SIGGRAPH 2003
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Hi all, sorry for the delay in posting. This first day has been a Long one. Stick around there is some good stuff.
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So in the airport in Cleveland I run into Jurgen Faust from the Cleveland Institute of Art on his way to San Diego. I will get a better picture of him later in the week.
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I love seeing the mountains from the air. I have a lot more than these but I won’t be posting them here.
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Dinner Saturday night. It looks like I am going to eat healthy but I didn’t eat the lettuce.
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On Sunday I registered and went to find my artwork. After hunting down the box they found me a primo space and let me stick around for the hanging. They people were super nice and did a great job.
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SIGGRAPH is really held together by the student volunteers like this guy over here – Jason Page. It was his first time and he was very enthusiastic and very helpful.
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This is a view of the convention center from the escalator. Just wait till I bring my 3D camera to shoot.
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The very helpful folks and the membership booth looked up my info so I could get discounts on the gift shop. They wanted to know what was in it for them so I am posting their picture as payment. Now we are even.
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Funny story. This guy was looking to find a computer, I asked ‘to check your e-mail’ and he said ‘no, have to file my unemployment’. If there is anyone from the state looking he really was here looking for work.
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The book sale. Every book you ever wanted is here, to touch, flip through and purchase at a discount. I was already carrying so much I figured I would wait and look tomorrow.
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This works is huge. And the posterized effect is enamel on metal. A great idea and a great implementation. Sorry for the glare.
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NO WIRE HANGERS!!!
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There is this tent covered courtyard attached both halves of the convention center. It is were the food is. It wasn’t too expensive (it wasn’t cheap though) and I did find my tacos filling.
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My big stop for the day was to view the art and emerging technologies. I am bound to hit emerging technologies again before I leave.
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A fantastic idea here. Using thermal imaging to ‘key’ a person out of a video background without green or blue. It was a nice demo but the water bottle in my pocket fooled it a little. In general a good idea and they presented very well.
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A PDA interactive thing. For location tracking they are using a person’s weight on the floor. It has something to do with color space, I hope to get to try it myself. I like how the put the PDA in something larger.
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Some really nice art. I love multidimensional work like this. It was very well done/
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This globe screen was very nice. And they were able to show multiple applications on it. I am going to go back and get more details.
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Some art and technology project involving music. You moved the things around the the music changed.
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This is a 3D Illusions display. That’s what is said. It is a high rez 3D monitor I want to find more details.
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Last year these guys were here doing force feedback touch with a vibrating thing you put on your finger. This year it looks like they are using electrical impulses. I didn’t try yet.
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Virtual eating. I have no comment.
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Motion tracking on the screen updates the 3D content on the fly. Nice idea, looked a little prototypy.
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Little motors moved the furniture around the table in various configurations. Fun to watch them dance.
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Interactive art and music using your body to paint and play.
I liked the twin polarized projectors for the 3D display.
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Smart furniture tells you how to assemble it. What goes where and when you are doing it wrong.
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Some really get 3D sculptural work (by 3 different artists).
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OK, best in show so far. The virtual projected keyboard is: A good idea, well done, and it works. They said they should ship in the fall and I can’t wait to see these thing integrated into PDAs. WOW.
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The light was tracking this guy around because someone on the Internet had picked him.
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Another fun idea. Instead of a screen this is fog. You can touch and walk through it. I saw something similar at Disney with a water wall as the screen.
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The sign read Please DO touch. And the ripples are funky.
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Genevieve.
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The SIGGRAPH Chapters Mascot.
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Alyn, the head of this year’s conference. Doing a great job (thanks for the five spot).
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They are drawing with legos, I am told it will be huge. Updates over the next few days on this one.
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I imagined this coming out of a tiny box and them just stretching it open like at the toy store.
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They were working though.
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VR something, I go back tomorrow. I think I would get tired hold my arm out.
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Mike Hilliard from the Cleveland Museum of Art – our Chapter Chair. He warned me that he volunteered us for a bunch of stuff. I will kill him when I get back to Cleveland.
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Some old familiar faces. Why is Chris looking like a muppet though?
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Some old faces and a new one. Vicki is her university’s Blackboard person. I was going get her a number for the national Blackboard coordinator’s emotional support group. 🙂
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This year I didn’t just take her picture but she gave me directions at the Pathfinders booth.
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Vintage technology clothing. He not only owns an O2 hate but the O2 itself.
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I forget why she was doing this. Something about it looking cool under a blacklight. She was good though.
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I will explain this tomorrow.
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Uniting Softball and New Media. A hybrid of skills if ever there was one.
She told me that there was a Sandcastle content in Imperial Beach and that the judging was at 5:30. So since it was 5 I ran back to the hotel grabbed my cameras and caught a taxi.
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This is like one of the major US Sandcastle competitions and while an expensive cab ride it would be worth it to augment my real castle collection.
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Regretfully, the competition ended at 2, judging at 4, the tide a little later and there was NOTHING left.
No bad feeling I did see the ocean.
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My very nice taxi driver from Nigeria. He is smiling case he just emptied my wallet 🙂 Actually he was very nice and if I had needed to stay longer was going to turn the meter off for me.
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So I went to the Artist reception at the San Diego Art Institute.
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While there I met Richard Miller. He does a bit of everything from law enforcement, to photography to acting. A real nice guy.
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Some nice architecture here.
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I love fun signs.
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A portable ATM which I needed after that cab ride.
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Lisa and Lucy were nice enough to give me a lift from the one reception to the other. Save me an 18 block walk.
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But I was too early so I went to the Historic Gaslight district for dinner.
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I love salmon.
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The next reception was overpacked. 200 person capacity and people were standing outside to watch the artist paint the dancer in front of the animation.
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This guy has been harassing me all day. Or was I harassing him.
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I like to explain the lighting of this shot. You see the light in her eye is coming from the glare of his very shiny forehead. Really, look for yourself.
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The Sake barrel opening was after the dancing and was standing room only.
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The very nice Dona J. Geib and Helen Golden both artists and in the art gallery this year.
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The famous/infamous Chris regailing us with stories of his little one. He does bring up a good question. How in the world do babies learn to point and click so early.
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Talk about tired that was a 15 hour day. Again sorry for the delay. More tomorrow.