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2012

  • Nature of Code: Creatures
  • Nature of Code: Showreel
  • Snippet
  • Nature of Code: Final Project Proposal
  • Thesis Week 10: Entering Final Phase
  • Nature of Code: Reynolds Steering
  • Thesis Week 9: Prototyping Coming to a Close
  • Thesis Week 8: Notifications, Nudges, Progress
  • Thesis Week 7: A Mixed Bag
  • Illuminating Data: Visualizing the Information that Moves Our World
  • Thesis Week 6: Prototyping, Patient Interview
  • Jetsom: Progress
  • Jetsom: Design Inspiration
  • Thesis Week 5: Concepting, Prototyping
  • Nature of Code: Jetsom
  • Thesis Week 4: Research Complete
  • Thesis Week 3: Interviews Underway
  • Nature of Code: Week 2 Progress
  • Thesis Weeks 1 & 2: Off to a Good Start

    • 2011

  • Forever
  • Pilot
  • ITP Winter Show 2011
  • Project Proposal: Swimming System
  • Alignment of Private, Personal and Public Data
  • Getting the Most from MetroCard
  • Manfred Mohr: Réflexions sur une Esthétique Programmeé
  • DIY Health: Physical Geography
  • Alain de Botton: On Pessimism
  • Goodbye to IrishData.org
  • Systems and Layers: Narrowing Focus
  • Systems and Layers: Observing Union Square
  • Charles Leadbeater: Perspective
  • Five Ethics For Design Research
  • Systems and Layers: Observing People
  • Systems and Layers: Network
  • Fantasy Self-Monitoring Devices
  • Year 2 at ITP: A Quick Update
  • I Don’t Miss You, iPhone
  • We Are Working On It
  • What’s Next - Why and So What
  • What’s Next - Process
  • Destinations
  • TEDx: Data Representation and Personal Narratives
  • Vito Acconci - Expression, Failure, Analysis, Refinement
  • Dennis Crowley - Just Build Stuff
  • Sharon Chang - If I Can Dream
  • Douglas Rushkoff - Born Tripping
  • Jaron Lanier - Genius
  • Global Nuclear Proliferation
  • 30 Days of Earthquakes as Sound
  • Memory Palace
  • From Over Here
  • Cancer, AIDS. 1981-2010
  • Portraits of Brooklyn’s Vietnam Veterans
  • Cancer, AIDS, Malaria, Obesity
  • simpleSlider
  • Contactability as Probability
  • Audio Story: Swimming
  • Big Cynical Games
  • The End of Format
  • Failing Completely at the Hourly Comic
  • Shaking off the Rust - Data Representation
  • Big Games - Headrush
  • The Wisdom of Crowds
  • Collective Storytelling - 6 Word Story
  • Collective Storytelling - 55 Word Story
  • Abacus
  • Dinosaurs No More: Newspapers Evolve
  • The Value of Information
  • Terracotta Warriors, Dublin, 1987

    • 2010

  • Photo+
  • Lost Generations
  • Value is Relative
  • Money for Nothing
  • 10 in 10 - Big Games
  • While at the Museum
  • ICM - Final Project Proposal
  • Photo Plus - Video Prototype
  • Physical Computing: Extending Physical Photos
  • Irish Data - Hello World
  • Designer’s Block
  • Data Visualisation Progress Report
  • A Trip on the M5
  • Power Plant
  • How to Make Bread, ITPexchange
  • Visual Intelligence
  • Building a Database of Useful Irish Data
  • Ireland as PDF
  • Multiple Sensors to Processing
  • What Happened?
  • TUIO/Reactivision Experiments
  • Why Photography Matters
  • Design for UNICEF - Rapid3W
  • Multipurpose Fun Machine
  • Design for UNICEF - Calling Pakistan
  • Design for UNICEF - Mobile Phone and a Radio
  • Brick and Ball Game - Beta
  • Light Theremin
  • The Obligatory Bouncing Balls Sketch
  • Design for UNICEF - BetterMap
  • Objects in Processing
  • Design for UNICEF - The Handover Problem
  • Fantasy Device Design - Magic Mirror
  • Scrap the Past
  • More Interactivity in Processing
  • Analogue Input with Arduino
  • Parsing XML and Displaying Images
  • Surrounded by Sensors
  • Solving Problems vs Stirring Emotions
  • Beginning Interaction in Processing
  • Digital Input and Output with Arduino
  • Simple Shapes in Processing
  • A Better University
  • Baffling Black Boxes
  • What I Learned at Flickr
  • Anticipation
  • What I Learned at Pixar
  • Moving to New York
  • Taking a Photograph
  • Superhero
  • A Piece of the Puzzle
  • Red Gold
  • Picturing New York
  • What the iPad says about Apple
  • Adequate

