Jaki Levy

For the past year, I’ve been teaching several digital media classes at 3rd Ward (including a wordpress class). As a teacher, I get member benefits (including discounts on classes.

Right now, I’m taking a physical computing class at 3rdWard (with a focus on using Arduino), taught by Michael @ neufuture.com. During this class, I’m intending on picking up a past project.

For those who have no clue what Arduino or Physical Computing is, watch this cool video by James Houston.

This Summer, Elastic City (one of our recently launched projects), is giving walks throughout New York City. But these are not your typical tourist walks. These walks are led by artists. Todd Shalom, the founder of Elastic City, realized the idea while suffering from altitude sickness in Cusco, Peru.

The walks intend to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. Artists are commissioned by Elastic City to create their own walks. These walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city.

The walks have been featured in TimeoutNY, WNYC, Wallstreet Journal, Gothamist, and other publications.

To listen Todd talk about the walks on WNYC, click here, or hit play on the player below

Browse the walks listing and rediscover New York.

Here’s a quick look back at some work I did in 2009. Here’s hoping 2010 will be just as interesting

SlideshowPro.net recently placed one of my sites on their top 10 list.

Here’s the backstory:
This past summer, I worked with Mitch Said on a new project : a canary torsi

As part of this project, we did a custom setup of Jelly, a custom Content Management System (CMS), to integrate with Flash so all updates to the flash site can be managed by online software.

We also used Slideshow Pro to manage the online media gallery. Slideshow Pro was a great addition to our project as it allowed for the client to manage their rich media library online.

A little more about the project:
The flash file uses netstream to serve the video files. We tried to stream multiple movies at once, but had severe performance issues. In addition to the web development, I also worked with Yanira on developing an online publicity campaign for Dark Horse/Black Forest.

As part of this campaign, we produced a live webcast, commissioned Overheredarkhorse.com, and setup accounts on mutiple social networks to share all these exciting updates with her existing fans.

All the video that you see for Dark Horse/Black Forest was also shot by Mitch and myself.

All in all, we were really happy with the project and we’re really stoked Slideshow Pro featured our site!