This project that Eric and I put together was created in Hammer - the Half Life 2 level editor used to create game mods. We chose to use this program because it provided a means for us to easily create three dimensional audio landscapes. This was essential for our project since it is entirely based on navigating with absolutely no visual feedback....
Friday, March 21, 2008 – Santa Cruz, CA
In keeping with the experimental nature of this course, and with what I consider to be the main thrust of the prompt for this paper, I would like to submit this poem that I wrote midway through the quarter as my final assignment.
I’ll include the other thoughts I have written over the past week...
Not going to lie, I'm writing this paper while listening to other groups present. We just finished presenting our processes, to mixed reactions.
When Rebeca says that our presentation failed, she is right, because we were unable to convey the humor and the (potentially very political) critique that drives the purpose of this project. However I...
THE LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT: RETROSPECTION
THE PROJECT / RESEARCH
The Lighthouse Theory is a temporary name for this Voyager update project. In a nutshell we want to mark our territory. This post is sort of the social connotations and implications of this effort. Before I get into the specifics of the social contextualization, I want to first...
A Beacon of Wonder
The Lighthouse Project: the Astronomical Wonder of the World. This was the subject of the project that my group finally arrived at after ten weeks of contemplation, research, and development. Throughout this period we underwent a series of steps by working...
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from Another Wellesley College Alumna
Dear Hillary,
By polling logic, I should be your supporter - Democrat, older woman, white, liberal. I was even in a dorm with you in college. I have pulled for you for years. But something this past summer fundamentally changed my responsibility to my children and...
I did a presentation on Genetic Algorithms for programming media I several weeks ago in the pecha...
From HackerLastPip
Project: The Total Library
It is possible that writing has an intrinsic relationship with lines of flight. To write is to trace lines of flight which are not imaginary, and which one is indeed forced to follow, because in reality writing involves us there, draws us in there. To write is to become, but has nothing to do with becoming a writer. That is to become something...
In response to Sjef et al.
Commenting on Sjef’s rant about the mediocrity of some of SpaceCollective’s recent content Spaceweaver calls “most of human activity boring and pointless.” This apparent discontent with the current output on the site has started a discussion which prompted several of our core members to stir things up by...