• Why Oblivion.University?

    Why Oblivion.University?

    This post is a component of my coursework at the CUNY Graduate Center in the M.S. in Data Analysis and Design, for a special topics course about Large Language Models taught by Professor Michelle A. McSweeney. I extend my gratitude to her and all my fellow students for embarking on this journey together, seeking to…

  • Histomap of Magic the Gathering

    Histomap of Magic the Gathering

    During my third semester in CUNY’s Data Visualization and Analysis program, I conducted a study on keyword data in Magic the Gathering cards, a popular collectible card game. Alongside my fascination with movie data, Magic the Gathering has a significant influence on my thoughts – many hours have been lost to deck building and gameplay…

  • Word Diversity in Top Grossing American Films

    Word Diversity in Top Grossing American Films

    **Updated with final visualization and repo I’m back in the classroom as a student for the first time in over twenty years! I’m taking a course at the CUNY Graduate Center – Interactive Data Visualization – and I’m really enjoying the structure and accountability the classroom brings. We’ve been learning the fundamentals of D3.js to…

  • This is Temporal Experiment Number One

    This is Temporal Experiment Number One

    It’s been a week since OERxDomains21 and it’s about time to put to paper some thoughts about the work on the conference guide. The team at Reclaim Hosting reached out to me with a desire to build a site that would fit the analog television theme supported by the artwork of Bryan Mathers. The site…

  • Vertigo, 1958 HTML Movie Poster

    Vertigo, 1958 HTML Movie Poster

    watch the poster I can’t help but to hear the Mad Men opening credits music when watching the start of this animated poster. The ‘falling man’ of the Steve Fuller directed titles has been mistakenly attributed to some angry Eastern European rebel rousers of earlier centuries – apparently there’s multiple occasions. As well, this post’s…

  • Anatomy of a Murder, 1959 HTML Poster

    Anatomy of a Murder, 1959 HTML Poster

    watch the poster When looking for posters to animate, a minimalist designed Saul Bass poster was an obvious choice. Anatomy of a Murder was just one of numerous of films for which he created many of the iconic poster designs of the 60s and 70s. Bass was probably even better known for his title sequence…

  • Dr. Strangelove, 1964 HTML Poster

    Dr. Strangelove, 1964 HTML Poster

    Dr. Strangelove, 1964 HTML Poster So before you open this one, I want you to pick a music track to play. Either the original bombing run music from the Dr. Strangelove soundtrack, or if you want something a bit more thrilling – Ride Of The Valkyries which was played with devastating effect during the helicopter…

  • Harper, 1966 HTML Poster

    Harper, 1966 HTML Poster

    Harper, 1966 HTML Poster My time with making GIFs, in particular animated movie posters, has been on suspension now for about three years. Sad in some ways, but I’ve been busy. The effort has been replaced primarily with learning to code with HTML/CSS/JS and more importantly learning to teach how to code. I hope I’ve…

  • Bevin Kacon Alpha a Movie Trivia Game

    Bevin Kacon Alpha a Movie Trivia Game

    I’ve been working on this project with my students in Web Devleopment 2 this semester. And it’s time to see if it makes sense or is at all fun and note tons of obvious bugs! “Bevin Kacon” as I’m snarkily calling it, is a movie trivia game based on Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – just find…

  • Modern VHS

    Modern VHS

    Here at camp I’ve finally worked through my Bootstrap tutorials and created a spec site for a much larger project that I’m hoping to work on this summer. As part of my learning to code binge , I’m planning to learn the basics of Python and OpenCV to try and make an image processing application. The…