Notes
Interactive Wall Art Panels
The idea behind this project came from headphone parties, where each attendant is given wireless headphones on a dancefloor rather than filling the room with music. The idea here is to make one’s mobile part of the experience with the space, and also giving me the ability to share richer content like video, websites, etc.
By tying the codes to redirect URLs on my site, I can update the content of the panels at any time to change the experience without modifying the art. This opens up a number of possibilities such as randomized URLs, real time changes to the panels, etc.
I was able to add little touches to the panels themselves by encoding with QR error correction level “H”, which builds redundancy into the pixels allowing 30% of the code to be obscured.
The top two purple panels (“better with” & “a friend”) are designed to work together, requiring two mobiles for the full effect.
The high res version of the pic should scan, I tested on my iPhone 4.
Steal Me
So my previous Fuji Royale was stolen in February 2011 and that opened the door for me getting a new bike. The link to the Fuji is actually a little old, in its full glory I’d replaced the rear wheel, crankset, cut down the bars, and a few other minor tweaks.
I’d had my eye on Mission Bikes for a minute – I first heard of them when they were just starting up as the new kids on the SF custom bike scene. Years later I finally had an excuse to jump at it so I went to town. I had two concepts in mind, a “stealth” bike (100% matte black frame and components) and a “Black & Gold” concept. I think it’s kind of obvious from the pic which won out.
TEDx Alcatraz
On 12/01/2010 I volunteered at TEDx Alcatraz at Temple Nightclub in San Francisco, helping to run A/V and coordinate the stage. It was an amazing night filled with speakers and performers addressing a wide array of subjects, from biotechnology to conservation to journalism to music and art. One of the highlights was a surprise performance by Bob Weir, one of the founding members of the legendary Grateful Dead.
Click the image below to view my Flickr gallery…it’s far from my best work as I was preoccupied doing my job at the event 
The Previous SeanMulholland.com
The previous rev of my site is still up at http://demo.seanmulholland.com/. While I liked the design (all designed and coded up by yours truly by the way) as my portfolio of work started to grow, I more or less stopped personal blogging, and I continued to develop my photography hobby, I felt it was about time for a change. After nearly two years I’ve retired it to leave you with the site you see today.
It was a Movable Type based site, with sIFR text replacement (a gracefully degradable Flash-hack to embed non-standard fonts, in this case Helvetica Neue) and various MooTools JS scripts to power the carousel, lightbox image galleries and video popups, and search box dropdowns. Last I checked fully W3C standards compliant.
