For the museum review assignment this week, I went to the Japan Society in midtown, New York, with Eyal Ohana, who’s an accomplished motion graphic designer. I’ve been there several times last year including a lecture with Tadanori Yokoo in September 2008 and a performance by Dumb Type in November 2008. But I never came here during the day since most of events I went happened in evenings, so it was my first time observing the place with daylight, which helped me see the place differently.
The Little Red Riding Hood book cover, available at Google Books
For the Live Web class, I collaborated with Craig Kapp to create an application that allows us to control and change the content that someone else is viewing on our web site using Javascript, AJAX and PHP. Craig has posted a blog about our thought process and how we landed on the idea of creating Web 2.0 version of a famous fairy tale, “The Little Red Riding Hood“.
Overall idea
- To create an interactive “The Little Red Riding Hood” in which readers participate to complete the story.
- User participation happens when they (1) vote for a character; and (2) provide comments as alternate captions for the characters in the story.
- A storyteller will have a full control of images and text to be displayed on the book.
- Technology: We will explore the use of Javascript, AJAX and PHP for the exercise purpose.
Seolleongtang at Gahm Mi Oak, K-town in NYC. http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/06/seolleongtang-ox-bone-broth-from-gahm-mi-oak-koreatown-nyc.html
I went out with my roommate for the first time since I moved in several weeks ago. We had a Korean food, “Seolleongtang,” at Gahm Mi Oak in Korean Town. Seolleongtang is a hot soup based on OX bone broth, and has sliced beef, rice and noodle in a medium-sized bowl. It’s served unsalted, so people usually put salt, scallions, and often Kim-chi in it. It’s a very nutritious and healthy food, so I felt like I was treating myself right after having a sleepless week. I can eat this everyday…!
You can’t get enough from an awesome programmer who’s also a teacher!
For the Live Web class assignment, I’ve paired with Craig Kapp, “the” programmer, to come up with a way to tell stories using AJAX and PHP, which were covered in class last week. Craig is intermediate in javascript, but I’m still new to AJAX, self-teaching each component including the javascript, so it was a great opportunity for me to see his coding techniques and thought process. After we decided on the concept, which I will explain after Thursday because it’s still work in progress, he briefly explained how we should structure our files. Then he began coding. Everything went by so fast! But as he coded, he explained why he’s using the specific variables and functions. He was really good at teaching me, going through step by step. I hope I didn’t ask too many dumb questions. Later, I found out that he IS a teacher at a school in New Jersey. No wonder why he’s so good at it! I will study his code, and the way he codes. I want to be able to code like him by the end of this semester. I learned so much from him today. ‘Hope tomorrow’s another good day like today. Good night
Last weekend I attended a wedding reception at University of California Botanical Garden, which is a place literally surrounded by forests and natural abundant beauty in the UC Berkeley Campus. So my first impression was “why do you even need a botanical garden if the surrounding environment is so green?” Read more
This posting is for another ITP class called “Designing the Future of TV,” in which students analyze and explore the future of television watching experience (if we will have a such thing called television in the future.) Students work in small project teams of 2-3 and weekly classes cover design methodology and various topics relevant to the future of television such as TV on mobile, social TV, real-time chatting, and emerging devices. At the end of the semester, we get to work closely with Boxee TV, develop a concept for new features and prototype them. For this week, I am supposed to bring an example of timeshifting or spaceshifting medium. So here ya go! Read more
