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Posted a day late.

Something from my sketchbook. A Sol LeWitt-inspired algorithm for an infinitely zoomable drawing.

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Haven’t written a letter in years! I discovered that my hand is quite weak.

Here is some video I shot yesterday during a I run I took through the neighborhood. We’re looking for a new apartment, so we made sure to swing by a place we’re interested in. Oh, and the music that accompanies is another Thing-a-day creation! I think it works really well for this.

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Also, here is the original MPEG4 which has less compression artifacts.
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Today I created the lecture slides for the class I’m teaching tomorrow, Design for the Web 1 at City College of New York. For this week’s class I made these cutesy characters to help illustrate how the web works:

The user	The browser
The server (a happy server)	The HTML file

My thing for today is a process for choosing a series of words where the first and last words are antonyms (they mean the opposite thing) and each word between them is a synonym (they have a similar meaning). The “distance” refers to how many synonyms you must choose before reaching the antonym. I’ve never heard of this before, so I’ll assume I’m inventing it here.

Without further ado, the synonym/antonym sequence for “dynamic” and “static” (s/a distance of 8):

1. Dynamic
2. Vital
3. Essential
4. Intrinsic
5. Indelible
6. Permanent
7. Stable
8. Static

I used the built-in Apple Dictionary program to choose these, but I’m assuming it would work similarly with other references. I’m curious which words might produce the shortest distances.

Pretty much exactly what it sounds like.