Pareidoodle

The above is just a doodle I did with Pareidoodle. Pareidoodle-Drawing Conclusions, is part of my master thesis Play and The Discovery of New Ideas. Pareidoodle is a new way of drawing ideas in a digital world. Based on the psychological phenomena known as Pareidolia, where a vague or random stimulus is perceived as significant. This phenomena is seen in common examples such as seeing images or faces in clouds, the Virgin Mary on a tortilla or even hearing hidden messages on music albums played in reverse. By using random marks and colors the user’s mind begins to make new connections to what they are drawing on and alongside in the seemingly meaningless and instill them with a sense of meaning through their own hand.

You can try Pareidoodle for yourself or even download a desktop version for Mac or Windows, here. Enjoy!

Gettin' It On In Taiwan

The quarter is almost over and with it my grad school career :)
I have just finished my 4th and last thesis project which can be found here. My master thesis in titled Play and The Discovery of New Ideas.

In other notable news some of my work, that of my self promo piece that I designed was exhibited last week at the 2009 Young Designers Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan. And while they were showing it off I sent them some Vicious Circus stickers to pass around :)


my self promo
note it actually unfolds quite a ways unfortunately they didn't have a display box big enough


You do now!


Apparently they love the stickers :)

there are tons more photos and when I get a chance I will sort them out and put them on flikr

Processing

This past quarter I had to take Digital Studio 2, for most this is just web design, but since it is about interaction I decided to step up and see what I could do. I taught myself Processing. It is an open-source programming language developed by Casey Reas and Ben Fry (as graduate students) at MIT. I used a book they published through MIT to teach myself and the end result was (in accordance with the class) a website located here My Adventures In Processing.

It was to say the least a learning experience, I knew little of even html when I began and learned how to program from the ground up, needless to say when I got half way through the book and it then said "now we will learn the easy way, object-oriented programming" I said, "what the fuck! there is an easier way and you bastards had me run in circles to make stuff work the hard way!" which is in the end all well and good because now I understand more of what I am looking at. Take a look and tell me what you think. I am now working on programs that will work in turn with my master thesis :)