Archive for October, 2007

G03.mapping presentation_week.3

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted in Mapping | No Comments »

Our sub-group has completed our mapping work for this week. You can download our PDF file here. You can download an excerpt from my notebook here. Read more..

minifictaion definitions

Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted in Readings | No Comments »

Minification The act of making something less or smaller in order to achieve a faster, smaller and more seemingly simpler life. Widgification To utilize a small software devices to compact vast amounts of ... Read more..

tube.connected

Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted in Digital Tool and Fabrication | No Comments »

Now that all of the tubes have been competed, Shane and Thomas spent the better part of 3 hours connection all 27 of them together in the lobby of IaaC.  ... Read more..

the wolfram main event

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Lectures | No Comments »

IaacC hosted an extremely interesting video conference lecture by Stephen Wolfram, of Wolfram Research and Mathematica fame. Unintentionally his lecture covered a huge range of examples about the underlining ... Read more..

digiFab tube assignment complete

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Digital Tool and Fabrication | 2 Comments »

Georgina and I have completed the documentation and construction of our tube for Digital Fabrication. You can download the DWG here. You can download the PDF manual here. Read more..

G03.mapping presentation_week 2

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Mapping | No Comments »

Group 3 has completed our mapping presentation for week 2. We actually finished it last night, but had issues with uploading and printing, but that is a another issue ... Read more..

minification

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in Readings | No Comments »

Through the process of group discussion we have identified the term 'minification' as our umbrella topic.   The first terms that we have decided to further define are: widgification multi-scalar macropuncture comsumology open media time compaction (or ... Read more..

consumerism for a bite sized culture

Sunday, October 21st, 2007 Posted in Readings | 1 Comment »

Modern day consumerism and it’s ability do get make things happen faster, smarter, better and smaller has interested me for a while now. In a society where people demand ... Read more..

mapping work book _01

Sunday, October 21st, 2007 Posted in Mapping | No Comments »

You can find some of the pages scanned from my mapping diary online now.  More pages will be added as they are developed, probably tomorrow night. View the pages here.  Read more..

digiFab tube build

Saturday, October 20th, 2007 Posted in Digital Tool and Fabrication | 1 Comment »

Georgia and I have completed the fabrication and construction of our first digital tools and fabrication assignment, we call it 'the tube' (pretty unoriginal I know). We worked ... Read more..