Essays on robotics, startups, artwork.

  • Haptics Open House

    I’ve been trying to master the art of lighting using flash for quite a while now. Flash is great not just to provide more oomph for situations with low light but even in situations with enough light you can use it to add more depth to the image. A common technique is to light for…

  • Wedding photography

    I went to Lisboa last week for a beautiful wedding of my good friends Emilie and Gabriel. The wedding was at Pousada de Palmela, a 14th century convent built inside a castle. Pretty pimp. Since they had a professional photographer taking care of the usual wedding shots I tried to shoot pictures that were different.…

  • Techfest

    My lab was invited to come to India to exhibit our CKBots at IIT Bombay’s Techfest. Below are some snapshots as a teaser to the full photo essay. There’s just too much to write here. Some keywords: pollution, technology, Taj Mahal, robots, lasers, traffic, Lake Powai, Sachin, people, lots of people, globalization. To see all…

  • XPLR Art Jump!

    The XPLR art jump is set to happen tomorrow! I’ve found out we’ve been featured on Allison’s art jumping blog as well as on Uwishunu! Sign up here. Sunday, January 18th, 2009 2PM Philadelphia Museum of Art Get your friends together. Find a painting you like. Become so excited by what you see that you…

  • 222 Gallery Group Show Opening

    The ODG gallery was packed at the opening of GROUP SHOW. I just wanted to thank all my friends for stopping by. I deeply appreciate you coming out and hope you had fun. If you were unable to stop by, but still would like to check out the art, the show will be up until…

  • 222 Gallery Tonight!

    I’m displaying one of my photographs at 222 gallery! Opening reception is tonight at 6PM. I did a quick google search and found the show to be featured in several blog/news outlets such as Philebrity, High Snobiety and Uwishunu. Woohoo! [autoviewer id = “2” width = “900” height = “675”]

  • Rooftop Movie Night

    This post is long overdue as we did Rooftop Movie Night almost a whole month ago, but nevertheless, here it is finally! Rooftop Movie Night involves taking a video projector and speakers, climbing onto my neighbour’s rooftop and then projecting Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”  onto my other neighbor’s wall. The white canvas screen we…

  • We are #81!

    Discover Magazine listed our Self reAssembly after Explosion demo as the 81st of 100 top technology stories of 2008. http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/081 We beat bulletproof paper (#83) but lost to self-healing rubber from oil and pee (#80).

  • Mumbai

    Last Wednesday at 9.30PM terrorists simultaneously strike several luxury hotels and tourist hangouts. They open fire and injure hundreds, then proceed to take scores of hostages. In an editorial in the NYT, Suketa Mehta writes: The terrorists’ message was clear: Stay away from Mumbai or you will get killed. Cricket matches with visiting English and…

  • XPLR website revamped

    The website for XPLR has had a much needed make-over. I hope you like the new design. Check it out for yourself at http://www.xplr-club.com.  Next item on the agenda is putting together our portfolio. Putting all the bits in one document should be a good way to celebrate our one year anniversary! I get a little nostalgic going…