Todd Vanderlin » parsons http://toddvanderlin.com Design & Technology Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:27:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Back from China http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/07/back-from-china/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/07/back-from-china/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:20:19 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/07/31/back-from-china/ I’m back from China and I already miss it, I want to go back. I’m dead tired and out of it, this jet lag is killer. The worst happened, I realized when I got home that my camera was not with me. After a 14 hour flight I guess I just forgot it on the plane. Every photo I took on the whole trip lost. I’m sad but at least I have the memories still. Friends said that they would give me theirs but it’s still not the same. I called the airline and I’m just crossing my fingers that they find it.

The trip was amazing though. I got to meet with important people that have been living and working their for some time. I saw the Surface table at Microsoft. I meet with Nokia, studied at a University larger than any other University I have ever seen. Ate some of the best food in my life. Went to a rave were the Great Wall of China meet the ocean. The main things I took from it was that there are other cities than New York. I could completely live in Beijing and work. Living another countries life for a month really puts your life back home into perspective. I will never forget this trip and will be returning soon.

I will post stories from the trip as I get more photos. Cross your fingers I find my camera.

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I’m a bit late of the first post but welcome to China. My first impression was, “wow this place is different”. Th flight was long, very long.I fell slept for a long time, woke up and still had 6 hours. This photo is when we were over Antarctica, pretty nuts.
Best Soup
We went for food right when we got here. I was a bit skeptical about food first coming here; I have to say its unreal. You can’t even compare the food to American Chinese.
Stand
Like New York there are stand everywhere, some are a bit risky food wise. There are people selling fruit all over. The leeches are good.
Leche
Tiered but ready for more.

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My tilling program made it into the Parsons does the SIMS show. Although it does not have much to do with the game, I made it work. The program grabs the most popular photos of the sims from Flickr and tiles them out. Go check out the show there are some amazing pieces.


Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd St., NYC

Tues-Sat 12-6, Thurs, 12-8

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/04/parsons-sims/feed/ 0 Apple Education Video http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/03/apple-education-video/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/03/apple-education-video/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:54:28 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/03/23/apple-education-video/ Apple Video
Apple Video
So the Apple video went live the other day, for the most part it was ok. Of course Apple some how managed to make me sound like a complete and utter nerd with my amazing comment: “Our homework is awesome!”. I may never live that one down, oh well. Any publicity is good publicity. Check out the video here and the site here. I guess that they will make a formal launch later. They are redesigning their education site.

Video
Site

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/03/apple-education-video/feed/ 1 Taxidermy Mouse http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/02/taxidermy-mouse/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/02/taxidermy-mouse/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:56:33 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/28/taxidermy-mouse/ Taxidermy Mouse Well our next task in HomeX was to taxidermy a mouse. This without doubt was the oddest thing I have ever done in school. I added some red LED eyes to make my mouse a little more possessed. Photos Update: The Taxidermy Mouse makes it to Make Blog.]]> Description

The documentation of a true Frankenstein experiment. I skinned a mouse and added glowing LEDs for eyes. The mouse was ordered from an online research supply store. I followed the steps to clean and skin the mouse, then created LED leads and attached a watch battery. These components were placed inside the mouse and everything was sewn up.

Press

Make:Blog

The Mouse
The frozen mouse ordered by mail

LED Mouse Eyes
Two LEDs wired and shrink wrapped. They were place inside the mouse with a small watch battery.

Taxidermy Mouse
A Frankenstein LED mouse

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/02/taxidermy-mouse/feed/ 1 Sound Fountain http://toddvanderlin.com/projects/sound-fountain http://toddvanderlin.com/projects/sound-fountain#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:08:57 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2006/11/02/sound-fountain/ Sound Fountain Sound Fountain Here is a project that I have been working on. The interface is light and water that outputs altered sound. When you break the water streams the sampled sound plays back at different rates. The more you play with one stream the more elaborate the sound becomes. View Project]]>

Description

Using light and water Sound Fountain acts as a alternate interface to audio. The sampled audio is altered and plays back as one interacts with a stream of water. The more one plays with a stream the more elaborate the sound becomes.

Photos


Lasers used to trigger the sound sampling.

Construction

first prototype

Initial Sketch

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/projects/sound-fountain/feed/ 4 City Paths http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/city-paths/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/city-paths/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 02:44:19 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=174 city paths
Just launched a project I did this semester, City Paths. In a way it is a redesign for the project I did last semester Presence. The application works with live or recorded video data. This makes the concept come across much better, and there is much more feedback. Take a look.

