Author: Ryan Rotella
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Collective Play, week 3
Design Study No. 1: Collisions Link to: Glitch project Code Design Design Plan Description: a mobile client iteration of this, with switching goals Goal: win by turning the most people into your color. To check Instructions: Goal: Get the other players’ colors to match your own Rules: In the case of a disconnection:
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Baby Land (2025)
Baby Land (2025) is an assemblage sculpture that Minami Matsumoto and I made for Modern Artifacts: Public Art for the People. The Concept Baby Land is meant as a Playground for all. Under the net, giant mushroom sculptures provide shade, turning the playground into a mix of adventure and rest. Kids can climb up and…
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Kinetic Energy Project Update
This is more of an informal timeline of what Surya and I worked on this past week. Saturday, 2/8/2025 Surya and I discussed what the fabrication of our project would entail. We designed roughly what the projector would look like so that we could list the components we needed and what needed the most immediate…
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Kinetic Energy Project Plan
Concept: Wind-up Projector Surya and I are working together for our first project in Energy. We both met and brainstormed a few ideas, most of which involved a hand crank that powered a well-designed light effect. We particularly had a lot of interest in old analog cameras that had to be cranked in order to…
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Collective Play, week 2
Assignments Mobile Noisemaker Noisemaker Server/Client Diagrams Next Week: Collisions Due in 2 Weeks. Study No.1 Collisions Create a 5 minute noisy, movement activity for everyone to do together at the same time that maximizes collisions. Collision Plan
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MoLab Week 2 blog
Follow along with my code for Mobile App Development at my Github Week 2 Assignment I rendered this image as a 1024 x 1024 .png file using Swift! I used two SF Symbols of a gear and overlayed them. I found a rotate function through the power of Google and Stack Overflow to create the…
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Collective Play, Week 1
Assignments Read: Bitter Pill by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker (Apr, 2019) Write a short description of something you do that is absurd In our Collective Play class, absurdity is defined as a person using a method/behavior, a, in full belief that it will accomplish a purpose, b, for that person. Method a never works…
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Modern Artifacts, Week 1
Notes Read the introduction to Collective Wisdom. Ali asked us to write by hand our thoughts on the reading. Our thoughts are easier to remember when they’re written by actual hand and not typed out. My hand got a bit sore; it’s been too long since I’ve used a pencil. Sculpture I plan to use…
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Week 1, Syllabus Review
Reviewing the syllabus for Energy fascinated me greatly as the assigned readings about the current administration’s gutting of clean energy dismayed me. Holding both these feelings together seems like an overall positive for this course as I feel better prepared to prepare my community for increasing energy-related challenges. The syllabus sparked those feelings and also…
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