Author Archives: greg

The core art of cinematic special effects lies in combining multiple sources of imagery into a single unified illusion. The individual sources of imagery can be everything from still photography and painting to computer imagery and live video. In order … Continue reading →

I’ve written a couple of times before about my obsession with building replicas of the Atari 2600 cartridge. The obsession originated when I learned the story of how Atari dumped millions of unsold copies of its failed 1983 ET game … Continue reading →

One of the classic problems in documenting physical computing projects is taking pictures of the circuits that actually allow you to tell where things were plugged in. Even with a good camera and adequate lighting all the crossing wires can … Continue reading →

What follows is a proposal for a research paper for The Future of the Infrastructure, Art Kleiner‘s scenario planning class I’m in this semester. The assignment is to report on a driving force that will affect the professional and personal … Continue reading →

About eight years ago, I had the idea of making oil paintings of web sites. Since most of the people I know spend huge portions of their day staring at web sites, the web constitutes a truly enormous portion of … Continue reading →

In the first meeting of Art Kleiner’s scenario planning class at ITP — The Future of the Infrastructure — Art drew a diagram on the board he labeled “The Cone of Plausability” The point at the bottom of the cone … Continue reading →

This entry documents the fourth of my projects for this summer’s ITP 4-in-4. 4-in-4s are occasional events entailing the execution of one complete project each day for four consecutive days. They’re a great opportunity to finally do a daydream project … Continue reading →

This entry documents the second of my projects for this summer’s ITP 4-in-4. 4-in-4s are occasional events entailing the execution of one complete project each day for four consecutive days. They’re a great opportunity to finally do a daydream project … Continue reading →

This entry documents the first of my projects for this summer’s ITP 4-in-4. 4-in-4s are occasional events entailing the execution of one complete project each day for four consecutive days. They’re a great opportunity to finally do a daydream project … Continue reading →

This weekend I served as a judge for Come Out and Play, an experimental urban games festival held in a different location around New York every year. During the course of the festival, I had an experience that I think … Continue reading →