ProphecyBoy

F8 was actually better than the after party so far. The sitar music is better than Thievery Corporation, for sure. #f8 - more on Twitter

Zombie-rific!

I've got not one, but TWO zombie links for ya: There's another zombie movie coming out this summer, but luckily it seems to be more 28 Days Later and less House of the Dead. I think these zombies may be aliens, too. That may be too much excitement. Check out the ...

Honest-to-god Zombies!

I bring you...real zombies! The BBC says that a certain mosquito in Cambodia not only carries death-inducing Malaria, but also can somehow restart the heart and vital organs of its victim for up to two hours after death. The individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a ...

Zombie Honeymoon

Zombie Honeymoon, which looks positively awesome if you happen to like zombies and/or "rom-zom-com" films (my new favorite genre: "romantic zombie comedies", recently popularized by Shaun of the Dead), is screening in LA at the Egyptian tomorrow night. I'm bummed that I'm going to miss it, but judging from the ...

Paris in April

We all know sex sells, and though us podfolk have had some good boy-on-podcast action for a couple of months now, all those straight kids out there have had nothing to get their hard drives spinning. If anything could thrust podcasting into the mainstream even faster than it's already getting ...

The New Black…Attacks!

I just had to post a link to this Zombie Infection Simulator. I think zombies are keen; they are the best of the stock horror movie monsters. A lot of that has to do with how easy it is to layer social critiques ontop of mindless, flesh-consuming automatons, I think. ...

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm currently finishing up my masters at NYU's ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program), 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 Socialbomb, 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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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, ...

Socialbomb was at ETech

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Socialbomb unit, originally uploaded by doryexmachina. Last week we took Socialbomb to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. We held a BoF session on getting social games away from the keyboard, and ran ...

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