These images ended up being printed into posters for a German Language award at NAU back in 2002. Sorry that the fonts are messed up but I designed them on a Mac at Canisius and just compressed them on my PC at home so the fonts were missing. The bottom two had such ugly font problems that I cut off the words. There were ten in all.

die Austern


der Spargel


die Raupe


die Wueste

Early in 2000 I found this Xray as part of collection owned by the lab I worked for in Arizona. Since then I have used to data from the image in order to make several other projects. I am most interested in how digital art can be translated like languages from one digital medium to another but using the same set of data to produce radically different results.

Photoshop Original


Illustrator


Cinema 4D render of vector point cloud data


Maya Render of point cloud model created from c4d data

test

Maya has failed me big time. After creating all of models and getting ready to export it starts having mega memory errors. I have a feeling its mixing the wrong version of performer with the wrong export plugin and freaking out. I am really sad.

My mother works as a voting attendant in Kenmore and told me that out of 600 registered Democrats in her area only 83 showed up for the primary. She and the other voting attendents said that they thought it would be a lot better if all the primaries were on the same day. They figure the low turn out is because everyone just assumed Kerry would win after the he won in the other states.

She also said it was almost all old ladies that turned out to vote.

For a long time now, it seems that the browser has just been something we use to receive data. It is imperative that we turn that relationship inside out. I have this terrible fear that, as Matthew puts it, "that the internet is slowly turning into the television." It was most apparent when our AOL instant messenger client started playing full video/audio commercials. The first time it happend, it really freaked me out and we switched to trillium right away.

We don't have television, so it was really freaky to suddenly hear an advertisement. Anyways, people need to stop using the browser as just that, a browser. Right now, more than ever, people are able to share whatever information they want over the net using sites like this one. No longer, is it necessary for the average person to have to learn to web code, or deal with the often complicated tasks of server administration in order to share ideas.

So I ask why are more people not doing it. Is it because they haven't heard about it? I think some people assume it is still difficult. It is amazing opportunity to publish yourself, in this case free of charge. I can't believe how many people have viewed the site. It makes me question why every place doesn't have one. Toronto does Greater Toronto Area Blogger Site

So CNN published this article about blogging, making it seem like a not so important trend. I wonder if its true or if they are trying to put it out, because it could begin to interfere with the information of the power structure.

Accoridng to CNN
"NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called blogs and even fewer do so with regularity, a new study finds.

Some bloggers indeed update their journals often, in some cases several times a day. But it's clearly a minority who are taking advantage of the blog and its potential to steer the online discourse with personal musings about news events and daily life.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project, in a study released Sunday, found that somewhere between 2 percent and 7 percent of adult Internet users in the United States actually keep their own blogs.

Of those, only about 10 percent update them daily, the majority doing so only once a week or less often. "

What is really crazy is that most people are totally comfortable opeing their computers to sharing stolen music and files, yet totally uncomfortable with sharing their thoughts.

Here is a timeline of blog history.