Dan Phiffer
A new media hacker from California, interested in exploring the cultural dimension of inexpensive communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet.
Elsewhere
I can also be found at Flickr, del.icio.us, Vimeo, Upcoming, Twitter, Last.fm Facebook and I also have a newfangled Tumbleblog.
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Contact me
My email address is and my AIM screenname is DanPhiffer.
ShiftSpace
An Open Source browser extension that allows users to annotate, contextualize and create interventions on top of the web pages they visit.
Atlas Gloves
A DIY gesture-based interface for Google Earth. Look for it at MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Brain exhibition in February 2008.
You Are Not Here
By printing one of our 1-to-1 scale, two-sided maps you can visit Baghdad through the streets of New York, or Gaza through the streets of Tel-Aviv.
Drop Spots
A website for finding and leaving gifts for strangers. Like geocaching, but without the GPS technology.
Postnational Foundation
An open question about how the public relates to borders and issues of nationality.
outside.in
A neighborhood-centric guide to the Internet. Worked on the front-end implementation and cut my teeth on Ruby on Rails.
WNYC audio slideshow
A reusable audio slideshow component for WNYC. Built with Flash + Javascript, with the ability to degrade gracefully when neither are available.
Turbulence.org
Two WordPress themes based on a common design, for the weblogs Networked_Performance and Networked_Music_Review. Designed by Mushon Zer-Aviv.
NYTimes Mapmaker
A stand-alone backend tool for editors to easily create Google Maps for the NYTimes.com travel section.
RAM publications
Web presence and catalog for Los Angeles-based book publisher-distributor Research / Art / Media publications.
A Place of Our Own
Website presence for a KCET’s television series on raising children. Built in both English and Spanish.
Separate Is Not Equal
Online component of The Museum of American History’s exhibition on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Culture Shock Week
A Flash-based viewer to display entries into a photo contest sponsored by The National Geographic Channel.
Global Kids Connect
A pilot project for Relief International to connect kids from different countries through photography.
Wikipedia Animate
A time-based visualization of Wikipedia article change histories. Commissioned by Andy Baio.
url(x)
A simple URL-shortening service with one additional usability feature; shortened URLs reveal the redirection domain name.
Everything I Know About Hyman Victor
A custom WordPress theme built for Elliott Malkin. Designed by Elliott Malkin.
Professional Important News
The Daily Show on Viacom v. Google. One video clip [5:45] and four hyperlinks.
New Orleans
Spring Break in New Orleans with some other ITPers. Forty eight photographs and one song (Louis Armstrong).
Williamsburg walk
After a fine brunch with some fine ITP folks. Four photographs and one song (Calexico).
100 drawings
Documentation of Ellie's assignment to make 100 drawings in two weeks. One photograph and one song (Calexico).
Purchase workshop
ShiftSpace as applied to physical media. Four photographs and one song (The Arcade Fire).
Car service
A last minute indulgence after discovering the L Train was delayed due to "ongoing investigations." Three video clips [30 seconds each].
You Can Have it All
From the opening reception of an art show on small, meaningful gifts. Four photographs and one song (Yo La Tengo).
Pierogi gallery
From Jonathan Schipper's and Michael Schall's . Six photographs and one song (Calexico).
Manhattan at night
From my first night out with the new camera. Five photographs and one song (Radiohead).
Reservoir loop
A sunset run in California over Winter Break. Four photographs and one song (Boards of Canada).
Broadway Local
From my morning stopover at Union Square. Four photographs and one song (Ambulance Ltd).
The lone protester
A regular fixture where Fifth Avenue hits Washington Square. Four photographs and one song (Calexico).
Self portraits
Some pictures I took of me. Actually, the last two were taken by Ellie. Five photographs and one song (Akron Family).
Shuttle bus
En route between Bushwick and Williamsburg. Eight photographs and one song (Philip Glass).
Web Hackery
The second of ten intermediate-level web programming workshops I'm giving at ITP. This session's topic was called Dive into PHP. Unfortunately I forgot to rewind the tape before recording, so this is only the first 6.5 minutes. One video clip [6.5 minutes].
The contents of my backpack
An accounting of my weighty burdon. Forty photographs and one song (Atmosphere).
Kitchen Commission
Ellie's third installment for my drawing commission. Four photographs and one song (Dntel).
Broadway
Shots taken running and walking on Broadway in lower Manhattan. Five photographs and one song (The Cinematic Orchestra).
Raise hell!
In her final column Molly Ivins wrote: "We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell!" One photograph, one audio recording and 138 words.
Winter sunset
Our first trip up to the roof since the weather turned cold. Three photographs and one song (Ratatat).
Morning run
The sun is weak but casts a nice kind of light in the morning. Three photographs and one song (Alice Coltrane).
New Jacket
An unexpected interview provided an opportunity to wear my new jacket out. Four photographs.
Thesis Presentation
Fumbling my way through a new, shorter style of presenting ShiftSpace. One video clip [6.5 minutes].
Kitchen Commission
The second revision of Ellie’s drawing, materializing in our kitchen. One photograph.
DriveBy Doin’ Research
Rob Faludi rocks the first DriveBy of the semester. One video clip [60 minutes].
To Union Square
Walking up Broadway in the first real snow of the winter. Three video clips [30 seconds each].
City running
Running through New York City, in three shades of urban. Three video clips [30 seconds each].
Kitchen Commission
The first revision of my birthday drawing Ellie is creating in our kitchen. One photograph.
MLK on Vietnam
"Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world." One audio clip [55 minutes] and 1 photograph.
Boston to New York
Returning home after one last winter mini-vacation. Three video clips [30 seconds each].
Box sketch
This was the front page of phiffer.org for a little while after I’d stopped posting to the box grid interface.
