• taking a sick day #
• After 3 years, I've posted Night of the Swordfish online: http://www.jloganolson.com/?p=88 #

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Writer/Director

I can’t believe it’s been three years since ‘Night of the Swordfish’ was made.

I’ve done alot since then, but nothing compares to building an entire strip club set in one morning, filming an entire sequence, and tearing it down the next evening. To this day, I still can’t believe we did it.

I finally posted the short online and hope you enjoy it.

• i just went from not sick to full-bore cold in one hour flat, and we just got a ps3. coincidence? #
• anyone who doesn't like arnold more after his recent letter to the legislators is a tool #
• pondering posting night of the swordfish from 2006 on vimeo… #
• met the head of DARPA! #
• this warmed my heart http://bit.ly/K7XyY #

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• here we go http://bit.ly/3xPBAF #
• Fate: I decide to learn how to make a Firefox extension to create an edutainment game the same day this is announced: http://bit.ly/2RtdYr #
• Posted some work I did this summer: http://www.jloganolson.com/?p=81 #

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While I was at ICT this summer, I prototyped an immersive/collaborative world building app to be used in 3D tracked spaces and the Microsoft Surface simultaneously. Per the video’s synopsis:

The prototype emphasizes scalable environments and team-sizes, as well as collaboration with other users in the same environment. Current prototype goals are to enable one user to experience a 10:1 scale version of the environment in a motion-tracked head-mounted display while other users view the same world from a birds-eye view on the Microsoft Surface. The user may manipulate a tracked object to physically place and adjust buildings in the environment while other buildings are dropped in and placed using the Surface’s touch screen.

This prototype is currently on hold, but I learned alot about HCI and how I’d like to approach designing for these sort of platforms.

More on those lessons and my current work at the lab later this week (hopefully).

• With knotts scary farm and medieval times down, I only have one more to go to complete the buena park trifecta #
• bale/kermit comparison http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/27350111.html #
• Lasseter/Perlin CG test for Where the Wild Things Are cartoon in 1983… a crazy glimpse into the past – http://tinyurl.com/384hgn #

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To keep the main page a bit cleaner, I’ve moved the daily twitter posts to their own page. It can be accessed using the sidebar on the right.

Also – will be trying to post older projects on weeks where I don’t want to post on current work. Standby…

• SA and I see eye to eye on indie games http://bit.ly/4vNDxt #

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• Just saw lic plate holder: "Linux: Live free or die" #
• woke up closer to civilization than usual. it's kind of fun – i was able to walk to a coffee shop and get a bagel and stuff. #
• To all USC students: Does anyone know of a course that teaches Facebook App development? #

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• i knew i was doing this for a reason http://bit.ly/QO9Iy #
• I have these disembodied styrofoam heads looking at me in this reflection whenever I look up http://twitpic.com/mefdr #

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• new brake pads, updated financial profile, package pick-up : life maintenance, hell yeah #
• really neat idea http://bit.ly/14EjNT #
• this video is more effective than I would have initially expected http://bit.ly/wMGBf #

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• posted a unity3d project i banged out over the last 3 weeks – http://www.jloganolson.com/?p=49 let me know what you think #
• Woah! OMAC was on television? http://bit.ly/1yX6I4 #
• VFX and computer science luminary Ken Perlin on vinyl records: http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=2267 #

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Update: The second and final iteration of this has been posted and can be found here. (updated 09.11.15)

I created a small virtual experience in Unity 3D & Maya over the last three weeks.

Please download it below and let me know what you think. I’m working on a second iteration over the next three weeks and any feedback would be appreciated (New version can be found here).

Download (Windows)

Download (Mac)

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• jesus http://bit.ly/3Hxdi7 #
• going to go ahead and watch this from beginning to end http://vimeo.com/7088524 #
• conan is like jimmy fallon but good http://bit.ly/7H5hr #

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How will this be different than my last personal site?

Step 1. Drop my Twitter feed directly in as posts to Wordpress (hopefully I’ll figure that out by the end of the day).

Step 2. Actually post documentation of all the projects I’m working on. I’m juggling several projects right now. Some of them are a series of rapid 2-week prototypes, while others are longer-term endeavors. Regardless, I’m going to start posting more YouTube links and interactive demos.

Step 3. Tumblr?