recently found Jeff Crouse‘s “You3b” site populated with YouTube triptychs created by viewers.

I particularly liked “instant origami” and the repetition in “rolling now…”
and I found this crazy french motion graphics piece (“excuse moi”)

and this silly french animation (“Tes lacets sont des fées – Dyonisos“).

Over the weekend, Parsons hosted a gameJam where a ton of teams (120 people) worked for 24 hours to create new levels for the upcoming release of Sony’s Little Big Planet. I was on a team called “Pretty, Pretty Princesses” (aka P3 or Pcubed for short). We had 7 people on our team, but 3-4 who were dedicated enough to stay all day and night building the level (i was not one of them). But I did contribute by working on the conceptual idea of “washing machine” for our level theme. Our team won a $500 prize! WOO HOO! And will be featured in a Parsons World in the release of the game next month (h.a.i.t!?).

Special thanks to LeAnne for taking on the role of team manager and organizing the whole sha-bang and to Tu for his expert sketching, game mechanics and logo work.
Super duper thanks to Jessica, Umi, Akiko and Rabia who did the heavy lifting. Damn! Nice work ladies.

check out some pics and press from the event:
Gameasutra
PS3fanboy
joystiq
ugo games blog

Here’s a little video and pics of my light going from green to red to yellow!
simple and cute.

potentiometer LED light from Lynn WasHere on Vimeo.

LED_Light from Lynn WasHere on Vimeo.

mercator vs peters map projections:

1569

1983

buckminster fuller dymaxion map:

psychogeography / situationists:
algorithmic psychogeography

buckminster fuller
park(ing) day

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origami:

matt shlian

I went to the Conflux Festival last week. I attended a few lectures and events and took a lot of notes! In reading about the history of the festival I learned of their connection to psychogeography and the Situationists. I’m doing more research now on the idea of “maps” as a whole and in finding a new ways to represent information while exploring what exactly a map really is!?

here’s my version of Matt Roberts‘ “Every Step” project from Conflux.

Every_Step from Lynn WasHere on Vimeo.

saw this “helmet piece” by Maya Suess at the Conflux conference today.
it is really creepy to stand in someone’s personal space, without them really knowing you are there, and listen to them breathe. it’s such an intimate experience, and feels wrong…..like you are spying on them.

do you ever wonder if the universe is trying to communicate with you?
last night as i waited for the train…feeling totally exhausted….i saw this and felt a little burst of determination.

feels good to be reminded of the world outside your own head.

people have the best sense of humor in nyc. saw this on a construction dump truck today.

in other good news…..

i saw this adorable bike today.  i wonder who rides it, and what they do for a living and what they look like.  or maybe its been there for a long time.  i wonder how long?

I was in the Container Store today and found the most bizarre plastic containers. At first I was really entertained, but then realized how utterly wasteful and ridiculous these designs really are. I put them in the category of H.U.A.I.T (how un-awesome is that?  aka craptastic).

here’s the thing. not only do the images make me NOT want to put anything in there, or eat anything that was in there…….But, as the designs expand to other products, to more ridiculous it gets.
For example, what is the purpose of