i found your mitten


No one likes losing a mitten.  I made this site so mittens everywhere could be reunited.  Check it out here ifoundyourmitten.com




sharkbites


This is Sharkbites.  I built a 3D shark tank and asked users to send themselves in as bait via text message.  Each person who sends in a message appears as a fish in the tank and must try and survive a shark attack.  Note the “mouth cam” in the top left corner which lets you watch the attack from inside the shark’s mouth.  Sharkbites was created with Maya, Virtools and a little PHP.  More info on the Sharkbites site here Sharkbites was mentioned in this Media Post Blog.




backchannel

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The game was created for MTV’s show “The Hills.” I helped design the interface for it while I was working with the very smart folks at Area/Code. While watching “The Hills” players assume the role of a “tagger” or a “clicker.” Taggers make snarky comments about the show while clickers promote comments they like best by clicking on them.  The best tags win the most points.  It’s kind of like a competitive chat room, and very fun to play.  You can read more about it here.



yahoo!


I have also worked at Yahoo! in the Advertising Products Group on a project called APT. 
APT is a digital advertising platform that helps publishers & advertisers to connect to buy & sell their inventory.  You can read more about APT here. While at Yahoo! I’ve also worked on their Connected TV product. Connected TV brings the best of the internet to your television.You can browse things like Flickr, Facebook, & Ebay to name a few, all with your remote.  This sort of thing is the future!  Check it out here.
Photo Credit: Fred



johnson gray

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This is the web site for Johnson Gray Advertising.  I helped design & produce this site along with Johnson Gray and our developer Michael Delgauido




the human race


I hate being put on hold.  That’s why I built this project called “The Human Race” using the open-source PBX Asterisk.  Instead of being placed in a queue, The Human Race lets callers on hold compete to be the first to speak to a human.  Visit the site: thanksforyourpatience.com, call the number onscreen, and see how you do.  I presented The Human Race at O’Reilly’s Etel Conference in 2007.  A few bloggers talked about it here, here, and here.

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mostly true


This is my personal blog.  You read it here:  mostlytrue.net



wee beastie


I designed and built this site for a friend’s company called “Wee Beastie.” They make promos for television.  You can visit the site here: weebeastie.tv




trigr


Finally, here’s a screen shot of my thesis project called “Trigr.” I asked 35 people to document their lives at my command using camera phones.  I sent several daily text messages to their cell phones which said “shoot!” which meant “take a picture” of whatever was going on in that moment.  The photos were uploaded to Flickr and tagged with each users name, date, and time of the Trigr their photo was in response to.  I used the Flickr API to build it.  This project was an attempt to push the social norms of photography (ie- only photographing “special moments” like vacations, birthdays, holidays, etc.) and explore whether I could connect people to each other by asking them to share moments of their lives which were not self selected.  The results were pretty interesting. 

I explain them all in my thesis presentation video which you can watch here.

Some quick snapshots of the project below and you can view the Flickr page here.




Thanks for taking the time to check out my work.  Please if you have any questions.