16Feb

Cupcakes! : Street-Art with Kinect, Arduino and openFrameworks

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 02/16/2012
  • In ARTSTD7D, California, Education, General, Nerdy and Geeky, Projects
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About 2 weeks ago I wrote an article on interactive art with Kinect and Processing. In fact, that article was not only an interesting new blogpost of mine, it was also an assignment for my Art Studio 7D class at UCSB (for those who didn’t read the whole article). The [...]
02Feb

Interactive Art with XBox Kinect and Processing

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 02/02/2012
  • In ARTSTD7D, California, Education, General, Nerdy and Geeky, Projects
  • With 2 Comments
When Microsoft first released the Kinect, Matt Webb, CEO of design and invention firm Berg London, captured the sense of possibility that had so many programmers, hardware hackers, and tinkerers so excited: WW2 and ballistics gave us digital computers. Cold War decentralization gave us the Internet. Terrorism and mass surveillance: Kinect. (Borenstein, “Making Things [...]
19Jan

Assignment 1: Webtechnologies used in the context of art

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 01/19/2012
  • In ARTSTD7D, Assignments, General
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Creating an artwork or being artistic often involves using common things or common techniques in an uncommon way, to create something new, exciting or funny. An early example is Nam June Paik’s Participation TV built in 1963 Paik transforms the omnipresent television – a consumer-targeted device emitting a unidirectional signal [...]
12Aug

Google please hire me! – An innovative approach to get a job at Google

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 08/12/2011
  • In General, Marketing, Nerdy and Geeky, Social Media
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In the last week I stumbled upon a site called googlepleasehire.me and what I found was the funniest and most creative approach to land a job at Google. Have a look at this :   In my eyes this guy truly represents what it means to be a real marketer. [...]
09Jul

The school of life

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 07/09/2011
  • In California, Education, General
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Sitting around, listening to the sound of the sea. The wind is blowing smoothly … Suddenly it’s all about just being satisfied with yourself. The school of life has its own funny ways to teach you
08Jul

Social Distortion – Highway 101

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 07/08/2011
  • In California, General, Music
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Take a drive baby up the coast, yea highway 101 Ill pass Ventura and Santa Barbara too, just as fast as my motor runs Gotta pocket full of memories, some happy and some are sad Gotta girl standin by my side through the good times and the bad Chorus: Listen [...]
07Jul

Hell-A Magazine Blog #1 – Hank hates you all !

  • By Marcel
  • Posted on 07/07/2011
  • In California, General
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A few things I’ve learned on my travels through this crazy little thing called life: One – a morning of awkwardness is far better than a night of loneliness. Two – I probably won’t go down in history, but I will go down on your sister. And 3 - while I’m [...]