Our Tools

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Help for Final Project

I need everyone in the class to e-mail me with the names of two places (city/state) in any of the 50 states excluding Indiana. One should be your favorite place outside the state to go and the second should be one place you'd like to go but have not been to you. (If you have never left the state please name two places you would like to go but please specify that you have not been to either place).

Please email your name and the two locations to fiehere@gmail.com with the subject "Info 310 locations"

If everyone could do this by Thursday I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

Fie

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Final Assignment_aapjohns








           I originally wanted to do a kinetic typography video. But for one, they're getting pretty played out, I think, at least in the context of this class. I still really enjoy them (there's a Kinetic Typography channel on Vimeo that's pretty cool if anyone else likes these). Alas!, it would have taken entirely too much time; time that I cannot afford to spend. Perhaps I'll finish it on my own between semesters. Anyway, the topic was language, and kinetic typography, at least where I could find relative source material. In lieu of creating my own video, I took screen captures from one of my favorite videos that someone did with audio by Stephen Fry about language. I then applied glitching to the stills as a visual representation of the language that appears therein... except all glitchified. (I think Stephen Fry would approve of the word 'glitchify' so if you don't like it, sod off.) Enjoy!

Works Cited


Cooper, Muriel. “Computers and Design.” Design Quarterly no. 142 (1989): 1+4-31.
Marcus, Aaron. “Diagrammatic Visible Language: An Investigation of Visual Logic.” Leonardo 20, no. 1 (1987): 9-15.
Rogers Creations. "Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Laungauge." YouTube (September 30, 2010): <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY> (April 14, 2012)
Stock, Oliviero and Carlo Strapparava. “Ironic Expressions and Moving Words.” International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 22, no. 5 (2008): 1045-1057.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

My life (as seen through Pinterest)

(This was done earlier, but then I fell asleep and my cat turned off the alarm. He's like that.)

me


Untitled from Debbie McMillen on Vimeo.

Keystrokes and Relative Time

This image shows the number of times I press each key (size), and the relative time they are pressed (darker is later, lighter is earlier). most of the keys had around a 50% early late keystrokes, but some (the ones most commonly used for games) ended up at 90% or more at night

Data Visualization

Gif file that simply shows some of my random statistics with letters and numbers leading up to one the things most important to me. Runs once.

An image representing the same information in the above gif file without numbers. Each circle size represents more of that statistic, and circles of the same color had the same amount.  White circles represent 0. Love in the middle represents one of the most important things to me.

Info Graphic



This graphic represents all states that I have visited in chronological order, the more intense the color of the outline represents the more time spent in the state.

Chaotic life-My amt. of sleep, trips to stores, emails, steps taken in 2 days

liz's everyday chaos

visual database



People I communicate with based on medium and frequency

I310 Data Visualization Entry: The Pie of Time

Now that's what I call slices of life!

My iTunes Library Part 2

my life revovles AROUND


Data Visualization

Family Reunion

Family Reunion from K Wilson on Vimeo.

Following the births of my ancestors across time and across the globe.





Music by The Benjerman:
Warm Introspection
http://tinyurl.com/6t3sbdx

Collection of mixed media I've watched or listened to

Social Network Visualisation


Sunday, April 8, 2012

Data Visualization



This is a visual representation of all my Facebook status updates since January 1, 2012. The size of the word corresponds with the number of times it was used. Larger words used more/smaller words used less. This particular model features 150 different words.





Same thing - this one featuring 200 words and largely horizontal layout, the one previous is more free form.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Fractal Me

This is the color line taken from running my name through http://personas.media.mit.edu/, and then I used fractal trees matching and attached to each color to represent my interpretation of each of the different areas of my life.