hometown, Manzanita OR

Past Projects                [skyehome]

here is a listing of some projects I've been a part of in the last several years:



LunaSea Gardens
a small organic farmstead on the oregon coast. some friends with interests in local food production and sustainable economies/communities have started putting down roots. They've been letting me help with construction.   

screen shot of SONIA
SoNIA (Social Network Image Animator)
prototype java software for animating and browsing time-based social network data.   
plot of disimilarity of successive networks
McFarland's Classroom Networks
Dan is professor in Sociology/Education at Stanford.  He has collected lots of "streaming" interaction data of students in classrooms.  I worked on data processing scripts, analysis, and developing visualizations.  Papers in progress
BLO on the streets
Brass Liberation Orchestra
a loose affiliation of radical street musicians. I started playing snare drum so I could join. we helped shut down San Francisco's financial district to protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq.   
part of homeland security website bannder
DeptHomelandSecurity.com
you have to see it to believe it. Boal's "invisible theater" meets Orwell, but with cheep costumes.   
DASW logo
Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW)
an umbrella group for coordinating non-violent direct action against U.S.-lead wars for global domination.    (
web work)
budapest
2002 Budapest Complex Systems Summer School
somehow I got invited by the Santa Fe Institute to give a lecture (pdf 2.5mb) and help other students with REPAST
dense network
PajekConverter,   PajekAnimator
Java utilities for formatting data for pajek, and kludge for animating networks in the Pajek network software
Information transmission
in social groups:

communication,
 networks, and
interaction

thesis paper
a very long document with thoughts about social transmission of culture and information    bennington social network study as part of my thesis project, I developed a web-based multi-wave social interaction network survey of the incoming freshmen class   
(pdf) 9.8mb  html version
bennington network survey
Bennington College Social Network Survey
web-based multi-wave survey for collecting social contact information among 1st-year students as part of my thesis project

motion trails from video tracking
motion tracking project
a prototype art/sociology/technology piece which attempted to visualize the trajectories in space and time traced out by theatergoers in a lobby
screen from c-space movie
c-space project
final project for Ruben Puentedura's Human Interface Design class at bennington.  short movie visualy demonstrates a concept of cyberspace explained in the text. 
piquteros' blockade in N. Argintina
travels in S. america
some photos and after-the-fact writings about a walkabout in south america which had a somewhat radicalizing effect on me   

manzanita new year's parade
you have to be there to see it.  flaming torches and giant puppets down four blocks of my hometown street to the beach