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Toward a more Perfect Union

2009-01-20T10:30:00.001-08:00

The Inauguration

2009-01-20T09:48:00.000-08:00

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Pledge to Serve

2009-01-19T09:11:00.001-08:00

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge

my MEmorial & Suitcase

2007-12-14T17:38:00.000-08:00

Hey ya'll,
For now, my suitcase is located here, but only b/c Clemson's site is giving me grief. In the meantime, enjoy the ads. Though it's linked to from the suitcase, my MEmorial is reproduced below.
My memorial is on faith and it's death/rebirth. I felt that this was something we could all relate to in one way or another (as academes who have a sense of the spiritual as well). It's meant to be meditative, not didactic, so I hope it comes across that way.
It's a three parter. All three parts are best viewed in full screen because of the amount of text. Click the google video button and go to the video screen from there. Then click full screen.

This first section covers the birth and death. Music=Weakerthans "Illustrated Bibles Stories for Children."

Again, music by the Weakerthans, this time it's "Reconstruction Site". This second one is about trying to revive a faith that has fallen dead due to a swelled head.

The third one is by far the most experimental. All text, no images. Song is "Hospital Vespers". Title is "Faith like a violent wound" is taken from Josh Abboud. In fact, it's taken quite literally a la printscreen. It may take two or three viewings to get anything out of it.

enMemorium

2007-12-14T10:20:00.000-08:00

Hi all,
Here is my very amateurish movie-making venture, which I am mighty proud of.
Jos

Eletronic monument

2007-12-13T09:22:00.000-08:00

Hey guys
Here is my piece

Torture and Death in the Slums :
The Violent Path Through Fear, Blood and Vice

I really enjoy the class, the material and the assignments.
The books were very good and very enlightened.

Best

Henrique

Finally...structure/experience project

2007-11-27T21:54:00.001-08:00

http://people.clemson.edu/~ruperth/320/

Experience-lectures have totally changed the way my class functions.

Live video+audio+chat+breeze+flash presentations....killer.

All instruction is recorded and uploaded to the lecture archive. Instant faculty audits.

This has had a dramatic impact on my career.

Interesting 3D model program

2007-11-06T18:16:00.000-08:00

Hello RCID gang!

I just found out this really interesting 3D model program, its called Blender.
This is an three dimensional program that can model simple objects, complex animations, and the most amazing, you can create your own game.
Unlike sketchup wich is an simple program modeling , this you can insert scripts and animate different parts.
This of course demand a lot of knowledge, but If someone is thinking about following this path, this is a good program. The best part is that it is open source, so its free.

here is the web site
http://www.blender.org/

I'm still going over the basic tutorials, but if I manage to learn something, Ill be glad to demonstrate at the class.

See you all tomorrow

LULZ 4 ALZ!

2007-11-04T13:30:00.000-08:00

Last night while talking with three noted scholars in the burgeoning field of St8ninomics I found myself debating the linguistic differences between L337 and LOLcatese. Just thought I'd post this reflection:

Follow this link. It perhaps answers some of those questions that have plagued our twenty-first century minds.

On the Disnification of Culture

2007-11-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

Just remember this little tidbit from (the late great) Jean Baudrillard--it's not that we think Disney is "the real thing." Come on! We're smarter than that.

It's that we know Disney is not the real thing, we know it's fake. Because we know it's fake, we (foolishly) believe that the rest of the world going on outside of it is real. Its status as fantasy serves to anchor that other fantasy: the real world.

Structures of an Urban War

2007-11-01T05:16:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys!

Here is my piece

Lacan and the gated community

2007-10-31T07:36:00.001-07:00

This one needs some explanation. I wanted to create a gated community with the idea that it is structured on visual surveillance - keeping the wrong people out and the keeping the right people in. The giant "silo" combines an agricultural feel with the unnatural-ness of the larger than life concrete walls and metal fencing. Inside the homogeneous homes mark the center of the artificial landscape and are watched over by the surveillance camera/eye in the sky. The camera/eye structure is a 3-D rendering/translation of Lacan's model for how photographs (images) project representations through mediation. The eye is the gaze creating a scopic field which in turn is part of a corresponding scopic field for an object of representation. The model is from a short article he wrote called "What Is A Picture?" I am imagining surveillance as a visual activity that functions both externally and internally, surveillance recordings codify relations between community members while they include/exclude based on visual markers.

I also think the eye is appropriate for Halloween!

Hey e'rbody

2007-10-31T07:12:00.000-07:00

I'ma put my video up forya. Enjoy!

