Marko Manriquez

My first fantasies are ruminations of an unfinished thought exercise.  I’m veering for the unpractical.  They include:

A USB/memory stick lighter

A magical button that temporarily lobotomizes me for socially awkward moments or when I want to get my crazy on.

A magical button that lobotomizes all republicans on Earth.

A telephone that you can call in your dreams.

A way to record your previous night’s dreams into a soundtrack.

Glasses that let you see a person at their past, most intense, emotional states (e.g. rage, joy, climax, sorrow, etc…)

iSpan – augmented reality iPhone device allows you to peer through time giving the user a perspective on the scope of geologic time. When you hold the phone up, you see a split image of the current landscape juxtaposed with one from past or future.  The camera’s “zoom” controls where you see in the future, e.g. +10 years forward or -1000 years back.  The further into time you go, the greater the loss of resolution(color to grayscale, etc..).  This device was inspired by Maya Lin’s Map of Memory and the Mannahatta Project.

Famed architect Maya Lin spoke in our seminar today!  You may know her work because she designed the Vietnam Memorial when she was only a 21 year old architecture student.  Her fifth and final memorial is a kinda new media tone poem focusing on endangered and extinct species caused by human destruction of their habitats.

So, my first week of grad school at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program has whizzed by in a blur of introductions, classes and late nights.  I feel totally overwhelmed and know I’m way behind in all my classes even though its only the second week.  This is an awesome program.