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/city-paths/feed/ 2 99&9 http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/999/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/999/#comments Sat, 13 May 2006 22:23:11 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=176 99&9
99&9 is a documentation project for the 99 yeas of Communications Design and the 9 yeas of Design and Technology at Parsons. I set up several cameras around the area all running my Degree Time Lapse program. This project was a blast, the piece came out beautiful. Go and have a look (2 West 13st), while its still up.

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/999/feed/ 0 BFA Thesis Exhibition http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/bfa-thesis-exhibition/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/bfa-thesis-exhibition/#comments Sat, 13 May 2006 06:21:37 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=175 CD
If you’re in NYC go take a look at the BFA Thesis Exhibition. The Enthusiast was hilarious, loved it.

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/05/bfa-thesis-exhibition/feed/ 0 Geek Graffiti http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/04/geek-graffiti/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/04/geek-graffiti/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:01:29 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=171 Awesome article on Wired.
Resitor

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/04/geek-graffiti/feed/ 0 Hack Baby 2 http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/03/hack-baby-2/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/03/hack-baby-2/#comments Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:01:01 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=160 Take a look at the making of Hack Baby. More photos can be seen on Flickr. There are description and notes to hep describe the process. I also ...]]> The baby came back for round two. With strobing red eyes and audio outs in the rear; this baby is hacked.

Take a look at the making of Hack Baby. More photos can be seen on Flickr. There are description and notes to hep describe the process. I also did a recording of Hack Baby using the audio out in the rear into GarageBand.

Parts List:
2 Jumbo red LEDS
2 100k Potentiometers
Fancy Knobs or Dials
3 Small push buttons
Various Resistors (used to create pitch bend)
Various Capacitors (used to create pitch bend)
Wire
Solder

Links:
Flick Page
Hack Baby Video * exporting now
Hack Baby Audio

Flickr Photos
Hello
New Eyes
Lava Eyes
Devil
Buttons
Ass Jack
Work Space

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/03/hack-baby-2/feed/ 4 Electric Sheep http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/03/electric-sheep/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/03/electric-sheep/#comments Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:52:04 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=154 The creator of Electric Sheep, Scott Draves spoke at school. The concept that goes into Electric Sheep is so powerful. It was amazing to hear the philosophy and structure behind the project. Not to mention the HD Projections.
Electric Sheep

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/03/electric-sheep/feed/ 0 Tune in. Turn on. Drop by. http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/02/tune-in-turn-on-drop-by/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/02/tune-in-turn-on-drop-by/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:20:44 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=150 The Parsons Design and Technology show is running at the Felissimo Design House. Everyone should go and check it out.

Tenth Floor
Felissimo Design House
February 22-28, 2006
Felissimo Design House
10 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019

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IMG_6985

Links:
Instructables
Boing Boing
Urban Data Flickr

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/02/led-throwies/feed/ 0 Baby Hack http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/02/baby-hack/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/02/baby-hack/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:26:43 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=140 Update: The baby makes it to boingboing.net. This is crazy. Baby Hack

I bought a $10 electronic baby in china town. I cracked it open and soldered a couple of switches to the the speaker. Now the baby is possessed and I have hacked a baby.

Photo Set
Hack a baby (via my Parsons Blog)

Baby Hack

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Taking “Geek Graffiti” this semester, good stuff going on. keep up.
Flickr Photos

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2006/02/geek-graffiti-2/feed/ 0 Parsons & NYC http://toddvanderlin.com/2005/10/parsons-nyc/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2005/10/parsons-nyc/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:54:02 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=92 Haven’t posted really anything about Parsons and NYC. I finally started to bring my camera around so ill have some more pictures up soon. School is amazing, It is so hard to explain to people what I’m doing. Classes are really hard but I can’t get enough of them. I’ve met awesome people and have a good group of friends. NY night life is something else, this city really never sleeps. Ill get some more photos up.

Keep in touch all.

Here is one of my assignments. I programmed my first micro-controller. It plays some funny little drum and bass loops and lights sync with it.
Stamp

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2005/10/parsons-nyc/feed/ 3 Parsons http://toddvanderlin.com/2005/03/parsons/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2005/03/parsons/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:21:38 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/?p=3 Parsons Letter

I thought that this day would never come, I got into art school. I was accepted by Parsons School of Design, for the design and technology department. It simply feels amazing. Im off to New York now for a interview and a meeting.

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