Sunset Projection

"There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called “Los Angeles” and the words and images were so harsh and bitter that the song would reverberate in my mind for days. The images, I later found out, were personal and no one I knew shared them. The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Images of people, teenagers my own age, looking up from the asphalt and being blinded by the sun. These images stayed with me even after I left the city. Images so violent and malicious that they seemed to be my only point of reference for a long time afterwards. After I left."

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The Red Carpet Treadmill

Want infinite fame? Infinite fortune? The Red Carpet Treadmill will guide you straight to your dreams.

Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/82682323

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New Tumblr ... How2DYI

Hey, so I've made a new tumblr blog that is full of things I like and absent of a lot of the old junk I have on this one.

We should like... follow each other?

http://how2dyi.tumblr.com/

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I present to you the MaKey MaKey Tammy 3000.

I made it for or all those busy entrepreneurs who are too busy making money to stop and smell the girlfriends.

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For all those poor college students trying to overcome Post-Ramen-Depression. 

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Danny Brown - Witit (LYRICS VIDEO)

Scoot witit.

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I am walking you home through the snow Your arm is interlocked with mine And I am pretending that I can still feel you there

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LAAAAADIIIEEESSSS, I introduce my latest project - The Laser Scooter! When I squeeze the handle on my razor scooter it triggers laser sounds and LED’s on the bottom. 

I came up with the idea when reminiscing with a friend about how we used to play a Star Wars version of Cops and Robbers in our old neighborhood on razor scooters. 

Trying to bring those days back.

Let’s scoot. Ride or die.

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SCOOTER POWER AND SOLIDARITY.

My most recent project. Still looking for a girlfriend.

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I spent a month bonking people in the head with my camera.

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Made an audio reactive video feedback installation with Andrew Vail and Ricky Christian last week. Using Arduino and the Processing Minim Library.

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When I slap Andrew, it completes the circuit, turns on the light, and dings.

Having a little too much fun with the MaKey MaKey.

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Watch me slap Andrew.

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Procrastinating in the studio with Arduino, Processing, and Fruit.

Having a little too much fun these days.

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Sensual? 

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Just started playing around with the MaKeyMaKey yesterday and made a Play-Doh Light Synth.

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Something I made on Friday

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This is a project I did the other week called Sound Effects Suit Jacket:

 Inspired by sitcoms and cartoons. 

I thought it would be fun to be able to add sound effects to my own life. So I made a sound effects suit jacket.

The sound samples are triggered by a control panel with 4 buttons (3 for samples, 1 for changing sound banks). And then being played from an Arduino + Wave Shield through a portable speaker. All the hardware is kept within the inner jacket pockets while in use.

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So I finished my first iteration of the Kinect-controlled Light room.

The Idea changed a bit throughout the process but essentially, the Kinect is tracking the distance between users hands and the arduino is responding to that by turning on different light sections and creating related sound.

In January, I’ll be iterating this again, adding more light control modes, changing the mapped audio, and changing the fabric on the roof.

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Currently working with 3D Depth mapping on the Kinect. That’s me sticking my tongue out.

I’m also reading through Greg Borenstein’s book Making Things See and it’s making a world of difference. It breaks down using the Kinect with Processing and the SimpleOpenNI library.

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Today’s progress:

Got all the hardware wired up in the roof. The lights are just running a simple pattern.

Now it’s time to start playing with the Kinect.

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Progress so far:

-Breadboard is wired up and ready for the relays to be added in.

-Christmas lights hung up.

-Extension cords that will control each light zone have relays wired into them.

I’ll post a video tomorrow.

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A project I'm working on...