After spending a day designing a gesture detection algorithm, I took a look down at my paper and noticed that it looked almost art-like, if you didn’t know the origin. I decided to humbly share them with you for your educational and aesthetic benefit, my dear readers.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison This past year, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to work on several projects that did not go anywhere. I started getting very discouraged when it was clear a project was not going to arrange itself into a nice paper-sized package, [...]
Someone on the Microsoft Surface team was nice enough to send me a project they were working on. Enjoy! What I really like about this “augmented tangible” idea is that not only can the digital visuals be changed based on what is happening in the real world (like Slap Widgets) but the Surface Monster’s internal [...]
Near the end of the first semester of my Master’s, my research topic was becoming clearer – along the lines of “teaching the use of gestural interfaces”. This was motivated by the proliferation of gestural interaction in devices of many form factors. Much of my thoughts on this were driven by my improv and theatre [...]
Keywords: advertising, user-generated content. So I just got an email from youtube about a music video I made a long time ago. Here it is below: ——————————————————————————————– YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™ Dear YouTube Member: UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Golden Videotape (part 1). This claim was made as part [...]
For The Improv Show‘s last gig on April 14th, I managed to record both our longform and the jam. The Jam is our half-cast, half-audience thing whose format I nabbed from Upright Citizen’s Brigade in New York. I’ve youtubed it for the loyal fans who missed it. Here’s the longform: Here’s the jam:
Think Fast… New Improv Game:Sit, Stand, Heart AttackEssentially after Sit/Stand/Lean or Sit/Stand/Lie Down, but one person must always be having a heart attack. Haven’t tried it out yet, but it should be hilarious. Optimus Prime with no legs…Pessimus Prime A biker gang made out of mathematicians…Hell’s Angles
There’s a lot of advantages to having a massive chalkboard in my house. One is the quenching of my large writable space fetishism. Another is being able to work on my thesis and a set design at the same time. Image processing algorithm design for my thesis on the left, set design scribbles for the [...]
Back in Grade 11, a few friends and I innocently made a music video cover of Nelly’s Ride Wit Me. We really weren’t seeking artistic integrity at the time, just seeing what we could do with some video editing and shooting. Also, one of the guys I was working with was incredibly rich (as as [...]