ProphecyBoy

Strange to think that the thing we've been working on for the past 6 months is launching next week. Huh. - more on Twitter

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 ...

Twitter-pated at SXSW

Nope, i'm in like with you didn't catch, but Twitter's tipped the tuna this year at SXSW. I am, of course, here. We've discussed the overabundance of ways to keep our group together in Austin. I'll call/text/dodgeball/twitter/plaze you later once we've sorted it out.

Prospect Park boathouse

Prospect Park boathouse Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy. This is 15 minutes from my apartment. Amazing.

Parlor Pics

The Parlor - front of the building Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy. Photos of my new apartment are now in my Flickr stream. check them out!

packed!

packed! Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy. UPS arrives tomorrow morning to move 700 pounds of my stuff to New York. Time for bed!

My father, the pirate

My dad is occasionally a professional actor. He's done a couple commercials, and some short films, and had a non-speaking role in Ali as a judge for one of the matches. He likes it, and it gets him out and meeting people, which is good, though he's never landed anything ...

One Time Only

"There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born. You and I are alive at this moment." - ...

God is not a DJ

I really like this quote from Fran Lebowitz in the Wired article on the unrelenting ubiquity of music nowadays: "I am no more interested in hearing 'Mack the Knife' while waiting for the shuttle to Boston than someone sitting ringside at the Sands Hotel is interested in being forced to ...

The best mail day of the week

The best mail day of the week Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy. Contents of my Fort Awesome mailbag yesterday: - Rocketboom t-shirt - a first edition of Lockpick Pornography (plus a LP pin) Aside from actually receiving an answer about grad school, this is my ...

Like Bunnies

GDC Poster Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy. From the Game Developer's Conference, via Kotaku. It's still making me giggle, days after I first spied it. Um...t-shirt, please?

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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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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