Dazed, tanned, and broke. These three words pretty much sum up my state right now, after spending three weeks in Tokyo, Okinawa, and Taipei. I’m currently at Narita Airport waiting for my flight to Toronto, where I will catch another plane back to Ottawa.

It’s been a while since my last post, but now that I’m finally finished my winter semester I can start writing here more often. I will also try my best to catch up on unanswered comments! It’s starting to sink in that there are only two more semesters of school left… I can’t wait to finish completely!

The highlight of this past semester was diving into the world of interactive multimedia. For one of our classes, we were taught an open-source programming language called Processing. My classmates Grant Lucas, Mark Pintar and I built the ‘faceTable’, which was an interactive table display that would display the user’s Facebook information by using customized Reactivision markers. Words don’t do it justice – we will be posting videos of it in action on Vimeo once we make the demonstration videos.

Plans for the summer

This summer I’d like to find and share more hacks and tweaks in Shopify that would allow storeowners to add unique features to their store. I’d also like to write more tutorials to help storeowners get started with their stores.

In my spare time, I plan on playing around with Processing and OpenFrameworks in an attempt to create some cool visual displays. Particle systems is an example of something I’d like to create using one of these two languages. I’ll also be playing shows with the band The Mudplots, as well as work on another band project that I have brewing :)

Anyway, I’m off to kill some more time – two more hours until my flight to Toronto! Don’t fail me, Reddit…

UPDATE: A random elderly man from Calgary just approached me with a super-serious look on his face asking if I could check something for him using the wifi on my laptop. Thinking it was an emergency, I opened up my laptop. Turns out he just really needed to know the result of the Pittsburgh vs Montreal game for his hockey pool. Canadians are awesome :D