I did not see another post from our group, so I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to individually upload something for the final or as a group. My group consisted of Lola, Phil, Joe (awesome last addition), and myself… I do not have many of my own photos, but I do have a video of …
Category: Student Work
Dec 22 2011
The Videola
I graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in what is called “Film Studies,” because a majority of the movies we watched and wrote about were shot on film. I also grew up in what will be the last generation to have seen a major motion picture premiere that was originally shot and edited on …
Dec 20 2011
3rd Project….I am obsessed with cassette tapes
After mulling over it for a few weeks, I am still obsessed w/cassette tapes. Here is fun link on cassette tape culture. It isn’t really related to something I want to do for this project, but I thought it was kind of cool. So I finally decided on combining my obsession with cassette tapes with …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech. Second Attempt After the Untimely Passing of my Apple Remote
So in my last post for this project, I left off with the intentions of turning one of my old retro controllers into an Apple remote. UPDATE. Terese’s Apple Remote Found Slain By Roommate in Reckless Movement of Furniture and Outright Clumsiness. Now that my poor remote is no more, and it is not within …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech (project 2). Final Documentation
For the second project, Dead Tech, I worked alone. After going through various phases with this assignment, this is my final result, and where my obsession with cassette tapes began. From destroyed Apple remote, (now) seemingly useless retro controllers, and budget constraints, I restarted back to the radio that I was so in love with I …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech. Finds: Mini Stereo (Boom) & Retro Controllers
So for the second project (dead tech), I found a few cool items: an old radio and two retro controllers. I am not sure how these different items would function together, and since I am not electronically savvy this became a real concern for me. Through internet research I was able to find …
Dec 19 2011
[Lost&FoundTech] Cee Dhe Music Box
The project was started from the notion about souvenir and how it is hard to purchase the real New York souvenir. But I found that creating such an emotional object is not easy. However, I found that almost all of the souvenirs have patterns of mimicking the landmark/ the experience into small objects. So after …
Dec 19 2011
[DeadTech] Hey, Respect old Keyboard’s Privacy!
On this project, I attempted to hack this musical keyboard toy. But I had a hard time to figure out the way to hack keys of this toy. Because of the circuit is very low quality that buttons are impossible to hack. So instead of recreate all the circuit inside just to make it works …
Dec 18 2011
(Final) Twitter News Network
Materials: Samsung TV 1983 Model No. CT-505LD Made in Korea Polaroid TV/VGA Monitor TV static video file downloaded from Medialink Openframeworks V.007 This project was an opportunity to explore dead and lost technology. In this case, the term technology was applied to anything that was essential to our daily life. From handwriting and speech, to …
Dec 18 2011
rube goldberg experiment : final documentation
group members: Thom, Nate, Firm + Kate here is a video : Project description : Inputs + Outputs : Everything goes by super fast in the video, but to break things down here’s the flow: 1) The power gets activated. (Shown by pushing the ‘test’ button on the power supply) 2) Power activates the motor …