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Tompkins Square pics

Union Square War Protest
March 22nd 2008. On the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the United for Peace and Justice organization called for a general protest. This involved forming a human chain along 14th street from Avenue A. to 11th Avenue. After an hour of holding hands, the protesters gathered at Union Square. For the most part, the crowd consisted of middle-aged people, parents and their children, and older people. The absence of college students was noticeable.

NEXT MEETING (after Memorial Day)
- Tuesday, May 26, 2008
- 8pm
- room 1005
---- Assignment before the meeting:
------------ Continue research of assigned sites
------------ Keys & 3 Challenges ( for each site

"Keeping with Zune media experience, the XNA Game Studio 3.0 integration includes discoverability/access to user’s non-DRM music – allowing you to customize background soundtracks or create real-time visualizations. In addition, we’ve announced the ability to have multiple nearby Zunes wirelessly engage in an ad-hoc social gaming experience."

http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/05/07/announcing-xna-game-studio-...

Check this out, 3.0 is going to be AWESOME!!

Kyle

Here's the PowerPoint for the final presentation of the 'What the Click?!' Facebook game. Sorry it's late...too many presentations to keep track of...

http://a.parsons.edu/~kbekessy/blogImages/WhatTheClick.ppt

Ever wonder how a BigMac affects your world? Taking its inspiration from the movie The Game (starring Michael Douglas), and the article “Why I Love Bees” by Jane McGonigal (discussing the ARG created to release the new Halo game), this ARG works backwards to lead players to something they would never suspect – the Big Mac. From the very beginning, players don’t know that the game even involves a Big Mac. All they know is that they have been asked to participate, follow clues, go on missions, and document (via video and still photos) what they see and experience along the way.

House Party teaches young adults social responsibility regarding drinking and sex in a safe and fun digital environment of a single player time-management game.

Since the file size exceeds uploading capabilities, please go to http://trayjayg.typepad.com
to download it in one shot.

-The New York City draft riots of July 1863 were American history's most powerful working-class uprising, yet they have been neglected by historians.

-It was also known as Manhattan's bloodiest street war.

-When the Confederacy invaded the North in June 1863, nearly every soldier in New York was sent to Gettysburg. Only 2,500 soldiers, sailors, and marines and 2,300 police remained to keep order in an angry city.

-The newly instituted draft was wildly unpopular. Exemptions were available only to those who could pay $300 (then the average workingman's annual income).

By Katrina Bekessey, Mike Edwards, and Katie Levitt

Here is the documentation for our final iteration of Transport ME.
There are three documents attached.

You can download a folder called: transportme.zip
1) The powerpoint
2) The Design Document
3) The Downloadables

The link: a.parsons.edu/~rchandhok/transportme.zip

Enjoy!!!