Porked
Every business that has called your residence home has failed.
This is an open letter to the new Pdx Hawaiian establishment that shall remain nameless. A few suggestions to avoid the same fate.
Free Wifi – Your Wifi is private. You are a lunch destination. Lunch destinations are populated by workers who are on their lunch break. [...]
Flickr Uploadr = theGOOD Uploadr
I’ve been busy lately over at theGOOD
What it is
theGOOD Uploadr is a desktop application built on Adobe Air. The application is currently in alpha with a push to release beta around the first of the year 2010.
theGOOD Uploadr aims to improve and augment the Flickr experience by adding many features to the uploading process.
Some Links
theGOOD [...]
High Desert
Photos taken on a road trip from Pdx to Silver Lake, Oregon.
As we sat here…
… a fighter jet decided to dip down from above and buzz Detroit Lake.
The ground shook and my jaw dropped to the ground.
Wish I had known it was coming. I could have gotten a proper video. Not a bad capture given [...]
A Simple Pragmatic Health Insurance Reform Plan
A policy rant from an interactive designer? Yes. Our job as designers should be to make this world better, so here I go.
I’m writing this while sitting in a hospital waiting room while my father has a tumor removed. Obama is on the tv discussing the death of Ted Kennedy. So, this topic is heavy [...]
Boston Magazine
I had the pleasure of having some of my photos of the St. Anthony’s Feast published in the August issue of Boston Magazine.
And I’m pretty happy bout that.
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Multnomah County Does Nothing To Help Lost Dogs
Tonight we found a dog roaming Mt. Tabor. That’s him to the right. He was distressed and obviously lost. Like my two dogs, he had a Multnomah County ID Tag with the appropriate phone number to call. So, I called the number hoping to get some help in locating the dogs owner or someone to [...]
theGOOD.com
Originally posted @ http://www.thegood.com/social/index.php/category/blog/industry/thegood-com/
We’re pretty proud of our new site, so we thought we’d give some technical deets for all of our geek readers. We do hope the rest of you can appreciate it on a more laymen level.
The site is an aggregation engine that acquires feeds from both Wordpress and Yahoo Pipes. Pipes delivers [...]
Analyze This
Originally posted at theGOOD
Analytics Anyone?
Analytics. The word doesn’t show up in any spell checker, and dictionary.com barely even knows what it means. Then why does every client want it? Better question : why does every client buy them only to not use them? Website Analytics is akin to life insurance and here’s why…
Life Insurance – [...]
Show and Tell PDX
Last night I presented “Using Interfaces Without Interfaces” at Show and Tell Pdx. I showed off some Flash motion detection, Flash color detection and even demo’d a little voice speech recognition in Flash. Some of you asked for more info on how last one was accomplished. I’ll be posting more on this later.
Thank you to [...]
Google Docs + Yahoo Pipes = CMS
So, you’ve got a client that wants to manage their website content. They want to be able to update every field on their Flash website, er I mean “experience”. But there’s a catch… they FEAR technology and complex interfaces. They feel that Wordpress is too complex, never mind a proprietary custom build CMS.
What’s a developer [...]
Changes. For The Good.
Today is my last day at North. I’ve decided to leave my current position as Interactive Director to start my own business. The new business, an Interactive think tank with a focus on the experimental, is being developed and formed by myself and two other partners. In one short month we’ve gone from barely knowing [...]
Javascript vs Flash
A recent post by famed Flasher Paul Ortchanian, reflektions miniml, announced that he’s leaving Flash for Javascript. After his rant at Flash Forward last year on AS3, I’m not surprised. Though many in the industry will agree that Javascript is making some leap and bound advances lately, one also must agree Paul has made a [...]
Flickr – The Democratization of Photography and Other Creative Mediums
I’m a novice. I joined Flickr 3 years ago not to learn how to take photographs, I would have learned that regardless of participation, but to display the fruits of my learning. I went through many stages of post processing tricks, camera hacks, and pure photographic techniques. As this Times article poignantly states, I became [...]
Gravy
Gravy from chris teso on Vimeo.
Tax time = new toys, so I bought a Canon Mark II. The video above is me trying to get comfy with it. I realized last night that I probably need to move beyond iMovie. Hey gimme a break, I’m a Flash guy.
Taken with a canon mark II inside Gravy [...]
Music Visualization Engine and Generative Drawing
The Neural Orb from chris teso on Vimeo.
130 seconds of a music visualization engine and generative drawing built in AS3 using particles and physics engine.
See it in it’s 4:02 entirety HERE.
512 particles are released with instructions to randomly disperse throughout the scene. Variants include friction and wander. Particle location is constantly tracked and more particles [...]
