Author Archives: greg

On Being Seen by the Machine

Posted on September 16, 2011 by greg

The light edged into view through my tightly shut eyelids. Waves of stippled white pulsed down towards a corona of laser pink before spilling into a liquid bokeh of soft hexagons. I tried to relax my eyelids against the involuntary … Continue reading →

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Presenting at MakerFaire NYC This Weekend

Posted on September 16, 2011 by greg

MakerFaire NYC 2011 is this weekend. It’s a breathtakingly big event that’s equal parts science fair, renn fayre, and trade show from the near future. In a recent interview with Dale Dougherty Anil Dash spoke eloquently about the positive political … Continue reading →

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Back to Work No Matter What: 10 Things I’ve Learned While Writing a Technical Book for O’Reilly

Posted on July 17, 2011 by greg

I’m rapidly approaching the midway point in writing my book. Writing a book is hard. I love to write and am excited about the topic. Some days I wake excited and can barely wait to get to work. I reach … Continue reading →

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Physical GIF Launches on Kickstarter

Posted on July 5, 2011 by greg

I’m proud to announce the launch of Physical GIF on Kickstarter. Physical GIF is a collaboration with Scott Wayne Indiana to turn animated GIFs into table top toys. We use a laser cutter and a strobe light to produce a … Continue reading →

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Two Kinect talks: Open Source Bridge and ITP Camp

Posted on June 30, 2011 by greg

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve given a couple of public presentations about the Kinect. This post will be a collection of relevant links, media, and follow up to those talks. The first talk, last week, was in Portland, … Continue reading →

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Into The Matrix: Proposal for a Platform Studies Approach to OpenGL

Posted on June 27, 2011 by greg

In the last few years, new media professors Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) and Nick Montfort (MIT) have set out to advance a new approach to the study of computing. Bogost and Montfort call this approach Platform Studies: “Platform Studies investigates … Continue reading →

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All Watched Over: On FOO, Cybernetics, and Big Data

Posted on June 20, 2011 by greg

Last weekend I had the privilege to attend FOO Camp. FOO is a loosely structured conference organized by O’Reilly, my publisher. At FOO, O’Reilly brings together a couple hundred people they think have an interesting perspective on contemporary goings on … Continue reading →

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On the Future and Poetry of the Calibration Pose

Posted on June 7, 2011 by greg

Interesting stuff here from Tom Armitage on a subject that’s been much on my mind lately: Waving at the Machines. How does a robot-readable world change human behaviour? […] How long before, rather than waving, or shaking hands, we greet … Continue reading →

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Making Things See: A Book for O’Reilly about the Kinect

Posted on May 31, 2011 by greg

It’s been quiet around here for awhile, but not for me out in the real world. Since my last post here, I’ve finished my master’s thesis and graduated from ITP. Over the next couple of weeks I plan to catch … Continue reading →

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Why The Pro Apps Matter: Final Cut Pro and Apple’s Market Focus

Posted on April 17, 2011 by greg

On the most recent episode of The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discussed the release of Final Cut Pro X. Above all, they were asking the question: why is Apple in this market? Why does Apple spend money … Continue reading →

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