ProphecyBoy

There's startup theater going on up in here! - more on Twitter
May 11th 2005
Tags: Exploded Media, Gay

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Drag Yourself Out of Bed

Wanda Wisdom (of Lucky Bitch Radio) is offering personal wakeup calls from our favorite podcasting drag queen. Signup now, and Wanda will berate your ass out of bed on May 31st. It's a brilliant - *ahem* - fabulous promotion. I'm a bit baffled by the logistics (I mean, what if this ...
March 31st 2005
Tags: Announcements, Gay, Navel Gazing

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Pulling Out

Well that was fast. After just three weeks, I have pulled out of FleshBot (so to speak). Suffice it to say that I'm extremely busy, and the research and writing was weighing me down. I just don't think that porn is my destiny, in any form, tho I'm wondering if ...
March 29th 2005
Tags: Gay, Los Angeles, Navel Gazing

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Things I saw at lunch today

The ocean, for the first time since I've worked within walking distance of it (2 weeks). It was absolutely gorgeous - sunny and windy, creating really nice waves. Seagulls playing in the wind. There were a few who really seemed to like flying into the wind, which would cause them to ...
February 8th 2005
Tags: Gay

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Desperately Seeking Marcia

It turns out Marcia Cross is the gay Housewife. I was hoping it was her, but suspected it was Eva Longeria, who was a bit more "plucked from obscurity" than the others. I've loved Marcia Cross ever since her halcyon days on Melrose Place. The moment when she removed her wig ...
February 3rd 2005
Tags: Gay

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The Superbowl is Gay

This is fabulous - Superrbowl XXiX for the Clueless, by Outsports: You’re in a gay bar and you’re the Eagles. There is this really hot guy staring your way and you finally screw up the courage to say hello. Much to your chagrin, you realize he was eyeing the guy behind ...

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Colophon

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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March 12th 2009
Tags: ITP, Social Software Studio, Thesis, Uncategorized No Comments

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 ...
April 14th 2008
Tags: Social Facts, Social Software Studio No Comments

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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