Category Archives: Opinion

Last year, in the midst of moving across the country, adjusting to New York, and starting school, I didn’t, unlike my normal habit, read much. In fact I read exactly 13 books. This year, however, things were quite different. I … Continue reading →

As my scenario planning class, Future of the Infrastructure, starts to move towards its conclusion this semester we’ve divided into four groups each working on imagining a different possible divergent future. I’m in a group working on a scenario titled … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago, I posted about a project I’m working on with some fellow students to create a system for making 360 degree documentation of circuits. At that point we had our demo working in Open Frameworks, while … Continue reading →

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 →