Project 2 Proposal

Sorry for the hold up but I was putting a lot of thought into this project and I was finally able to come with a project that would seem really interesting.

BASKETBALL IS MUSIC

In the midst of the time of the year in which there is the most gratuitous coverage of basketball I have decided to complete Project 2 with such a theme and concept. While coming up with this idea I had in mind the popularity and the amount of success of Nike's 2001 basketball/music video advertising campaign which utilized basketball sounds such squeaking sneakers and a bouncing ball to create a baskestball beat and basketball players showing the various dance/basketball moves. In merging the physical and the computing realm in my my project I was looking into using basketball and feet movements to trigger movements and basketball sounds reacting to the various movements of the user and the basketball. I would probably have to do some more research in order to figure out how to in fact accomplish it but I feel its something that is possible for me to do. I'll be updating later tonight as I do some more research.

STEPPING CLOSER INTO THE MATRIX

-Alex R.

Some TELEO thoughts

Since I've been reading about teleo at least once a day this past week I've also started thinking about the capabilities of teleo as well. One movie that often crosses my mind when I am in deep thought even though I didn't think it was so great when I saw it for the first time was "The Matrix". (sorry to anybody I've offended) The concept behind The Matrix although did really stick with me. Since reading about TELEO and all the stuff that you can do with TELEO, somehow I think the matrix is a possibly one of the most successful TELEO projects ever constructed. TELEO allows people to physically interact with the computer world. Somehow I believe that somebody probably made a TELEO project so complex and powereful and so realistic that it was able to take over and form the matrix. Using teleo you are able to construct physical computation so complex that it starts to take the form of real life functions. Someday I think someone will create that TELEO project and the matrix will take form.

Have a nice day!

-Alex