It’s a new semester at ITP, and I have entirely new classes. My favourite so far is Everything is Spatial; long ago I had planned a web app to create travel guidebooks using web map data, so it’s totally up my alley. We were assigned two readings: an intro to...

There are some people at ITP who make beautiful, artistically fulfilling projects, and write deep and introspective blog posts to match. Their blog posts are gossiped about on the floor, “they make me want to cry. She’ll get a job through these.” I am not one of those people. I...

One way I like to procrastinate is by doing other work– no matter how trivial or unimportant it is– and pretending that doing this work is productive. This is what I’ve done for my Physical Computing Final. Instead of fabricating the hat or trying out the wiring, I decided to...

I’ve spent the last ten days or so visiting my brother in Alabama; consequentially, I’ve been both more and less productive than i expected. More so because there isn’t much to do here, particularly if you don’t have a car; less, because the only materials I have are whatever I...

Last Thursday, we did some play tests of prototypes for our Physical Computing final. I didn’t think I would learn that much, but play tests will often surprise you. I constructed a prototype by wetfolding some Trader Joe’s paper bags– it looked rather good in my opinion. I also made...

I love Nicki Minaj. I’ve been a fan of hers for a long time; longer than even her jaw-dropping feature in Kanye West’s “Monster”, which was mentioned in the Radiolab episode, “Straight Outta Chevy Chase”, which we listened to for Fandom this week. Consequently, I had the same reaction as...

It was incredibly hard to focus on school today– the election results had come out. Still, I’ll make an attempt at describing my final, an effort that is made easier by having a pre-existing property to work off of. I also mocked up an initial timeline, which you can see...

At first, I wasn’t sure what the connection between the two readings we were assigned for Fandom this week was. “Buying In: The Pretty Good Problem” and “From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler: Performance, Context, and Aesthetic Violence (WWF)” seemed like very different subjects. Looking at the subject of next...