http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zimoun 25 woodworms: vimeo Tree trunk bench by Jurgen Bey via droog fish scale ring via notcouture http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/visualdiary/inspired-by-nature/ Sacha White, Vanilla Bicycles I've fallen in love...and what better target for my affection? A friend rolled her eyes at me, saying that I had become 'one of those people,' when she came upon my computer browser window filled with sites all dedicated towards bicycles.  But why must it be that ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/visualdiary/all-geared-up/ ASSIGNMENT: Create an initiative to increase the number of cyclists on the streets of urban areas. Background: Selected to take part in the kick-off for Yoxi, a creative experiment framing social innovation around friendly competition, my team and I crafted our solution as two different advertising campaigns.  In this story, conversion is ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/video-proposals/campaign-for-better-biking/ Processing sketches inspired by graphic designer Saul Bass, exploring levels of theme + variation.  Constraints were: (1) must be in black and white; (2) one variable must be a string; (3) one variable must be an integer. Click to launch. http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/graphic-screen/10012009/ In our data-saturated environment, our intuitive understanding of space is perhaps better perceived through the invisible forces that surround us daily than through physical walls and other boundaries.  But what if our spaces were injected with the ability to embrace these forces, not only merely functioning as shelter, but also ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/objects/radical-everything/ What happens when you manipulate a traditionally hard surface so that it behaves like fabric? Vito Acconci studio's installation in the Bronx museum, "LOBBY-FOR-THE-TIME-BEING," is a wrapping, and twisting installation that coerced Corian---a typically hard, flat surface---to behave in ways otherwise expected.  In response to their call for an ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/video-proposals/skin-tight/ A processing sketch using particle systems that was developed to demonstrate diffusion limited aggregation or DLA. DLA is a phenomena found in nature in which molecules moving randomly according to Brownian motion, slowly aggregate to form complex patterns and structures. This is a demonstration of a static emergent ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/graphic-screen/dla/ latest thought towards the thesis-gauntlet... Who is my user? OK, so I got it.  My User, is an active participant with the power to recreate space. User 1. Master Control Program 0. http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/visualdiary/my-user-the-ultimate-player/ For Nature of Code last week, we had to program an example of something demonstrating oscillating movement. Although I originally thought of the particular forces that exist between the nucleus and electrons of an atom, I decided to play up the idea by relating the gravitational mass of the ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/visualdiary/ooooscillating/ Mike and I have been continuing our progress with our series of video projections up at the Bronx Museum with Acconci studios.  We decided that some new, better footage was required, so we filmed a new series of objects with the intention of keeping it purely abstract instead of the ... http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/visualdiary/spandex-restretched/