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Elaine
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Posted: July 20th, 2011, 1:25pm PDT by elaine
yesterday my Master's thesis on motion in interface (from the Dynamic Media Institute at MassArt) was honored as a runner-up in the Core77 Design Awards, Strategy/Research category. additional information, the thesis pdf and some samples of the research projects can be found on my web site, activesurface.com/core77. I posted some example video from the thesis and some experimental videos that informed the work but weren't included in the document. the thesis document is available there for download if you are interested. it has a creative commons license so you can use any parts if you like as long as you don't change it and give it due credit.
Dan
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Posted: May 5th, 2011, 1:16pm PDT by dan
book: Living architecture: Ottoman by Ulya Vogt-Göknil (1966)
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Posted: April 28th, 2011, 11:01am PDT by dan
Just like yoghurt, the good stuff is at the bottom.
slanted.de for more.
Scott
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Posted: April 27th, 2011, 9:11pm PDT by Scott
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Posted: March 23rd, 2011, 4:14pm PDT by Scott
The Experience of Dynamic Media is a new book that features three projects and four essays of mine, from my time as an MFA student at the Dynamic Media Institute. Download the free PDF!
Dan
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Posted: March 21st, 2011, 10:26am PDT by dan
I want to remember this exists!
Preserve® makes stylish, high performance, eco-friendly products for your home. As a company, we strive to combine socially and environmentally responsible business practices with groundbreaking design to create products that people feel good about having in their homes. We believe that choosing eco-friendly products doesn’t mean having to sacrifice quality, price, or performance.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2011, 11:27pm PST by dan
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi
This is not the first amazing project I’ve seen affiliated with BERG this year. Check out this physical visualization of wi-fi networks in a city. I really enjoyed seeing the drop off in signal from the older residential building butt up into the chaotic mesh of signals in the street. -
Posted: February 25th, 2011, 10:10am PST by dan
PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew @ GGJ Postmortem (Portland, OR 2/3/2011) from Incredible Ape on Vimeo.
To watch people play it anyways! You and a friend control a spaceship, and the only way to make it shoot is to say “PEW” into a microphone. Skip towards the end when they start showing the people playing the game, instead of the game itself.
Elaine
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Posted: February 14th, 2011, 10:44am PST by elaine
As you accumulate knowledge—whether it's about what books your spouse likes or how to play chess—you begin to recognize patterns. Your brain unconsciously organizes these patterns into blocks of information—a process the late social scientist Herbert Simon, PhD, called chunking. Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that's what we regard as a flash of intuition.
Look up Herbert Simon for deeper information.
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Posted: February 14th, 2011, 10:36am PST by elaine
Let Intuition Be Your Guide
Posted by Editor on Jul 09 2010
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The saying, “going with your gut” should probably be more along the lines of, “going with your brain” as researchers start to unravel exactly where that feeling of intuition stems from. They found that as our brains take in information we start to spot patterns of behaviors, events, causes, results and other repeat situations. Our brain takes these patterns and files them into logical groups in a process called chunking. When we use our intuition to help us come up with the answer to something what we are doing is accessing chunks that relate to the situation in question and using the pattern information stored inside them to judge against the pattern in the present.
“Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that’s what we regard as a flash of intuition…”
Read up on when and how to use your intuition
Is there a time you remember your intuition being right on?
from Tony Robbins Valentines day blog post: http://love.tonyrobbins.com/
Dan
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Posted: February 8th, 2011, 10:48pm PST by dan
My friend Scott just got himself a ticket to attend this conference, and it looks awesome! I won’t be able to go, but I’m saving the link here. The front page basically lists (and links to) all the most amazing information/design/experience people working today.
eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow – expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by the people and tools that are transforming digital culture.
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Posted: January 24th, 2011, 3:26pm PST by dan
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Posted: January 18th, 2011, 1:07pm PST by dan
I bought my first dSLR about a month ago. The pics aren’t too great yet, and I’m always looking for other inspirational pics. Found this site through heavy-backpack. I have to say, dang, these are some pretty awesome looking photographs! Looks like Romain Laurent is in NYC (of course).
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Posted: January 15th, 2011, 8:17pm PST by dan
Is this Conference Room B?These literal New Yorker captions literally made me LOL.
