For today's 4-in-4 project, I decided to work with video. I took three hours worth of footage from a trip to Portugal in 2007 and turned it into a 15-minute movie with Fado music as its soundtrack. This was kind of a personal project, and I don't think anyone will have much interest so I'm not going to post it. My other projects can be found here.

I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do for the second day of 4-in-4. I had a couple of ideas but really wasn't feeling it. Ultimately I decided to create a few fun ITP themed t-shirts from concept to completion and upload the final products to CafePress. CHOOSING THEMES I had a few ideas on my run last night, but they didn't seem as funny when I woke up this morning. A few examples: - Wherever Ugoe, Igoe... - Danny Rozin: Always Watching (with image of wooden mirror) - If You Build It, They Will Come (for ITP Winter Show) - Make It Talk - Hello World You get the idea. So I settled on a few ideas that were at least kind of funny. I made images of Clay Shirky, Daniel Shiffman, John Dimatos and a resistor. Here are the images:

I know the last one is kind of lame, but I really wanted to have five shirts and I ran out of time. It was a lot harder both finding images to use and editing them than I anticipated. That being said, I learned a lot in the process and I can do it much better next time. Once the shirts were complete and I printed them out to ensure the image quality was satisfactory (it's not, but it's at least passable), I created a CafePress shop. CREATING THE SHOP This couldn't have been easier. All I had to do was register with CafePress, pick a URL and upload my images. The instructions weren't so clear on how to then transform them into products, but I figured out through a bit of click and hunt. Here's what you can buy:

Any feedback on the designs are appreciated. Overall, it was fun to do.

Today was the first day of 4-in-4, an ITP event where everyone creates four projects in four days. The main objective is to actually finish a project each day and to document the experience. For my first project, I decided to use a bunch of voice mails I'd saved over the last two years to create some sort of musical experience. I started by downloading about 40 voice mails and listening to them to find the parts I wanted to use. Next I found a song on SoundSnap to use as the underlying beat. The easiest way to mix it down would have been to use Ableton Live, but since I didn't have time to learn it, I went with GarageBand. (NOTE: Adding Ableton to my list of "things to learn" this year) Here's the final version.