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Call me Ishmael, or something. This was a giant squhale(sp?) of a project. Dedon asked SM for a fun piece for their NYC showroom. After a collaborative brainstorm, some refinement, and some R&D we were on our way to building a full fledged interactive installation that aimed to replicate grass flowing in the 'wind' generated by people moving along the sidewalk. I already had some experience toying around with physical computing, and recently I had the opportunity to fuss with a Kinect and Processing. So naturally I figured that building an interactive sculpture using that tech was "totally possible". The following three weeks saw plenty of Processing and Arduino development, soldering, learning about controlling 30 stepper motors asynchronously, and patience. so much patience. At the end of the day, we have what you see in this video: smiling people. As with any ambitious project, there were some false starts ( like discovering that a Kinect is blind when looking at natural sunlight… A fun fact that resulted in having to make a separate application to detect motion during the day time using RGB data, along with the IR depth sensing night program ), and some on site debugging after the install. However the final result was a great piece that people genuinely enjoyed, the client loved, and I was happy with.

A mobile projection that populated the streets of Austin during SXSW 2011. Working with CNN, we created an RSS reader that presented customized content. SXSW patrons were presented to local news about SXSW that updated and informed the passive observer. Built as an AIR application, this piece was put together and deployed in 4 days using reusables from the Sekati API and an auto updating Automator script that pulled down the most recent SVN build for automatic remote deployment.

This project was the result of being tasked by our boss to “Make something awesome”. Generally, “Awesome” implies a great measure of success and increasingly, success on the web is being measured solely on traffic, click-thru rate, and return on investment. Coming from the perspective of the guys that take pride in crafting interactive experiences, we took this idea to its extreme conclusion and decided to make a site that measured inane statistics around our office and present it in a beautiful flash site. In order to accomplish this we built a wireless mesh of Arduino driven devices that detected various physical metrics, we logged passive network statistics, and created a web interface for people in the office to tally human statistics. All of this data was coordinated on a centralized database that served up a custom developed socket server for our flash application to receive live data. Things like elevator door opens vs elevator button presses, toilet flushes, overheard corporate jargon, and smoke breaks were all tallied and represented on the site. This all added up to the message of “The quantification of creativity”.

The Web of Secrets is a great little site I made with Roger Braunstein at SarkissianMason. I used FIVE3D for the main menu, and the Sekati framework for the guts.

“Car in a Box” as we called it was one of the first large scale development projects that I led and developed . Working in conjunction with art director Ness Higson, we produced a beautiful FWA winning website that used Papervision 3D, scrubbable 3D video renders, and plenty of Flashy goodness.

My first big piece with 3D in flash, and at SarkissianMason. The cover gallery was a small addition to a larger project within the agency that may not have seen the light of day, but the client was so happy with it the module remains on their site today. It was a rare project for me, because my advances in development led the design process. Almost all of the finished piece is in line with the functionality that i developed.