Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Ben Fry


Ben Fry gave a speech at Auraria Campus last Thursday. It was a brief but interesting overview of Processing and how it can be used for data visualization. He showed examples of his work, particularly the genome project, as well as works by other users. One student's piece incorporated a thoughtful concept with an amusing but contentious subject matter. He obtained responses from distinguished scientists about pet ownership, i.e., dogs vs. cats. The overall answers favored dogs but there were some funny observations thrown in the mix.
I know the picture isn't great, but I was trying not to use the flash and I didn't have a tripod on hand. It is easy to see Ben is passionate about what he does, most my shots were even more blurry since he moves his hands when he speaks.
Check out his projects page.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

web ambivalence

I've been struggling with my portfolio website for days now. It is finally up, but it is lacking much content. I tried using Flash templates, blog templates, and Flex to build it but could never get all the pieces to work together. So I resorted to basic html and css styling. I will keep working on it to make it worthy as a portfolio site.
Here is the link: Random Patterned