Sunday, December 17 from 2 to 6pm
Monday, December 18 from 5 to 9pm

Thanks to Andrew Schneider for producing the postcard and graphics this year. This event is free and open to the public. More information is available on the show website.

Yesterday I spent the morning at the New York Public Library tracking down an issue of Life magazine from September 10, 1945. The public library on 40th and 5th Avenue is an amazing place. If you haven't been there, go, now, its worth the trip. The old wood, ornamental brass, and marble interior have such warmth and integrity. Its hard coming back the to plastic laminate tables here at school. If you can't make it over there, well... you could always rent GhostBusters.

Life magazine republished As We May Think, the influential Vannevar Bush article (no relation to the president) with photographs after the
original publication in the Atlantic Monthly. Vannevar's ideas about the future have influenced the minds of computer scientists, photographers, and sociologists for centuries. Specifically, I was interested in finding the original article to see in what context it had been published and the see if any more information could be gleaned from the original photographs. Reproductions of the article imagery can be found on this Japanese web site.

In the image to the left, the caption reads "A scientist of the future records experiments with a tiny camera fitted with (a) universal-focus lens. The small square in the eyeglasses at the left sights the object". Bush envisioned a world wear wearable documentation could be accomplished by wearing a 'Cyclops Camera'. Images would be recoded in what he described "Dry Photography" (this point was particularly interesting to me. Bush goes on to describe how 'it would often be advantageous to be able to see the image immediatly after it was taken'). I
documented the experience wearing my own a wearable documentation device. Is that my order of irony you have there on the table?

Over the weekend I tested an updated WayMarkr system. We've added the ability to log location information using a GPS module. Overall, things seem to be falling into place. The image to the left is a map generated by the location information captured with each photo. One interesting observation is that initially we didn't take resolution of the location information into account. Meaning, we still can't draw a continuous path of where users have traveled, i.e., we know a person got from point A to point B but we can't determine which direction they went to get there. This could be solved by logging location in between photographic points, or logging location as a continuous stream. Here's a link to the photo set and map from this past weekend. If you're interested in testing WayMarkr w/ GPS feel free to contact me. Also, the program for MUM 2006 is now available on line.

WayMarkr will be hitting the road this December. We recently found out that we've been accepted at
MUM, an anual conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Media. Also this week, WayMarkr received mention in a New York Sun article highlighting ITP.

Today, Tom Igoe posted a useful Illustrator Symbol library for drawing circuits.

The image to the left is part of a recursion AS class that I'm working of for Nature of Code. More images are avaliable , Text Recursion: one, two, thee. Or, view the animation.