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Friday Blog: P7

Read the article about Apple iPhones below.

This article tells us that Apple is storing locations that you most frequent. 
Do you think that this is a good thing or a bad thing? 
Why do you think it's positive or negative?
How could this private data be helpful to you? 
How could this information be used against you?

Write a COMMENT BELOW about your ideas on this topic. 
Write FIVE complete sentences and use proper punctuation, capitalized eyes(I), grammar and spelling.

Your iPhone Knows Exactly Where You've Been, and How Long You Spent There

By Zoë Schlanger

Filed: 5/2/14 at 2:37 PM  | Updated: 5/2/14 at 3:03 PM

It's more or less taken as a given that if you have a smartphone and a reasonable Web presence, your data privacy is not your own. But every so often, we're made aware of some feature that's keeping tabs on us in ways that feel particularly invasive. 

Today, that feature is the iPhone's "Frequent Locations." It silently learns about where you spend your time and collects a list of where you've been and how long you spend there. It determines your workplace location (mostly accurately, it seems) from where you are during the day, and your home address from where you spend your nights. Apple says the data "is kept solely on your device and won't be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing." But it still brings to mind questions, such as: Will courts one day subpoena this location data, as they do with text messages? 

Friday Blog: P5

Read the article about Apple iPhones below.

This article tells us that Apple is storing locations that you most frequent. 
Do you think that this is a good thing or a bad thing? 
Why do you think it's positive or negative?
How could this private data be helpful to you? 
How could this information be used against you?

Write a COMMENT BELOW about your ideas on this topic. 
Write FIVE complete sentences and use proper punctuation, grammar and spelling.

Your iPhone Knows Exactly Where You've Been, and How Long You Spent There

By Zoë Schlanger

Filed: 5/2/14 at 2:37 PM  | Updated: 5/2/14 at 3:03 PM

It's more or less taken as a given that if you have a smartphone and a reasonable Web presence, your data privacy is not your own. But every so often, we're made aware of some feature that's keeping tabs on us in ways that feel particularly invasive. 

Today, that feature is the iPhone's "Frequent Locations." It silently learns about where you spend your time and collects a list of where you've been and how long you spend there. It determines your workplace location (mostly accurately, it seems) from where you are during the day, and your home address from where you spend your nights. Apple says the data "is kept solely on your device and won't be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing." But it still brings to mind questions, such as: Will courts one day subpoena this location data, as they do with text messages? 

Friday Blog: P4

Read the article about Apple iPhones below.

This article tells us that Apple is storing locations that you most frequent. 
Do you think that this is a good thing or a bad thing? 
Why do you think it's positive or negative?
How could this private data be helpful to you? 
How could this information be used against you?

Write a COMMENT BELOW about your ideas on this topic. 
Write FIVE complete sentences and use proper punctuation, grammar and spelling.

Your iPhone Knows Exactly Where You've Been, and How Long You Spent There

By Zoë Schlanger

Filed: 5/2/14 at 2:37 PM  | Updated: 5/2/14 at 3:03 PM

It's more or less taken as a given that if you have a smartphone and a reasonable Web presence, your data privacy is not your own. But every so often, we're made aware of some feature that's keeping tabs on us in ways that feel particularly invasive. 

Today, that feature is the iPhone's "Frequent Locations." It silently learns about where you spend your time and collects a list of where you've been and how long you spend there. It determines your workplace location (mostly accurately, it seems) from where you are during the day, and your home address from where you spend your nights. Apple says the data "is kept solely on your device and won't be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing." But it still brings to mind questions, such as: Will courts one day subpoena this location data, as they do with text messages? 

Friday Blog: P2

Read the article below. It's two paragraphs long.
This article tells us that Apple is storing locations that you most frequent. 
Do you think that this is a good thing or a bad thing? 
Why? 
How could this information be helpful to you? 
How could this information be used against you?

