Students/Julian Santos III

Julian Jay-Jay Santos III

About Me

UCSD & Electronics

I am a Super Senior at UCSD with a major in Visual Arts Media with an Emphasis in Computing. The main reason I'm taking Electronic Technologies for Arts is because it fulfills major requirements plus my world is driven by anything electric and to understand it better is like understanding my blood. I have some electronics experience in soldering, wiring and basically taking things apart to see how they work or hacking and customizing the parts to my liking.

Visual Arts

I am colorblind which is ironic because I'm also a visual artist, graphic designer, videographer, illustrator, photographer and all things visual. Ive been working as a Graphic Designer for http://VMIX.com (an internet video platform company) and I also hold an Associates Degree from Southwestern College and sometimes do freelance and personal work under the moniker JS3 for designing, videography and custom DIY projects.

Life Documenting

I'm never without my Casio FC100 still/hd video/slow motion digital camera, G1 Google Phone and Moleskine sketchbooks at hand I love to document my life. I like to take photos of my major meals food and other weird happenstances on my blog and website http://byJS3.com I'm also big on everything internet- social networks, blogging, online video, basically anything that has an RSS feed that can be connected and shared with the world.

Field Research

Self portrait of me using my Casio FC-100 digital camera which literally never leaves my side. Besides stills the camera also shoots HD 720p video and high speed slow motion 200fps to 1000fps slow motion. A little film of my dogs jumping in slow motion using the camera http://www.youtube.com/user/janussaint#p/u/4/RAGT-RwSWn4
Desk at work. The iMac and the iMacBook Pro (hooked up to a second monitor) are my work computers and the HP Laptop PC is my personal computer.
My friendly Power Squid, which not only brings life to my devices but is designed to look awesome.
My G1 Google smart phone using Android OS. I hacked the phone to use CyanogenMod OS which uses custom open sourced code for Android OS. I literally have 320 applications on the phone and my life is connected to Google 24/7 (google Gmail, reader, calendar, maps, etc). Next to it are my Cube World people desk toy which interacts with each other based on the orientation of the cubes.
Playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the Playstation 3 on my LCD monitor at a friend's house. This night 5 of us brought our own monitors and PS3s and had a good ol' nerdy LAN party.
A downtown club that I frequent called Voyeur which features a wall with thousands of LEDs and has a webcam. A DJ stations himself in front of this wall and the LEDs are synchronized to the music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_t-oo-uWs

Midterm Project Proposal

From having an Atari 2600 in my early youth (!) I've become an avid a video gamer all my life. I have always identified with the creativity and problem solving aspects of gaming and have found much of myself with the video game characters. One such character is the popular Nintendo hero of the Super Mario games Mario, who was originally named JumpMan when he first appeared in the video game Donkey Kong. This was probably because he has a distinctive sound he makes when he jumps. To further my love of the character I would like to blend the lines of videogame and reality, and thus I would like to create Super Mario Jumping Shoes.

To make Super Mario Jumping Shoes I will put a pressure activated switch on the insole of the shoe which will be connected to a Super Mario sound toy that makes the jumping sound when pressed. I will have to dismantle the toy and connect a switch under an insole that is only activated when I jump as opposed to walking which would make less pressure on the button. This will require some circuit bending on my part. I could probably accomplish this with extra padding or use a normally closed switch that activates the circuit when my foot leaves my shoe's sole when I jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZx30tB5Ds (it makes multiple sounds)