Archived entries for motion
Augmented Reality & Music Marketing
The new Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma [iTunes Store link] release includes a free Windows and Mac augmented reality app, Cosmogramma Fieldlines. Nice.
[via createdigitalmusic.com]
Visualizing Graffiti
Visualizing Graffiti 2.0 is an open source project that tracks graffiti writers’ motions and generates information visualizations.
[via Anne]
In Texts PDF
I’ve cobbled together a PDF version of In Text, my talk from CCCC2010 in Louisville last week; it’s generally about interactive text, Processing, Arduino, polymorphous perversity, information flow, Tiger Woods apology, information visualization, choreography, Deleuze and Guattari, sex (briefly), Twitter, and Textually Transmitted Infections (TTIs), among other things (obviously, it lacks a little in the “focus” category at this point).
This PDF replaces video clips with key/stillframes and includes speakers notes that I never referenced. So I’m not sure it’s an accurate representation, but it overlaps.
In order to replicate the “28 slides in 7.5 minutes” pace I was on for the actual talk, open the file, place your cursor over the Down arrow of your PDF reader, then click and hold.
Personalizable Signage
Nokia installed a very big arrow on a boom next to London Bridge. The arrow allows cellphone users to submit a request for directions to a location. The sign responds helpfully by rotating the arrow toward the destination and displaying the distance. An odd mixture of old and new wayfinding (and at the cusp of obsolescence: GPS tech in cellphones subordinates public signage to private consultation).
[ via Designboom]
Koko’s Earth Control
I think I’m going to convince my bandmates to change our name to “Koko’s Earth Control.”
[via Bruce Sterling in a Shapeways interview, worth reading in its own right]
Top 10 Short Films of 2009
Short of the Week lists their Top 10 Short Films of 2009, all with links to the films themselves. All are good, but some (like Jérémy Clapin’s Skhizen, above) are amazing.
[via Short of the Week]
The Nine Eyes of Google’s Street View
Jon Rafman’s The Nine Eyes of Google’s Street View interprets the unintended art, journalism, and social commentary afforded by the relentless stream of photos.
Then there’s this image of Google employess sending off the Street View vehicle. The banner (from font choice to parti-colored text to the incorrect use of camel case changing “Street View” to “StreetView”) offers its own little commentary about the war between designers and programmers going on at Google (and the comment is, “Design loses”).