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Posted: January 13th, 2011, 2:53pm PST by dan
I’ve never actually written an app before. (Actually I did; it echoed “”Hello World!” to the screen, but I don’t really count that.) I don’t really have the time or inclination to learn the Andriod way or iPhone way of doing things. This is a great way of using the knowledge I already have to create services on a wide variety of platforms. Does anyone else use this? What was your experience?
The success of iPhone and Android, the emergence of Tablet computing, and the promise of Desktop Linux have created great opportunities for application developers … as well as created a new set of challenges. While the market for applications is larger than ever before, developing and supporting multiple platforms can be complicated and expensive.
Enter Appcelerator, a new platform and services company that is enabling Web developers to build intuitive, content-rich applications for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop platforms. -
Posted: December 30th, 2010, 2:57pm PST by dan
The updated look at mint.com is nice, if a little heavy handed in their endorsement of Apple. The real story here, is that they have opened up their data to passerby on the web. Now you can try to make your own insights like the ones found here: Mint Opens Up Its Data: See How Spending Is Truly Trending. It’s a nice step, but access to the data seems quite restricted to me. I’d really like to see an API released, allowing people to come up with their own visualizations of the data. I’m sure that’s its own can of privacy worms tho…
How do your spending habits compare? I’m definitely under the median (unsurprisingly) [data.mint.com]
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Posted: December 17th, 2010, 10:14am PST by dan
Check out designspiration.net; it’s the new ffffound, except you can filter on specific tags like architecture, logo, type, and so on. You can also filter on color, which is really cool. Catch it now before it starts getting filled up with porn!
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Posted: December 16th, 2010, 3:49pm PST by dan
var addthis_product = 'wpp-252'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"ui_language":"en"};I can’t get enough of these ‘futurecasts’. Possible scenarios where designers/technologists think out loud about the potential impact digital devices can have. These guys, VURB, come at it from an urban planning perspective. I’m excited to live in this potential future, are you?
The Urbanode project, a research partnership with Digitale Pioneers, begins the process of creating public system software by wrapping the controls for lighting control systems, such as those found in theaters and nightclubs, in a javascript programming framework. Currently, a prototype of this system is deployed for testing and development in the Melkweg, one of the premiere venues for live music in Amsterdam.
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Posted: December 16th, 2010, 11:59am PST by dan
Check out this ingenious idea that tricks kids into learning! Originally developed at Columbia University’s Computer Vision Lab. Even the social version has the premise of learning (geography at least) baked right in there. Looks like they don’t have support from a major manufacturer yet, here’s hoping!.
The Camera For Education
Bigshot is an educational camera for kids and adults alike.
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Posted: December 16th, 2010, 11:50am PST by dan
Another crazy data visualization using R.
After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.
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Posted: December 16th, 2010, 9:33am PST by dan
Top 10 Internet of Things Developments of 2010
Internet of Things (IoT) is a term for when everyday ordinary objects are connected to the Internet via microchips. The technologies include sensors, RFID and smartphone standards like NFC. The use cases are still evolving, but over 2010 we saw large organizations like HP and IBM build out impressive platforms for the Internet of Things. We also saw companies as diverse as Nike and Pachube enjoying success with consumer applications based on these technologies.
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Posted: December 13th, 2010, 10:19am PST by dan
This is an expedition involving the artificial study of plant life. Ten propagated flowers from a living plant. Each flower has a ‘death state’, until human interaction triggers its ‘life state’ and just for a brief moment, you may recapture the flowers in full bloom. When the viewer blows into the specimen jars, each flower begins a shape change.
Materials – Flexinol (shape changing wire), recycled electronic components, specimen jars.
A Breath of Life by Fraser Ross 2010 from FRASER ROSS on Vimeo.
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Posted: December 6th, 2010, 2:23pm PST by dan
google.com/nexus
Official Google Blog
Techcrunch ReviewNexus S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” Contour Display designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. It also features a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear facing cameras, 16GB of internal memory, and NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.
Although the screen doesn’t seem to be quite as nice as the new iPhone’s, looks like there are a significant amount of improvements here. (esp. over my ancient G1!) I really like the inclusion of NFC capabilities even tho there really aren’t any places to use it yet. I also like the advanced noise cancellation software, and that it’s a “clean” install of Android.