    • 2009

  • Goodbye 2009
  • Alchemy is a Risky Strategy
  • How to Not Go Insane While Working from Home
  • Wagons South
  • Vi elsker København! (We Love Copenhagen!)
  • Inis Oírr
  • Heroin
  • Moon
  • Brothers
  • TriAthlone 2009 - Lazy Race Report
  • RIP Free Fees Scheme: 1995-2010
  • TriAthy - Race Report
  • Winning Bigger Web Projects
  • ZeFrank & Jonah Peretti @ Science Gallery
  • A Work in Progress

    • 2008

  • buildabeard.helloatto.com
  • Coming Soon…The Past
  • Electric Picnic 2008
  • Emma Davis Finishes 37th in Beijing
  • A Beginner’s Guide to Triathlon
  • Staying Relevant in Tech Industries
  • Barcamp Belfast 2008
  • Escape from Alcatraz
  • Public Speaking Made Easier
  • Alcatraz
  • Still Slushy in Belfast
  • Snowing in Belfast
  • Happy New Year

    • 2007

  • Cycling the Camino De Santiago
  • London City Triathlon Report
  • Escape to Victory
  • The Hell of the West
  • Blackrock Race Report
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • Wicklow 200
  • The Thing Between Your Ears
  • Scorched, Otherwise Unharmed
  • The Stuff of Dreams
  • Better Luck Next Time
  • Over the Hills and Far Away
  • Back to Reality, Fun Verboten

    • 2006

  • Off to Berlin
  • Aware 10K
  • The Tube
  • Getting out of Debt
  • Dublin Docklands Aquathon 2006
  • Photos from Chicago
  • Chicago Race Report
  • Crossing the Finish Line
  • Number 3345
  • Off to Chicago
  • Table Quiz/Pimp My Bike/Two Weeks to Go
  • Under the Sea
  • DNF
  • Triathlon Number Two
  • Fundraising
  • I Wonder
  • Intensive Training in Berlin
  • Swimming, Race Results
  • I Made It
  • Get Set for Triathlon
  • One Week to My First Triathlon
  • Quick Update
  • Sooner Or Later…
  • Sunshine, Lolipops, Duathlon, Sunburn
  • Today I Swam 1800 Metres
  • Running
  • Swimming in The Sea is Mildly Terrifying
  • Quick Update
  • Wetsuit, Swimming
  • Weekend Trainorama
  • Month 1 - Review
  • Phoenix Park Cycle
  • Team News, Swimming and Physio
  • New Spine Not Required
  • Weekend Swimming, Back Injury Update
  • Gav’s Questions, A Few Answers
  • Weekend Update, Swimming
  • Good Friday Swimming
  • That’s a Lot of Shopping You Have There
  • Swimming with Piranhas
  • Sore Today
  • Swim! Swim for Your Life!
  • Ask Your Calves Some Questions
  • Things You Notice When Cycling
  • Mountjoy Square Makes a Great Running Track :)
  • Day 1 - A *Long* Way to Go

    • 2005

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Another Year Older
  • Home Again
  • Jet Laggin All Over the World!
  • Last Night in London
  • Insomnia
    • A small photo of The Author with some lovely tea by way of a witty footer
    Paul May is a researcher and designer from Dublin, Ireland; he is currently a student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Feel free to directly (or you can use the contact form). You can also get him on twitter or flickr. Paul enjoys writing in the third person.