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RogerSjogren
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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:12 am Post subject: Study at Hyper Island? |
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The Interactive Media focused school Hyper Island, in Sweden, will run the Digital Media program in Karlskrona and the Interactive Art Director program in Stockholm with an international touch. This means that the two programs are now open for English speaking people as private paying students.
Read more at: www.hyperisland.se |
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Ed Ziomek
Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: Interesting promo video |
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I just looked up your website www.hyperisland.se and selected the promo video.
Note: the micro-arrow in the bottom left is the 'start' button...
Why Hyper Island
Excellent, classic quote included on the perfect new student...(paraphrased)..."If you show us a copy of your portfolio of all the great things you have done, that we have all seen before, that's one thing, but if you show us just 4 unique things that we have NEVER seen before, that get's our attention for sure."
...Student example from "Grupp 5"
"Our idea is to make colorstrokes from movement of a person filmed by the webcam. And by letting the strokes have a long delaytime, many people can join and togheter make an artpainting. The funny part is that we wont let the people know that they’re making motionstrokes."
Very interesting school.
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Ed Ziomek
Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject: Ideas for your students: Pilotless Electric "Pod Trainl |
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Roger...
As an afterthought, if I was 30 years younger, I would consider attending your school to get the Swedish point of view.
But do you accept unsolicited ideas for your student groups to tackle?
Such as: In America, I think we consume 80 million barrels of oil per day, with that number soon to increase to 100 million barrels, and God forbid what the rest of the world will be using. So that when the newspapers proclaim a 200 billion barrel oil field found in Kazakhstan, it only represents maybe a 6 month consumption plan for the entire world, and it may even cause a war in the meantime.
So what is our country doing to design a better public transportation system? Not much, so let me jump-start a concept....
I am asking for your students to design a pilot-less cab car "Pod", that automatically drives a route from some pre-arranged parking location, to the train station in let us say... Greenwich Connecticut, loads itself onto some overhead tram system (like a ski lift), which joins itself in with cars in front and the back, and the group heads towards New York City.
Should the occupants of any one pod need to exit at a stop along the way, the fellow passengers can opt out to move to another "Pod", which is destined for the La Guardia airport Sky Train system, or downtown Manhatten, or wherever.
The whole point is that this Pod "trainlet" is programmed individually for its destination and return, the end result being: Get Americans out of their cars!
The Amtrak train system has ALWAYS passed within one mile of the LaGuardia airport, in Astoria Queens, and the only mention of adding an airport stop or a stadium stop was by Mayor Bloomberg, which is still 100% more than anything of the last 50 years!
One pilot-less electric vehicle that does it all, and an animation sequence that shows it doing just that....
So instead of waiting for DECADES for any plan to take shape, could we have some student group from Hyper Island design this "Pod trainlet" that can automatically run on roads, then on subway tracks with third rails, and also on skyhook tram-like suspended rails?
If you need a volunteer to get the photographs and the dimensions, I think I can help you.
PS... a similar functional example is being done in Morgantown West Virginia with the University of West Virginia...my idea is to expand on this success.
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