Monthly Archives: October 2008

motion graphs

The google-verse has recently been expanded to include gapminder software as part of the ever impressive Google Docs platform. Below is an interactive spreadsheet example of the sophisticated motion graphs now available in Google Docs. The motion graph is based on the Gapminder software first … Read More

dokuWiki Snafu

Solved! Lately I’ve been configuring and (almost) loving the ease of use and simplicity of my brand new wiki. However, there have been some serious teething problems, which have not gone unnoticed.  If the wiki page does not load, you know that I have not … Read More

Architecture Delirium

Architecture Delirium is a short film (by Rachael Hemmings, Jessica Marsden-Smedley and myself) submitted in 2007 for an Architecture Cinema & Representation subject in the Bachelor of Architecture course at UTS. It is a quirky little film that tells the (somewhat autobiographical) story of one … Read More

Interactivation Lab Work

As part of my PhD work in the Interactivation Studio, I have been testing various configurations of existing interfaces, as input/output devices in conjunction with Max/MSP and Arduino.  This work is mainly focussed on developing new ways of embedding a type of programmable intelligence into … Read More

A new use for social networking

As a relative latecomer to the twitter-verse, this post may seem a little bit behind the times, but there are some ideas that have been floating around the web over the last month, and I want to add my 2 cents to the discussion. It … Read More

Polit-com! The new sit-com

Over the last few weeks we’ve seen the birth of a new kind of show, something so alarming that it’s somehow also become funny -  the polit-com. So far the current US presidential race has had all the hallmarks of a cookie-cutter network sit-com (2-3 … Read More

On the Air

It seems as though this has been around 2 months in the making, but I’ve launched a bare-bones version of my online self.  There have been a many number of tweaks and dead-ends but it would seem that the simpler things are – the better! … Read More

Skinform in the flesh

Skinform Update; Earlier this year Joanne Jakovich and I ran a studio in the new Master of Architecture program at UTS, named Computational Environments.  The major project completed by the students was the Skinform project, which ironically enough has taken on a life of its’ … Read More