Newest DWIG project

I love my newest project for the Digital World and Image Group. The original goal was simply to satire Foursquare, by creating an app where people urinated onto their phones at a specific location in order to "check-in." This idea soon captivated me though and I ended up researching and exploring various methods of staking claim to a physical location in the real and digital world.

For now I have dubbed the project, "Mark Your Territory."

More documentation about the development and process leading to this product will soon follow.

New Ants

We just recieved a two new colonies of Temnothorax ants for our lab. These pose new problems for us as they are only about a tenth the size of the ants in our Aphaenogaster colony. Entire colonies of this sort of ant can live inside an acorn. To image them properly, we are using a new Canon 100mm L series Macro lens and, on the recommendation of amazing ant photographer, Alex Wild, decided on using fiber optic microscope lighting (lighting not shown below).

Charicature from Stupid Fun Club Artists

It's me! I do hate 12 oz mouse!

Clam Cannon for Sea Otter Fun

The Georgia Aquarium apparently uses Clam Cannons to add some excitement for their Otters.

Cells and Organelles Rap / Animation

I worked with my sister who is a 7th/8th grade science teacher to provide animated visuals to go along with her educational rap song about cells. She is freely distributing this to science classrooms and students around the world to foster interest in the life sciences. She is also taking suggestions for more topics for her youtube channel, Tunes2Teach.

Visit to the Gordon Lab

Last Friday I was excited to get to visit Myrmecologist Deborah Gordon and her Ant lab at Stanford. I scoped out their research and computer vision techniques and shared what we have been doing at Georgia Tech. This fall, we'll be getting in better touch and do more thorough collaborations with them.

Man, Stanford has such a gorgeous (and expensive) campus!

Stupid Fun Club Summer

This summer I am working as a designer at the Stupid Fun Club. This is Will Wright (creator of "The Sims," "SimCity," and "Spore")'s crazy think tank for Toys, TV, and Games. Most of what I do here is TOP SECRET, but here are some examples of things that have come out of the SFC

http://unclemilton.com/news/press_releases/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/02/bar-karma-will-wright/