A breadcrumb trail of project notes
I was interviewed about my thesis a little while ago for Jeffrey Leblanc’s online video show Talking To ITP.
Interview part one
Interview part two
The How Weird Street Faire is this great street fair in San Francisco. It’s one of those things that makes a city not dead and boring. But this year its permits were denied. SF residents go to the site or the hearing (Feb 22) and show your support!
The How Weird Street Faire [...]
Read More..>>I’ve done a lot of research and have started down a few different paths that could become the focus of my thesis or basis for future work. I wrote down the different areas/topics that I’m interested in on a bunch of postit notes and stuck them to the wall. They fall under the [...]
Read More..>>I gave a presentation this week on DNA computing to the ITP Artificial Intelligence and Biologically Inspired Computing discussion group.
DNA computing is fascinating to me since it offers the potential of massive parallelization (trillions of copies in a drop of water), use of DNA as input and output, and tiny power consumption. The basic [...]
Dare to compare this Flash animation of RNA translation into protein with the 1970s interpretation I posted earlier this week.
Read More..>>The brilliant (and twisted) Real Ben Brown sent me this fantastic video of a dance interpretation of protein synthesis carried out with hundreds of students on a football field in 1971. It’s narrated by Nobel laureate Paul Berg and check out that sound track! All kinds of awesome.
Read More..>>The mission of Habana Labs in Brooklyn is to research, develop and apply technology related to ecology and sustainable energy. Their focus is on empowering local communities to take part and their approach is very hands on. At their third in a series of workshops on wind power the focus was on the [...]
Read More..>>Blue Flower was featured on Make: Magazine’s blog yesterday. Awesome!
Read More..>>Took a break today and went to the opening of [silence] at Gigantic Art Space. The show runs through Feb 24. (The link for the show is to the "current" page at GAS… too bad there’s no permalink for current events!)
Douglas Repetto has his Puff, Bang, Reverb installed and there was a nice [...]