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The Great Bike Powered Light Show Dance Party!  Steers new technology away from alienation and towards real world, carbon free participation! Bikers crank power to a boombox and a projector. Music contributed by local musicians plays as digital imagery beams onto the very bodies of the dancer/participants. The visuals follow the shape and movement of the participants, paying attention to every…

I just a bought an iPhone 4s for my father-in-law who recently became vision impaired. Siri was great at making calls for him. All he needs to do Is say “call” and a name in his contacts. She also does great with the weather. There seems to be a learning curve for everything else but…

ScreenThings Independence Project basic diagram. The diagram proposes taking ScreenThings to the next level as a solar powered autonomous life form.

Adobe’s recent announcement to discontinue work on Flash Player for mobile strikes me as hugely ironic. I was with Flash from the beginning. Almost the beginning, Flash 4 to be exact. It was the late 90s. The web was young, broadband was 56K modem, most computers were slower than today’s phones. Video on the web…

34048938001 1263977082001 screenThingSummer from David Aronson on Vimeo. Screen Thing Summer The entire saga of Screen Things through the summer of 2011. Figment New York, Figment Detroit, and World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science. (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Giant Upside Down Reactive Ice Cream Cone Footage assembled from Figment New York 2010 on Governours Island. Narration by David Aronson. (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)

I’ve had a lot of people introduce me as someone who does lighting. I find that strange, but I can’t totally disagree. From my perspective, my work is a combination of design, animation, interactive programming, projection mapping,  installation, and live-mixing. However, the end product is usually made from light coming out of a projector. I’ve also been…

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/1781504″ width=”650″ height=”490″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/1781504″>FiGO / Tommie Sunshine Plaza Remix Live Video Mix</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user770430″>David Aronson</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> Live VJ mix to Plaza by Figo

I’ll be installing ScreenThings and VJing for Love crushed velvet tonight at Norwood Club 241 west 14th. Come on out!

While I was setting up ScreenThings for Maker Faire something very interesting happened. I finally had it up and running when one of the screens started to turn pale, then blink on and off. Then it would just shrink into a little dot and go black. I pushed its power button and it turned back on…