Interactive Fiction

2007-10-27T13:05:00.000-07:00

Here's my experiential design thing as it stands now. The genre of Interactive Fiction carries with it its own jargon etc. Click on the applet and begin to type. If you just see a blue screen with no words, or only half the words, type "restart" and press enter. You can do a lot of things, but not everything--the game should help you sort this out. So far there are only a few puzzles and they are fairly simple. Just be logical and it should work. Oh yeah, as far as shortcuts go, use "x" as short for "examine" u,d,e,n,w,s for their respective directions. For more info on IF click here. If the applet doesn't work, download the game and interpreter for PC or mac. Install the interpreter and load the game once you've opened the interpreter. If you get it to work, please post a comment and what you used (e.g. It worked in Firefox OR It worked using the Mac Interpreter). Thanks.

Structure beginnings

2007-10-26T14:14:00.000-07:00

Richard Lanham's handling of Attention Structures makes a scary observation; style matters more than substance? How/when did we get here? Well, the large amounts of information being proliferated seem to blame. We are no longer in search of information, information is in search of us. And it usually is all the same, and so the burden is on, for lack of a descriptive word, rhetors to get to us (consumers of information); they have to get our attention by appealing to our sensitivities.

It seems to me that these attention structures have a lot to do with digital rhetoric. Digitization of content annihilates distances between consumers and producers of knowledge. With that distance shortened and information abundant, what is scarce is human attention. The attention we consumers need to make sense of information. I guess the definition of economics changes; as per Lanham, economics becomes not about scarce but abundant resources.

However, to make sense of information, we need to oscillate our attention between style and substance.

Fascinating stuff.

GM preventative technology

2007-10-24T11:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e_ZeYy3qjs

the ethics of surveillance came up a couple classes ago...just stumbled upon this.

Not only is your car GPS'd but they can control your car from space....ohhhhhhh......

quite the experience-design.

This is a Scary Prospect

2007-10-21T19:31:00.000-07:00

So, I found this and I think that it is interesting, but scary: http://www.broom.org/epic/ols-master.html.

Structure

2007-10-21T16:07:00.000-07:00

Here's what I've got so far. Now I'm working on the game itself. That should follow. NB: be prepared for nausea.

iRetract

2007-10-17T22:24:00.000-07:00

Well, Jason...maybe your iHack remix had some effect!

Check this out.

shock therapy

2007-10-17T13:10:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note on the Swedish artist article. I noticed that the only muslim that the article represented was a female "wife and mother" that wears a burqa. I'm not expecting some quasi-objectivity from a news media source, but I think that the choices for speaking muslims have been severely limited to the voice of this one woman. I have no idea what the general thinking is within the wider muslim world, but the article itself already leads the reader to a certain conclusion about what to think of this artist.
Personally I respect his right as an individual to express something (anything), but he had to know that something like this was a possibility. I think we have to consider the possibility that he wanted something like this to happen (maybe not the slitting the throat part) in terms of publicity. He claims to be an atheist, but he demonstrates some "faith" in his ability to shock other religions (Jesus as a pedophile?). We could even coin a new term for a religion of shock -- "shockigion"? Anyone? Maybe not.

Enabling Designers

2007-10-17T12:28:00.000-07:00

I find it interesting that Donahue, in Enabling Design, tries to distance himself from a comparison of design research to ethnography. I understand why he differentiates it from market research. The process he advocates seeks to approach subjects on their own terms and in the process develop new design methods and forms. Market research seems to revel in reification and interpellation of the subject. Design research, according to Donahue, is dimension, not synergy. However, his own "immersive investigation" with the low-sight community bears resemblance to ethnographic participant observation. They also seem to share goals in how they treat the research subject, though Donahue stops short of involving himself in the community as a low-sight participant.
I bring this up because there are some issues involved with participant observation that may affect enabling design research as well. First of all, no matter how hard you try you can never completely close the gap between researcher and subject. I do think that Donahue has a sincere interest in the community that he addresses, and the goal is to offer choices that the community deems appropriate and desirable. He speaks "to" low-sight people in his design. However, he does attempt to speak "for" the community in this article. This is not a complaint, but a critique that design research can somehow empower the community by speaking for them. It really is more of a political issue than a practical one.

art and violence

2007-10-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

Check out this piece in CNN about an eccentric artist in Sweden whose drawing have made him the target of death threats. What do you think?

"Defiant Artist"

Use Less Stuff

2007-10-13T21:25:00.001-07:00

Hey Guys,
finally I'm leaving my state of Digital shyness and posting on the blog.
Here is my Ecological/Societal Message-Remix against consumerism.

Operation "Use Less Stuff - sharing this message over the campus"is on its way, stay tune for the vending machines.

the truth is out there!

Henrique

Pantene spoof

2007-10-13T06:07:00.000-07:00

Sorry for getting this in so late. Here is my visual reMIX:

Copy and paste the following link if the video doesn't work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sVJFfyxmwQ

Description:
This is a visual reMIX of a popular Pantene commercial, circa late 80s/early 90s. I am spoofing the commercial by captioning it with criticisms of Pantene's parent company, Proctor and Gamble.

The New Clemson Seal

2007-10-10T15:05:00.000-07:00