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MIT
Here’s the (edited) interview I did with Jesse of metaLAB @ Harvard, talking about Zeega, his new platform for interactive documentary production.
Courtesy BetaBeat, sent to me by Ytorf.
And just for the record, I got into ITP for grad school, but declined because I got fully funded at MIT and only half funded at NYU. However, I’m not fully versed in IP Law and I do prefer Hot Glue to Efficient Code, but that’s because I’m a CMS person, not a Media Lab person. I just work here. Still, it’s funny, if you get it.
Behold, the spontaneous and potentially fruitful collaboration between Harvard’s metaLAB (creators of Zeega, a new Knight Foundation grant winner) and MIT alums (well, me, representing the Center for Civic Media, and my friend Danielle, presently in DC).
We got the grant to kick off an idea to make a Vehicle of Many Uses, which will be a traveling story collector (via photo/video/audio/etc.) and mobile exhibition unit, projecting the collected stories to the communities who participated. That’s the idea, at least.
Action shot courtesy of A.W.
Bon Iver has a new single out. Calgary, it’s called. From one Bon to another, I can say that band is always great.
I’m stressed out about rewriting this conference paper, which must include an updated lit review and redesigned data visualisations, so I did what I always do in these situations: I bought some hats. I’m broke but I don’t regret it.
Now I have about 36 hours to get it done. Feel buoyed, slightly, by the fact that all around me undergrads are cramming for their finals and frantically writing long papers. Graduation is around the corner (day before my birthday), and it’s going to be sadder than ever when the campus is empty. No one to appreciate the cherry blossoms. No ponytailed boys in trenchcoats riding scooters through the courtyard while singing out loud. No blue-haired girls stumbling out of their dorms. Just PhD students at the media lab, losing more of their hair while building robots and interactive gadgets that light up while simultaneously measuring your cholesterol level and/or emotional well-being. Gotta love MIT.
I will miss it when/if/if ever/if eventually/finally/ultimately I go.
Also made for the conference. Supposed to give a sense of the neighborhood.
And, though it will make no sense without three of us talking over it, this is [the visual part of] our presentation in its entirety:
Am making a presentation for the Media in Transition conference this weekend. One part of it has to show a summary of a community action meeting on Oderberger Straße in Berlin. So I grabbed this video clip. Sped up, it’s very funny.