Location Setup

The installation location has been selected. It will be housed in the basement of the VUW Design Building on Vivian Street in the Photography studio. The Technological Red Zone will be shown alongside 3 other installations in the basement space. I spent a good portion of the day yesterday cleaning up and locating the model [...]

Installation Specs and Location Diagram

Keypath of Ideas

Workshop Love and Violence

I managed to source a mannequin, after much research and dead-ends. If I was going to purchase one depending on the quality it would have cost between $300 - $800. As it is I spent a day on the trail stomping around shops, and finally chanced upon a broken model at Max. It was complete [...]

Re-MoDEl

The model is the vehicle to represent the quest for the ideal. The ongoing pursuit of marketed goods in a bloated society holding a rake thin ideal. Looking at reconstitution what can be traded off and what must be kept?

Statistical Outworking

Some of the tacit information available by way of our parents and Grandparents, points at the drift in society towards materialism and the dichotomy of needs versus wants. This is simply to do with comments in my own family about the working situations of families these days, and the need for both parents of a [...]

Face me

In the information we are drowning in information. As academia and industy pursue divergent and convergent paths in an eternal dance of love and hate some people stand up and applaud, while others fall and are trampled underfoot in the ballroom.
A process
Chernoff face Tests
A few simple polygons show a gammit of emotion. The following are [...]

Chernoff Faces and Mike Kelley

I have been researching Chernoff Faces and Mike Kelley at the suggestion of my last commentary:
Marcia’s Comments:
This investigation into Chumby-embodiment- and stuffed animal as interface reminded me of Mike Kelly’s work- his site ‘destroy all monstors’ http://www.mikekelley.com/ might give you some ideas- and references- also, the concept of synesthesia and multi-sensory joinings might lead [...]

Playing with webcam’s

Here’s a flash .swf file containing a sample image that is streaming from a live webcam. This is a live stream of Shamu the killer Whale at San Diego zoo. It runs between 9am - 5:30pm Pacific Standard Time daily, so it may be off depending on what time you view it.

Chumby - SSL Shell

Steps to open an SSL shell from the Chumbywiki:

Start sshd using the hidden Control Panel screen
Using an SSH client, log in:

For Microsoft Windows, you can use PuTTY.
For MacOS X and Linux, use the command ssh from a terminal window

Use the IP listed on the hidden screen, with the username “root”. [...]