What happens when you take the 7 story expanse of concrete above the entrance to Nesbitt Hall, and a large projector? You get the Social Graffiti Project. The project was created by six digital media students here at Drexel for their senior thesis project.

Tweets displayed on wall as ‘Social Graffiti’

Take a look at the story behind the article, after the jump.

This article was a lot of fun to work on for a bunch of reason. First, the project itself was really cool. I really wish that the project had stayed up for more than a week, and that I could have gone into the projection room. What also made this article fun, was that I go to write the story, shoot the photos, and layout the page. I even got a tease in the “In This Paper” bar on the front page!

Overall, I’m just glad that I get to have such a large hand in the production of The Triangle. From writing articles, to shooting photos, and even designing house ads, it’s just fun. This territory may come with the fact that I am now the production manager for the summer!

Even more interesting, I’m actually pictured in the paper this week, along with our Entertainment editor, Jess Herbine:

It’s never a dull moment at The Triangle!

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The Triangle is one of my favorite places to be. Not just because of all the great people there, but because I get to chance to publicly express my creative side, whether it be laying out a basic page; creating a fun, but informative feature; taking pictures; or (my least favorite activity) writing an article or editorial.

This week, I got to create one of the most fun features of the year and even better, in a two page full color spread! The Orange Brick Awards are the annual funny, snarky, self-deprecating  awards The Triangle’s editorial board gives out where we poke fun at ourselves and Drexel. While I didn’t have to write anything, I did take control of creating and laying out the spread from start to finish. I even took an original photograph for the background.

Unfortunately, the only way to really appreciate the spread is to see it in print, due to its immense size. So, if you have a chance, go pickup a copy of  the June 6th issue of The Triangle. It will be on newsstands until June 25th. For those of you  not in the University City area, you can view the feature online in my portfolio at KeithHobin.com

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A large part of my time has been in class and working at The Triangle, but whenever I get a chance I bust out my camera and take some pictures. Take a look at what I’ve been up to, in photos, after the jump!

Click any of the titles or photos to view the full set at Flickr.

Drexel University

Drexel has been my home away from home for the past two years. I recently updated my Drexel set with some new photos, including some that feature Drexel’s new wayfinding signs, and closeups of architecture of Drexel Buildings.

Lupe Fiasco @ WPI

I went up to visit my brother at his college, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, MA. While I was there, WPI had their annual spring  jam concert. With these shot, I tried to focus on the dramatic lighting created by WPI’s student technical crew, Lens and Lights, which my brother is the technical director. Lupe Fiasco was the headline performer of the concert.

A Street Corner in Newark

While waiting to be picked up from Newark’s Penn Station, I took out my camera and got creative, documenting what you could find on a typical downtown street corner.

Sunrise

Sunrises are always beautiful, even more so when they silhouette a city skyline. After pulling an all-nighter, I was actually awake to document it, so I decided to take advantage of my lack of sleep and get some great photos.

That’s it for now. Expect another one of these Multi-Photo Mashups soon, because I still have a bunch more photos that I need to upload to Flickr.

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It has been a while since I actually wrote something for my University’s student news paper, The Triangle. Lately,  I have just been doing production work to get the paper laid-out and ready to be sent off to the printer, as well as a bunch of various administrative tasks.

This week, I had the chance to interview the founder of a new iPhone app development company, Patrick Casady of Caffeine Fish, which based out of the Philadelphia area. Patrick is actually a graduate of Drexel. His company released a new iPhone app called Trainboard with the daily SEPTA rider in mind. Take a look at my review below:

SEPTA iPhone ‘app’ mediocre

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Well, these past six months have flown by. Since September, I have being working at SAP Americas as a End User Services intern. It has been a great experience, and I’ve gotten to do a ton of different things besides just fixing peoples computers and troubleshooting, like working with A/V equipment, working with SAP systems, using Norton Ghost, and being in a corporate environment.

I really have enjoyed my time at SAP, and am going to miss going there on a daily basis (as much as I disliked my one hour commute via SEPTA). All of my co-workers were really helpful in showing me the ropes and getting acclimated to SAP and their processes. I was just a great experience overall.

I am excited (and a bit scared) to get back into my classes are improve my skill set and learn new things. It’s only scary because I haven’t been to class in nine months, and I’m worried about getting back into the cycle of studying and stressing out.

And, as soon as my Co-Op at SAP is over, I’m right into starting to find my next one. Not sure where I’ll end up, but I know it will be exciting.

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I visited the 2010 New Jersey FRC Regional last Saturday, and had a chance to catch up with family, friends, and take pictures.
Browse through my latest Flickr set to see all of the action.

FRC is the FIRST Robotics Completion, where high school students build 120 Lb. robots in only six weeks, and compete in a annually changing competition. This years competition is called “Breakaway“, where teams have to score as many soccer balls into their alliance’s goals in 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Click here to watch a short video explaining the game.

I had the chance to participate in FIRST when I was in high school. I was a member of Team 555, Montclair Robotics, for four years. I still continue to be involved with FIRST as a volunteer, doing website evaluations, and well as other activities.

In the set of photos, I mainly focus on 3 teams; Team 555 (My former team), Team 1089, and Team 2789.

For more information about FIRST and FRC; visit http://www.usfirst.org
For more information about Team 555, Montclair Robotics; visit http://www.555robotics.org/
For more information about Team 1089, Team Mercury; visit http://www.mercury1089.com
For more information about Team 2789, Techsplosion, visit http://www.team2789.com/

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Hmm.. What to do when your holed up inside during the biggest snow fall of he year? Whip out the camera, and take pictures of course!

And then eventually bundle up, and trek outside to take some more!

Click on the above photo to view more photos from my “Snow Time 2010″ Set.

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I finally got a Nikon D5000, and I’m really excited to take it for a spin. Go to my Flickr page, and check out my first photo walk with the D5000. Just click the above photo to visit the set of photos I took.

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Another Triangle article in the bag! This time it’s my first review!

Review: WiMAX 4G is not worth the cost

Hopefully I can get a version of this to cross post at The iLife.

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Hot off the presses (ok, so it came out on Friday), it’s my latest Triangle article:

New Apple Store awaits Arts Commission approval

Or, what I think it should be called “Apple Store coming to Philadelphia”, but they chose the title based on how wide the column is and the fact that half the article is about how Apple is getting approval from the Philadelphia Arts commission because I needed to make the article longer…

Oh, and you can expect that I’m going to the store opening (whenever that is)

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