Facebook and Social Networking
I recently had a chance to comment on a friends blog about how “weird” and “fake” Facebook is. This was my retort:
What’s more odd than Facebook to me is the fact that you analyze how odd Facebook is. I see this over and over again. People talking about online communities as if they are an [...]
AS3 Polar Coordinates and Radians
Many times I’ve set up interfaces where I need to place different objects equidistant around a central object. The solution to this problem is to first calculate the angle of each object by converting Radians to Degrees. This can be expressed by the following formula
So, you simply need to loop through your collection of objects [...]
Cancel Comcast + Apple Tv + Boxee
Well, it’s official. We just canceled Comcast ‘the commie’ Cable and purchased an Apple Tv. My plan is to install Boxee or XMBC as an alt media platform to the default Front Row. This will enable us to stream our cable favorites such as the Daily Show and Colbert free from Hulu rather than paying [...]
Interactive Reactive Experiential Enviro
A year or two ago when I started experimenting with creating applications that provide interactivity outside of a browser, in the environment, I thought it would take years before environmental experiences went to market. I thought there would be no demand by agencies for several years, no clients forward thinking enough to request interactive installations [...]
Using Yahoo Pipes to Aggregate Your Life
Chances are you publish content using multiple platforms dissipated across the interweb. For example, you may publish photo’s to Flickr, video’s to Vimeo and blogs to Wordpress. While each of these sites provide you with an RSS feed, a viewer would have to subscribe to each to be updated with all that you publish. Luckily [...]
Blogging While Driving
some random thoughts while driving:
1. in the near future, aka now, it will be increasingly important to be able to publish while driving, moving and generally doing anything.
2. reading Gladwells latest, outliers. good book thus far.
3. 40 percent of Canadian pro hockey players are born in jan-march. its not how talented you are, its what [...]
Look ma’s, we’re on the news!
Look ma’s, we’re on the news! from chris teso on Vimeo.
We’re on the news! Wait, I abhor the news and their ratings motivated scare tactics.
Well, anyway, Lis and I were on Portland news Channel 8 last night. Lisa is making her acting debut in some of the commercials for the city of Portland this year, [...]
Interactive Motion Detection Installation
Interactive Motion Detection Installation from chris teso on Vimeo.
Interface and motion design idea for future interactive installation using motion detection.
Words are chosen at random from a random pool of Flickr tags. The words are then broken down into individual characters. These characters are then animated based on the location of user interaction.
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Mind Controlled Interfaces
Watch CBS Videos Online
It’s work like this that makes my paltry experiments in motion detection interfaces look downright moot. Neuroscientists have gotten as far as to embed a chip inside a monkey’s brain, and figured out what brain activity signals that the monkey is trying to move its arm in what direction. This video shows [...]
Pdx Fall and Other Gayity
Coming from New England, I never thought I’d be so into foliage. I think it’s because living in Boston proper we never got to see the colors that the burbs or Vermont had to offer unless you actually left the city to traverse there, and who wants to do that? Well, I’m shamelessly admitting that [...]
Several random thoughts
Yahoo pipes – redonculously sexy visual coding engine that shall enable me to save countless hours while also providing a slick vehicle for hackery extraordinaire. Thanks Amber!
Control the music in my entire office and each of its separate zones from my iphone? Shit, yea.
I need a moleskin sketch book. All the cool kids have them.
In [...]
Equilibrium, the Human Mashup
This Friday -[Oct. 17th]- I will be part of SAO and the Portland Working Artists Network in presenting at Equilibrium, the Human Mashup, using the synergy of art and technology to revolutionize society. I am currently designing and developing an interactive art installation. A brief description of the project is below. I’m super excited to [...]
Sheep
, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Look familiar?
Look around you, look in the mirror… we’re all sheep [or goats in this instance] following the fed, following special interest, following our two party corrupt system, following each candidates fear campaign, following laws solely instituted for monetary gain. And, we’re about to elect more of the same under the [...]
1955
, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
I wasn’t alive in 1955, but Portland today is how I envision it must have been. Well, 1955 with an uber progressive green living attitude, lots of pot, people riding around on 10ft high bikes, mopeds, scooters and every car from a land yacht to a space mobile. When I say [...]
Flash Forward Reviewed
I’m sitting on Jones st. having morning coffee. It’s the final day of the conference and I’m sorry to say it’s been a fairly sizable disappointment. Most of the speeches, while well spoken and inspirational, have lacked substance. There’s been no meat and potatoes. Nobody has dove in to their process. It’s been way too [...]
