This is the second post on the series of Talking to the Elephant. in this case the first results of the Galvanic Skin Response sensor are shown. The axis are fairly arbitrary.
First test abandoned after user was asked an personal question.
Pulling hairs out of leg, causing pain and spikes in the graph.
Discovered that heavy breathing, in particular exhaling, will cause peeks on the graph as well.
I found this amazing bookmarklet by Aram Bartholl (FFFFFAT) that with the help of Ai Weiwei lets you say fuck off to any page with inappropriate content.
Original photo
Drag Ai Weiwei – FUCK OFF to the bookmark bar to see it yourself!
The bookmarklet itself was inspired by another one before it, where you could see any page through Kanye vision (back in 2009).
Tools to reverse engineer bookmarklets:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/
http://jsbeautifier.org/
Here the code:
%7Bkanye_sunglasses%3D"<a href%3D%27javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.getElementById(%5C"glasses%5C").style.display%3D%5C"none%5C"%3Breturn%7D)()%3B%27><img src%3D%27http://datenform.de/ai-weiwei-finger.png%27 width%3D%27100%25%27 heigth%3D%27100%25%27></a>"%3Bvar div_popup%3Bdiv_popup%3Ddocument.createElement(%27div%27)%3Bdiv_popup.innerHTML%3Dkanye_sunglasses%3Bdiv_popup.id%3D"glasses"%3Bdiv_popup.setAttribute("style","position:fixed%3Bz-index:1000%3Btop:-10px%3Bright:0px%3Bwidth:100%25%3Bheight:100%25%3B")%3Bdocument.getElementsByTagName("body")%5B0%5D.appendChild(div_popup)%3B%7D)()%3B){kind=link}
javascript: (function() {
kanye_sunglasses = "<a href='javascript:(function(){document.getElementById(\"glasses\").style.display=\"none\";return})();'><img src='http://datenform.de/ai-weiwei-finger.png' width='100%' heigth='100%'></a>";
var div_popup;
div_popup = document.createElement('div');
div_popup.innerHTML = kanye_sunglasses;
div_popup.id = "glasses";
div_popup.setAttribute("style", "position:fixed;z-index:1000;top:-10px;right:0px;width:100%;height:100%;");
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(div_popup);
})();
Eye by http://oodigi.com/shop/eyeball-3d-model/
%7B(function()%7Bfunction e(e)%7Bn%3DMath.atan(e.pageY/e.pageX),t.setAttribute("style","position:fixed%3Bz-index:1000%3Btop:-65px%3Bleft:-65px%3Bwidth:150px%3Bheight:150px%3B transform:rotate("%2Bn%2B"rad)%3B")%7Dkanye_sunglasses%3D"<a href%3D%27javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.getElementById(%5C"glasses%5C").style.display%3D%5C"none%5C"%3Breturn%7D)()%3B%27><img src%3D%27http://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/itpnyu/HackingTheBrowser/HW2/eye1.png%27 width%3D%27150%27 height%3D%27150%27></a>"%3Bvar t%3Bt%3Ddocument.createElement("div"),t.innerHTML%3Dkanye_sunglasses,t.id%3D"glasses"%3Bvar n%3D0%3Bdocument.addEventListener("mousemove",e),t.setAttribute("style","position:fixed%3Bz-index:1000%3Btop:-75px%3Bleft:-765px%3Bwidth:150px%3Bheight:150px%3Btransform:rotate(0rad)%3B"),document.getElementsByTagName("body")%5B0%5D.appendChild(t)%7D)()%7D()%3B){kind=link}
javascript: (function() {
kanye_sunglasses = "<a href='javascript:(function(){document.getElementById(\"glasses\").style.display=\"none\";return})();'><img src='http://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/itpnyu/HackingTheBrowser/HW2/eye1.png' width='150' height='150'></a>";
var div_popup;
div_popup = document.createElement('div');
div_popup.innerHTML = kanye_sunglasses;
div_popup.id = "glasses";
var eyeR=0;
document.addEventListener("mousemove", mouseM);
div_popup.setAttribute("style", "position:fixed;z-index:1000;top:-75px;left:-75px;width:150px;height:150px;transform:rotate(0rad);");
function mouseM(e) {
eyeR= Math.atan((e.pageY)/(e.pageX));
div_popup.setAttribute("style","position:fixed;z-index:1000;top:-75px;left:-75px;width:150px;height:150px; transform:rotate(" + eyeR + "rad);");
}
div_popup.setAttribute("style", "position:fixed;z-index:1000;top:-75px;left:-75px;width:150px;height:150px;");
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(div_popup);
})();
For me, the reading started with a fruitless trip to the library, well it is difficult to really know if the trip was in fact fruitless. Lets say I didn't find the book as I was hoping for since the 3 copies were checked out... I did however, find something else.
Back to the reading. Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees. Here embedded the older version of the book, easier to read than pixelated copies.
