Coffee Ethan (2017)
Creative Coding / Animation
p5.js, Adobe Photoshop, pizzicato.js
Communications Lab
This project name is dedicated to a friend of mine, Ethan, who on the first day of our coding bootcamp when we had to introduce our first name along with a mnemonic that matched the first initial of our name, decided that C and E were the same letters and said, "I am Coffee Ethan".
In collaboration with Katie Lee
Inspiration
We drink coffee. We let caffeine take us through the night. We drink coffee. We write. We drink coffee. Our heart beats faster and faster. Distorted, disoriented, and disheveled, we hear the music in the Café singing to us,
Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation,
And little girls from Sweden Dreams of silver screen quotation,
And if you want these kind of dreams,
It's Californication.
Technicals
p5.js is used for interaction and animation. pizzicato.js is used for distorting the song 'Californication' by Red Hot Chili Peppers in real-time. All other audio sounds (cup, background, sipping) are recorded at Starbucks (31.225308, 121.535135).