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 sharks 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.




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 que, 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 this past March.  A few bloggers talked about it here, here, and here.

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kingdom-nyc


This is a “specimen” from a project called Kingdom-NYC.  Along with two other classmates, I created this project which classifies New Yorkers into 10 types and asks people to capture them in their natural habitats using camera phones and send them in to the site.  You can see a full specimen guide here and the main site here.


mostly true


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




johnson gray


This is the web site for Johnson Gray Advertising, where I worked as a production manager.  I was responsible for the site concept and visual design.  A flash programmer put it all together.  You can see the site here: johnsongray.com.  Click on “creative” to see project examples.




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.