This is a initial attempt to create a montage scene and i am slowly adding elements that will react to the audio track. More later, including plans for shot manipulation.

Goal: try anything

Wanted to create a script that mimicked the steps of creating a blurry vignette. and see if i can add a pulsating red light to make an injured feel like in first person shooters.

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sample portfolio page

>Goal: Increase documentation and adding to the projects database by providing value to the process. Most people don’t have time to make a portfolio page, and this will allow them to easily create one as they go instead of at the last minute. Value and incentive are increased to both document and use the floorsquare API because using it may increase your exposure to classmates, faculty and the public. We also wanted to have the ability to browse and search old projects in the database through a more comprehensive projects gallery to supplement the one on the main page.

project portfolio zip file: https://github.com/ghobot/portfolio

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I was excited for our assignment on government data because my Techcrumbs final looks to use large datasets to really mature. I first looked through the cavernous datasets of data.gov primarily in the world of commerce/exports. It was an ordeal, not because the government has done a bad job in serving this data up using a unified UI with loads of features, but because of the lack of urgency govt agencies have organized their data. It puts a developer at a disadvantage because at any point, when the government wakes up and realizes this is the future of everything and mandates the upkeep of better datasets, scores of web apps, and applications will be broken. If you have time though, you can see an unreal amount of amazingly relevant data. This data access evolution is a shockingly important point in our democracy.

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I was listening to this week in tech and they had this great conversation about consumption. I made a popcorn.js media of it with some commentary to show how it is related to Techcrumbs.org and sourcemap.org.

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Check out the demo here: Techcrumbs.org

Problem: This past weekend, the UN reported the 7 billionth person was born on earth. In about 200 years, we went from having 1 billion people on our planet to 7 billion. You might think that space is a problem, but you would be wrong. We have plenty of space, especially since the current human migration trend is toward super dense cities. The greater issue with so many people living on this planet is resources and demands on them. South Asia, South America, and Africa are all enjoying varying degrees of growth. This need for resources puts disastrous pressure on the environment and availability of water and food.

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Create, publish and socialize your own geo map using GPS functionality on device

I have been using google’s my tracks on my android phone and it has been challenging. It has many settings, including how often it alerts you of your travels, and how often it will ask where you are. It is not always accurate due to this granularity of sensitivity and the instability of the android platform. Dont get me wrong, i love my android phone but it is a model of flakiness. GPS location can nod off, even with plenty of sky above you. It worsens being in the concrete jungle that is NYC with its tall buildings. I found turning wifi on while the gps also is on can cause a very noisy track. I know that android phones use wifi to triangulate position, and in their other services, it is possible to get more accurate position data when it is on. That doesn’t seem so with this app. (continue reading…)