Beach Creatures

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

I have never seen anything like this before. This is definitely a creative spark. Mr. Jansen is the creator of these "Strandbeest" which are these beach creatures.

he has invented life like kinetic sculptures, built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. There are many different designs that he has created and they are all built to move and even survive on their own.

They are still a work in progress so they can't quite survive on their own yet but the end result is for them to survive on their own. You would think that plastic tubes ad lemonade bottles would create an animal but they are more sophisticated then you would think. hey have a brain, and legs, and a nose that all have a specific job.

They move by the wind and live in the wet sand. They can detect if they are in the water or on dry sand and each part is design to help them survive in these situations.

There biggest challenge is the storms. However they have a detector in there nose where they can hammer there own stick into the grown to stabilize them selves from not blowing away.

If that is not creative I don't know what is!!!

Computer Interface's

Anand Agarawala: BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess

This TED talk has to do with interfaces and how they are not up to date with the technology they provide. They have been the same since computers have come out. There has been no big change.

Apple has had some advances in there interface with making it more stylish but for the most part still the same. The concept of his talk was to open our eyes to possible updates to our interfaces. His ideas are pretty funny with the way he can manage the icons. The pain point is it represents his desk at work. It is a bit scattered. There are piles of icons, you can organize them neatly or have them in the corner. You can put them on the side like a shelf, or even make one icon bigger to represent it's importance.

It is very creative and I think it is a good step in the direction of updating our interface. When you thunk about what is the first thing you see when you open up your computer. It's you interface and just think if that was more creative it would inspire you to be more creative in your work.

I think a possible solution to start this update is supplying these creative ideas like the BumTop to individuals and let them run with it. Let them be involved with there own interface. They will have the opportunity to be creative and create there own design for there personal interface. It may spark creativity.

Net Neutrality, Internet Free Speech,and Censorship

My research project was on these three topics. Here is my PowerPoint and a cool Youtube video on the subject of Net Neutrality.




Here is the YouTube Video I used in my PowerPoint