One of my favorite quotes form the reading is about how artists "build energy by the interaction between things, that one and one don’t make two, but maybe five or eight or ten, depending on the number of interactions you can get going in a situation". When he makes this quote he is referring to how he is placing the dots on the canvas, but I really like how it resonates with a earlier quote in the reading, a warning to the reader:
"You have to make it very clear to anyone who might read your essay, especially any young artist who might happen to pick it up, that my whole process was really an intuitive activity in which all of the time I was only putting gone foot in front of the other, and that each step was not that resolved."
I think together these two thoughts express the importance of the process. And how ideas and questions tie together, not in an additive way but perhaps in a more unpredictable way. In a way impossible to foresee but non the less possible to follow.
Finally, I want to mention a thought that I wound really interesting:
"The civilization that you and I live in makes most of its critical decisions based on logic. I feel that maybe a hundred and fifty years ago [art] began to drop out of that; it began to become less logical. Even though it proceeded logically, it found questions that could not be answered logically”
This sensor is based on the one described on Make magazine by Sean Montgomery. The following pictures are taken from there.
I also added a k-pot to control the threshold of the sensor. In the picture the LED is disconected form the circuit, insetead i connected a wire into the an arduino to later plot the values.
It is this time of the history once again!!!
Live from Kennedy Space Center, the launch of Space Shuttle Decipher is about to take place.
The Space Shuttle is equipped with two independent containers, each filled with close to 3.4 billion pamphlet manifestos. The manifestos are printed in single atom-thick sheets of Graphene capable of withstanding temperatures higher than the surface of our Sun, graphene is also the strongest material known today, ensuring its existence.
Decipher is schedule to release the first container at +18:00 minutes after liftoff. Once the desired elevation is reach the first sonic detonation will take place sending the pamphlets in container 1 (C1) in a distributed cloud-sphere across the universe. Due to the physical properties of Graphene, the pamphlets are expected to last over 1.5 billion years, reaching as far as Luhman 16, the 3rd closest star to us, about 6.5 light years away.
The second container (C2) will be stored in the ISS. Unlike C1, these manifestos have not yet been "printed" on the graphene sheets. As mayor developments here on Earth occur, batches of 10 million pamphlets will be printed and launched, keeping a physical printed floating record for the next 4 to 8 years.
The goal of the mission is to keep records for future species (terrestrial or not) of who we where and what went wrong. This way they could Decipher what happened to humans and hopefully avoid the same fate.
Skepticals in the mission argue that even if the records are to be found by intelligent forms of beings, they are still bound to repeat history.
A copy of the manifesto can be found here.
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public.MPEG-2
The movie is an interesting commentary on the perspective of reality. As well as in the importance of such reality.
It make particular emphasis in the importance of experts, especially in the realms of art. How this people who in a pretentious way are the guardians of the truth, and in this case, art world, can be easily tricked. Yet their authority is rarely challenged. Meaning that if one is able to get through them then there is no one to stop you.
The movie documents the stories of two master forgers, the first one Elmyr de Hory. Who although talented, failed to create his own style and lived to copy masters and humiliate critics.
The second one, Clifford Irving, makes the world believe he is Howard Hughes through a series of fake telephone interviews and myths.
Through out the movie, it is hard to tell what is truth and what it is not, Orson himself plays with this concept thought the movie going through absolute lies to what he calls truth. This strategies could however be used to set base lines and easily pass a possible lie as truth.
There is a [63:15] story of Picasso(probably fake) (besides the main one with Kodar) that really spoke to me. The story where Picasso is being asked to identify if a paining is a real Picasso or not. He keeps denying all of them until the person asking tells him he saw him paint that particular painting. Picasso simply responds: "I can paint false Picassos, as well as anybody".
It is hard to tell, but I have the impression that today we live in more honest days, I mean, I know as well as you do that it is all lies. But that is my point. We all know it is all lies.
Inserting link: alternativefacts.com, I just wished it redirected to the white house website...
The feeling is a little silly...
Following the instructions: http://itp.nyu.edu/~sve204/networkedmedia_spring2017/week1.html we created our own server that runs forever.
The reading for this week is actually quite comical and very revealing. It starts narrating the future as possibly seen 50 years ago, before the digital era was in sight. It describes how humans in the future will have a small (walnut size) cameras (think spectacles or google glass) with perfect lenses and amazing film capable of recording rich images just by pressing a button with cables running up the wearers sleeves. Then the author describes tiny books with incredible amounts of information, in tiny font. There is also an impossibly complex automata which can help you find the information you are looking for.
The article basically goes about describing our digitally infused modern live through the spectacles of a steampunk dreamer.
Absurd in every way, except to prove that even today, we keep transforming our digital world to consume it physically through matter. Whether is by converting bits to sound waves that a hear can then transform back to electrical impulses inside the brain. Or electrical impulses that transform into light in our screens to be transformed back into electrical impulses in the back of our eyeballs. The reverse is also true, electrical impulses travel and make our fingers type on a keyboard that translate mechanical energy into more electrical impulses.
Unfortunately it looks like my server is not very secure and it won't accept https requests (only http).