It’s been pretty silent on the blog front last week. I’ve had full days of wrapping up my thesis and trying to keep my head above water. Last week was our last public deliverable of our thesis where we present our work to a panel of three design faculty and then there is a three…
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Seeing with your tongue
Someone submitted this to my thesis project and I just thought it was the neatest thing! Since seeing is just a sensation created by the brain, some researchers have found a way to recreate the sensation using stimulus from the tongue! Check it out!
5: Days this week
I wouldn’t be surprised if you forgot that this is a post series I try to maintain because it’s been so long. Today was my first week back over winter break, it’s 9:40 and I’m still on campus. It is my last semester and I can feel myself trying to squeeze every last bit of…
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Mid-semester review
My grad school spirit animal. I just posted a mid-semester review on my process blog. Check it out!—you know, if you want to.
5: Classes
New year, new classes. Here they are! Graduate Design Seminar II: Topics in Communication Design Graduate Design Studio II Research Methods for Human-Centered Design Computing for the Arts with Processing Calligraphy I See you there or never!
5: Final projects
I am frozen from the cold breeze of ‘overwhelmed’ s as I approach my last week of my first semester at Carnegie Mellon. One product-service innovation/design philosophy paper. Two interactive heteronym visualizations. (Using Adobe Edge) One interactive data visualization using processing. One video sketch of said visualization being implemented in a real life circumstance. One argument…
Kakapo Love
Kakapo Love: The Mating Ritual of a Nocturnal Parrot from Jacklynn on Vimeo. Also know as: Why I haven’t been sleeping for the past two weeks. Sorry for the radio silence, guys, but I have been pouring my soul into this last project and with the tremendous help of James Wagner, here it is!…
Evan Observation Narrative
Alright, guys. I’d been avoiding it but now I have other homework to avoid so here’s my second paper for Narrative and Argument. We’re on a fourth now and I only feel like they’re getting steadily worse. As you know, I’m use to writing about myself, but writing about other people is much harder. In…
5: Places in Toronto
I am in Toronto this weekend with the Design League at CMU. We’re going on a bunch of tours of design studios here. It’ has been great to see a variety of businesses. We left on Thursday at 2am, drove all night until we arrived at 9:15 am (thats right, the same day) and started touring.…