Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Going incognito
The page contained a short explanation of how the incognito works: browsing history and such won't be recorded (basically what's within Chrome) but any external parties might see/take information. Seriously, the last two at the bottom made me laugh:
Anyway, it just goes to say that it's really hard to keep our digital footprints (I prefer calling them cyberprints) hidden. You have the popular story of a man who applied for a job; job employer does a quick search on him and finds a photo of him smoking marijuana. There are also cases of impersonating, hacking, and stalking--which of course includes the infamous Facebook stalking (less suspicious but creepy nonetheless). But in any of these cases there are people and/or computers out there that will eventually look up/stumble on information about us.
I recently read an article about some users on Facebook who don't just simply logout after use--they disable their account. It's obvious that they want to take extra precautions against other [unwanted] people seeing their profiles, but would doing that really ease the problem? With the Internet's concept of information sharing, it's nearly impossible to use it without leaving our own information, whether we like it or not.
Kinect hack
"Kinectified"
So as I was reading through the page I noticed a bunch of related articles and one of them had the title, "Kinectified PC ... not yet." (I kinda like that word, 'Kinectified.' Who knows, maybe a few years from now, it might be in the dictionary.) As the title suggests, it's about whether Microsoft will soon be adding the Kinect capability to the PC. It's possible but there are still a lot of problems to be taken care of: like how to cram all that hardware into the laptop, the expense, and even the problem of "Gorilla Arm Syndrome" where one's extended arms get tired after a long period of time.
So if not the PC, how about somewhere that's not meant for people to use personally... like a grocery store check-out? Will using the Kinect technology to recognize the items and charge them to your credit card as you walk out, work? How about instead of security cameras we have this technology to accurately recognize a person as he/she walks into the building? These ideas may be far-fetched and may be against the right to privacy (in some ways) but it's not entirely impossible. It's efficiency we're talking about here. However, with this, are we gonna lose yet another sector of job like the cashier? Solutions are being made in the name of technological advancement but new problems arise too. And with the speed we're going, it's hard to predict what's gonna happen next.
Socatic Learning
THE hamlet puppet show
a hamlet puppet show?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_62292&v=oi4zAf3ghBc&feature=iv
make it into a comedy :)
Kinect.
THR104 Movie with Chris
Margaret Ford Vs. Me
First reaction toward Lindsay Crouse (Margaret Ford)
RUR
House of Games Hamartia
She in turn uses his own confidence against him when they meet up at the end of the movie and he's so confident that she won't do anything he even says "What? Are you gonna shoot me right here and risk your career?". She shoots him syaing she wasn't there according to evidence and this is sort of where his own trade kills him. He taught her to con and she eventually got the best of him, even though he was trying to do the opposite.
This is Cool..Textures passing Through
House of Games...one more time
As the movie progresses she is taught the tricks of the trade by this con man and she learns to go look for the tell. The tell is not always easily visible. This man's job is to look out for detail and she constantly tries to see the bigger picture. She doesn't know how to do this. She's never enjoyed the finer things in life and she applies this to everything by ignoring the smaller details. He essentially shows her what lies in those little things that she chooses to ignore. By living a more human life with mistakes that she would normally avoid, she's able to enjoy life.
House of Games again
The realest thing is the con itself. Living life the way she did, by the book, routine, and robotic isnt really living a real life. Life is full of emotions and unfortunately people have flaws (and make mistakes) but this woman had none. She never really let her emotions get the best of her or even do anything wrong until the end of the movie, when she started to live life normally.
House of Games
Our job is to do things, or show the audence things, that would provoke these questions and get them to think because that essentially helps them keep focus. Maybe if we could drop small subtle clues, such as Memet does, in our work then perheps the audience would want to pick up these bait pieces and try to put together the puzzle of work that we're trying to throw at them. Undoubtedly it does ease the analyzation process because they're able to digest it little by little on their own as opposed to a whole.
Excitement over project!
Anybody can cram for a test, but putting together an A+ project takes hard work and actually lets the professor know that we learned something. As stated, this Thursday we will begin shooting for our Hamlet news project. Each one of our group members will have an Act. Each one of us will have to tell the viewers what happened in the act as if it was happening right before the reporter’s eyes.
