No class Monday April 2

Scott made us get up early

You all might remember the idea of starting at 8:30 or 9:00 today was floated around but Scott insisted we start at 8:00.

It's now 8:45 and Scott is not here...

We are preparing the effigy for burning.

Assignment for FRIDAY

Yes, we will have class on Friday -- let's meet normal time (8-ish...) Donut holes would be welcome.

Your assignment: read the chapter from "Twisty Little Passages" (left in Ravi's box Ryder 239 after class).

Schedule moving forward

Due to the presidential inauguration at Northeastern, classes will cease at 9:15 am tomorrow (Monday), so we will have a short class. I look forward to Group B presenting their ideas for review.

Group 1 can present any updates, as well.

Because of the inauguration, Friday March 30th will have Monday classes observed.

So we WILL meet on Friday morning for our regular class -- we'll look at video games as narrative.

However, due to the fact that WGBH will be moving my office that weekend, I won't be able to come in on Monday, April 2 -- so that will be an "open lab" session. I will look for a project status update on the class blog or project wiki.

I'll see you all in the a.m.!

Group B project proposal and timeline.

Basic idea: A twitter for video using youtube in the back end. Allows instantanious upload of videos from people's mobile phone's right to the web for all to see.

Front end: A blogger/wordpress/or other website that, instead of blog entries, has a vertical stream of youtube videos submitted by users from their mobile phones.

Back end: Create a youtube account and enable mobile device upload email. Publish that email on the site so that anyone can send a video and have it appear in that youtube account. Rip an rss or xml feed of that youtube user onto the blog and make it look pretty.

Timeline: Week one. Testing and back end.
Week two. Front end, css layout and design.
Week three. Publicize around school/friends. work out kinks.
Week four. Take it to the masses baby!!!

guys?

Some project ideas to once again catalyze action:

I like the quick cell phone vids. Perhaps a platform for people to upload, mix, and match videos on the fly? This could be done using the Youtube API in a flash front end. People could MMS their movies to a public youtube email which our supposed website would then reference for people to mess with.

Or back to the video games idea and finding a way to expand a classic game into the meggamultiplayer cell phone world. An online game of tetris or asteroids could be controlled by hundreds of people at once via sms. I'm not sure if the technology is as readily available as the youtube api but perhaps we could tap a site like Twitter or even simple aim clients to access sms data.

Two ideas. waduya think?

Coffeebabyyeah

Click to Play

A resuscitating piece shot and edited by the Creating for Convergence class at Northeastern University on the Nokia N93.

My first N93 video

Check out the first video I shot and edited with the Nokia N93.

Group 1 project proposal

Group 1 consists of Billy, Original Ryan and Scott. Follow this link to our prospectus for our final project.

group 1 prospectus and website purpose

So go ahead and follow the link and see what we are attempting to do in the next 6 weeks!

-Scott

Group 1

Group 1 is Myself, Billy and Ryan. I emailed Billy today and he is thinking something along the lines of adding his music talent to the scope of the project. I want to add some of my web expertise to the project and that leaves Ryan. Ryan you can do whatever you want as part of the project, I know you know flash so we can add that in there somewhere. As for project ideas, we should make a collaborative talents project and we have 6 weeks to do so. I am going to foward this on as an email as well, however, Ryan give me some ideas as to what you would like to do as a final project and I will send you and Bily mine. This is technically due now...but we can work on it tomorrow if you would like.

-Scott
scott@newfrontproductions.com
978-985-0509

project timetable

March 12 (concept phase / brainstorm -- post ideas today, finalize tomorrow)
March 19 (formal project spec with schedule and sketches/blueprint
March 26 (walk through -- could be paper or powerpoint or html)
April 2 One component developed fully.
April 9th, guest Dennis Crowley.Alpha version (ready to be tested, observed, critiqued, fixed) --
April 16th Beta (everything fixed, should be hunky dory)
April 23-27 Final Delivery!

Field Trip!

I'd like for us to get OUT of the classroom and check out some stuff around town.

One opportunity could stem from the fact that we will only have a short class on Monday, March 26th (due to the Northeastern President's inauguration). And Northeastern will be on a Monday schedule for Friday, March 30th (apparently).

So I propose that we meet on the afternoon of the 30th (Friday) over at MIT's List Gallery at 4:00 (there's a gallery talk at 6 if people want to stay for that).

Final Project Planning

Get together in your group to utilize your Wikispaces entry on your final project. Components for successfully planning and executing a group project:

• A Robust Project Spec (creative concept, technologies to be used, and cited examples)
• Production Timetable (work backwards from final delivery date, set intermediate goals)
• Individual Tasks (divide the work so that each member knows what they are responsible for).
• Regular check-ins (establish a regular means of checking in with each other)

The goal is to have a solid piece to present during our FINALS week (week of April 23rd).

03/12/07 class

For your final projects, I want to see things that are:

• Conceptual
• Experiental
• Experimental
• Bug-free

Push yourselves to think of something that goes beyond sitting at a computer. Remember our goal is to create for the convergence of media.

To that end we will look at some projects that subscribe to that model:

Invisible Ideas
(HOMEWORK: Read through Bill Perry's article on Adobe.com -- look at the overview as a good example of a writing a project spec for your final project.)

New Gaming node exemplar of MITs Project NML

My own Concerto for Voicemail #1

The Beast
(HOMEWORK: Read the PDF abstract, This Is Not A Game: Immersive Aesthetics and Collective Play)

The Lost Experience
(wikipedia entry on the Lost Experience)

and a look back at some convergent ideas from over 25 years ago!

Any other examples that you guys have found? Post comments with links!

Wiki Spaces

Here is a direct link to my Wikispaces Page So now we can read it in class and talk about what a fine student I am being writing and keeping on top of things like I am!

This site only seems appropriate

This just may list every possible "web 2.0" site. Click!