Directed by Bang-yao Liu

This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.

The Mixtape Club is an organization dedicated to the art of the mixtape. Ten people, ten tracks, ten album covers.

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and... oh, there are loads of rules.

I came across Personas a few days ago and loved it. Here's a little know-how from the horse's mouth:

What is Personas?

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display until Sept 09 at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab(Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

How does it work?

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

Although my years as a skateboader are long gone, the skateboarding culture has always been interesting to me in many ways. Besides the obvious of course, being the way in which these young rebellious athletes are more than capable of throwing a piece of wood around in the air (with themselves as passengers), there's also the visual aspect of the sport.

Transworld Skateboarding wanted to do contest, but create a different one, which basically turned out to be what skateboarding contests wasn't - so they came up with "Skate & Create". This contest is judged on the level of action, creativity, photgraphy standard and editing.

Here's my favourite of the four features, called Wood by DVS.

Check out the winning feature by Etnies, Boxton Square.

Has your feed reader become unpleasantly large with a gazillion feeds and a monstrously large list of unread items (which you'll probably delete because you just don't have the time to read through all of it)? Well, I'll throw you a bone...