James Stone and Maria Babakhanyan collaborated to bring “Cave Ecology” to about 100 young participants at the 2011 Exploration Day. The Pennsylvania State University hosted Exploration Day on 4/9/2011 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
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Plantform
Plantform is an experimental reconfigurable platform for experimentation with augmented and cyborg plants.
A Floating World
After many months of planning, fabrication, and working hard with the team, the Floating World project has been installed as part of the San Fernando Corridor Project, in San Jose, California.
Protozone
A video installation exploring the use of microbiology to judge the health of the Guadalupe River.
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Hello Arduino
Hello Arduino attempts to present the microcontroller in a futurist meditative state contradicting the DIY nature of the device.
Ekranoplan
Ekranoplan was a story written in english, translated to Russian with a heavy emphasis on using idiomatic expressions, which was then dubbed to the film “The American Friend”, by Wim Wenders in Russian, Runglish (expressions translated word for word) and American English, again, with emphasis on using idiomatic expressions.
Prototype Project
[slidepress gallery='prototype-project'] I fitted high power motors, affixed with heavy guage wire inside of coke bottles, to act as basically large loud vibration motors. Motors were actuated by a knock sensor and ran sequences from an Arduino microcontroller.
Cat Translator
[slidepress gallery='cat-translator'] A commercial for a mythical product, the cat translator.
Drop Corporate White
[slidepress gallery='drop-corporate-white'] This project is derived from a narrative text, by creating metaphors from found images off of google image search. The images represent word level metaphors while the sound track was built at more of clause, sentence, and paragraph level metaphors.
fontana-bot
[slidepress gallery='fontana-bot'] Video Documentation [slidepress gallery='fontana-bot-video-documentation'] a machine inspired by a nostalgia of modernism, an absurdist algorithm a collaboration with Thomas Asmuth.
Le Cité des Mauxnia
Le Cité des Mauxnia, site mockup: http://www.manofstone.com/mauxnia/ My project deals with the reintegration of urban wildlife, such as feral cats, pigeons, etc. with the other inhabitants of the city. Site 01: Carport behind house located at 45 N. 12th Street, San Jose, CA 95112 View Larger Map This site was chosen because there is a [...]
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Solder Like a Pimp
A weekly skill building session where I attempt to make the (art)skill of soldering fun.
La prédestination
[slidepress gallery='la-predestination'] La prédestination uses an algorithm to transverse a tree in the dvd, that is subverted, so that it will always come to the same outcome. The piece was inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and a traditional narrative screenplay was to be a continuation of it. From there, parallel imagery and [...]
Network Weather Station
I am working on my final project for Human Machine Interface. It is the idea of an old weather station, applied to network statistics. Now, instead of hopping on your computer to see if the network is slow, you can tell with just a glance. Just like people checking the weather before they go outside. [...]
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ledPhones
What happens when you take Apple iPod headphone’s and put huge LED’s in them.
Parallel Narrative
[slidepress gallery='parallel-narrative'] Parallel imagery was created from a narrative text. Audio was approached in the same fashion. Tech: video was stills from a canon powershot camera edited it FCP and the soundtrack was composed using Ableton Live 5.2.
Rashomon
Eric Dorf, Tony Pantane, and myself recreated 1:30 from Rashomon. A/B: Rashomon AB Project from James Stone on Vimeo Overlay: Rashomon Overlay from James Stone on Vimeo.
Edit ID
Matt Linford & James Stone Edit ID is a non-linear video editor that allows its users to edit video from the unconscious or Freudian ID. From its roots in the Surrealist movement, Edit ID chooses to reconstruct or remix the film, “Un Chien Andalou” by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel. Like the Exquisite Corpse exercise, [...]
Genre Project
[slidepress gallery='genre-project'] I worked with Matt Linford on this project. We created Apocalyptic Sci-fi version of part of Citizen Kane. We both came up with the idea, storyboarding and the actual shooting. Matt did the editing and post production and I wrote the underlying soundtrack.
Learning Dvorak
Video Documentation by Week: 01 Introduction of Coach Dvorak, a Superior Keyboard Layout 02 Practice progress, updates, test, etc. 03 Practice progress, updates, test, etc. 04 progress, updates, test, etc. 05 progress, updates, test, etc. 06 progress, updates, test, etc. 07 Dvorak Remixed 08 Maker Faire 09 n/a 10 Final Results and Tests Other Information: [...]
Monet’s Boats
This is a water color painting at Monet’s Gardens while it was closed to the public. Exhibition History: “Monet’s Boats,” watercolor, “International Student Week,” Student Union, SJSU, 2007. “Monet’s Boats,” watercolor, “Shrunkenheadmen in Paris,” Gallery 3, SJSU, 2007.