Grid Project - Bubble Dog

I used a picture of my puppy to create my grid project. Basically, I put that picture into a grid and then drew a huge grid on newspaper. I choose bubble wrap as my grid and used nail polish as my medium (because that's the only thing I had that would stick to it.) Over 2 days I eventually got to finish and match up each grid box on to the bubble wrap.
I left out most of background because I felt it was too distracting from the main image, my puppy!!
Enjoy~ I had a lot of fun doing this and I love how it came out.

Final:

Fastest computer and mark j stock

We learned about computers and saw a video from about 10 years ago, saying that IBM's computer was the fastest. Even while researching this topic, I found a lot of links and youtube videos to the IBM computer. However, after looking through more pages, the most recent article I found says that the Japanese (not surprisingly) have the world's fastest supercomputer. It's super computer is called the K Computer. In the article I read here: Article Link  , explained how the K Computer was determined to be the fastest, saying that "K Computer sped to the front of the class by achieving more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s)". They go on to say that the Japanese haven't held this achievement since 2011.  Also that they use another special computer, the Linpack to determine which computer is the fastest saying that, "It tests the performance of a system for solving a dense system of linear equations and is measured in calculations or floating point operations per second, hence flop/s".

On another note, I checked out Mark J Stock's website. I remember his work at the Electronics Alive show last semester; in particular the photo with the mathematically calculated papers that flow across the screen with individual code on each one. (This was perhaps my favorite!) He made it for a dissertation on vortex's. 

I also really, really loved his Japanese piece. It looked like blue smoke that was flowing around the bottom of the portait, more opaque in some places. It was made to look like a ocean wave, like that that the Japanese depict in their traditional drawings/painting. I think he did very well with trying to mimic their style and incorporate his own, unique techniques into the piece of art. 

Radio Shows and TV

The radio show that I listened to was the Hindenburg Disaster.
It was really interesting and although I expected the reporter to freak out, I didn't expect it to feel and hear the fear and sorrow in his voice. He was reporting for about 15 minutes about the landing of it, everyone was excited and so was he. He said that there may be complications because it was landing while it was raining. He explained that there were 39 passengers and a crew of 61 on the zeppelin. I also noticed that there was a lot of advertisement in the beginning for American Airlines - basically him telling everyone that it was AA that sponsored the event and that they were good, etc.. And then eventually at mid-sentence, he exclaims that it's going down and that it's burst into flames. His voice alone conveys the horror and the surprise of what just occured. I remember that he says alot of things like "oh no, how could this happen" and "oh the humanity!" After this he goes on and off the air, trying to recoop himself and see what else has happened. He tells everyone to back away from the burning zeppelin. (Which he explains had helium in it, which is very explosive)
He then, near the end, finds a dazed survivor - Philip Manson of New York. He tells everyone that he jumped out the black of the zeppelin with several other passengers as it got closer to the ground. Overall, this was a very sad report and very interesting because it was live and we got to hear a first person's account about the event.

As for the most important moment in TV history, I would say it would have to be the nixon-kennedy debates. I think this started a whole new revolution of where people are judged by looks even more than before. I think this is the start of where society shows an interest is something more than just brain knowledge. It was because of this that Nixon lost (even though he had more votes). He lost because he didn't look as appealing as Kennedy did on the air. And this is a turning point that really changed american history. 

FlipBook - MOVIE

Hey guys! so I got a chance to make the flipbook into a movie, and added a little sound. Enjoy!

Brain Scanners

The brain scanners that we read about and watched a short clip on, is an amazing new study that basically scans your brain for images that you have seen/watched in the past. In the test that they did in the article by Evan Ackerman, they used an MRI machine to watch for patterns that are the same as the things that people watch on the monitor and the ones that are in their head. In the example, they watched about 18,000,000 seconds of random youtube clips stitched together. With time and experiments, they were able to get information out of people's head to make the video clips (blurry at that) come to life.

What Ackerman is basically saying in the article is that in a few decades or so, the scientists said that they'll  be able to suck out better quality images, and with that open a whole new door. They could possibly use it on criminals, and completely wipe out the use of judges,etc. They could also use it to record and intrepret dreams. They could even use it to make videos, cameras, and cam corders OBSOLETE. Through recording images that are high quality and first person from your brain, what do you need a camera for to reminisce on? All of your best footage is right there in your brain!!!

FlipBook

Here are some images that I took of my flipbook I made for the class. There wasn't really a theme to it, I was just playing around with morphing things into another thing. Here's the chronological order of what it all turns into:
Seed > Plant > Butterflies > Buildings > Godzilla > Water > Pizza > Girl > Fairy
Of course, they didn't all just morph into one another, some helped bring about different topics, etc.
I hope you guys enjoyed it :)

(I'll post the video as soon as I can!!! >_<)

Singing in the Rain - Two very different Meanings

In the Clockwork Orange movie that we saw, we see the main character basically terrorizing people and beating them up while sining the song "Singing in the Rain". This is the original song of the 1952 movie, Singing in the Rain.

Between these two different times is a period of 1952 (movie) - to 1962 ( the Clockwork Orange book). After reasearching, I think I can come up with a pluaisble reason to why there was such a different mood and style between the first song and the second, and what happened between that time to cause it. Between these era's, the Cold War was happening. I think, that in the beginning (1952), people were still looking for something to look foward to, to recover from, and maybe even to celebrate their win from WW2. Therefore, they were looking for new forms of media, and the happy movies, and the types of movies they were used to became popular.

However, fast foward to 1962, and people during that time are becoming more suspicious about people being nazi's and trying to secure their freedom and partiotism in America. Therefore, I think that they started to practice the freedoms they have, one of them being in the media/freedom of speech. They started to explore new areas, and started to reflect things that they had seen in the war, things that before they were not focused on before. Therefore, the stories and movies were becoming a little more "darker". On top of that, between this time there was the death of Stalin and the cuban missile crisis. So perhaps people were putting their anguish and hatred of the USSR into media.  These are just my thoughts.

Some flipbook animations

Flower love this is probably my favorite

pretty cool

The apple of karma