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@ITP_NYU Creative Technologist, Multimedia Artist, tinkerer, they/them. I don't use Twitter, ig: leia.make

Joined September 2013
PSA: the iOS photos app can run DOOM. A very very stupid kinda-playable collab with the very very smart @Adnan_aga couple of details on what we're doing here + link to a longer blog below!
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what if your journal visualized your emotions? (little concept inspired by hume and obsidian)
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omg so someone just adapted cursor-party and added (among other features) teeny eyes to the cursors that point to where you're going it is... surprisingly connecting? I am now convinced that all multiplayer cursors need teeny eyes 🥹 ellesho.me/page/
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no thoughts only 555 timer pcb firefly
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what if words could forget themselves
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Jumble as archive
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Grim Grinning Ghosts is an interactive holographic installation created by ITP’s @it_leia as an homage to Disney’s Haunted Mansion. In this spooky setup, you place candles into their holders to call up a ghostly chorus. Read more about it at leiac.me.
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Sometimes you need a quick project pick-me-up; this was mine today. Translucent acrylic frames that partially obscure the photos underneath. 📸
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Now that we’re back in spooky season, I’m bringing back my Grin Grinning Ghosts Haunted Mansion homage. It’s an interactive candle holder that calls up our favorite undead chorus! With a little surprise at the end.
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The candles are ejected by tiny 5v solenoids attached to the underside of the lid. This took a lot of trial and error.
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Anyway there’s pictures and video of the experience over here Might do a how-to at some point leiac.me/2022/2022-02-01_Gri…
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Full text:
I began the day without any time left. Any slice of the day swallows the rest whole. A cast of one, I read from the book and get two coffees, toast two slices of bread, one with butter and one plain. Anti-narrative, to wait for someone else to wake up.
Starting a #7weeksofmaking project focused on writing and (sometimes) projecting text. (01 / 49)
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strong need to get on towards the airport. I re-began the day then with a list of possibilities sitting on my stomach. It had sat there all night, taking from me the deep breaths of sleep, shuffling every few hours to wake me and remind me of its existence. In the morning (3/4)
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it yowled, hungry and toothsome. I began the day a tangle. Each direction I was tugged I tightened. (4/4)