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last wednesday marked a milestone in my pursuit of a graduate degree in creative practice for narrative environments at central saint martins. the entire graduating class was required to hand in and defend their final project. it was a challenging final presentation as the external examiner, all tutors and the entire class were present to bear witness. what was most interesting to me was the paths of development undertaken ...

for the past couple weeks the team and i have been working hard getting our multitouch video/installation/performance interface to an alpha state, and meet our march 12th deadline. this has definitely been the most difficult personal project i have worked on, as i feel much of the development depends on the diverse skills, knowledge and background of my teammates. some of the hardest decisions to make are simply ...

in the span of just a few days, 2 places that are close to me will never be the same. after coming back from a friends' birthday, karin, adam and i found ourselves standing outside camden station, just beyond the camden lock, watching blooms of smoke hit the sky. we had to make a lengthy detour to get home. looking at my phone when i reached my bed, ...

Once again proving the need for good, free parties in east London, kesselskramer stirred it up nicely this past friday night with nothing less then an old school house party at the opening event of KK OUTLET. What could be described as the "victorian cottage" to the agency's deconsecrated church headquarters in Amsterdam (no seriously, it's a church, which is why it's not in parenthesis), KK OUTLET is ...

Lighting Seoul already pays much attention to lighting within the city, although projects seem to be lucid and playful now, a citywide plan or theme could provide continuity and strong identity. the first example of program for city lighting is alexanderplatz in berlin, where the ccc has been known to do their blinkenlights project: next up is the SPOTS media facade in berlin, potsdamerplatz: also on continental europe, rotterdam's kpn ...

monday marked a milestone of good intentions, as 2nd year students from the 2008 graduating (pending) class of my MA degree hosted schematic proposals for our final project. i was lucky enough to grab a good spot to present (last before the first brake) but was still stoopid nervous at trying to pitch my project in front of both years of the program, the program director, the guest ...

welcome to Europe, buddy!

it's hard to draw lines. no, i don't mean lines that make drawings. i am talking about the virtual lines and psycho-geographical boundaries we make for ourselves and the world around us. now that kairn and alex have joined me in rotterdam, our internship is in full swing. it seems like we have been working on this together for months already... on order for us ...