GhostRide Project Video
http://www.ghostridecycling.com/McEnery_GhostRideDemoVideo.webm
GhostRide Milestone Review (April 11)
Gantt Chart: Opening Statement: GhostRide is going to change the way you cycle for fitness and fun. Accomplished: General: GhostRideCycling.com is the domain for the promotional website (which I have yet to upload… I will get to it… eventually) Finally talked to Velma about grant money I have been neglecting forever (fight me) Code…
GhostRide Milestone Review (March 21st)
Gantt Chart: Accomplished: Backend Work: Implemented Google SignIn with existing GhostRide server code Can once again upload and race routes using improved logic now stores additional data about specific routes (description, start end location, dates) General Programming Stuff: Implemented Apple’s MapKit over Mapbox because its more robust API allows for complex map animations Downside:…
GhostRide Milestone Review (Feb 15)
GhostRide leverages mobile GPS technology like no other cycling app, putting users head to head with other rider’s recorded races and allowing them to react when it matters– in the moment. Gannt Chart: Tasks Completed: Implemented Google Login required a change in my “verification pattern” for users to work with a mobile application. Because…
GhostRide Milestone Review (Jan 25th 2016)
Gantt Chart: Goals accomplished: -Basic functionality in terms of waypoint setting, uploading and timing. -Started design and implementation of basic promotion, account registration and account management pages for the GhostRide community/promotional website. Promotional Website demo: Demo Website – Realtime updating of stats (example in the form of the scoreboard for the IMRC Open Studios…
GhostRide Milestone Review 2
Opening Statement: GhostRide encourages you to go farther faster, more frequently. Gantt Chart: Summary of Gantt Chart tasks: Essentially, simple implementations base features of application. Mainly focused on the GhostRide feature and underlying data structures/storage/retrieval process. Progress: Created proof of concept prototype in xcode. Connected app to backend mysql database using post requests.…
GhostRide Milestone Review 1
Opening Statement: How can GhostRide encourage you to get more active? Gantt Chart: Essentially, the last couple of weeks have been spent on implementation research, look & feel, and preliminary design. According to the chart, I’m slightly ahead of where I wanted to be in terms of design and preliminary implementation research. Look & Feel:…
Computer Free GhostRide
Approaching the “killer feature” of GhostRide from a computer free or atypical new media approach is difficult. The main premise of GhostRide is to allow actionable realtime records of people’s rides to play out while they are out riding. That means there needs to be some way in which riders mark their rides and pace…
Ghost Ride Enhanced Proposal
Abstract Cycling is a popular sport for the health benefits, its competitive nature and just because cycling is fun. While there exists a variety of apps and tools to track your progress and find groups to ride in, they all fall toward the side of serious data driven cycling. Ghost Ride intends to challenge the…
GhostRide Promotion Plan
Get A Website Part of the plan for GhostRide is to have a promotional and community website wrapped into one. The final name of the application is not yet finalized so the domain name has not yet been purchased. Promotion is planned to being in January, so the basis of the promotional portion of the…
GhostRide Annotated Bibliography
These different articles and projects all relate to GhostRide in some way, as they either do some portion of the project well or served as inspiration for the idea. Strava Strava is the biggest player in GPS powered cycling apps. It’s biggest draw is it’s robust social community. It almost single handedly invented “segments” (the…
GhostRide Gantt Chart & Revised Budget
GhostRide Text-based Proposal Draft
Abstract Cycling is a popular sport for the health benefits, its competitive nature and just because cycling is fun. While there exists a variety of apps and tools to track your progress and find groups to ride in, they all fall toward the side of serious data driven cycling. Ghost Ride intends to challenge the…
Identifying New Media Strategies Redux
Problem: A Disappearing Language Solution B is the new media solution. Distributing technology to a large number of people and fostering collective, unexpected cooperation is what really makes this solution the “many to many” that defines a new media approach. It’s also a platform that is more open to grow beyond its originally conceived notions…
Indomitum Corde Ferum
Become A Horse. Live out the dream of being a horse. Grow Your Herd. Recruit powerful allies to aid you on your horse journey. Fight Spiders. Defend your realm from the spider menace. Investigate “Suspicious Herbs”. Uncover the secrets of the mysterious flora in your world. PLAY IDOMITUM CORDE FERUM NOW: I WANT…
Blockventures in Minecraft Part II: The Fire Snake Chronicles
Continuing my Blockventures in Minecraft, this time I’ve reimagined the classic game of snake as a competitive arena style challenge. By leveraging some interesting abstractions, I was able to get a collection of blocks to act like a “living entity”. However, the implementation is somewhat performance intensive on account of needing to constantly draw and…
Reading Evolved: Spectacular Spirals
This was a bit of tangent for me, but working in javascript and remixing some code for Networks & Creativity resulted in the creation of multiple incarnations of a “Word Frequency Spiral” script. The first creates the spirals in photoshop and the second version uses D3.js, a data visualization library, to make an interactive, zoomable…
Blockventures In Minecraft Part I
What’s better than virtual legos? Not much. I’ve been working on some javascript mods for consistently amazing and exceptionally time consuming Minecraft using Walter Higgin’s Scriptcraft. It uses Rhino Javascript Interpreter to implement the Craftbukkit API , which ends up with scripts that look like some sort of horrible demon-spawn of java and javascript. Way of…
TEASER: Politica
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Such Sushi
This vector image was created for the purpose of being used as an asset for a mobile game and doubled as a vector image for ART 270. As such, it was developed without the intention of having background, as it is used transparently within the application. This sushi roll is actually used as…
Kinectibytes Compilation
Get ready to get moving, engage in 5 different challenges that will leave you breathless, mentally exhausted and wishing you had read a book instead! Can you feed cows, pop bubbles, deflect missiles, solve ancient mysteries and fend for yourself in the forest canopy? You better hope so. All games support multiple players and…
Sanctuary of Memory
This is an essay I wrote for Existentialism and Literature, which argues in favor of Bachelard’s idea from The Poetics of Space that “space offers stability but also the illusion of stability”. It touches are some of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, particularly that in Being and Nothingness. It illustrates this through the…
The Eternal Cycle
The Eternal Cycle is an experience created for NMD 102. I would call it a game, but it’s not actually possible to lose only to get stuck forever. Created by Hillary Cox, William McEnery and Robert Britten.
