to talk, all for free is quite a feat.

In terms of programs with an ease of use, TinkerCAD takes the plasticy 3D printed cake. From my brief experience with Google Sketchup I would have to say that TinkerCAD felt more intuitive. I found that TinkerCAD was a great introduction but that a significant jump to Rhino or Cinema4D would be better, if money is available.

I had two main problems with the object described and made in the video. First, for making such a simple design I felt that the drawing was not needed, the object made could have easily been made without the physical step. However, she may have been simply showing a process. A process which showed me a new way of 3d modeling. Before this class I did not know how to bring a pen and ink sketch into the 3d modeling software, and that was a valuable skill to learn. My second issue with the class was the simplicity of the design. The program is only extruding a 2d object into the 3d. I find that the beauty of 3d printing is the ability to create something that would otherwise be impossible.

Sculptris: Enter a world of digital art without barriers.

John Perry Barlow

Barlow was born and raised in Sublette, Wyoming in 1947. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1969 and moved back to Wyoming soon after. He raised cattle until 1988 and wrote songs for the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1995. A unique experience to say the least. In May of 1998 he became a Fellow at Harvard's Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He assumed this fellowship though he graduated from Wesleyan with an Honors degree in Comparative Religion.

In 1990 Barlow co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, with Mitchell Kapor. The Foundation is focused on the digital world and protecting the rights of people in this world. Under his biography it says that Barlow was the first to recontextualize the word "cyberspace" for the digital world.

EFF offers services such as counseling on how to protect your digital life and looks to be in a battle against such organizations as NSA and their surveillance programs. Currently he writes about the issues of rights on the internet and in 1995 he wrote the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace which has been featured heavily around cyberspace.

A list of his essays, songs, and interviews may be found here.

Barlow is now retired and lives primarily in a small town in Wyoming, 75 miles from the closest streetlight. He also lives in New York City, San Francisco, On the Road, and in Cyberspace. He has addresses and phones numbers available for all physical places as well as a personal 800 number and an overseas phone.

Stealing Katie's paint chips.

Messing with new extrusion dies

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