September 2013 archive

7 in 7 — Day 4 — Green Diet (Starbucks)

      I went to Starbucks to order a green tee frappuccino, and it is so sweet for me, so I realize although the frappuccino looks green, actually it is not ‘green’ for people’s healthy, so I make another bottle, full of grass, that means everyday we eat and drink should be healthy, I …

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Reading Response Week 3- Mashups

Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He Did It The way Burton describes a mashup as a deconstruction as opposed to just stealing and reproducing is fascinating. This reading makes it clear that  since a mashup is dealing with two separate media, it is important to cater to the restrictions of each to make …

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7 in 7 // Finally !!DAY7!!

For my final project, I tried to explore the new technology I haven’t used before, Makey Makey. When I played with Makey Makey, I found that when 2or more people playing the game, it makes really excited and feel collaborating with them. As a result, I wanted to make a game that can play with …

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Reading Responds — Mashup

Mashup, this words for me as a stranger, when I began to read, I’m interesting about the music mashup, and I search the song, which is mentioned in the article. One song in Jay-Z and Lincoln Park’s grey album, is combine the India style as background with rap, it sounds so funny, between these two …

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day7 Design Process footpage

  This is the last one project I did for 7 in 7 ,  and I decide to make a conclusion to the 7 in 7, to visualize the whole process of everyday project. And find out some design method I learned from this quick everyday project.    

7 in 7: Day 7 – The Trickster

Surprise No post…TRICKED YOU     Just Kidding…   Pre-Work Write-Up: The Trickster v Precedents and their themes: Loki – Thor Comic book and Movie Origin: Adopted Brother of the God Thor and a master of manipulation and Trickery. He enjoys playing allys and enemys alike against each other while staying out of the line …

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7 in 7: Day 6 – The Shadow

  Pre Work Write Up: The Shadow v Precedents and their themes: Sephiroth – Final Fantasy VII Video Game Origin: The Genetic clone of an evil scientist and the cells of an alien monster known as Jenova. Jenova’s goal is to devour planets and when he finds out he has been cloned Sephiroth aims to …

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7 in 7: Day 5 – The ShapeShifter

  Pre-Work Write Up: The ShapeShifter v Precedents and their themes: Land Calrissian – Star Wars Episode 5 & 6 Origin: Friend and fellow “rogue” character with Han Solo, He has become an overseer and authority figure in cloud city and in order to keep the city safe he makes a deal with Vader and …

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Reading Response: Mashup

I didn’t know what is mashup before reading the articles. Especially the article, “Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design” was caught my eyes because I am interested in ubiquitous computing design which is based on mashups. As I read them, I could realize that I already doing mashups such as referencing open source and using libraries …

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Reading Response Week Three: Mashup the World

Mashing up together or syncing, harmonizing or paralleling, original or edited, these are the questions I come up with when the word mashup appears. Several important issues when it comes to create a mashup project: 1. choice of materials; 2. (Re)Composition; 3. Post-editing. Good mashups take successful elements or aspects from different sources and rebuild …

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