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Working at the Internet Archive

Posted by mang on January 7th, 2009 filed in General

I’m now (since November) working at the Internet Archive. Been interested in the place for years — great to be aboard. Currently working in the nascent Access Group helping to improve access to the Archive’s remarkable store of human knowledge
The Archive now has more than one million searchable and downloadable books. These [...]

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GigaPixels: Alaska at rANCH Art Show

Posted by mang on December 18th, 2008 filed in General

Back in October I showed three works from my GigaPixels: Alaska and Vancouver series at the cATaClysMic mEgaSHear rANCh (a detail of one of my pieces made it onto the flyer). The first was a panorama that I shot in Hope, Alaska starting around 11pm on July 7, 2007. I printed it in [...]

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Snibbe Interactive Catalog Winter 2009

Posted by mang on December 14th, 2008 filed in General

Snibbe Interactive’s winter 2009 catalog of “ready-to-ship” interactive products is currently available online. I was involved with 6 of these products in the time that I worked for Snibbe.

Snibbe Interactive Catalog Winter 2009 (PDF)
Snibbe Interactive Catalog Winter 2009 (PDF, local mirror)
The projects I was involved with and their initial deployment:

Three Drops – installation for [...]

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Arctic Ice at California Academy of Sciences

Posted by mang on December 14th, 2008 filed in General

Here’s a video of the Arctic Ice interactive installation at the California Academy of Sciences. I was the primary engineer for the project while working with the team at Snibbe Interactive. The piece is a permanent installation at the Cal Academy in the section of exhibits dealing with climate change.
Snibbe Interactive Arctic Ice [...]

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New GigaPan — Santa Cruz Boardwalk

Posted by mang on September 8th, 2008 filed in General

I got in on the GigaPan beta program and got my hands on one of the commercial beta units! Here’s a GigaPan I did across from the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. It was 156 images stitched together to make a 807 megapixel image.

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Butterfly sighting in the Mission

Posted by mang on February 7th, 2008 filed in General

I’m a few months late with this post but I saw some butterflies in the Mission here in San Francisco just a few blocks from my house. The bush that they were so into has since been trimmed back. I’ve seen a few more butterflies up on Bernal Heights Hill and at Holly [...]

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New Motorcycle

Posted by mang on February 6th, 2008 filed in General

I got a Suzuki SV650 a few months ago. Quite a nice ride! Lots of torque and very friendly. A little too friendly as I managed to low-side it exactly 10 days after taking ownership. It was a wonderful day in the hills and alas my reality got checked at the end [...]

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Three Drops featured on ArtNano site

Posted by mang on February 6th, 2008 filed in General

The Three Drops installation that I worked on last summer is featured on the Nanoscale Informal Science Education ArtNano website.

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Working for Snibbe Interactive

Posted by mang on February 6th, 2008 filed in General

I worked for Sona Research last summer and am now (as of 6 months ago… wow) Senior Immersive Media Engineer at Snibbe Interactive. We have quite an amazing lineup of projects we’re putting out.
Already worked on and installed 3 pieces at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia as well as a few projects that aren’t [...]

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Gigapixels in Alaska

Posted by mang on February 6th, 2008 filed in General, Trip Report

This past July I drove from San Francisco to Anchorage and beyond. Spent Canada day on a beach outside Vancouver and did a three day kayaking trip through icebergs in Prince William Sound.
I took a prototype GigaPan unit with me and took a few rather large panoramas.
mangtronix GigaPan page

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