A comparison of the Top 15 Most Hashtagged Food on Instagram versus its availability on restaurants in New York based on its Yelp search results. This chart is basically comparing the popularity versus its availability aspect. 

A visualization based on delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us) tags that shows the trends and interests of students looking for the word “innovation” over specific time period (2007 - early 2015). 

I found animation by code as something really fascinating. How we can manipulate particles and give them 'life' by playing around with parameters such as emitter radius, velocity, lifetime, rotating angle, and many kinds of forces, spinning and damping (friction). 

I've always enjoyed creating projects based on my interest, especially when it comes to food. I remember there was this one time I had a deadline to present a new 2-week project for Major Studio, and I had sudden cravings of NYC pizza. You know, just that plain classic cheese slice that just got out of the brick oven, its size so big you have to eat it like the locals: by folding it half-way so it's easier to eat and also to prevent all the yummy oily drips from getting out of place. Guys, the pizzas in NYC are serious business. If you live in NYC without ever exploring its pizza scheme, someday it will probably be your biggest regret when you're leaving this city. 

I never thought that less than 30 lines of code could result in something so beautiful like this. One of the reasons I love openFrameworks for generative art and animation like this. In this exercise I was just playing around with sine wave modulation with multiple elements. Code available on my Github page!

In Your Face is a physical installation that explores the relationship between human — our body, mind, and soul — and reflective surfaces such as glass, screens and mirrors. It is a two-way mirror projection in form of a 12’’ x 12’’ transparent box that enables people to see themselves in different kinds of 3D virtual avatars.

My final project for the "Future Gadgets" class is what I called “FUTUNE”, and the storyboard concept is as follows:

The year is 2084, we’ve discovered the wormhole (Einstein-Rosen bridge) that connects us to another world. This world is actually our world but in the future (see wormhome diagram below). We are trying to find ways to communicate with our future selves through this wormhole. We start looking for signs from the universe. ...

For my CCLAB OpenFrameworks Final, I wanted to make something with similar concept as my previous Arduino project. So I'm exploring how to make Sound Visualizer in OpenFrameworks using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) library and a couple of other addons. Here's what I've got so far:

For my CCLAB Arduino Final we have to make something that has both input, output, and also inject some personality into it. So I made this music visualizer that will show smiley face as long as the music is not too loud, and gives annoyed face whenever the surrounding music is too loud.

We wanted to create a way for people to be able to interact from beyond the grave. We have made a physical object that embodies an individual’s personality (through their cyberself) and is able to interact with the living after their death.

So we've had this two-week long “Extended 7x7 Project” for Major Studio 1 and I decided to continue working on my old red, landline phone. The main objective of this project was to do a physical exploration of an antiquated object and see how we could reuse the same components to create or invent something new. In other words, it is also known as the act of repurposing an object. 

Last week I played around with Spotify Web API and made something really simple: Music Explorer. Just type any artist, album, or songs in the search box and it will display relevant results depending on the query. When you click on each tile it will play a 30-second preview of related song. You can also click the 'Play on Spotify' button and it will launch the Spotify web player on a new window.

Next project after 7x7 from Sven is to map, track and record something for straight 72 hours and then process the data into some other form - it could be data visualization, web, audio, video, timelapse, program, etc. I decided to record myself, all of my activities: what I eat, what I drink, where do I go, what do I do, how long do I sleep, how many times I peed, and some other basic stuff. So here it goes, I made an interactive web timeline using Timeline.js and Isotope JS plugin to present the data from September 6th, 2014 09:00:00 AM to September 9th, 2014 09:00:00 AM.

For my last project of 7x7 I had this fun & crazy idea of challenging myself to be vegan for a day. The overall journey is presented into animated timeline which you can see minute-by-minute activities happened during the time. 

Today, September 1st is the long-awaited Labor Day holiday. I celebrate it by going to "Astoria Eats", a local festival which spans over three and a half blocks in the 30th Avenue, Astoria, as the main street. 

So today my roommate gave me an old unused landline telephone and she said that I can play around with it. And so I did. I have never once in my life would think of 'butchering' unused gadgets just to see how the things inside actually worked, but I thought this might be interesting for one of my 7x7 projects.

My project for Day 4 is the most interesting thing so far: A cooking project. Yeay! One of the thing I love with these 7x7 projects is that there are no boundaries and there's no right or wrong, so we can actually come up with fun ideas of doing things that we love the most, including cooking.

Based on my previous Day 2 project, for today I decided to do something about Mr. Flexible and give him exactly what he wanted since the beginning: A LIFE. So I made this web page using HTML/CSS/JavaScript to showcase its interactivity using stop-motion graphics, along with narratives of the story behind Mr. Flexible. 

For Day 2, I decided to craft an actual object. I was inspired by this pilates business card (see below) which is really, really brilliant in my opinion. I know it looked easy but as someone who have spent most of her life dealing with the digital world only, crafting is definitely NOT an easy task for me.

The first assignment for our Major Studio 1 class this semester is something that we called "7x7", in which we have to create 7 daily projects in 7 days. There are no rules, no definition, all seven projects can be under one big theme or also can be totally random, it was up to the students. The only constraint is time. We have to move on from one project to another in 24 hours. This is a really challenging exercise but I'll have to do it anyway. 

During Bootcamp 2014 we had this one task in Design section to explore our mastery background and then frame it within the context of "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvano. At first I wasn't sure what I should do especially since it's only a few days project, but looking back at my old portfolio I soon realize that maybe I should just create an app.

During Bootcamp WEB midterms we had to recreate our portfolio website using HTML/CSS, so this is what I came up with. I used Masonry cascading grid layout library to get the fluid transition effect that I wanted to, and customized it based on the contents I've had.

Bootcamp 2014 just ended. The three-week super intensive summer course is aimed to help all new MFADT students to quickly adapt and be ready for the fast-paced 2 year program. The program is divided into 3 sections: Web, Design, and Code, and it runs for 3 weeks.