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Insights

Last week the Hornall Anderson Interactive team (the team I'm on) spent the majority of a workday in a conference room learning about our work and communication styles.

For future reference, I'm listing some of the strengths and weaknesses from the session that to varying degree, describe me. Hopefully in the future I can look back on this post and see where I've grown, and what I still need to work on.

Strengths

• Self Reliant


• Commitment to his work


• Usually weighs up all relevant factors before reaching decisions


• Thorough and painstacking


• Values truth and high ideals

Weaknesses

• May be slow or unwilling to express his true feelings


• May worry unduly–prone to pessimism


• Constantly finding faults


• Can appear indecisive


• Can look for flaws and errors in almost everything


• Occasionally becomes to focused, risking "tunnel vision"

MSVC

Last night a bunch of us went to the Microsoft campus to celebrate the launch of the new Microsoft Visitor Center. Hornall Anderson was responsible for a lot of the interactive and motion pieces on display inside the space.

I worked on one of the installations near the exit.



The first part of my project consists of a photo kiosk that allows people to create a statement ala touchscreen magnetic poetry. Once they create their poem, they then take they're picture. Their photo/poem then join a flow of other visitors who have also created their photo/poem.



The result shows up around the corner from the photo kiosk and is projected on a 13' by 8' foot array of glass panels. From each poem, a "theme" word is chosen and displayed along with other visitors who have used that same theme word in their poem. For example, if I used the word "compassion" in my poem, I get to see how other visitors used the word "compassion" along with their photos. It's just a simple way to show connections.

See some other photos I took during the party on my flickr.

Back From Seaside

Spent the weekend in Seaside, OR relaxing by the fire in a house on the beach with friends.

Fingers Crossed