It’s also bundled with a 16gb internal flash memory, but oddly there is no way to expand that amount. Supposedly available later this month… I may finally be forced to upgrade!
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Posted: December 2nd, 2010, 5:35pm PST by dan
The One Club invited top digital creatives to cull the best interactive work from from the past decade of One Show Interactive winners. Over 75 pieces were nominated, judges voted for their favorites, and the top ten pieces were determined. The following pieces charted the course of the Digital Decade (2000-2010) with work that was visually striking and highly interactive. From the revolutionary whimsy of Subservient Chicken and Uniqlock to projects like eco:Drive, Nike Plus and Chalkbot that wedded the real and interactive worlds, these pieces showed us what digital could be. The responsible agencies, clients and creatives are to be congratulated for pushing technological and creative boundaries and making this the decade that digital came into its own.
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Posted: November 30th, 2010, 12:34pm PST by dan
This is on the lighter side, but well worth waiting for it to load up! Looks like War Unicorn teamed up with Das Racist to create and produce this great video game for a hip hop single. It’s probably nsfw (depending on where you work), but it’s a great idea, well executed, and fits their target audience perfectly.
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Posted: November 29th, 2010, 4:31pm PST by dan
Have a desire to see where mobile devices have been trending over the past two years? Then check out this data-rich and design-poor presentation. It’s not super up to date, but still quite relevant. Specifically, check the executive overview on the first page, and the user application survey at the end.
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Posted: November 28th, 2010, 8:09pm PST by dan
I’ve been looking into ways of (quickly and cheaply) geo-tagging my photos, and this is one of the best tutorials I’ve found: geosquan.blogspot.com/2010/03/geotag-photos-with-android-phone-and.html. You don’t even need an Android phone to make this work. What you do need, is a camera, smartphone, and computer.
Here goes the short short version.
1. Download mytracks app (and gpstest app for android)
2. Record a track.
3. When you start shooting, the first picture you take should be of the clock on your phone. You will use this later on to sync your camera time (saved in the meta data) to GPS time (saved in the actual photo). If you have the Android app gpstest, take a picture of that screen instead.
4. When you’re done taking pictures, stop the track and send it to yourself.
5. Use gpicsync to stitch your GPS track data to the EXIF data associated with your images.
6. Post those bad boys up on Flickr, Picasa, or anything else that hooks into GPS data!I like the flexibility this system provides. You can use the hardware/software combination you like best, and achieve the same results. So cool!
This is a great system for domestic use, but if you go international you will likely have to change the source of your GPS track. I’d look into the Qstarz BT-Q1000XT. I’ve never used it, but it seems to get good reviews on several different sites.
Do you geo-tag your photos? How do you make that happen?
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Posted: November 23rd, 2010, 12:20pm PST by dan
Looks like the Kinect is sparking the same interest the wiimote did on its release!
By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a “holographic” representation of the persons or objects that were captured.
Agata
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Posted: November 17th, 2010, 8:38am PST by Agata Stadnik
Recently , I added some more information about my research done for Motionary. Please visit the website to see more: http://motionary.org/research.html During my process of recording for Motionary, I filmed over 50 different performers and over 500 word interpretations. Performers’ ages varied from a three-year old boy through teenagers, students in their twenties to adult [...]
Scott
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Posted: November 11th, 2010, 3:47pm PST by Scott
I’ll have a new interactive video installation titled “You’re In” at the Provocative Objects art show tomorrow evening (Friday, one night only) at MassArt.
This will not be a normal art show, with wine and cheese and refined citizenry. Expect to be provoked (for both good and ill). It will be challenging and hilarious and weird and uncomfortable, and I think it will also be awesome.
Hope you can make it!
Elaine
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Posted: October 24th, 2010, 6:56am PDT by elaine
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Posted: October 17th, 2010, 12:42pm PDT by elaine
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Posted: October 17th, 2010, 12:41pm PDT by elaine
Scott
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Posted: August 26th, 2010, 2:49pm PDT by Scott
Ever wanted a beautiful, inspiring book of text-based portraiture? Now’s your chance! Get your copy, hot off the presses:
Elaine
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Posted: July 20th, 2010, 7:30am PDT by elaine
this makes a very nice presentation of a lot of footage from different films in a way that feels very solid. the sound track is a huge help. -
Posted: July 20th, 2010, 7:17am PDT by elaine
the secret powers of time a video on human perceptions of time
Dan
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 6:26pm PDT by dan
It’s all about the algorithms.
