About
Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Category Archives: Blog
Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
Via Infocult: The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, georgia, monuments
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Tone Matrix
Andre Michelle’s Tone Matrix is a simple but Flash-based music sequencer. You can copy-paste sequences by right clicking (or option-clicking on a Mac). By opening several Tone Matrices in multiple tabs on your browser, you can actually create some pretty … Continue reading
John Maus – Maniac
John Maus is a master. If you like “Maniac,” check out “Tenebrae.” It is Easter Sunday, after all. More Maus vids here.
Drawdio: Turn almost anything into a Theremin
Everybody should have one of these. You can learn how to make them here.
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Tagged drawdio, jay silver, lifelong kindergarten, mit, music, pencils, physical computing
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Lost Tribes of New York
Animated documentary by Andy and Carolyn London. Via Underwire.
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Tagged andy london, animation, carolyn london, londonsquared, new york city
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Extreme LED Shepherding
via kottke.org
Useful Phrases
Useful Phrases uses Markov word/phrase probabilities to generate unique sentences by breaking apart a source text. These sentences are then added to a blog. Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blosxom, ctin-544, experiments, grenville kleiser, imap, markov, processing, rita
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Giant Amoebas Ooze Through Texas
This is both fascinating and terrifying news: an organism that can break down into self-sufficient parts only to re-constitute itself as a massive Blob-like mega-entity. A prime candidate, evolution-wise, to usurp us genetically-varied individualists: Scientists say the discovery is much … Continue reading
Translating Media
TRANSLATING MEDIA is a Graduate Student Conference co-hosted by the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and Practice PhD (iMAP) Program at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. The event is co-sponsored by the USC … Continue reading
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David Lynch on iPhone
…’nuff said.