Update: Jan 20, 2012 My appologies for not updating this site lately. Flipboard has been keeping me a little busy. I'll try to work something out here soon, but in the meantime, you might want to say hello on Twitter, browse through a few photos here or peek into what it is like designing Flipboard.

the life and work of Marcos Weskamp

Marcos Weskamp is a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in playing with and visualizing lots of data. He is a self-taught technologist who constantly investigates the fields of Interaction Design and Information Visualization.

In March 2010, Marcos joined a ~~yet-to-be-named~~ startup in Palo Alto, where he designs, sketches, codes, serves coffee, washes dishes and leads the User Experience vision of a product that's going to be so awesome, it's going to blow your pants off.

Marcos is based in San Francisco, California, where right now it is Fri Feb 03, 8:44pm and the weather is Partly Cloudy.
contact: marcos@marumushi.com

Marcos is Currently...

Hypnotizing: "Mechanical Principles", circa 1930 http://t.co/pFMNRnEk | 2 weeks ago
Lazy saturday refactoring http://t.co/AhBDeVNL Rewrote the flickr API bit + added snappy mysql caching. Response cut down from 10s to 1s :] | 2 weeks ago
@canoeberry @didierh There's a bit of trickery involving an 85mm 1.4 lens, a DSLR body, 2 flashes, a softbox and an iPhone in my pocket | 3 weeks ago
Whatever you do, just don't mess with @didierh during a design review http://t.co/y17BbNhn | 4 weeks ago

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Dune House by Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects | October 2011
Barcode House by David Jameson | October 2011
On the Corner | October 2011
Looks Cool, But What Does It Actually Shelter? | October 2011
Wall Photos | Facebook | October 2011
La Fontaine Apartment \ Esrawe Studio | October 2011
The HI-MACS® House in Bavaria, Germany | October 2011
Ravenscroft Desk by Leonhard Pfeifer | October 2011
Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects | September 2011
A Unique LA Home With Arcade Wall Graphics | September 2011

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recent trips

Returned from a trip to Prescott. | February 2010
Started a trip to Prescott. | February 2010
Returned from a trip to Los Angeles. | October 2009
Started a trip to Los Angeles. | October 2009
Returned from a trip to New York. | February 2009

news / Introducing Remote Driver

July 22, 2003

Introducing Remote Driver

It is probably because of this project that I am freaking out with deadlines now. A friend at the office showed up a couple of days ago with one of those rc cars you can drive with your keitai. Minutes later we where using flash to move it, and as time went by, the source code jumped from person to person, everyone adding a little bit to it. Some time after that we where suddenly controlling the rc car with flash through flashcomm server, added webcams, chat and a waiting queue and voila, we got remote driver How cool is it to be interacting with the real world through the virtual world? Oh man, I really, really want to see more of this around... Enjoy! ::update: None of this would have been possible without the master mind of Kampei Baba and the help of Shin Matsumura & ugn