October 2011
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September 2011
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WatchEvery now and then a project comes along that is difficult to summarize in technical terms within a single sentence. “Primate Cinema,” created by artist Rachel Mayeri, is twenty-two minute film within a film, in which live chimpanzees in the Edinburgh Zoo witness a drama film involving one live ape and several humans in ape suits, shot in Los Angeles. Push Pop Design was brought into...
June 2011
5 posts
On Designing Behind the Curtain
On a recent interaction design mailing list to which I subscribe, someone launched an extensive thread with this post:
As an Interaction Designer I think it’s a foundamental matter to have a deep knowledge of “how it works behind the scenes” what we design for people to use.
The question is: which language (HTML, Java, Javascript, DHTML…) do you think an Interaction...
PushPopDesign is Looking for a User Interface/...
I currently lead up a small design firm of sorts. We are positioned in a unique space, in that we perform the following three functions:
UI/ UX design for mobile, web and desktop applications
Creative coding for commercials, print and installations (specifically using OpenFrameworks and Processing)
Sound design for a variety of media
I’d contemplated phasing one or two of these areas...
April 2011
2 posts
WatchNew music news for me. My friend Eric was kind enough to feature three Lordx tracks on a mini-documentary about glassblower, Kiva Ford. Tracks include the recent “Sleepwalker (Lordx covers Battle Tapes),” older “Climbing out of it,” and “Seep.” Look for that first track on the upcoming Battle Tapes Sleepwalker EP.
The...
March 2011
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February 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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WatchMy Vimeo video “Starling Flock at the Vatican” was recently featured in a flocking tutorial for Cinder. Until now I’d never really paid much much attention to my Vimeo stream, but decided it was time to start updating it with code art explorations on a more regular basis. This video is my first effort in that direction.
Celestial clusters form from trails of particles with a...
October 2010
7 posts
For the past couple months I’ve had an idea for a book about creative people who make calculated compromises in their lives to achieve economic success on a personal level, but also to affect social change. The choice to do something creative as a part of one’s livelihood is rarely to simply make a buck. To the artist, money is often only a fortunate byproduct of artistic success, provided by...
September 2010
13 posts
We’re stuck in an unflattering restaurant in a suburb of Vitoria-Gasteiz trying to download a GPS app for our iPhone and get it working. We’ve been here for over three hours. There is nothing magical about it. There are no castles in sight. If people weren’t speaking Spanish and the cars weren’t tiny, I might think I were just outside of Bridgeport Connecticut. Anyone...
Barcelona: Day 1
I have not slept in an actual bed for two nights. Last night I was on a red-eye flight from Washington to Copenhagen. The night before I had been packing up all my things in Venice Beach all night. The days in between were filled with plane-hopping with intermittent naps between in-flight films—just enough to keep me from passing out from exhaustion.
At noon today I finally made it into...
August 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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