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Here are the pictures from my final Image and Imagination class project. I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. …
Avatars: My Final Project
22 Thursday Mar 2012
Nerd Geek Dork
01 Thursday Mar 2012
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Henry and the Laser Guitar
27 Monday Feb 2012
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This is an aborted branch of my final project where I illuminate props with a laser pointer and the reflected glow lights the model. This one turned out quite nicely. The starburst pattern is just laser reflection + optics + long exposure.
Thanks to my pal Henry Bale for modeling.
Jay’s Game of the Moment: Gravity Duck 2
25 Saturday Feb 2012
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I haven’t had much time for thinking about posting this quarter. But I always have time to play a little game here and there. At the moment, I’m playing Gravity Duck 2. It’s a really simple game, but I think the gravity switching mechanics make for clever, not too difficult puzzles that are fun to solve. This is a great example of how good gameplay needn’t be complicated.
Thinking About God
20 Monday Feb 2012
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Not that I’m thinking about God as a regular thing. In class last week, my awesome professor, Ted Hiebert, said:
Is God like a unicorn, or is God like Waldo?
He said it in the context of modern artistic thought, but I feel that it stands on its own.
Photo Project Proof of Concept
15 Wednesday Feb 2012
Negativity
09 Thursday Feb 2012
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Do we really need a year and a half of arguing about who, in the race to be “not Obama,” is going to be “not Romney”?
When did the world become defined by negativity? Sure, it’s been there all along, but it seems these days like there is little else. How is it that it’s okay to define the goals of the world by the things they shouldn’t be?
Techucopia
07 Tuesday Feb 2012
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Here’s my mid-term project for my Image and Imagination class. I think the pictures more or less speak for themselves. If …
Another Thing Computers Still Aren’t Very Good At
31 Tuesday Jan 2012
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Today I found this transcribed voicemail message in my e-mail.
Well hi there, this is Anna Aller from Oklahoma. I am calling with a friendly reminder that we’ve got one sweet little show coming up here at the Fifth Avenue theater, what with all these three girls and handsome young fellow saying in an alert in whale. It is lively has a box social. And just about one of the nice’s wife is been in a bit I can think of and dancers from spectrum today at 38 or well, I declare there is Fred. He has a bunch of junk cold. Come on out to the Fifth Avenue theater and see Oklahoma, get all the details and tickets@WWW.5Avenue.org. Take care now. To be removed from our phone list you may call 1-800-679-0847
So, to be fair, I happen to know that voice recognition software can be really effective. Heck, even the built-in Windows stuff works reasonably well if you spend some time training it. But when it doesn’t work, I love that it almost always creates sentences that read like the inane ramblings of a crazy person.
In closing, remember kids, I declare there is Fred!
Warts and All
26 Thursday Jan 2012
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My very first video with real planning and intention behind it is now up on YouTube. I’m not particularly happy with it, but I did put an extraordinary amount of time into it. It might even help people understand what story games are all about (which was the intention).
In any case, you can find it here.