Howdy,
It's been pretty crazy with the last week winding down in Berlin and trying to get the projects wrapped up. Even with the final project deadlines looming on the horizon, we've been seeing as many guest lecturers as ever. Although few of them were truly outstanding, one of them did stand out of the pack. On Tuesday we met with Joachim Sauter, a founding member of Art+Com, a new-media installation company. He introduced himself and his company, then began showing projects that they've been doing, starting in the early 90's. I'll just say, they were doing stuff using computers and 3D imaging in the early 90's that I wish I could do today. Throughout the lecture it became pretty obvious that his group was pretty tech savy, but then he dropped the bomb on us. He was telling us how during the years, some of the installations required developing new technologies, some of which became patents. As it turns out, one of these patents is the technology behind Google Earth. So imagine sitting there and having someone say "Oh yeah, I also hold the patent on Google Earth." Yeah... pretty exciting.
As far as the final projects are concerned, I'm finally done with my maps. Doing so required a full day last Sunday, in which I borrowed a digital camera and a 4 gigabyte memory stick and walked around the city for a few hours, and captured roughly 3500 pictures. You can see the fruits of my labors below, in the forms of my finished Berlin and Amsterdam maps. Enjoy!
My Mosaic Map of Berlin.
My Mosaic Map of Amsterdam.
We'll be presenting all of our works to the public in short presentations on Friday afternoon at Tesla, so we should be able to get at least a marginal bit of recognition for all of our hard work the last 10 weeks.
.:August
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