Danimal

The man who took me on my first ever business trip was back in town from his family farm in Ohio for a few days. A few of us from HA went out to catch up and have a few drinks. I can still remember Dan and I sitting out in the Oakland, CA sun eating a pastrami sandwich and talking about quality deli meats.

Hornall Anderson Blog

We relaunched the Hornall Anderson blog I designed last week. Read my post about it here.

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.

Real Artists Ship

It's been about four months since the last time I've made a post regarding my work as a designer for Hornall Anderson. Most of the projects I've been working on lately have been of the concept car/consultative/exploration variety, where nothing substantial seems to materialize, and I'm left feeling like what's the point?

As with everything it seems, it's an ebb and flow. Now it seems things are picking back up. Right now we're just wrapping up a very permanent installation for a local software company, and just beginning a new project for an arena undergoing a renovation in the "greatest city in the world." The latter, I feel like, could be one the most interesting projects I've worked on yet. At the end of the project hopefully I won't be asking myself "what's the point?"

Damn It Feels Good

I can't even remember the last time I was a champion for a team sport. It was either in middle school while I was still swimming, or playing basketball for my SCAA team. On Thursday we won the Seattle Parks Softball championship game 6-3. This was the best ever finish for our team and I'm looking forward to repeating next year!

Good People

Last night we celebrated Dan and Erica's pursuit of their dreams after graduating from "Hornall Anderson University." I expect to be eating at Erica's bar and seeing Dan in the news saving a third world country within the next few years.

Jam Session Profile

The project profile of the T-Mobile NBA Jam Session 2008 booth we worked on for this year's all-star game is up. Besides working on the interactive portions of the booth, I got to go down and photograph the results.

Note: I know the Hornall Anderson site really needs captions thank you very much.