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Blog Post 1 -- Response to Ezra Klein Interview with Moshin Hamid

Quote 1: as we merge with our screens — and we spend an enormous amount of time staring into our screens and doing things with them — we’re encountering a sort of a machine culture that is, by its very nature, sort of sorting-based. A huge amount of our cultural activity now is sorting things. Do I like this or not like this, do I follow this person or not follow this person, does this person like me or not like me? And if I identify a meaningful aspect of their identity, which is not like me, the person is fundamentally, in some way, opposed to me and in conflict with me. And what we have to do, for a lot of people, is to separate from or, even worse, extinguish the people who are not like us.

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Personality Words - Class 1

mellow

delighted

anxious

sad

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HI EVERYONE!

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10 Personality Words

BASIC CAMERA OPERATION FOR CANON VIXIA HFR21

User Manual Table of Contents is on pages 10-13

 1      Power Switch ON 

2      Open LCD Display, look for FUNC in upper left.  If it disappears, tap the screen and it will reappear.

3      White Balance (page 73 in Manual):  Press WB and then chose AWB or Custom WB.  With Custom WB, point the camera at something white and press again. Hold down until icon stops blinking.

AWB is best if you are moving from one kind of light to another.  Custom WB is best in one type of light. Your reference white can be a piece of paper or card, but must be in the same lighting that is lighting your subject.

4      Video Quality (p 60):  Use XP+. Do not use LP or MXP. SP or FXP is ok. Most important thing is to use the same quality for all your footage.

5      Frame Rate (p 61): Use PF30.  

        Do not use PF24.  60i is okay, but not recommended.

6      Recording: Press red button. Press red button again to stop recording.

When done shooting, before you return camera:

1      Every time you finish with your camera you must drag all files from the camera to your external drive.

2      Make a folder on your external drive called Video_TodaysDate (example: Video_April2) and drag the entire folder (or package) named AVCHD from the camera.

3      If you do multiple shooting days, make a folder for each day and put each AVCHD folder inside a dated folder.

4      Erase footage from the camera, if you need room for more footage. (Deleting Scenes, page 56 of manual.)

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click to see beautiful biomorphic math 3D prints takin’ my breath away.

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Carbon Monoxide Alarm from Target. June 2015

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Cool Fab ideas from the Co-Lab at RISD. June 2015

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New fangled designs for playgrounds.

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The 2013 method called CLARITY allows researchers to see directly into optically transparent whole brains or thick blocks of brain tissue.  it was devised by Karl Deisseroth and his team at Stanford University in California.

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This Is What Math Equations Look Like in 3-D | These six bulges (two are in back) exhibit a dihedral symmetry and a confident attitude. The creases where they meet correspond to singularities in the defining equation. UIUC Altgeld collection | WIRED.com

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Micro-Robots

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Video on Pendulum Waves

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Post by D-Verso.

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32 Random Metronomes Sychronize

One of the best illustrations of bodies affecting bodies through micro-vibrations in connecting membranes.

Reinforces my theory that skin activity contributes to the mechanism of "intuition."

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Touch Hunger Theater Maquettes (In Progress)

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First drawing on my new Wacom Tablet.

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Technology (from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia[1]) is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures.

from the Wikipedia entry on Technology

Why do I find that quote so exciting?  Why do I find the phrase "problem-solving" so captivating?  Why am I drawn to the idea of "tools?"  It feels like it's in my blood.