#nik

soft again

i found flowers near my office

i have been drawing lots. proper scans soon to come.

hello old friend

practicing to zanarkand [ 05-05 ] from FFX (slower? i hope?)

brainz
drawing anatomy diagrams i find on wikipedia helps me unwind

mad whimsical.
handmade beads by muano

fine tuning tempo // to zanarkand [ 04-29 ] from FFX

received a whole bunch of beads in the mail the other day from muano! what a lovely surprise. there’s a sale going on at the moment, too, so i highly recommend taking a look at his fantastic work.

now there are six on my necklace. more photos to come.
msg to sender: the belts are coming! :)

lucy recently hooked me up with an awesome amount of ginger tincture. she is the bomb and this stuff helps keep inflammation under control. i take it at least three times a day.

my hair is soooooo fluffy today. it is most pleasing.

to zanarkand - 04-18-12

i suspended my phone above my keyboard with ribbons some metal-clip photo older thing. it’s a little noisey, be warned.

programmersbeingdicks:

Backup screenshot here.

this is prettttttttty gross. i am honestly surprised/saddened by it. check out the screenshot.

• NSA: well you gotta tell it what to grep from what
• NSA: pipe that shit my dear

practicing “konstantine” by something corporate [04-15]

practicing to zanarkand [ 04-15 ] from FFX

trying some new things, arpeggiated chords in the faster part. also i kinda like it at a slightly faster tempo, but still need to work on staying consistent with it.

this is my i-woke-up-at-5:30-because-i-fell-asleep-at-10 face. i even took a bath with some fizzy shit that turned the water green, showered, got a coffee, did some work and listened to the decemberists.

not bad.

more glass beads.

the green one is by muano and the one with blue bumps is from GlasSmile

• Death flips the room
• puffler flips Death
• khf does a barrel roll
• Death lands on his hand
• Inksac counterflips a flip, rendering it netural

progress on To Zanarkand

finished memory map. view the full, readable version here. (huge .jpg)
this thing owned the crap out of my computer!

finished, for now. i’d like to pick this up again when i have a LOT more free time. view extra large.

use of “um” and “uh” throughout a 25 minute spoken conversation between three 21 year old females.

use of obscenities throughout a 25 minute spoken conversation between three 21 year old females.

the word itself is the one used the most by that person. sizes are proportional to how many times they were said.

use of the word ‘like’ throughout a 25 minute spoken conversation between three 21 year old females.

irc poetry
view as plain text

irc poetry:

something like magnetic/cut-up-word poetry, but a little more structured. the poems are 2+ word phrases taken from a segment of dialogue. spelling and case is preserved, but puncuation and spacing may be modified. the phrases are presented in chronological order.

note: the right side is color/letter coded by line to show what was said by different contributors of the conversation (letters a-h)

why?

an irc chatroom is an interesting experience. it’s like always having one ear in a room full of people having a discussion. it goes on whether you participate or not, and every utterance is readable and re-readable by each person. entire conversations can be analyzed and quoted with accuracy. its major differences are its lack of nonverbal communication, physical contact, and the ability to sense when someone is about to speak or to whom they intend to speak to.

consequently, there are interesting observations to be made when you can see an entire conversation laid in front of you. the way conversation flows and changes, especially amongst a group, is absolutely fascinating. these poems play with this and the fact that data visualization doesn’t always have to be charts and graphs or even contain quantifiable information.

view as plain text

second half of dialogue experiments: working with text logs from an IRC chatroom that’s been running for the better part of some years.

a particularly busy area of memories. only partially done…

inciong:

Yo
Check thems:

http://www.dubberly.com/ (see concept maps)
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ (yeah!)
http://coolinfographics.blogspot.com/

the concept maps on dubberly are really cool. i am curious if they might be better in a thinner, vertical format though, because it’s hard to take in something you can only read the text at certain levels- like the DNS map. print is certainly superior for things like this.

interestingly enough, i was finishing a tufte book today and he made a point to say that if the data commands no shape to aim for a horizontal orientation. i think this is only applicable to print though, because the natural direction for viewing things on a web browser is up and down. get with the times, edward. (this could be relevent to the transferring to different media idea)

picked up some reading for the next project.

my creative nonfiction professor pointed me towards deborah tannen. i found the other two while wandering around the same section. conversation analysis seems like it will be the most helpful, and the communication and cyberspace one isn’t really related to the project at all, but looked too cool to pass up!

writing out memories

view the map [jpg]

this is just the base. time to start marking memories.

first attempt at the legend

more than halfway done with the streets. purple line is the main avenue of my town.

viewing at about 8%
rotated 90° counter clockwise

i love SAI for letting me rotate the canvas like a piece of paper

actual size: 8 by 23 inches

holyfuckingmapbatman.psd

trying to figure out how i’m going to obtain a large map with my town’s boundaries…

i can possibly expand the edges to neighboring areas (and make the mapped area a rectangle) which would evade the issue, add a bunch of extra memories and maybe give more context?

we’ll see. i’m shooting to have the base map assembled and then drawn in the next week, then will try different styles for the labeling, and then… finish mapping out the memories.

stitching together a lot of screenshots from google maps

next up: determine boundaries, then create base map.

throwing ideas around, working out details.

printing + hanging process

title: relations, ships & wrecks (2009)
urls: shipsandwrecks.com // single page
proposal: view as image // download as .pdf

gallery photos of the maps, and my awesome mom

date: early may, 2009 at M.S.U.
photos: chris fetherston, j.r.

title: relations, ships & wrecks (2009)
urls: shipsandwrecks.com // single page
proposal: view as image // download as .pdf

the six finished maps

TITLE: relations, ships & wrecks (2009)
URLS: shipsandwrecks.com // single page
PROPOSAL: view as image // download as .pdf

viafrank:

Time flows, but which way? This quarter I’m teaching an information design class, and my students and I were having a conversation yesterday about the ways time can be visually represented. The answer, predictably, is a timeline…

this is a short bit on looking at time and direction in non-standard ways. this project utilizes multiple directions- the most obvious of which is really not all that practical, or relevant to the purposes of the project.

it’s a bit tight to follow the spiral month by month, year by year. but what fun is that? what were this person’s septembers like? their summers? winters? the first or second half of their life?

sitting by their wall space.

a lot more squares

27/84 squares

picked up the mounted prints today. they look great, except there is a thin black sliver of an edge visible on four of them! (left side only)

super frustrating, don’t have time to get them trimmed again. also picked up extra foamboard, adhesive and hanging wire.

title/legend print

dropping off prints to be mounted on foam!

22 years / female

files are finished and ready for print!

27 years / male

finished?

working on the legend

finished!
you can see the details in the .pdf

33 yrs/male in progress

progress!