Lady Liberty Goes Diving
Created in photoshop for 2D Design, this poster was an attempt to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rise due to global warming. I chose a very iconic landmark to try to catch peoples attention and went with a somewhat exaggerated, playful take on a serious issue. I also tried to keep…
A Face Full of Fonts
A self-portrait created entirely from bits of newspaper. It makes heavy use of varying font sizes and of different font styles , specifically the visual difference between fonts with and without serifs. You can see this most clearly in the “quietly busy” background, which has subtle pattern variations and separates itself from the portrait…
A Study in Deep Space
This was a piece created in photoshop as an exercise on principles of “deep space” and lighting. Notice the blurring and lighting on the individual spheres in concert with the fish scale texture. Combined, they create the illusion of a chain of spheres reaching from, and extending outside of the “active” canvas.
Brave New Flickr Set
This quick 7 image flickr set tells (abstractly) the narrative of Brave New Maine’s creation. 1) The inspiration behind the project. 2) Our localized concept logo. 3) The system built roughly in web form (The entire website is still a work in progress) 4) A submitted story by a user. 5-7) The concept realized in…
Brave New Video Recap
This video was created as both a how to guide and wrap up for the process of creating Brave New Maine! I hope you enjoy it. We tried to go with a quirky “fun” feel for the video, because the issues we are dealing with are often very heavy, and we don’t want it…
A Twist of Fate
A Twist of Fate is a short, experimental film I created for NMD 104 which has a maximum length of 90 seconds. It tells the story of a girl who is given the rare once in life time chance of a “portal” but just as the flame of hope is ignited, it is extinguished as…
Fire Emblem: Awakening Interactive iPad App
This was created as my final project for Design Basics for New Media. It’s an interactive iPad App which is serving as a review for the (amazing) 3DS game Fire Emblem: Awakening. This project was culmination of the all skills learned throughout NMD 104. It involved heavy use of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and…
Brave New Overhaul
Brave New Maine (.co) has seen some major changes over this past weekend! We’ve added: A New Community Polling Section where there will be daily polls so you can have your voices heard! An emotion rating system for submitted events! The ability to upload multiple images (into slideshows), multiple audio files and even video! We…
Brave New Maine (.co) Is Live!
I’m happy to announce that the long awaited Brave New Maine project is finally live! Bravenewmaine.co is the home of our very own future energy storytelling collective! Go to BRAVE NEW MAINE right now! Make and account and start imagining our future, better. View the Process: Everything Brave New Maine
Seascape Ultraparty!
Seascape Ultraparty is a generative art project made in Processing.js. It started as a means to simulate some artificial, programmed creatures and eventually became what you see today. What’s not apparent in the video is that the sketch uses webcam input to generate food for the individual creatures. You can read the impetus behind…
House, Interactive
House Interactive! is a visualization of both weather and a day-night cycle made in Processing. You can enter any zip code into the sketch and it polls Yahoo! Weather for the current conditions and then simulates them at the rate of 1 Day to 60 seconds. You download the sketch below yourself and modify to…
Frogger: The Gritty Reboot
Frogger: The Gritty Reboot is a version of the classic game Frogger (which you can play here) written in Processing as an exercise. You can see the “English Algorithm” in the attached PDF files. The frog is maneuvered using the arrow keys and this version technically has an infinite number of levels, though actually beating…
eStranged Examined
Estranged was a response to the book L’Étranger (if I’m remembering correctly, I’m not familiar with the source material). It is told from the viewpoint of a girl who seems entirely wrapped in a cocoon of technology and “together aloneness”. In it a number of life changing events happen to here, and she becomes more…
New Media Glossary!
