"Deflowering the Garage Band Virgins with One Take"

by Stella(flute/piano,vocals), Elim(harmonica, vocals), Josh(guitar, vocals, base, shaker)

press me here

Micropayments

Artists should be paid for their work but I'd rather pay one full amount rather than little itty bits through a long time process. Of course if it's super expensive then I won't pay for it, but if I can get it for completely free then I'd probably just get it for free. It's the whole "process" of micropayments that I don't have the patience for. Either it's free or its not, i'm not into this "almost" or "its like" free business. I don't mind paying for good work if that's the only way I can get it. Also, I'm a student and don't exactly have just wads of cash laying around. If my financial situation was different then I'm sure my mentality would be different. I know it's probably a lame exscuse but it's the truth. My apologies if I offended anybody.

Physical Computing Halloween Fun

Jason and Stella in class

Cake

Midterm Presentation

Stella Kim. John Dimatos. Lori Napolitano

The Phys Comp Midterm

We originally started out seeking to integrate the hearing and the non-hearing community visually. We built a data glove out of stretch sensors that would create cymatic patterns based on hand gestures and movements. The final goal was to have two users that would create wave patterns in response to each other(wave frequencies). In the end, we did not reach this goal due to time and technicalities. We created one hand sensor but one was enough to portray our intentions. The idea to create communication in a creative between the hearing and non-hearing sort of became background noise as we slowly lost sight of intention. Although the hand sensor can still be used for that intent it would be a lie to say that that was in fact the final outcome. Below are some videos of our steps testing non-newtonian fluids as a means of expression to elements such as salt, as well as a user testing to the final class demonstration.

Non-Newtonian experiment with frequency ranges

user testing video 1

user testing video 2

final testing video 1

final testing video 2