Andrew Sliwinski

Today we got to meet a visiting artist (Andrew Sliwinski).

I got him to check out my art and his way of design gave me alot of advice on how to approach my thesis. He also showed me this video called power of ten which I suggest looking at because it is a very interesting and thought provoking film. It essentially talks about how insignificantly significant we are.

John Alden Carpenter

John Alden Carpenter was a classical music composer. Born in Park ridge, Illinois in 1876.
He is the direct descendent of John Alden who was a passenger on the mayflower. He is a Harvard graduate, class of 1897.

This was his debut song as a composer titled, Violin Sontana.

https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559103&catNum=559103&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-alden-carpenter-mn0001522052/biography

progress

For the group project progress: The broken things.

We created the base story setting and plaques. The next step we need to take pictures and start to create the conversations.

Flashdrive sticker reward done for our Montserrat Quest system

ARIS

PROJECT: Ghost Writers
LOCATION: Central Cemetery, Beverly, MA
OBJECTIVE: Player must follow the guided walk through/tour, pick up flowers and drop at the grave sites of the persons of interest within 'game'. Player cannot advance unless they have done the flower action. Flowers unlock the next step. 

TASKS ACCOMPLISHED: white flower, in pixels 

TO DO: 

1. get other flowers from team mates

2. upload to ARIS

3. begin/finish tour 'game' 

                   within week

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Science Fantasy Convention

www.arisia.org

Cool, and fun Science Fantasy Convention that runs every year. It has an art show. Gaming room. Signing booths, and lots of reasonable priced homemade steampunk gear.

ARIS Project

Project: Lost Things!

Location: On Campus

Our project will be a series of quests to search for lost items (such as art supplies for a class, or keys to your studio). We want to incorporate stickers in with this idea to have a real life element, so for example; you follow the story and end up where you're supposed to go to retrieve the lost item, you not only would get the item in the app, but there would also be a sticker of said item in the location as well that you can find and collect! 

For this project we will also be creating some of our own characters, as well as possibly using people from the school.