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Entries from October 2008

28 Minutes Later

31 October 2008 · 1 Comment

What happens when 100 people have 28 minutes to make a movie? Here’s a pretty good answer: We shot the video and audio for this movie in Red Burn’s Applications class on Tuesday. We really only had 28 minutes to record! I played the voice on the phone telling Mario that he has gonorrhea. Thanks [...]

Applications · ITP · Movies · New York · NYC · NYU · Video · YouTube


Jump (The Bailout Bash)

31 October 2008 · 2 Comments

Elizabeth and I teamed up again to work on our audio pieces for Comm Lab this week.  Although we did record audio from the streets of NY together for last week’s assignment, we decided not to use any of it and instead decided to choose a pressing socio-political theme of the current economic “crisis.”  I [...]

Activism · Audio · Communications Lab · Music · New York · NYU · Podcasts


Stop the Clash ’08 – Stop the Obsession

30 October 2008 · 0 Comments

I was part of the brainstorming, implementation and localization team of the original Stop the Clash video in 2007, when I worked at Avaaz.org.

Activism · Avaaz · Democracy · Education · Iran · Iraq · Israel · Middle East · Palestine · Politics · Video · YouTube


ICM Midterm: Portrait of Mao

29 October 2008 · 3 Comments

UPDATE 22 Feb 2009: I have written a new concise description of the Portrait of Mao: The Portrait of Mao is a 42 inch by 42 inch color print on archival paper. The image was generated by a Processing sketch I wrote, which reads pixel color data from an image file and replaces each pixel [...]

Art · China · ICM · ITP · NYU


Audio Sketch 1: Subway, Streets & Stars

27 October 2008 · 2 Comments

Today in Comm Lab, we covered how to edit audio using Audacity and GarageBand, both of which I have worked with before, but it was good to get a review. This week’s assignment is to create a 2 minute audio piece using audio we recorded or found sounds. Besides the soundtrack to Herbivores, I haven’t [...]

Audio · Communications Lab · DIY · HEPNOVA · ITP · Music · NYC · NYU · Podcasting · Podcasts