Flash Forward San Francisco
I’m off to Flash Forward this week. It should be a great party in a cool city with some uber nerds. Just about all I need, besides my wife and pooch. Looking forward to seeing the Masonic Temple it’s being held in, and the new format chosen by Adobe. This will officially be my fourth [...]
Stay In
NymphoBrainiac, originally uploaded by %2.
When there’s nothing inside to make you go out.
We roll in the sheets, salaciously shout.
Times obsolete when love is around.
We couldn’t care less about the level of sound.
The neighbors shout back annoyed with our life.
The old man downstairs berating his wife.
It’s Saturday morn our clothes on the floor.
The air rushes in [...]
Dusk Park
NymphoBrainiac, originally uploaded by %2.
Dusk park.
Alone with lights.
Candy pervades these summertime nights.
Peopleless park.
Their thrills lay behind.
Grasping at straws that lay on the ground.
Sitting alone silhouetting in time.
Dogs barking from standing in line.
The park is all closed it’s time to go home.
Your soul lags behind it stays here to roam.
Dusk park.
Where children’s eyes gaze.
Freaks in the [...]
Chasing Light
NymphoBrainiac, originally uploaded by %2.
sunday sun in lovers sway
light to shine thoughts to lay
hair adrift in natures play
a telekinetically perfect day
simple brown in complex blue
lovers light extended hue
we’ll walk for hours
chasing light
searching for the endless night
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Stage
NymphoBrainiac, originally uploaded by %2.
You keep thinking the world is your stage.
Gazing upon it, counting your age.
Making assumptions of time and its wage.
Filling in gaps with mathematical rage.
Seeing at once your synapses smoke.
Ending the reign of fanatical hope.
Sliding with quick the miracle slope.
Metaphorically question the end of your rope.
Counting in time syncopationless loss.
Feeding the frenzy [...]
Lushland
NymphoBrainiac, originally uploaded by %2.
In lushLand where bastards feed
Weeds grow on beds of greed
Shadows creep from sunlight’s bleed
Sucking silt through straws of reed
Defiant voice amidst the shrug
Little dame the shutterbug
Snapping time to it’s knees
A love affair with sowing seeds
She shifts along the bending trail
Crickets laud and stand to hail
Ignoring all she spreads her wings
Takes to [...]
Camp Happy
, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Where to even start.
start: ‘hey babe, let’s go camping. somewhere. not on a campground. in Oregon.’
And so we did. After asking several people on flickr, and several real people [it's well known flickr people are automated fabrications of your imagination], we still had no clue where to head. So I did [...]
manuary
, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Manuary:
A contest between men.
Men who can grow hair.
First, you make a wheel of stache. Each contestant puts $20 entry fee into the pot. Each additional spin is $10. At the end of 6 weeks the man man enough to grow his beard/stache as close as possible to their spin wins the [...]
airport hells
airport hell, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Well… where to start… hmmm… oh yea, I HATE F’ING AIRLINES AND THE PORTS THAT HARBOR THEM!!!
Ok, breathing.
Thus far, 4 trips to Sacramento airport, already one lost piece of luggage, and still have yet to leave.
And now this little cute girl is screaming her head off saying unspeakable things about [...]
repent
repent, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Preface: I consider myself a pacifist. Those that know me would say the same.
I really do. Right up until the point that someone violates my wife’s respect, and her fine bottom. What follows is a story that is sure to make this road trip memorable beyond the bare fact [...]
110 Gallon Salt Water Reef Fish Tank Aquarium with live rock
Total setup for sale:
TANK:- 110gal all glass tank with dual built in overflows.- 72″ Lunar day night cycle compact fluorescent fixture with all actinic and daylight bulbs included and operational. Lunar bulbs included to spur fish spawning and coral growth.- 40 gallon Pro Clear Sump with all hosing and pads- 580gph 2200 quietone water pump- [...]
1150 sq ft. Boston Seaport District Loft – NO FEE
1150 sq ft. Boston loft in the artsy Fort Point Seaport District right off Summer and A st. NO FEE.
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Vitals:
1150 sq ft Loft
200 sq ft private deck! Biggest deck in the building (deck furniture and planters included)
1 heated garage parking space included
Washer/dryer in unit
Modern kitchen w/plenty of cabinetry, black enameled gas stove, microwave, [...]
nice beaver
nice beaver, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Once and a while an opportunity comes along, naw scratch that… Opportunities come along daily if you know where to look. A couple of weeks ago one such opportunity, more grandiose than the norm, happened to come a knockin’. I was flown out to Oregon and offered a job as [...]
