Tag Archives: Design

Outsourced graffiti

Don’t have time to tag your own walls? Outsource it! Send a Message is an interesting site that allows you to dictate a message to be spray-painted on the Palestinian wall. Full employment for Palestinian graffiti artists. Besides, remember back when the Berlin Wall came down and Bloomingdale’s was selling chunks? Maybe in a few [...]
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Sketchuping, part 1

Playing with Sketchup and Google Earth this semester. Here’s an attempt to put together a model of a fairly complicated building on campus. It’s probably not the best way to do it, since I’m new to the program, but it works. Also, somehow in one of the transcodings all my blues went to greens, which [...]
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Thought bombs

Am I the only one who sees the arrest of two artists as a scary thing. Boston had a citywide “bombscare” because of the “Mooninite” magnetic LED signs that had been posted near roadways in the city. The two men responsible for building the devices have been arrested for making “bomblike” devices. The CNN story [...]
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PSA: Dove BEauty

It’s PSA time again… If you like that, you should also check out this sped up Photoshop makeover.
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CUNY Expo 2006: November 17

I plan on checking out the Expo hosted this Friday by CUNY’s New Media Lab and Intermedia Arts Group: Bending technologies in and out of Academia. The site describes it thusly: Featuring presentations by ground-breaking electronic composer Morton Subotnick with an interview by David Grubbs, and a performance by the creators of This Spartan Life, [...]
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Sketch furniture

This is cho-cool. How long before you can have one of these at home. (The process, not the furniture, I mean. The furniture is already on sale.)
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Slim Timing

Normally, it’s not a good sign if you think people are reading your mind, but sometimes it can be convenient. I’ve been using a spreadsheet to track my time for a while now, but it’s not reliable because I forget to enter time once in a while, and a bad record is more frustrating than [...]
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    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
    • This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
    • @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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