On August 24th, the current ITP community will embark on another 4-in-4 event, every participant creating four different creative projects in four days. Each day’s project will be crafted, named, documented and shared publicly in just one spin of the globe.
As an instigator of this madness, I just launched a collection of information for those participating in or running a 4-in-4 event. This new 4-in-4 Guide tells what it is, how to run one and offers some advice for participants. Think of it as a starter mix from which you can cook up your own 4-in-4. It’s a work in progress. Comments and suggestions warmly welcomed.
Also, look for the upcoming bonsai version, a 1-in-1 event for alumni and students at ITP’s 30th Anniversary celebration, all day on October 2nd.
The 4 Projects in 4 Days event is now underway at ITP with about 30 students and faculty participating. Due to ceiling replacement over break, we’ve taken over the Tisch lower level lobby area with surprisingly comfortable results. Coffee is hot, bagel are sliced, tunes are cranked and people are drawing, soldering, programming and sewing away. The 4-in-4 blog will get updated daily with project reports.
Today I’m just coordinating, but tomorrow I plan to create a networked object for realtime teaching feedback. It’s the kind of self-directed fun I’m sure I’ll learn to regret…
The ITP community will once again embark on a creative project marathon. This time it will be four projects in four days at the end of Winter Break. Steven, Caroline and I holding an open “drive-by” meeting tonight (Dec. 11) to get the ball rolling. Students, faculty and maybe even some alumni will create a finished creative project every day for four days. See 5-in-5 and 7-in-7 for a history of this event. Internal coordination is happening on ITPedia.
Day 4’s 5 in 5ers drew like text, cooked like robots, threw and chirped, mapped and walked, made peace with sandwiches, strolled with Dada, arrowed electroluminescently, surfaced tubularly, put out 2 sea and put up with Zombies.
We were proud to have Make Blogger and ITP alumni Jonah Brucker-Cohen as the Day 4 Guest Star. Only a single day of super-productivity remains, then it’s off to custom cocktails, assuming we survive the invasion of the undead.
Days: 1 2 3 4 5
The middle day of 5 in 5 rebranded Bed-Stuy, counted clicks, twittered literature, resistored a dress, gamed a subwoofer, hacked Peggy into Lite-Brite, mapped our past, threw light sculptures, sampled soft circuits, waisted a skirt of waste, retold one story of a man named Brady and another from Beverly Cleary (a lovely lady).
Guest Starring today was ITP’s own Resident Researcher Kate Hartman. There’s two days, and therefore two projects per person remaining. A wrap party is planned, with rumors of a custom and probably toxic 5-in-5 cocktail concoction.
Days: 1 2 3 4 5
Day 2 of 5 in 5 brought to life a periodic tote, tickets to a sunset, a year in pictures, balls of light. In an impromptu celebration of old-time computing we got earrings compatible with your PC, AsteriskFTP, and thank goodness there’s finally BASIC for Twitter. Clink your glasses for a laser photo trigger, trip the family crest fantastic, snap a jacket, work some flash, and with today’s guest star, compare the Olympic to the merely average.
The group is now 14 strong and with today’s Guest Star Dennis Crowley, they did each project in a single day. Three more days to go! Check out the Etsy Video published yesterday by Guest Star Bre Pettis that includes FrankenFace.
Days: 1 2 3 4 5
It’s the first day of 5 in 5 and there’s a parade of projects. See the gang free themselves from Positioning Systems, choose their food decisively, sash a speaker, stick socks to a tee, mate software circles, print Mega Man, enliven their claw prizes, greet with robots, calm a TV, root for poops, Eco-nomize a billfold, season some mittens, dramatize their voicemail, cut their own coins and Franken their Faces. This motivated group of ITP students and their Guest Star, Bre Pettis did each project in a single day and they’ll do another four each this week for a total of around 50 different projects in five days!
Days: 1 2 3 4 5
Ten ITP students are doing 5 Projects in 5 Days:
“5-in-5 is a group event based on the New York University ITP resident researchers’ project “7 in Seven” that took place the second week of June 2008. The premise goes something like this: Do a creative project every day for five straight days, starting Monday, July 28th 2008 Projects must be completed in a day, so they need to be as compact as they are creative. Each project needs a name and documentation posted by the end of the day. It should be a stand-alone accomplishment.”
The original event has been enhanced with Guest Stars, daily meetings and snacks. I’ll be blogging about each day on the Make Magazine site.
From Left to Right: Armanda, Vikram, Andy, Adam, Corey, Josh, Christian, Kristin and Rob. Rob Ryan is in the background setting things up, and my head is poking up behind Corey’s shoulder.
Days: 1 2 3 4 5
