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979. Data Art 987. Web Development & APIs

The Color of Music

Building upon my artist lyrics analyzer project, I made a small web app that searches artist lyrics for the colors that they mention in their songs. You can try it yourself here. < outdated – check out the ol’ repo here

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Waveform Mashup – A Self Portrait with Data

I created a digital self portrait in the form of a ‘waveform mashup’. The waveform mashup is a visual abstraction of waveform data from my ‘Top Songs of 2017’ as defined by Spotify.

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979. Data Art

Melting Pot

A quick data visualization of immigrant populations to the US – made with using p5.js (and other tools 😈). Here is the data & code, and here is the editable p5 sketch.

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Live Image Performance: Big Dark Age

I performed a 5-minute audio-visual piece at CultureHub for an audience of about 50 people. Here is a recording of it – the piece is called Big Dark Age. Copyrights to MGMT and Columbia Records for the song ‘Little Dark Age’, and to Warner Brothers for excerpts from The Animatrix.

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Revenge of Left Shark

Revenge of Left Shark is an interactive rhythm and dance game. In other words, DDR with your hands. The game uses computer vision to place the player on the beach, supply visual cues and provide real-time scoring information. Here is the game being demo’d at ITP’s 2018 Spring Show by one of my heroes: Dan Shiffman…

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Lyrics API: Artist Word Choice

Using data from the musixmatch API, I have created a tool that shows what words musical artists use most in their lyrics. It uses a combination of jQuery and D3 libraries to work as a single-page “app”. Try it here. < outdated – check out the ol’ repo here The web “app” works by finding…

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Beachball Chromakeying

Spring and summer are around the corner! To celebrate, I made a pixel manipulation tool for chromakeying in certain colors. Code can be found here. Music: California Girls by Katy Perry. 

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Moiré patterns – pokeball overlap

Experimenting with moiré patterns, light and color in processing. Based on code from OpenProcessing. Full code here.

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Moiré patterns – rainbow sphere

 Experimenting with moiré patterns, light and color in processing. Based on code from OpenProcessing. Full code here and below.

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The Perception Test: Higher Order Beliefs

Economics is regarded as a ‘soft science’ because it studies a field that is heavily influenced by human behavior. Despite developing rigorous models the world depends on, precise measurements that move markets, and insights for how humans behave, economics is dependent on some key assumptions (such as rational actors). For this reason, it is often a…