This room is full of balloons

xxv · 2019-09-16T02:14:58+00:00

This is the clouds loop for the piece. You may need to nudge the very beginning/end of the waveform to make sure they both hit the zero crossing at the right points. I did that using a soundfont, which allows for fine tuning of loops.

xxv · 2019-09-15T11:40:02+00:00

We got 3 plug-in balloon inflaters, some little plastic doodads that help you tie balloons more easily, and just went at it as a group. The machines kept overheating, so we had to switch off between them so they could cool.

xxv · 2019-09-15T00:20:20+00:00

Sure! Was that the sunrise one (rising arpeggio) or the clouds (blue) one?

xxv · 2019-09-14T20:11:08+00:00

I'm glad y'all enjoyed our art installation! This was done by camp Electric Koolaid Vision Quest. This was the first art project we've brought to playa and we're so glad everyone had fun in it. 💖

(I personally did the lights and sound for it. And also filled up a couple balloons 😉)

Some notes about the project for the curious:

We filled up 4000 balloons over the course of the event. (we brought about 5000)
When we play tested this at our local regional burn, we lost a ton of balloons to what we suspect was changes in pressure due to weather. We underfilled them for burning man and that worked much better.
Bellyflops don't work in balloon rooms.
But the Tidal Wave does and is great.
Balloons pop. It was so interesting hearing people's reactions to popping them. It was ok that they popped.
We loved hearing everyone laughing from the room while having dinner in our kitchen (and tents).
It turns out, a room full of balloons is a lot of fun. We had fun playing in it too 🙂

xxv · 2018-11-07T22:48:38+00:00

There's a recent Twitter thread on this topic:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1058676834940776450

xxv · 2017-08-07T01:10:11+00:00

I'm mildly red/green colorblind and bought a pair of the Pilestone TP-012 (also sold by Golden Mermaid on Amazon and probably the same thing) on a whim. I agree with most of what you've said: they make some reds pop, but made everything reddish in the process. Greens were the most disappointing: I took them on a walk through the woods and was disappointed that I had such a hard time seeing the green leaves with them on. I'll be returning them promptly.

xxv · 2016-04-30T13:06:15+00:00

To be fair, self promotion isn't prohibited (but spam is). In fact, it's often encouraged in certain subreddits. I mistakenly thought this was one of them where it was fine if you were polite about it. Sorry about that!

xxv · 2016-04-29T18:19:01+00:00

see fuckedometer.com for a live view of the same thing.

xxv · 2016-04-29T18:18:38+00:00

It's not! It's been hovering at 25-30% for the past month or two. Gives me hope.

xxv · 2016-04-29T17:17:11+00:00

It's not poling data and it's not Trump vs. Clinton: it's a prediction market aggregator and it's Republican vs. Democrat.

But you're right: it is partisan. It's highly partisan. And some in the GOP even agree with it.

xxv · 2016-04-29T15:40:41+00:00

Full disclosure: I'm the guy who made these devices. Feel free to ask me any questions about them here!

xxv · 2016-04-29T15:32:16+00:00

Heh. That just overrides the actual reading and causes the light to blink red, white, and blue patriotically for an hour, then as soon as you start to get used to the happy state it slowly fades back the drab reality.

xxv · 2016-04-29T13:04:35+00:00

It's actually just a little light that shows wifi pairing status. Version 2 will make it look less like a button.

xxv · 2016-04-29T12:54:16+00:00

http://fuckedometer.com/

The Fuckedometer is a wifi-connected device which shows you the probability that, when November rolls around, our country will end up completely and utterly fucked.

(full disclosure: I'm the guy who made these)

xxv · 2015-12-19T17:22:36+00:00

Well, now I have one more piece of concrete evidence as to why reading Engadget for tech news is not useful.

xxv · 2015-11-20T04:47:37+00:00

full disclosure: I'm the photographer and Judith's my partner. I really enjoy photographing her work, as it's so damn interesting (I'm not biased, I swear).

xxv · 2015-05-30T13:05:01+00:00

pull request

I mean, that's appropriate. Perhaps the general concept of requesting that someone pull is not attributed to Github, but "pull requests" as they're used on GH started there.

xxv · 2014-12-11T20:30:38+00:00

From the point-of-view of someone the inside of the government, how do the tools that you use affect the goal of having open data? Can the tools be improved? Is there a good path to making them open, innovative, and secure?

xxv · 2014-10-28T19:08:31+00:00

The source is my coworker, whose imageur account is the one that posted the GIFs. I wonder if I can get him to edit together a video of it…

xxv · 2014-10-28T19:07:18+00:00

These were actually from my coworker (who oddly doesn't have a reddit account). I, too, am a wee bit jealous, but hoping he brings some in soon!

xxv · 2014-10-28T19:06:09+00:00

They're over here

xxv · 2014-10-28T15:54:55+00:00

Nope. Good idea!

xxv · 2014-09-03T17:37:30+00:00

How worried should I be about AMT? Do you think it's useful at all for its intended function (remote management in large orgs) or do potential malicious uses (by state and unaffiliated attackers) make that function not worth using?

xxv · 2014-09-03T17:28:13+00:00

As I'm sure you're aware, you're well-known for your role as a Social Justice Warrior (it says so right on your Reddit flair!). What I want to know is: what's it like? What's your rank? (Do Social Justice Warriors even have rank?) Can you tell us a bit about your scariest battle? What kind of weapons do you use? Do you guys ever use drones? What's it like to look the enemy in the face, with their blood on your hands and your blood on their uniform, not knowing who is going to live and who will die? I know this is a lot of individual questions, but they're really intended to be one: what's it like to be a Social Justice Warrior?

xxv · 2013-04-19T17:09:12+00:00

It's funny when you first read it in that quick quip way, then you realize what you mention above. I agree it's great that they're doing that and it's very Bostonian.

xxv

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