Module evaluation

Today we had the transition day between Information society and the next module, Experience technology. Basically we sat for a few hours and discussed what worked well and what could be improved; first in a smaller group and then with the whole class. Being Hyper, I'm used to it. Then we took some photos for the website and cleaned out our cells.

Motion showcase

Right now we're looking at everyone's individual motion projects in "Ångan". It's awesome to see what everyone else has done and the difference in individual styles.

Motion, motion, motion

Our group project in motion is going well, much thanks to Linus and Kalle. I feel a bit inadequate with After Effects, I must admit. I'll have to try and spend some time with it this weekend or something to catch up, because it looks like it could be a lot of fun. I just haven't gotten a grip around it at all, that's it.

Motion week

Motion week started yesterday. With a bang. We have a group assignment that is due tomorrow morning which is a group effort. I think it will turn out pretty good. We also have to write up the written report and hand in.

So far, I like it. Hyper, that is. It's pretty fast-paced but if you compare it to the 8-5 job I had before, it's more dynamic. It changes. One thing, though, that me and my class mates aren't that happy about is the hefty invoice we got from the school. 4600 Swedish crowns for UGL, Team building (one night at a ranch sort of) and another fee ("kompendieavgift") that I can't understand what it means.

Friday, oh Friday

I'm typing this on my new, beautiful, shining, crisp, happy MacBook! I love it. My god I love it. The only problem I had with it was that the iSight camera refused to work, but after a fifteen minute call to Apple the problem was solved.

The presentations yesterday went... fabulous. Absolutely great. I got a lot of great feedback which was really nice since I had practiced several hours. I wasn't that nervous when we were presenting, it was more butterflies before we actually went up. And when it was my time to shine everything just went so smoothly. Good stuff!

We did get some negative feedback as well; only the slight problem of our presentation not really having much to do with our main focus which was Transports & Communication. Ooops. We kinda saw that one coming, though.

So now me and Linus have to rewrite some stuff and add more focus towards our industry and then hand in the written report this Wednesday.

Getting the pieces together

I think it's looking quite good actually. I'm more or less done with my part of the writing, so today we're going to merge all of our findings into one kick ass presentation. The presentation is done in Apple's Keynote and we're going to do some practice run in the "Steam central" to make sure everything runs smooth tomorrow.

New week, deadline approaching

That would be a cool title for a movie. Or not. Anyway, it's Monday again and today we've had a lecture by Magnus Forsbrand regarding the mobile industry. We have also been working with the group process follow-up document which is due tomorrow. Also tried making some calls but no answer.

Calling the US of A

Tried calling around last night at Linus' place but to no avail. I got transferred around in automatic telephone navigation systems until I had no choice but to hang up, got shot down with the answer "I'm sorry, we don't do that here" or got stuck in a answering machine loop that got me no where. Thank god for e-mail.

Process follow-up

Now we're back from our process follow-up and it seems like it gave us a little push in the right direction. We have to organize our group and get on the same page.

RFID?

After doing some more research at Linus' place yesterday we found something that might be a nice trend to do something with, namely RFID. Today were going to have a Process follow-up after lunch. We'll see what happens and if we're on track.

Signals

Today we've listened to Carina Sjödin about analyzing trends in the big media environment by listening to "signals" and filtering these using different methods. Even though most of us thought the tasks we were given were a bit confusing I think we got the grip of it towards the end of the day.

Regarding the Information Society module, I think we're making progress (although slowly compared to others, it seems). We've gotten some replies from the e-mails we sent out and hopefully we'll locate and decide on a digital trend before Friday.

Cross them fingers.

Progress?

Today we've been sitting in our cell, basically trying to uniformly scratch our heads and figure out exactly what we have to do. It's been a bit of a frustrating ride because of all the loose ends and confusion regarding what to do and how to do it. On the whole I think we have at least managed to get closer to our goals in researching the transport and communications industry.

Today we've just mailed out a lot of questions to people within the industry asking for tips regarding latest trends.

Le Grande Introduction

Okay, so here we go with this personal blog thing we've been asked to do as part of our first set of assignments at Hyper Island. This blog, wickedly named HyperJulius, will most probably follow me through my two years at HI.

As people close to me should know, the first thing I would do now would be to pour a few sweaty hours into customizing the design (probably before I even typed this!) but as we're a bit short of time here and there's lots of things I have to get me head wrapped around, I'll just make this a short introduction and leave the little nitty gritty details 'til a more suitable time presents itself.

Today's been the first "real" day at HI with information about the first module, Information Society, and a really good lecture by Phil Paul Collins about the industry.