LV Tech Hackathon – Captain Planet!
This past weekend I brought about 10 students to the 2013 Lehigh Valley Tech Hackathon. The event brings together designers, developers, and engineers with the goal of creating a “product” at the end of the weekend. On Friday everyone was able to pitch an idea and we formed teams. I ended up on a team with 4 of my Kutztown students: Kyle Desimone, Jerry Cavill, Kory Walton and Trevor Dilg, and 2 friends Ryan Hickey & Donna Chastain. Our concept was absurd, we wanted to create an interactive application and physical objects around the theme of the brilliant 90′s...
Read MoreProcessing at LV Tech
I’m a little late posting this, but earlier this month I lead a Processing lecture at Lehigh Valley Tech. I went over the basics of what Processing can create and some simple programming examples, including a drawing app that reacts to audio input and a generative art piece that infinitely draws circles. I’ve posted the presentation PDF and sample files. In related news, I am teaching a “Creative Coding” class this summer in Processing at Kutztown. The class is open to students and the...
Read MoreWLS Motion Graphics
Here’s an in-progress render of a motion graphics piece that I’m working on for the Women’s Lifestyle Show.
Read MoreMoonrise Kingdom Type
Another motion graphic kinetic type piece, this one with some subtile compositing over a video I shot, with an audio clip from the greatest movie of 2012: MOONRISE KINGDOM. A brief overview of the process that I used to create this video in After Effects: 1) steal audio of the clip (using listentoyoutube.com), transcribe words & record timing 2) bring the HD video into After Effects, used Warp Stabilizer to make the video look like it was shot with a steadycam… takes a very long time to process, but the results were impressive 3) use the motion tracking features in After...
Read MoreWonka – Kinetic Type
Just a quick link to a work in progress- a kinetic type piece based on an amazing rant from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the only movie that I can recite word-for-word from memory). The piece was made in After Effects, with an attempt to be subtle and minimal, without overdoing the effects. Type is set in different weights of NeutraText, my new favorite font.
Read MoreTwitter visualization: how do you communicate?
So, I’m releasing an incomplete piece of software today: a web application that visualizes and analyzes your twitter stream data. You can also compare your trends to another twitter user in three different categories. The site is twitterviz.com. Here’s what it does: You enter two twitter usernames and it will generate a visualization of the user’s followers. Here I am comparing my followers to my friend (and talented designer- follow him!), Jarrett Fuller. My data is on the left, Jarrett’s is on the right. From this you can quickly see that I follow a lot...
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