Write a COMMENT BELOW about your ideas on this topic. 
Write FIVE complete sentences and use proper punctuation, grammar and spelling.

Your iPhone Knows Exactly Where You've Been, and How Long You Spent There

By Zoë Schlanger

Filed: 5/2/14 at 2:37 PM  | Updated: 5/2/14 at 3:03 PM

It's more or less taken as a given that if you have a smartphone and a reasonable Web presence, your data privacy is not your own. But every so often, we're made aware of some feature that's keeping tabs on us in ways that feel particularly invasive. 

Today, that feature is the iPhone's "Frequent Locations." It silently learns about where you spend your time and collects a list of where you've been and how long you spend there. It determines your workplace location (mostly accurately, it seems) from where you are during the day, and your home address from where you spend your nights. Apple says the data "is kept solely on your device and won't be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing." But it still brings to mind questions, such as: Will courts one day subpoena this location data, as they do with text messages? 

Friday Blog: P1

http://www.newsweek.com/your-iphone-knows-exactly-where-youve-been-and-how-long-you-spent-there-249475

Read the article below.
This article tells us that Apple is storing locations that you most frequent. Do you think that this is a good thing or a bad thing? Why? How could this information be helpful to you? How could this information be used against you?

Write a COMMENT BELOW about your ideas on this topic. Write FIVE complete sentences and use proper punctuation, grammar and spelling.

Your iPhone Knows Exactly Where You've Been, and How Long You Spent There

By Zoë Schlanger

Filed: 5/2/14 at 2:37 PM  | Updated: 5/2/14 at 3:03 PM

It's more or less taken as a given that if you have a smartphone and a reasonable Web presence, your data privacy is not your own. But every so often, we're made aware of some feature that's keeping tabs on us in ways that feel particularly invasive. 

Today, that feature is the iPhone's "Frequent Locations." It silently learns about where you spend your time and collects a list of where you've been and how long you spend there. It determines your workplace location (mostly accurately, it seems) from where you are during the day, and your home address from where you spend your nights. Apple says the data "is kept solely on your device and won't be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing." But it still brings to mind questions, such as: Will courts one day subpoena this location data, as they do with text messages? 

Graph Design: Life After Pi Movie

http://www.hollywoodendingmovie.com/life-after-pi/

We'll be watching this in Graphic Design class.

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In February of 2013, John Hughes, founder of Rhythm & Hues Studios, regretfully announced that the company was going bankrupt. With no way to pay his hard working employees, and no other options, hundreds were laid off. Two weeks later, they won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for “Life of Pi.”

These were tragic, ironic times, and as employees, we were compelled to document it.  As the bankruptcy finalized and layoffs continued, we began filming – watching helplessly as one of the most prestigious VFX companies in the world crumbled. As we all asked how this could happen, many stood up in outrage, sounding the alarm that this incident was not an isolated event, but a reflection of greater problems.

The old model of the movie business is passing away, yet modern-day Hollywood grips it ever more tightly. VFX companies and artists are treated as mere cogs in the machine, with little regard to creating a sustainable, collaborative working relationship. This will lead not only to the demise of more VFX companies, but to increasing instability industry wide.

Rhythm & Hues reached new heights in visual effects mastery with its stunning work on “Life of Pi,” yet they still fell into bankruptcy.

“Life After Pi” reveals the behind-the-scenes factors that led to this sad and unforgettable moment in the history of Hollywood."

Smarter animation bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds.

http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2013/inventor/hao-li/

Hao Li remembers watching Jurassic Park as a kid: “That moment of seeing something that didn’t exist in reality, but it looked so real—that was definitely the one that made me think about doing this,” he says. Li tells me the story one afternoon while we dine at the cafeteria of Industrial Light & Magic, the famed San Francisco visual-effects studio where he has been working on a way to digitally capture actors’ facial expressions for the upcoming Star Warsmovies. 

