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The NYT Misreads Sex on Stage

The New York Times has an article up comparing the way sex is treated in two of the season's biggest hits, Spring Awakening and Company. What a good idea, I thought. Not quite... The article an awful conflation of being narrow-mindedly liberal (in the reading of Spring Awakening as outdated because ...

Backyard Drag: High Church video now online

I've (finally) posted the video from April's Backyard Drag production of High Church, which you can now find here, for streaming, downloading, and treasuring on your iPod forever and ever. Surprisingly, we passed Google Video's copyright and obscenity filters - go us! Seeing as it will probably be my last BYD ...

All Over the Place

As Erwin spotted, the LA CityBeat article on StreetWars came out yesterday, with the recounting of my assassination right in the first paragraph: "It was only 6:15 a.m. when Special Agent DB* dragged himself out of bed and joined the other two members of his team, who’d been lying in wait ...

*flip* & *cuddle*

It's probably less cute out of context, but today's Friendly Hostility is totally adorable, and cleared my sickness-addled mind with its warm fuzziness. I fully intend to use *flip* and *cuddle* as weapons. Also, I

Flaming Sci-Fi Bootcamp Mafioso

At this point, it's clear that Barry's Bootcamp is either one of two things: A front for the Gay Mafia. evidence: Today my class was attended by not only one of my freshmen year roommates, but also one of the guys I met with at here.) A testbed for Barry's experiments on bio-engineered ...

here! update

My meeting at here! turned out to be less of the pitchfest (or even the "give us all your ideas for free" landgrab) than I expected, and more of a job interview - for a job that doesn't exist. I was speaking with someone in marketing and someone in development, ...

here here!

Through a series of nearly inexplicable circumstances (somehow facilitated by margaritas and MySpace), I've got a meeting with some development and marketing folks at here! this Friday to talk about digital media strategy and (possibly) pitch them on developing original online content.[1] I can hear the collective "um...qoui?" The answer is ...

Hurry up-Date ™

I've been delaying posting an update to my speed dating adventure in the hopes that I'd have something a bit more exciting to report, but at 3 weeks out it appears that the Hurry Date (tm) story is pretty much a closed case. Keep in mind that the excitement of ...

Speed dating wrapup

So, as I said, I went speed dating last night through Hurry Date (tm). After much nervousness on my part, I'm happy to report that it was really fun, and not at all the disembowling trainwreck that I had feared. Well, no trainwreck yet, anyway. As you'll see, the results ...

Two things that I’m doing that are out of the ordinary (for me)

1) Tonight, I'm going speed dating. 2) Next week, Erwin and I are starting Barry's Bootcamp. As you'll note, talking to strangers and regular exercise are out of character for me. I'm trying to reboot my 2006 by fooling it into thinking I'm someone else. You know, someone who exercises regularly and ...

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Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Socialbomb, a social gaming startup in New York City. I recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

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Social Heroes: Games as APIs for Social Interaction (aka, my ITP thesis)

Because I've been busy/lazy and off the blogging habit, here, at long last, is my thesis for ITP, almost a year late. Comments and such are still more than welcome, as many of the ideas are still being worked on in my current projects, and Social Heroes itself is likely ...

Crazy Blind Date: A Quintet for Human & Computer

The appeal of Crazy Blind Date\ is immediately apparent, and seems custom-designed for busy city folks: “on very short notice we can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.” Created ...
March 29th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis 2 Comments

Social Heroes

My thesis has split into two ideas, something which was foreshadowed at the end of my midterm presentation. I mistakenly assumed that one of the ideas would seem obviously better than the other, but that hasn't happened. Rather, I'm stuck with two ideas which I think explore the ideas I'm ...
March 16th 2008
Tags: ITP One Comment

PCBs from Eagle to Production

In this post I'm going to explain how to output files from Eagle PCB in order to send your designs off to be professionally fabbed. There are two major steps before this in the process: creating the electrical schematic, and moving from that schematic to a board layout. I'm not ...
March 14th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis One Comment

Thesis: midterm presentation & playtest

| View | Upload your own ITP Thesis: Midterm presentation (with notes) (PDF) Here's the midterm presentation I just gave in my thesis section (the PDF includes the presenter notes, and is perhaps more comprehensible). I felt like this presentation was a return to form for me - lots of photos, ...

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