Alternate Reality Game An alternate reality game is a form of narrative told using the real world as one of it’s vehicles. The story itself is driven and determined most heavily by “player” involvement. From an outside perspective, i.e. non-players, they could easily confuse that game for a true to life story that is actually…
Engaging Your Brave New Sneaker Net
It’s interesting to think about how you might use connections you already to to facilitate a project like this. The strength of this project I think is in it’s broad scope and general appeal, as well as multiple levels of engagement. With that said here are some brainstormed ideas: -Durham Broadcast News Channel – Family…
The Rise of Global United
The introductory video for a project I worked on for New Media 100, which envisioned a future with unified world accounts and currency. It’s a series of 5 videos which talk about the consequences, but also get viewpoints form different people and how they might be effected by a such a change. View the…
Hacked Wireless Spiderbots
Hacked Hexbug spiders using arduino, xBee, and ultrasonic rangers. Our efforts created an expandable, customizable and flexible mobile sensing platform with the capability to be integrated into a cooperative mesh-network. Basic relative location data, using radio signal strength, was gathered from the Xbee module on the mobile spider to get rough idea of location without…
A Helping Hand
To help out Shoot Maine and get nice locations for their film database, I’ve compiled a bunch of photos from the Little Field Ornamentals Trial Garden. Check them out below!
Sound Dragon & Echo Egg
The Sound Dragon is a hacked musical instrument, using a kitchen glove, 5 flex sensors, an arduino uno, a foam ball, and a wiimote. To interface with a computer it used Max MSP for the Arduino and Osculator to connect the WiiMote. By switching between different loops, moving your fingers allows you to adjust different…
Brave New Step Forward
So, I started building the actual framework for the Brave New Maine concept envisioned mainly by Sean and other other members of the Brave New Maine Team. I decided, as per my previous research, to develop the functionality in Drupal. To clarify what was achieved: 1) Visitors can register as a user on the Brave…
Brave New Media Strategies
Thomas: Aggregating: Aggregating means compiling, and in a sense, our entire project consists of compiling, but instead of compiling hard data, we are instead compiling stories, which are basically extensions of opinions and beliefs. By compiling a large group of stories regarding the future, we are essentially gathering a collective idea of what the future…
Brave New Research
My main role in the Brave New Maine project is to design/customize an existing system that people are going to use to upload their content. To that end I have mainly stuck to technical research and research into different CMS. After looking around for a system that has the functions that I want I found…
Brave New Timeline
I) Weeks 1 & 2 (Oct 10-24): – Create the “narrative framework” by researching current-day problems and future projections relating to Maine. – Develop individual stories to explore how they can be connected and displayed, and to jump start content generation. – See if other content creators are available to help create “seed” or future…
It Begins… A Brave New Maine
1) Project Title Brave New Maine 2) Group Members Thomas Dollof, Sean O’Neil, William McEnery, James LeVasseur 3) Describe the main goal or outcome desired for your project Create an online presence which allows and promotes user generated content in regards to future energy scenarios. This collaborative network will offer some sort of incentive to…
New Media Strategies Exercise 3: Lowest Energy Oceanet
Decentralization: A Crowdsourced Oceanet For context: The Original idea There are a few ways that this idea can be moved into a lower energy profile, but also a more robust system as a whole by decentralizing the production of the content. Instead of a having a team of writers curating the content and then releasing it…
New Media Strategies Exercise 2: Oceanet
Finding Nemo: The Reality Series To increase academic interest in the oceans you need to aim your efforts at current students and would be students, but also think about the long term interest in the science. As a many to many “solution” or rather partial solution, I propose the creation of a “social” network but…
Identifying New Media Strategies
Problem 1 Solution B is the new media solution. It is also the solution that I prefer because it allows a sort of collective knowledge which might end up being greater than the sum of its parts. It also allows for the project to grow beyond the original conceived notions and allows for “emergent phenomena”.…
The Bigger They Are…
Monsanto and the Carnival of Corn Leveraging Preexisting Media Infrastructure to Engage Corporations Monsanto and the Carnival of Corn was largely a staged leveraging of media in which the participants set the stage themselves. Students and Activists created a fake press release impersonating Monsanto stating that the government of Mexico had approved genetically modified seeds…
Close to Home: Maine Issues
Issue 1: Cleaning Up The Androscoggin River Grandfathered Pollution For most of my life, I’ve lived very close to the Androscoggin River, and for the same amount of time it has always been horribly polluted. If a large amount of the pollution that is currently causing the river ecosystem harm is being caused by the…
Thoughts on Spontaneous Intervention Projects
MIT Place Pulse Quantitative Data on Urban Perceptions Place Pulse is an project that seeks to use people’s perceptions to gauge the larger relative perceptions of cities, by offering opinions of different photos. Users can select from a number of different questions all which ask “Which place looks…” followed by different qualifiers like “livelier”, “safer”, “wealthier” or even…
Viral
Viral in its most general definition is anything that results in the replication or spread of an object.1 In the context of New Media, viral is a term applied when an idea or movement spreads through a network (i.e. The Internet or any of its subcommunities) and sees a massive increase in popularity over a…