Filed under: uncategorized | Tags: burak, integral design project, media lab, OpenStudio, PLW, random
One concept we are pursuing is a way to physically visualize a person’s social network. I googled and browsed through visual complexity to get some inspiration with Alazne.
Over a day later, I was cleaning up my tabs, scrolled down, and saw “concon.” Concon??
That’s me! That’s PLW! That’s Burak!
Filed under: Dutch culture, school | Tags: food, integral design project, random
Things are moving quite quickly these days, but I thought to share my instantaneous amusement. As there are coincidental meetings and relationships between people, sometimes seemingly meaningless things in your life become prevalent by meeting each other.
Background #1: Last week, in order to make my trial cup of decaffeinated coffee more drinkable, I added some cocoa powder. I bought it last year based off of the box art, because I couldn’t read anything in the grocery store anyway.
Background #2: My major project for the semester (IDP) involves re-designing the registration process so that it is smoother and the involved tools can be arranged to accommodate specific purposes. Registration in the most general sense is the introduction or the prelude to something greater: an event, a membership, a service or experience. Sometimes in registering you will have to register for other things, and you must wait for those to go through before moving on.
The Point: Mulling over this reminded me of recursive functions, when in the definition of such a function it calls on itself, and then it must wait until at some point, things are known and we can finish off the to-do list and move on. Since it’s been some years since 6.001, I thought I would look up “iteration” and “recursion” before using these terms in our report. The first thing I see under recursion is my cocoa powder. It also ends up to be the name: the Droste effect.
So it ends up that my box of cocoa is kind of famous, and somewhat related to IDP. Cool.
aquarium sink!
Not all of the things here are related, but that’s how internet surfing goes. Strangely, that’s something I don’t really do too often. Does this have to do with lack of involvement with Web 2.0 again?
Some products were found on a site called popgadget, a personal technology site devoted to women, but many seem good for either sex.
foldable tableware!
pins make stained shirts wearable again
a different sort of fruit holder
a sleek vacuum packaging device that is better designed than anything I would have thought of
Filed under: Delft, design, mini-adventures, school | Tags: c1000, domestic appliances, donald norman, eindhoven, elliot, flickr, food, ivo, life, random, suyanto
I came home last night after watching Cloverfield and went on a cleaning/organizing spree that started with the dishes, then proceeded to the kitchen, and ended with my staying up all night going through all my finances since I got here. The picture below is just a few receipts from my frequent grocery runs to C1000, one of the three supermarkets in my area.
I also realized that I could also keep track of the cashiers’ names and started a tally of who has served me the most. (Hallo Seborah.) Cindy and Jeanne are tied for second. I started trying to diversify my cashier when I was going there more than three times a week.
And now I can also start keeping rough track of how much I’m spending on what. Unfortunately I am missing some relevant information, so to reconcile my cash expenses I have a slush expense called “boozin’,” because in the absolute worst case scenario I would have spent all the rest on going out. (Slightly unrealistic, but seeing it in my statement will be a nice reminder.)
I also caved and paid for a flickr account so I can show more pictures in a pretty fashion that isn’t facebook-dependent. Like watching a baby learn to walk, maybe you’ll see some more sophisticated photo management out of me in the future.
I uploaded other photos from the Donald Norman excursion (it was held in the Design Huis of Eindhoven, so there were some exhibits to see), and I also put up pictures from my Domestic Appliances inspirational dinner last Wednesday after a product imaging workshop with Philips.
At this phase of the class, we are developing individual concepts based on the research we did as a group in the first quarter. To test out and learn more about some of our concepts, my group held a long-due inspirational dinner. Ivo (glasses) is making a tofu squeezer and marinater, Elliot (plaid shirt) is interested in making steaming more accessible, and Suyanto (last guy) is interested in increasing nutritional knowledge and balanced eating. We kind of failed to steam anything, but we did make tofu, sushi, noodles, green beans, and ice cream with fruit chunks and pineapple glaze.
bunnyfish adventures 