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Entries from March 2009

Snapshots Three Ways

30 March 2009 · 1 Comment

This semester, I’ve been working on building my web programming chops in Dynamic Web Development and Flash of Flash at ITP.  Using some of the new skills I’ve picked up, I have created three ways of presenting Snapshots, an online collection of music I have composed this school year at ITP. Original HTML version PHP/MySQL/Javascript [...]

Art · Audio · Communications Lab · dwd · Flash · Interactive · Internet · ITP · Music · NYU · VisualMusic


Mark Bittman’s Tortillitas with Shrimp

30 March 2009 · 0 Comments

I made The Minimalist Mark Bittman’s recipe for Andalucian Tortillitas with Shrimp today for lunch.  The savory pancakes are actually made without eggs or dairy.  The yellow color and eggy texture actually comes from chickpea (garbanzo) flour.  Bittman gives a choice of different herbs to put in the pancakes.  I used scallions and parsely.  I [...]

Cooking · Cuisine · Food · Recipe


Ruby’s Song

24 March 2009 · 0 Comments

My latest project for Animals, People and Those in Between @ ITP: The Animal Subject You will take your “Animal Object” character, and flip the script by investigating the subjective point of view of the animal you chose. What is it like being inside this animal? What is its view point? How does it see– [...]

Animals · Art · Audio · ITP · Music · Those In Between · Video · VisualMusic


Mona Again: Vote online to support Asian American Literature

20 March 2009 · 0 Comments

My friend Sophia Chang’s book, Mona Again, is a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2009. This means that out of 10,000 submissions, Mona Again is in the top 500 and in the running for a book deal with Penguin.  Read the first 20 pages for FREE and help support Asian American literature with [...]

Creative Writing · Internet · Links · Media · People


Bug4Good: Open Source for Human Rights

20 March 2009 · 0 Comments

  From my colleague Enrique Piraces at Human Rights Watch: I want to share with you our submission to the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge.  The project is great and we have an opportunity to get some attention and further develop the idea.  Voting will take place between March 23 and March 27, 2009 [...]

Activism · Design · Human Rights · Technology