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I wanted to take a well known font and mess it up.  One of the standard fonts that is used in nearly every modern design template for western characters is Helvetica.  I used to work with this font in very standard way with proper spacing and margins to so it can be used in many digital platforms.  I personally like the Gotham thin style but I didn't have the file on-hand.

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I named this post bizzare because I took a different approach to this assignment.  This is inspired from the readings a few weeks ago that showcased the intuitive ways writing was integrated with technology.  Physicality of the process.  When I write, traditionally, there is a feeling of elegance and simplicity that makes everything fluid.  I wanted to reflect that in

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I decided to branch off and experiment with different materials. The goal is to create these structures that are like instruments. Self contained input and output devices. Then I take those sounds into the mix and play them through different outputs with EFX. Right now I only have a couple to work with. The delay pedal which I used before to create more space. The other I have yet to try is

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The typical idea of stereo is there are two outputs playing different tracks.  How similar or dissimilar those tracks are altered for the desired effect.  However, what I also though is that your inputs have as much importance as the outputs in this setting.  Playing one input into two speakers with a simple pan would make use of two speakers. My inspiration for this project was

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I started altering the inputs of the example Jupiter Notebook that was provided: Emojis are fun and immediately gratifying Going further I wanted to see if I could find patterns in images and text.  So I chose to use a checkerboard to see if I would see any repeats in the text translation.  I tested a few languages. Seems only this one provided an obvious

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The Feedback Dance The idea was to make both the source and the output mobile instead of fixed.  Using a Feedback loop I wanted to see how people moved in order to avoid the blaring feedback spike and if it was possible to find a position where the feedback was balanced and under control. I also wore the speaker on my back while playing guitar in a stairwell to see how the direction

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I wanted to enhance the narrative experience in a non traditional way.  My normal process when I return to a writing piece is to re-read, revise, then edit.  However, with this story I wanted to add another dimension. I describe the point system I created as the subconscious narrative.  It helps contain crucial ideas that run through my process of thinking.  If I were to

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Nanogenmo: 50,000 words of computer generated text. This is my second time writing this post.  Blogger has a nice auto-save feature, which has cursed me into writing this all over again.  Also, I'm still using Blogger, which I started 10 years ago. So again.... Academic papers were painful.  The length requirements made me cringe and procrastinate until I floated through the

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Going off of sequenced effects.  I wanted something you can hit hard, like a drum pad.  I build up layers of felt to give a more structural integrity.  Once I put the Velostat in, I don't think the conductive thread was prominent enough to create a circuit and made the circuit even harder to activate.  I ended up removing the Velostat because I liked feel of the switch without

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This was my first intro into building soft circuits.  I wanted to play with the structure and design to see what different interactions I can create. Battery and LED demo: To play more with the structure, I wanted to create a sequence that would play/activate something every-time the circuit was complete.  Here is my multi-meter ping composition.

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For my interface I wanted to create give a musical aesthetic associated with the controls.  Ideally this would be used in a serial interface with a midi program such as Ableton. This would be the virtual bass.  By selecting the bass clef you activate the instrument, and there would be notes that would correspond with midi notes on a musical staff. The bass clef was really

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[i didn’t realize how much I rely on spellcheck till I put the code into a word doc.  It’s surprisingly sad.] [A monster is a creature in the outside. //breaks code] [A mirror is in the Bedroom.  //doesn't make sense because i turned exercise verbs into nouns] [Looking is an action applying to one touchable thing.   Understand "look[something]" as looking. // applying to

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Visual programming is a nice, but I still have an aversion to Max and TouchDesigner interfaces.  Perhaps it was all the academic brainstorm formats that haunt me.  The time of my life when I had to do my homework because my parents will be happy if I get good grades and will know if I Photoshop them to look better. Twine was nice because of the immediate gratification.  You write

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Tracery Generated Story - Sketch #1 This was my first experience of programming generative text.  It encouraged thinking in a modular way –like a puzzle but each piece had multiple functions. The form or structure had to be hardcoded unless you really wanted to tweak your brain with the code.  This structure did not promote new ideas of narrative arcs but new outfits for the

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I poked my head outside for a breath of fresh air.  As soon as I opened the door a big mosquito flew right to me and instinctively I had to kill it.  After a few stomps on the ground I vanquished the nuisance.  I forgot which of the many mosquito  articles I've read but they said evolutionary if each human being kills enough mosquitoes in their lifetimes then eventually

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In vitro semi being with a functional purpose sounds pretty stale.  Not to brandish off the words chosen in some of these articles but in "Synthetic Aesthetics" the ideas of art and future progress made with design concepts fell flat to me.  Where is the synergy between life and grown meat and muscle tissue?   I can see the point of how wasteful it is to cultivate a complex

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The ideas of biohacking, diverging from nature, and the unknown result.  It is a controversial area.  It is a human topic dealing with human nature itself.  But the metaphors I found most interesting was the punk rock idea of a genre.  Living as outcasts from the mainstream.  It is a form of expression that not everyone understands. My teenage years were filled with a

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4/16 5:07 AM A slow motion capture of lightning flashes during an early morning storm.  During the brightest flash you can really see the contrast of surfaces.  The white faced apartments bounce the light off creating harsh contrasts with the black window frames.  The brown apartments absorb the color more.  You can really see the energy being exerted and diminish

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March 21 4:21 pm Here is a video I took post-concussion resting on the beach.  I was under a palm tree and saw interesting movement in the corner of my eye.  I was originally looking up towards the sky towards the palm leaves itself.  But here the shadows moving across the uneven pockets of sand create a dancing like movement that I found soothing.  The shadows lines are

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I decided that before I jump more into the world of 3D that I wanted to explore how the material itself reacts.  I still had some extra wood left over from my last wood turning assignment so I turned that, and let it sit in the back of my mind until I could think of a design. Inspiration/ideas: Champagne flutes, dainty, curves, turning knots, the color of cedar after oiled, working the

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I had a few goals in mind when thinking of a light fixture: Brass Lens After ordering parts it turns out they forgot my lens order completely, leaving me to improvise on my original design.  It probably saved me some headache of fabricating a way to mount the lens, however, I had to start the diffusion design over again. Until I got to that point I decided to build the rest of the lamp.

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View this post on Instagram 24 hr time elapse of the backyard I’m so close but so far from. 3/5 #lightandinteractivity #itp A post shared by Joe Baker (@joesshoestore) on Mar 6, 2019 at 5:31am PST

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