Tribeca Film Festival

Last week, by the indication of Charly Braun, I went to see “Santiago” – a documentary by Joao Moreira Salles about his buttler.
Fantastic story and character. We were honored by Joao’s presence at the screening for the Q&A session. Delicate, centered, and soft spoken…

Also saw Charly’s short film the same day “You Can’t Take It With You” – a story of a boy who finds out that the world is going to end from a VCR that sees into the future. Entertaining and cute film – well executed and with great actors… congratulations Charly!!

First Pictures with Nokia D80

Splurged today and bought myself a Nokia D80 with a Tamron 18-250mm lens.
Amazing camera – fast and all the options you want, and some that you will never use 🙂

The lens is not the clearest one in the market but it is truly a all-in-one… wide angle to zoom… covering all of your basic needs.

5 Borough Bike Ride

Today 40 thousand bikers hit the streets of NY and biked for 40 miles across NYC’s 5 boroughs – Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.

Met up with Roy, Jeremy, and Andy at his place at 6:30 am. We then met up with Felipe and Ben.

After freezing at the start line, we were let go… great ride!

Check out some pictures:

5 Borough Bike Ride

LEGO Robotics Fotos

Here are some pictures of the projects the kids at Hunter Elementary School are working on. I interned there this semester – a part of an after school program held by Vision Education and Media. I helped out with teaching them how to program the robots and helped out with the construction of their ideas. A great experience that impressed me in so far as how fast the kids learn and absorb.

Lego Robotics

Ecosystem

Improved version of the Male Female code… use the keyboard to play with the system…
Males and Females are attracted to food and to each other.
If they are mating, they cannot eat.
If they eat, they grow and become slower.
The have to be close to another member of the opposite sex to pair up and go to the mating area.
Their kids will inherit some properties from the parents:
– How horny or how hungry they are (inversely proportional).
– How fast they go and how big they are (also inversely proportional)
These factors influence how much food the eat, how fast they get to the mating area, how attracted they are to members of the opposite sex, and how long they live.
The mating are is where they have kids. The kids inherit the properties of the parents.
So eventually the population should tend to an “optimal” level of horniness, hunger, speed and size – since only those with the right genes will reproduce.
Well… that is the intention 🙂

The Sphere – assembly time

The trek continues…

After hours of preparing the files in Maya, exporting them to Rhino, then arranging them in Illustrator, I got what I needed to send them to the laser printer.


Went down to
Canal Plastics and bought the material (1.5mm thick clear plastic)
Submitted the files to
AMS (Advanced Media Services from NYU).
BUT – the job was too big… It would take 12 hours to cut the entire sphere. So I had to simplify the project and submitted only 1/8th of the sphere…
Figured out that joining pieces together in the real world is a lot harder than it seems… software is sooooo much easier… heheehh…
In any case – happy that what was supposed to match up did and looks all right despite the unjoined rings in the center.

Nature of Code progress

Rewriting the Male Female program into an ecosystem… added food, birth, death and dna (weight, speed, health, and lifespan).
Next step is to introduce attraction between males and females, going to mating area and finally inheritance.