[www.codeorgan.com]
Scott
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Posted: June 9th, 2010, 3:15pm PDT by Scott
I came across this brilliant use of LED matrices while researching how to control these little guys with an Arduino board. Jump to the middle of the video to see a whole new kind of interactive puzzle.
Dan
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Posted: June 8th, 2010, 1:56pm PDT by dan
Based on information from people uploading travel photos to Panoramio, these maps show exactly what you would expect. Even better than being an image, they have the whole google map mash up thing going on, which is pretty great! How else could you get an idea to travel to the Tibesti mountains?
Scott
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Posted: June 1st, 2010, 3:10pm PDT by Scott
My thesis book is now available on Blurb! Check out the preview below, and order a copy, either for yourself or that interactive designer/digital artist friend of yours.
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Posted: May 28th, 2010, 3:19pm PDT by Scott
When is Good is one of my all-time favorite web tools, making it super easy to find a good time to schedule a group meeting. They published a fascinating paper last year, sharing the most interesting findings from the aggregate data of user’s schedules, including:
- Event invitations are most likely to be accepted for a Tuesday at 3pm.
- …on average only three or four people out of ten will be available at any given time.
For more, download the full paper.
Dan
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Posted: May 13th, 2010, 5:17pm PDT by dan
Interesting idea, an interactive video you can pause and examine the clothing the models are wearing. The price is of course omitted. Looks like this was inspired by the Bande à part dance.
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Posted: May 13th, 2010, 5:14pm PDT by dan
Diaspora – the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.
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Posted: May 5th, 2010, 4:12pm PDT by dan
This is a fun experiment! Runs in FF also, but much slower.
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Posted: April 30th, 2010, 5:15pm PDT by dan
Awesome!
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Posted: April 29th, 2010, 11:43am PDT by dan
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot. Such a tool could perhaps be used for augmented reality applications, tele-presence, training, rehabilitation or even as virtual foot controllers.
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Posted: April 29th, 2010, 11:41am PDT by dan
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Posted: April 29th, 2010, 11:39am PDT by dan
This site askes everyone to look harder at their daily relationship to energy. We created it to help heighten awareness of the toll that energy production and consumption take on our economy, security, health, and natural resources. When we understand more about the realities of American power, we can make wiser choices about energy through conservation and civic action.
Great new website from Pentagram partners that attempts to show a portrait of communities living in the shadow of power plants. There are a few power plants near my house, but they are on a much smaller scale (and more disguised!) than the ones depicted here. The photography is excellent, and the idea for the website is good too. It tries to connect photos through a physical place through the use of a map. I lose my mental map of the images location when scrolling through them all, but they are compelling enough to give the location a backseat.
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Posted: April 29th, 2010, 11:26am PDT by dan
CS5 an Evolution of the Designers Toolbox
Amazingly well done walk through of the design process behind those Adobe icons we’ve come to know and love so much. Some of the new features of CS5 look pretty amazing, don’t know if I can afford the upgrade at this point tho…
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Posted: April 29th, 2010, 11:22am PDT by dan
I pretty much just keep forgetting to post this here. It’s old, but still a great reference.
Scott
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Posted: April 26th, 2010, 4:59pm PDT by Scott
My thesis projects, Practice and Cheeky, will both be featured this Saturday at Alchemy, the annual interactive art party. Hope you can make it!
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 12:11pm PDT by Scott
Dan
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Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:55pm PDT by dan
I’d like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships.
During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt that couldn’t be made good on. Today, “social” media is trading in low-quality connections — linkages that are unlikely to yield meaningful, lasting relationships.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:54pm PDT by dan
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Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:51pm PDT by dan
Scott
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Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:36pm PDT by dan
This is a really great example of a graphic that calls you to action. Everyone that saw this couldn’t help but to try out what’s going on in the photo. Can YOU???
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Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:31pm PDT by dan
Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.
Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:25pm PST by dan
[sloanreview.mit.edu]
This is more for personal reference, I’d like to go back and read some of these articles in the future. Since it’s coming from MIT Sloan, these topics are viewed through the lens of management, but the content still looks pretty interesting. Nice to see how other professions / fields can use the principals of design to achieve better results.Design thinking — distinct from analytical thinking — has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. “It’s not about the pretty,” says one design-thinking practitioner, “it’s about the productive.” In this special section of articles, interviews, illustrated cases and research findings, the Review explores how to put design thinking to work.
How to Become a Better Manager … By Thinking Like a Designer
Elegance By Design: The Art of Less
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:04pm PST by dan
[whereismymilkfrom.com]
The UI is crap (you type the milk code into the skewed form on top of the milk carton), but the idea is cool. The milk at my office comes from Franklin, MA, not too far from Boston. Where is yours from?
Scott
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Posted: February 10th, 2010, 6:08pm PST by Scott
I’ll be teaching another workshop on creative coding at the end of the month! Join us, and learn to use Processing to create your own interactive, digital art. Details at gaffta.org.
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Posted: February 10th, 2010, 5:27pm PST by Scott
Practice, my MFA thesis project, will be set up for you to explore this Friday in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Practice is both a work of interactive video art and a design research project.
Unlike most other works of this medium, it does not reward bodily motion and exaggerated gestures, but encourages patience and self-reflection. In so doing, it explores the tension between emotional engagement and the uncomfortable ambiguity of not knowing what will happen next.
Friday, February 12
About 9:00 – 11:00pm
16th St. and Guerrero St., NE corner (Map)
In the event of rain, the piece will be installed the next night, Saturday, 2/13.
Dan
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Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 2:46pm PST by dan
Uggggggggg, I really really really hope this does not happen!
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Posted: February 1st, 2010, 6:00pm PST by dan
Really cool infoviz project the duo at hint.fm put together about colors seen on Boston Common throughout the year. I’m seeing this one a bit late cos it was originally published in Boston Magazine, maybe I should actually start checking that publication out!Anyway, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have tons of really interesting projects. Check out Seer also if you have the time.
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Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:14pm PST by dan
Interesting article from New York Times
The Age of Undoing
Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state. This kind of instant reversibility is now an inescapable facet of our digitized life — like it or un-.
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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 3:30pm PST by dan
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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 10:01am PST by dan
Working through Screens is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides teams with a broad range of considerations for setting the overall direction and priorities for their onscreen tools. With hundreds of envisioning questions and fictional examples from clinical research, financial trading, and architecture, this volume can help definers and designers to explore innovative new directions for their products.
Scott
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Posted: January 27th, 2010, 1:32am PST by Scott
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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 1:13pm PST by Scott
While working on deep ocean graphics for a client, I inadvertently created something more cloud-like.
Dan
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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 11:27am PST by dan
The N. Building in Japan is one huge QR code that becomes a living website thanks to augmented reality on the iPhone.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 10:54am PST by dan
Here are two cool new ways to track who is consuming your content, and which pieces users find most interesting. First up:
Depending on the site, up to 6% of page loads results in a user copying content. While this may not sound like much, think of it this way: on a site that has 20 million page views per month, content is copied over one million times during any given month. That’s a lot. How do we know this? Tynt’s patent pending Insight technology is currently running on hundreds of thousands of web sites and monitors billions of page loads per month.
This is a potentially very cool idea, however, it’s a bit annoying that they auto-include a link back to the source content. I’d prefer a more ’silent’ solution. According to Tynt, they are: “currently working on providing users an option to opt out of Tynt Insight. If you’d like to disable Tynt Insight immediately, you can use an ad or script blocking tool to disable Tynt Insight.”
