Tag Archives: gradschool

Everywhere at Once: Narrative Multiplicity and the Digital Archive

Its taken me a while to be able to sit down and write a summary about finishing grad school, but here it is in a nutshell: I’m done! :) That convo­luted thing you see above was the title, and basi­cally it meant that I was thinking about how tech­nology … Read More

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Gearing up!

We installed our work in the conven­tion center yesterday, part of a series of prepa­ra­tions in antic­i­pa­tion of the Graduate Thesis show that will open this Thursday. I set up a camera and tripod and made a couple makeshift videos of the event!

The Big Three-Oh

I turned thirty this week, and it was not at all the trau­matic expe­ri­ence I was fearing. Instead, I took a nice, leisurely day to myself on the actual day, and then had a whole week of scat­tered lunches, dinners, coffees, drinks, etc, with various friends. It was pretty … Read More

Spring Break!

Well, its finally Spring Break here at RISD. My last spring break for the fore­see­able future, unless I become a professor some­where! Thesis year people are “strongly encour­aged” to stay in town for the week, which really means there will be hell to pay if we attempt … Read More

Snow Day

School is cancelled today because of the 8 – 12 inches of snow we’re supposed to get, and even though I don’t have any classes until tomorrow after­noon, that still means I am enti­tled to slack off and write a blog post! I’m hoping this week’s bliz­zard is the final last … Read More

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Brown 27, Cornell 7

Today I attended a good old fash­ioned ivy league foot­ball game, and luckily Brown beat Cornell at home 27 to 7, in front of a spir­ited crowd. The weather was crisp, the hot dogs deli­cious, and the foot­ball was fast-paced and enter­taining! The photo above is a panorama I made … Read More

Desktop Manufacturing

This week I tried out two cool services: Ponoko and Spoonflower. Both are new entries in a little niche called desktop manu­fac­turing, where you can design some­thing at your home computer and have it fabri­cated in small quan­ti­ties without sacri­ficing quality or paying heavy setup fees. Ponoko … Read More

All class should be held at the beach

You know you’re in grad school when your profes­sors start saying things like, “Let’s hold class an hour later. Class at 8am is unciv­i­lized.” Or, “Next week, we will meet at the beach. But first I would like to take you all out to break­fast.” Its … Read More

Start _______ Here

I started my last year of grad­uate school on Wednesday, and the campus is a whirl­wind of activity as we welcome a new provost, inau­gu­rate a new pres­i­dent, and (next week) open a shiny new acad­emic building. There is an opti­mistic energy around the school these days, and I am … Read More

Some more eye candy

So even with the ridicu­lously easy goal of posting once a day for the rest of May, I didn’t actu­ally post every day. For shame. But its the summer now, and I (theo­ret­i­cally) have time to do stuff like put up some of my favorite stuff from … Read More

Commencement 2008

Today was the 125th commence­ment of the Rhode Island School of Design. I didn’t have a camera with me, but as luck would have it, President Maeda was taking pictures of it from the stage and posting them on the RISD flickr account. How cool is that? … Read More

Campus Podcasts

Our soon-to-be pres­i­dent has been busy these last few weeks, touring the campus and producing a series of ad-hoc podcasts of various final crits across campus. Its a neat way to expe­ri­ence the unique atmos­phere of this place, and perhaps explore what moti­vates so many people here … Read More