i love these images as much as i love checking out PhotoshopDisasters. Despite my cynicism, I’m so engaged and amazed by these pics! Thanks Jia, for the link!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/show/

In response the interesting comments by Noam Berg on my recent posting “geomimicry and social patterns“, I did a bit of quick research and found this….

painting by Roslyn Ann Kemp

click here for more information about “dot art” or here for info on Papunya Tula school of art.

this little piece of “street art” was on my train from DC to NYC yesterday….gotta love the train!

I found this crazy little product PoGo on the polaroid site. ( I stumbled upon this while researching bluetooth technology….that may or may not relate to my thesis). At any rate, PoGo is a portable, bluetooth (aka wireless) printer for your camera phone or digital camera.

So the cool thing is…the technology used inside the printer and paper to produce INKLESS PHOTOS!
That’s right, you heard me.
Somehow they’ve figured out how to embed 3 layers of heat sensitive CMY (where’s the K?) into a sealed paper that when it interacts with the heat from the printer produces some really amazing and brilliant colors!

this is pretty neat.
Jeff Lieberman of the MIT Media Lab has created a levitating lightbulb that really works!
In honor of Tesla’s invention of wireless power transfer in the late 1890′s, Jeff created this crazy, mind boggling, and super cool project

so i finally put together a little stop motion piece i shot while in Beijing. I took over 350 photos to create this animation. i am pretty happy with how my first attempt at stop motion turned out. :)
it shows my walk from door to door (hotel – school) and my addiction to coffee*!

G’Morning! Walk to School from Lynn WasHere on Vimeo.
*(which, by the way, you can’t find a decent cup of in beijing….only espresso with water….hmmm, not quite what i needed).

I just finished teaching a 3 week long intensive course (Bootcamp: Section E!) to incoming MFA students at Parsons Design & Technology. I was teaching the “code” section that introduces students to the Java programming language by using the developing environment called Processing. This program is used to teach code fundamentals to non-coders, visual designers and artists.

As many of my students will tell you……it’s still not easy. (Many had a similar response to the Orbit gum commercial….“What the french, toast!?” aka WTFT?)

So I started thinking…..how can we better teach code to others? And how can we teach code to adults and youth alike? And why don’t we do that now? How do we prepare school-aged youth for the computer – centric/ digital world we currently live in? Why don’t we better prepare students to use and manipulate digital tools?

I believe coding should be considered

I realized that I haven’t written a proper post about our project “1000 CELLPHONES” installed in Beijing earlier this summer. So, without further ado…..

Parsons participated in a great exhibition in Beijing this summer called “Synthetic Times” at the National Museum of China (NAMOC), curated by Zhang Ga. I was lucky enough to participate in the project called “1000 CELLPHONES” and travel to Beijing for the installation and exhibition along with 15 of my fellow classmates / faculty members for the month of June 2008.

The project used bluetooth activated computers to “spy” on other cellphone/bluetooth devices near the installation. The custom software then grabbed unique numbers and names associated with each device and displayed each on 4 hanging screens.

Visitors were also sent images of “American Culture” via bluetooth to their phone. The project aimed to create a fun interaction between the open networks of technology and the user by way of their “personal” devices. And to display the private data we transmit unknowingly to others.

While in Beijing I worked on getting 1000 images of “American culture”cell phone compatible (with Jia Zhang) as well as setting up the Drupal blog site for the project (with Cher Chen).

Check out some of the media published on the event:
we-make-money-not-art.com
mediamatic.com
Art Forum: Chinese Edition (google translation here)
VOGUE China: July issue (google translation here)
Synthetic Times: Press
Parsons

Mark’s cousine, Shalane Flanagan, won the bronze in Beijing last night in the women’s 10k (10,000 meter) race!

very exciting stuff!

check it out!

god I love wooster collective…..

cause I find stuff like this on there… and besides I had to cause its PINK!

more stuff about this project here.