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE

Minecraft Reviewed on MIT Tech

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/516051/the-secret-to-a-video-game-phenomenon/

This is a long article that will take 2 days to read in class.

Minecraft places its players in the game’s world with few directives. There are almost no goals or commandments to guide or moderate behavior, apart from those of the players’ own making. So what accounts for the game’s success? Its intelligent design reveals a watchmaker’s precision, while the elemental freedom it offers its inhabitants taps into some primal, irresistible human urges

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE

TECH: TINY FLYING MACHINES TAKE A LESSON FROM HONEYBEES

http://www.futurity.org/flying-lessons-may-lead-robotbee-swarm/

To develop insect-sized robot aircraft, researchers are harnessing secrets of how honeybees fly.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

Glass Two Atoms Thick Shatters World Record

http://www.futurity.org/glass-just-two-atoms-thick-shatters-world-record/

Scientists at Cornell and Germany’s University of Ulm had been making graphene, a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms in a chicken wire crystal formation, on copper foils in a quartz furnace. They noticed some “muck” on the graphene, and upon further inspection, found it to be composed of the elements of everyday glass, silicon and oxygen.

They concluded that an air leak had caused the copper to react with the quartz, also made of silicon and oxygen. This produced the glass layer on the would-be pure graphene.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

Comment Sections Are Wastelands Ruled by Trolls. Here Are Alternatives

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/gl_honan-conversation/

Have you ever been reading the comments under an online article and realized that MOST of the comments are from trolls or spambots? CEOs are coming up with new ways to deal with the comments sections of their online articles to elevate the conversations into real meaningful conversations instead of dumping grounds for trolls.

Read the article at wired.com and answer the questions in the handout.

Project Loon. Google's Answer to 21st Century Internet Problems

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/googlex-project-loon/

Project Loon, a breathtakingly ambitious plan to bring the Internet to a huge swath of as-yet-unconnected humanity—via thousands of solar-powered, high-pressure balloons floating some 60,000 feet above Earth.

Read the Article.
Answer Questions on handout.

Animation from Still Photography... In Space (4:00)

Check out this video made from actual photos that the Cassini Spacecraft too while it was orbiting Saturn. This is one of the coolest movies ever. Seriously. These are actual photos from space. The music and editing take it over the top.

http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/70532693

If you want to know more about the mission please visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Vector Art: The Bug Video (4:47)

The Bug
http://vimeo.com/11513988

Here is a thesis project a student made at School of Visual Arts in New York. This project is how they earned their Masters Degree in Computer Art. The animation is awesome! They really have created their own world eh?

STEM: Space Photo Each Day

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/space-photo-of-the-day-2/?pid=7226

This site is really cool. This page is a space photo each day. Awesome! I love it when science, technology and art all unite to create something beautiful. This image below is five views of the planet Venus.

STEM: Tech Art: Mirage Animated Film (9:19)

The short animated film about a boy, his dog, and a magical conch is so good it's bananas! It was made by two animation students and with the funding from School of Visual Arts (psst - that's where I went to school!)

See what happens when an ecosystem gets disturbed by a magical element.

http://io9.com/this-marvelous-student-film-is-as-polished-as-a-feature-513600793

STEM: Tech Art: Microscopic Worlds

These objects might not be recognizable if you could see them really close up!

http://sobadsogood.com/2013/06/11/heres-20-startling-images-naked-to-the-human-eye/

STEM: Tech Art: Time-Lapse Earth

This incredible time-lapse movie taken from the International Space Station of earth is one of those beautiful movies that will make you love our world. Check it out!

http://fstoppers.com/timelapse-from-space-will-leave-you-humbled

STEM: Tech Art: Prankster Busstop

See this story about some really creative people who Photoshop people as they wait for a bus, and then the folks waiting see that their image is on the busstop ad. Pretty funny and clever!

http://gizmodo.com/prankster-photoshops-people-into-ads-while-they-wait-fo-511927575