What we are trying to do is engage the audience and make them feel like they are part of Elsinore, and that they feel that they are hearing the breaking news for the first time. Imagine being in Elsinore and learning that your King has been killed! It is exciting and engaging.
STILL GETTING THOSE TIME TEXTURES
The realest con-artist
earthquake?
Watching the film again
Over the thanksgiving break I watched House of Games with my family. I actually found the film more interesting and enjoyable watching it the second time. My family liked the film as well. They also thought the tell’s were something the could do in everyday life.
During class we didn’t get a chance to see the ending, but when I watched it at home I feel like the ending was a large part of the film. In other words, I feel like the ending summed everything up. For instance, I like how she became more feminine and actually became a human being. Beforehand, she was very robotic and didn’t show any emotion.
The only thing I didn’t like about the movie was that she did not get caught for committing the murder. Mamet did not show anything after he was killed. I would like to see what became of his con artist crew.
Hamlet Project
Uses for Kinect
Kinect
milo/ technology
Monday, November 29, 2010
Final project-wiimote
Messing around with Byrce
The games we play and why
But people are always lying and going against their moral codes and creating new ones that fit their own new persona. Its like some ridiculous struggle with ones self. And I feel like it is all just to WIN.
But what do we win? Do we really win anything in the end of all this. Are their any prizes for this game? Are the prizes money, wife, house, a good career?
Seriously, what is even the rules to the game of life.
Bryce Swampland
i decided to mess around with dark lighting, add in a layer of fog... I've come to realize some of the limitations with bryce... the colors of objects change way to drastically in different lighting at one point the trees were fire red, also the background is just flat nothing and it looks terrible in my eyes, so its hard to angle the camera so you don't have to look into blank nothingness
Post 41: Ideas for final
Post 40: Design and the Air and Space Museum
how does the world just keep moving on?
Is it all worth it?
Sound controlled by a 1M Potentiometer
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The WorkShop 2
The WorkShop
Finished the gloves
So i worked on the gloves over the break and did them but i didnt hav a camera to be able to see if the IR LEDs worked, so i got back today and checked them out... four of the leds work on one glove and the other doesnt ill hav to tinker with it more this week
Webwork/Smartwork/Webassign/etc.
Smoking and Depressants
Why is it that people feel the need to smoke when they depress? Don't they realize smoke is a depressant? The only positive thing about smoking is that it reduces your hunger but you get bad lungs and feel like crap after a bogey. Then the worst things people do is they don't just smoke one, they chain smoke 3,4,5 heck even more if they really feel up to it. Sadly many people really aren't addicted to the nicotine but the feeling of having something to do and something to take their minds off of something. Thats the real addiction.
Death from Above
U probably thinking, nuclear holocaust, or frozen-ed to death, or global warming, or even starvation, but have u ever thought that a mysterious form of wave would kill you?
Your probably like "this guys and idiot" but listen me out. Do you know what a gamma ray is? Probably not but if u do, u know what kind of harm it can do.
Check this link to see what I mean
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/gammaray_bursts_010522-1.html
Your probably a bit concerned right now or skeptical, and either way u won't get to help in this cause anyways so its just some info on how we might go instinct. So when someone start asking a dumb question like how will we all die one day, u got some nice hefty proof that a stupid blowing sun far far away will turn us into nothing.
Westmalle Tripel
We were out. In that grown-up, night-time sense of the word.
Not to go shopping or to book plane tickets to Barcelona. Not to meet up for lunch on campus.
In the context of what it was, it was quite possibly the most adult thing I had done up until that point.
We talked about men, over drinks in a New York City speakeasy. I imagine it was very Sex and the City, had I ever cared to have seen that show.
But that's what we were doing. Laughing over drinks in the East Village, me and the older sister who wouldn't let me borrow her Reel Big Fish CD in middle school.
-- Carolina Hidalgo
Musings
...She sits in the other room, with her hipster glasses and her sweat pants, silently judging because she's visiting her boyfriend and I'm just a random girl from New York City who thinks it's okay to wear tights as pants as long as I've got on tall boots and an over sized sweater...
-- Carolina Hidalgo
Bryce: City
this is a quick city i did, i don't really like it because i could get a nice texture to do the buildings with