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Kevin McGowan at the Getty Museum

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In the news

Over the weekend The School of Cinematic Arts published an Alumni Profile about my post graduation experience, enjoy the first paragraph below or find the full article on the SCA website. Kevin McGowan graduated among the first cohort of the Media Arts+Practice division at the USC School of …
Panorama of Paris

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London and Paris

It’s now a week after returning from Europe. London is AMAZING, I so desperately want to live there at some point in my life, at least have a second home there. Luckily this year, my mum did not make us go to all the famous land marks that typically make up the city. This trip was spent mainly …
Will Ferrell at USC Graduation, photo @ today.com

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Graduation at last!

Yesterday was college graduation! The feeling like theres no more school left feels odd, it probably really won’t hit me until September when classes start back up for my friends. The day was spectacular, I had Will Ferrel tell me he will always love me thru song, Hillary and Bill Clinton were …
Tangible HMTL Build Blocks

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Almost There

It’s now Tuesday May 2nd. The thesis showcase is in 6 days and the project is almost……… there. Not really though. It seems as though with every step of the process I have to spend more money and more time on things I budgeted as being far less in the beginning. I’m …
RFID Sensors

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Playing with RFID

The thesis project is in full swing now as the various tech starts to arrive for production. The groundwork has been set and its soldering time. In total some 10 RFID sensor chips will be set up in an array to read all of the blocks played in the playground. I have luckily found a library that will …
Inner workings of Tangible HTML playground

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Thesis Design Brief

To reach the ultimate goal of this project took an awful lot of ‘soul searching’ would be the best estimate I could give. I approached the assignment by creating lists of things that interested me; these included things such as building physical object, anything BIG, and lots of coding …