Rhymes with Maroon

A page containing my ideas, projects, and adventures in dynamic media.

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oh hi. point cloud sketch, processing.

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Project: iBeacon | Train Photo Share

Putting the sequence together for the video abstract. These are a few stills that will be integrated with video, text, and app interface sketches. Thanks to Ceren for standing in for photos and video!

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This incredible art installation was recently in London, UK by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo. The installation, tilted aMAZEme, was a vast labyrinth of 250,000 books, covering over 500 square metres with some sections up to 2.5 metres high. Inspired by the writer and educator Jorge Luis Borges the maze of books formed the shape of Borges’ unique fingerprint. As Borges once said, “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”

See more photos of the aMAZEme installation here.

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Ceren. in the studio. this one was my favorite.  

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Visual Language I: The Seven Principles of Organization

Learning a ton from my teach assistantship. Who knew there was an actual method and language behind how art is organized. This was the assignment for week 2, and I decided to participate with the students. I had the list of the principles when I went out on my lunch break to shoot, all 7 in under an hour. At one point, I stopped thinking about the list and just shot what I saw. What I wanted to. 

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#hurricanesandy on Instagram

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Infographic: Using 2 Million Instagram Pics to Map a City's Visual Signature | Wired Design | Wired.com

How can Instagram data visualize the cultural patterns and trends of a city?

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i used yourfonts.com to make my own typeface from my handwriting. pretty neat. you can preview it. it's 10 bucks if you'd like to download to your fontbook. 

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If you ever stumble upon a swarm of fireflies, slowing your shutter speed can produce dazzling results. Yume Cyan has been shooting long exposure images of the bioluminescent insects in a forest outside Nagoya City, Japan.

Long Exposure Photos of Fireflies in Japan

via Colossal / Thanks Morgan!

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i'm taking a map making class on skillshare.com. our first few assignments were to come up with an idea for what we wanted to map, for who and why, and do some hand drawing. i have extensively mapped each of the staircases around my neighborhood in photos, however hand drawing from memory was tough. a co-worker said it looked like something they drew in 3rd grade. awesome!

there's a total of 17 paths and i'm doing the 3 or 4 closest to me: Winchester, Summit, Mason and Winthrop. next step is to project a real map and trace the roads that connect all the paths (ie- how to get from one to another). getting some feedback from virtual classmates! really pumped about this and hope it adds to my design portfolio.

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Can you believe the photo above is actually a self-portrait? Erno-Erik Raitanen created “Bacteriograms” by cultivating bacteria samples from his own skin onto photographic film.

Bacteriograms - Images of Bacteria Grown on Film

via Conscientious

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Boston Urban Orchards : Boston Urban Beekeeping. The interactive data visualization. so far.....this map has gotta scram outta here. But first, I have to figure out how to get the heat map of the bee farms on it.

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finished the parallax scroll setup of this new project. messing around in css and javascript...what's next?

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Infinite Scroll | Patterns

The Infinite Scroll is a free project series is inspired by the surrealist drawing exercise known as exquisite corpse, in which a group of people work collaboratively on a drawing without seeing the other parts that come before and after. The prompt for this Infinite Scroll was Patterns.

See which similar projects that are open right now at Art House at: http://www.sketchbookproject.com/projects

Visit the Flickr Group for this project to see the the full album and artists who created each work! 

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I participated in a Free Project Friday from Art House Coop with the theme of Patterns. This was fun to be part of! (click to enlarge, I'm the dead pigeons)

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"row, row, row for the long falls."

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An activity from Mapping by Anne West. She asks you to make a list of words that describe your work, what comes to mind. From there, you are to choose an image and swap the words in and out to have a conversation with yourself and your work, ask questions how the image relates to or contrasts the word.

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Interactive Timeline