Welcome to day 39 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 61 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspiration is:
Welcome to day 38 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 62 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
OMG.
model "busy office"
Today’s “helping me as busy as possible and in all places at all times” inspirations are from Gizmodo:
and
Alright Alright. Uncle. There is a way to improve everything we do with technology. The me of four years ago would shake my head at the me of now who is willing to agree to this so enthusiastically. In the last year I’ve really had my world blasted open with new understandings of ways to accomplish a task. I never thought I’d make it to a digital calender, or share almost all photos online, or sit at a desk with two computers and a wacom tablet thinking about how to integrate technology into the gardening project I’m working on with colleagues in Alabama. Sheesh!
In the midst of all of this tech incorporation into my life I feel like I’m accomplishing more than ever and am abel to deal with more data than ever before. I have recently wondered if people understand how busy I am. In the office where I work, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in PA I am surrounded by some great minds. Everyone is hacking away at some fantastic project and it inspires me to work as hard as I can. I have been looking at my work place and wondering if it looks like I work hard. There’s work stuff strewn about but really random stuff too. Because so much of my work is in a computer or outside of the office I feel like I’ve lost a way to represent that I am working beyond physically being here. I’ve been staring at my office-mates places and came up with an idea:
Decorative “flag post-its” that spread color and the air of ” I am soooo working on things!”
Thanks for the inspiration STUDIO mates. This is what I work on when I stay in the office late…
BEFORE...
AFTER!! So busy, right?
Cost of materials: $2
Amount of time spent: 30 min.
Amount of fun had: 9 
Welcome to day 37 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 63 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspiration comes from:
Boingboing’s
Welcome to day 36 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 64 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspiration is:
From the Economist:
Oct 30th 2008
From The Economist print edition
Bluefin tuna have been over fished for generations and are now becoming endangered.
So I made them a website. And will answer mail on their behalf.
cost of materials: $0
Time Spent: 15min.
Amount of fun had: 7
Welcome to day 36 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 64 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s Inspiration is:
Microsoft is betting that an increasing number of its customers will want their applications on tap — from “the cloud” (i.e., the Internet) — in the years ahead. And it’s going to charge them subscription fees that cover hosting, maintenance, upgrades, and the software itself.
Microsoft’s pitch to business: “Pay for the services you use and reduce capital costs associated with purchasing hardware and infrastructure.” With Windows Azure, “You can scale at the click of a mouse to meet seasonal demands or spikes in traffic based on sales and promotions,” the company assures.
Today’s project: Imaging “the cloud” of the Internet. I’ve never heard it referred to in this term. I took the opportunity to turn the term into a drawing assignment. 
Total cost of materials: $2
Time spent: 30 min.
Amount of fun had: 4. Though I think I’m catching the flu and it’s impacting my fun levels.
Welcome to day 35 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 65 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspirations are drawn from:
Gizmodo’s
All of today’s inspirations are flowing from one continually wonderful feed: Gizmodo! Hats off to the people who continually dredge up great inventions.
Today’s project is a design. In reading the news I think of lots of things to make in response and then filter based on what I can actually make. The process of taking an invention from idea to creation, especially when one comes up with an idea that they cannot accomplish on their own, never ceases to stump and amaze me at the same time. I have had some humbling experiences in the past week that have reminded me that I have to focus on learning if I’m to achieve my goals, but that a short cut to some of my goals can emerge through collaboration.
A few people I know manage create with immediate fabrication abilities in mind. One of those people, Johnny Lee, continues to see success in his work and takes an amazing approach to collaboration. Johnny crates cool wii tools ( along with many other things) and makes instructions on how to make what he made open to all at no cost. Very simply his approach has been described to me as: Put great ideas out into the world, great ideas will come back, and creativity/innovation will multiply more quickly- for you and everyone else.
I wonder how many great ideas have been held back because of the fabrication obstacles?
Today I send a general request to the world:
Will you make a Hydration Bracelet for me?
This bracelet would be made of a water sensitive material that absorbs perspiration from your skin and senses whether or not you are dehydrated. You would have a quick visual prompt to remind you to drink water. If this bracelet were popular people around you would also see if you were dehydrated. They could encourage or remind you to drink water. There presence could also serve as a motivation simply because people like to project a message that they are healthy and caring for themselves. A person wearing the bracelet would feel silly ordering coffee instead of juice or water.
I am waiting for my bracelet or some better version of it. The sketches are below. Contact me for my mailing address.
amount of fun had: 4
Welcome to day 34 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 66 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspiration is:
from BLDG BLG
I come across today’s article with joy and twitchy reserve. UNESCO has made public maps of the world’s water reserves in an effort to “help pave the way to an international law to govern how water is shared around the world.”
Hmm. I have been looking at and reading about maps lately. It seems that as soon as an area as imaged the human brain begins to not only attempt to understand the imaged area but to control and influence it also.
I will keep it short and sweet today: I wonder if we will see in coming years an ever more “rare and exotic” market in waters from all regions and ages. I also wonder if first world countries will vie for power in areas where there is water the way they fight over land for oil today.
Today’s project is a witty comic:
Total Cost of Materials: $0
Amount of time spent: 30 min.
Amount of fun had: 7
Welcome to day 33 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 67 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspiration is:
from Psychology Today:
Welcome to day 32 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 68 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s Inspiration is:
While in Chicago this summer I attended an event put on by a group of artists called Hideous Beast, who take artist’s works that are instruction based an make them a real, public, event you can attend. Thanks to Hideous Beast some friend’s and I spent a lovely windy day making kites in the great lakes. Todays’ project serves a duel purpose of doing something with a great piece of fabric I was loosing patience for, and serves as a vehicle for me to pass this idea on to you. Great art for your walls, no more loose fabric!! Try it!!!
Cost of materials: $0
Time spent:45min.
Amount of fun had: 4
Welcome to day 31 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 69 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspirations are:
from The Design Blog:
Naresh Chauhan | Oct 24 2008
from Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2008)
and
ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2008
Wow. I have new love for the Science Daily Blog. But maybe I wouldn’t like it so much if it weren’t for
Blog Around the Clock’s great picks!!
Today life is reaching out and shaping how I read the news. I accidentally left some raspberries in my car the other day and after just one day in the car ( it wasn’t even hot outside) I had launched an amazing raspberry mold farm. I had never seen such furry mold and it reached out close to an inch from the berries. On the end were little dark buds- for spores I guess. The images are a mix of enticing and gross. So much red!!!
You are encouraged to click on the images to see close ups!!!
cost of materials: $0
amount of time spent: 30 min.
amount of fun had: 8