Playing Catch Up
I realize that I’ve all but abandoned this extensible form of electronic communication for various reasons that I have yet to fully ponder. That said, I’m back to post a few fleeting glimpses into what has shaped up the busiest couple of months in my life.
I acquired my first, non family offered, photography gig.
I sold [...]
finders cheaters
finders cheaters, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Larceny: “carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use”
He paid $4000 for that gear, I heard him say it. A sizeable investment in thievery, say I.
To me, this man is a laughable nip barely above [...]
Sicily… yes Chris?… we’re coming. Soon.
lampedusa19p, originally uploaded by Francesco Santo.
The countdown to our 2 week motorcycle through Sicily, Catamaran through the Greek Isles, eat our way through Europe trip is on. Here’s our itinerary.
July 22 – Fly out of LoganJuly 23 – Land in Sicily stay in TaorminaJuly 24 – Explore TaorminaJuly 25 – Rent Motorcycle and [...]
Jesus Face
jesus face, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Last year, while eating copious amounts of freshly grilled carcass in the back yard of my good friend Colin’s apartment, something caught my peripheral vision by the proverbial nutsack. It was dusk out so I had to squint, get closer, and squint some more still. My first impressions [...]
Porno for Pyros
Developing and designing websites on a daily basis for the last 11 years, it’s actually surprising that I have not made a single porn site to date.
GOOD Magazine: Internet Porn Transparency
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The Future
dome, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
The Kresge domed auditorium at the massachusetts institute of technology. Taken today while attending http://h20.media.mit.edu/, a truly awe inspiring symposium.
Webcasts are now posted here, watch them.
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Riffed Rafting
Before you go and raft a level five rapids during ‘high water release’ you may want to watch this video of me fracturing my L7 vertebrae.
I got flipped out of the raft, sucked under water by the rapids, and resurfaced just as the raft (it takes 8 people to lift these rafts) came crashing down [...]
Arnold Wins Volvo
volvo, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Arnold Worldwide employees celebrating their recent win in the pitch for Volvo’s business.
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Flickr Stock Photography Website
Flickr Stock Photography Website, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
After writing Flickr a long request to use their API for a commercial stock photography venture…
Here’s a snippet:
"We plan to build an application that allows the many users of Flickr to market and sell their photography to potential consumers and companies for both commercial, and personal use. [...]
Athletes Advance
Message : Hello, My name is Corey. Since I was a small boy I have wanted to play college baseball. With your help I think that is possible. Please contact me.
These are the emails that make me want to dive back into Athletes Advance.
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The Googles Are Coming…!
Word has it that Google is coming to town… That word coming specifically from Google.
I wonder if they’ll hire me after the whole banning incident.
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IT’S HIP TO BE (DAVIS) SQUARE
IT’S HIP TO BE (DAVIS) SQUARE, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Twas a gorgeous day in Davis Square today. Reminded me how much I missed the different feel of that hood.
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Zodiac
Zodiac – 94(365), originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Last night we went to see Zodiac, a loving drama of a troubled lad who liked to brutally slay humans in California’s Bay Area circa the late 1960’s/early 70’s.
The Zodiac lived in Lisa’s home town, so she was fired up to see some good local shots. However, [...]
Undone
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Undone – 89(365), originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
Today started brilliantly, with me having perhaps the most interesting cab ride discussion imaginable, with a 70 year old cabbie. He told me stories of grandeur about how [...]
Flickr Flash Widget
I’ve been working on a Flickr “widget” (that word is really beginning to rip into my cranium like a skill saw) that allows people to load their Flickr Photostream into a Flash module embedded on their website and/or blog of choice. The widget also allows viewing of one’s Flickr contact photos as well.
I’ve made it [...]
Prank Master
Would you spend 30k to pull off one of the largest pranks in American history?
My Boss would, er has, er is insane.
And for this, I must respect him.
Unreal.
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Circular
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Circular, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
On our deck, there hangs some ice.
A window ledge, it clings to life.
As it warms, its body shrinks.
Melting away, it seldom thinks.
About a time, when it was young.
From upper ledges it [...]
Polar Express
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Polar Express, originally uploaded by NymphoBrainiac.
We’re down on the Cape this weekend for my mother’s birthday celebration.
We took a trip to the bay at Skaket beach. I was shocked to see the entire bay frozen. [...]
Lies Dont Make Baby Jesus Cry
74: Lies Dont Make Baby Jesus Cry– Originally uploaded by ms. boomer.
Because my wife does not blog enough… A story from her.
Biting his head off does.
So, we had Kings Cake in the office today.
I didnt know what that meant, but I dont discriminate when it comes [...]