10 11 / 2011
The Six-Hour Saga of #MikeDraperforMayor
I launched an impromptu online art project of sorts in my hometown of Des Moines on election day, 2011. It was kind of one of those “you had to be there” things, but I’ve done my best to document the experience.
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07 11 / 2011
Cat Rocketship: We love the internet
Had a lot of fun doing this project on a short timeline and small budget.
Cat’s write-up of this project far surpasses the amount of effort I was willing to put into writing it up so you may as well just go check out what she wrote. The only technical detail I would add for the nerds out there is that we used awe.sm as both our URL shortener and QR code generator for the project. Made it super-easy to rip through quite a few links in a short amount of time, and by hosting them at our own domain we’ll be able to edit links to point somewhere else in the future in case content goes down or we just want to change it up. You can’t get that with free, publicly available URL shortening services.
Anyway…
This month, Scott Rocketship and I made an installation for the first Thinc Iowa conference. It was the first piece we’ve made together.
We love the internet is a collection of QR codes — codes scannable by smart phones with a free barcode reader app installed.
We carefully curated…
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07 11 / 2011
Upcoming Panel at Drake’s Journalism Days
I’ve been invited to speak on a panel called “The Cutting Edge” at Drake University’s Journalism Days event this week. The panel is described thusly:
Panel of professionals discuss exciting careers in media, moderated by SJMC multimedia instructor Chris Snider.
It will be held on Wednesday, November 9 at 7pm in Meredith Hall (the black steel and glass building adjacent to the gated pay lot off University Avenue) on Drake’s campus.
I’ve received official word this particular panel is open to the public, so if you’re in the Des Moines area, interested in media, startups, and technology, and can stand the sound of my voice, consider attending.
Chris, the moderator, has been kind enough to invite myself and my coworker Amanda Morrow to his web design class in the Journalism department twice now to share thoughts about applying a Journalism degree to work in technology and the startup scene. I documented what we shared on the most recent visit in a post on Brick by Brick, the BitMethod blog. Depending on how the conversation flows, I imagine I’ll be offering up much of the same sentiments in a different context.
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05 10 / 2011
EPISODE 021 - Product Design (and a Few Tangents) with Daniel Burka
Amanda, Dan, and Scott are joined by Daniel Burka, co-founder of Milk Inc. and former creative director at Digg. This is our most product design-oriented episode yet as conversation moves between what a “product designer” is, building products with small teams, who’s responsible for user experience, maintaining vision, Twitter and Facebook UI’s, Instagram, Rdio, and a whole lot more.
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