Second is:
[speakertext.com]
SpeakerText is an easy-to-use tool that lets you find, read and share what people are saying inside of videos. This is another powerful tool, that’s still in beta. I don’t know if it’s technically possible, but it would be great to see this technology drop Flash as its presentation layer. It could be much easier to spread content like this. For example, you would be able to combine the previous Tynt service to do some pretty wild things! Check out Nieman Labs for more. -
Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 10:43am PST by dan
So, I’ll probably never actually use this stuff now that I’m done with school, but just thought I’d share these links if anyone is interested:
[www.amarino-toolkit.net]
Cell phones are great for communication in a virtual manner, but lack expressiveness in personal surroundings. Many people try to give their phones a personal touch by customizing them. ‘android meets arduino’ is a toolkit to connect Android-driven mobile devices with Arduino microcontrollers via Bluetooth. The toolkit provides easy access to internal phone events which can be further processed on the Arduino open-source prototyping platform. This toolkit seeks to empower people to externalize their phone events to creatively demonstrate them on wearables, living spaces, or other tangibles.[android.processing.org]
Pre-release downloads of Processing with built-in support for Android. Note that this code is incomplete and contains many bugs. It is not ready for widespread use. It should be considered “nightly build” quality. Do not use this code while operating heavy equipment. Do not rely on this code for thesis or diploma work, as you will not graduate. Do not use this code if you’re prone to whining about incomplete software that you download for free. -
Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 10:39am PST by dan
Here is a fun diversion for a moment. Beats are alright, but I would really love to hear someone try out is the Beatles singing over a Wu-Tang beat, or something. You know, flip the convention of these types of releases. I’m not a musician, but I’m sure some talented person could make it work.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 10:35am PST by dan
Here’s a few links I’ve found to test yer sites on. This is really more for me to use so I can remember this stuff in a few months when I need it again, and have forgotten it by that time.
[https:]
An easier, faster solution for cross-browser testing[browsershots.org]
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.
Scott
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Posted: January 21st, 2010, 5:54pm PST by Scott
It’s up! Check out the home page, now re-envisioned as an interactive portfolio of recent projects. Let me know what you think via the new “contact” link.
Dan
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Posted: January 12th, 2010, 5:08pm PST by dan
Look at that exponential curve! Android is really taking off. The iPhone is of course still on top, but it will be interesting to see how Apple’s business strategy will adapt in the face of some real competition.
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Posted: December 28th, 2009, 2:42pm PST by dan
Excellent presentation on design patterns for social sites / applications.
social traction
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Posted: December 15th, 2009, 10:44am PST by dan
Seems a bit self-helpy, but I will probably go through it this week on the commute to work. He definitely got the big names out on this one.
Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O’Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here.
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Posted: December 15th, 2009, 10:39am PST by dan
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Posted: November 24th, 2009, 11:23am PST by dan
How would you feel if you had to share a phone amongst your family members, or if you could not afford to by a phone. This is the case for many millions of people living in Kenya at the Base of the Pyramid, living in poverty on an income of less than $2 a day; and yet many of these people understand how mobile phone technology can save them money in their day to day activities and increase their earning potential. This video explores how people living below the poverty line in Kenya use mobile phones.
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Posted: November 24th, 2009, 11:20am PST by dan
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Posted: November 18th, 2009, 3:21pm PST by dan
Here is a powerful mode of communication with mobile technology. Made by the Mobile Art Lab in Japan.
Scott
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Posted: November 17th, 2009, 12:32pm PST by Scott
LAIKA is a new, dynamic typeface, designed and constructed by Nicolas Kunz and Michael Flückiger. The genius here is that visual elements of the face (such as weight, serif prominence, and italic degree) are reframed as parameters, into which can be fed values from any source — either your own keyboard, or something more interesting like weight or distance sensors, so the visual typographic form can respond to physical factors in an installation environment. Try it out!
Dan
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Posted: November 17th, 2009, 11:38am PST by dan
Tetris and Arduino together at last. I would definitely, definitely play this version of the game, even if I would not get a high score.
Tetris Mashup!
tetris meets Arduino from Luyza Pereira on Vimeo.
Elaine
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Posted: November 10th, 2009, 1:00pm PST by elaine
the ambient orb
apple human interface guidelines
apple user experience website
check out what else is happening in HCI.
minimal mac from a link on andrew's blog.
Geektool an Apple tool to configure things on your desktop.
Stuart Anstis motion studies in how the brain interprets value into motion.
Jeff Han touch wall.
Another video wall example.
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Posted: November 8th, 2009, 2:19pm PST by elaine
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Posted: November 7th, 2009, 5:23am PST by elaine
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Posted: November 7th, 2009, 5:14am PST by elaine
natural user interface group. check this out for info about multi touch tables.
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Posted: November 4th, 2009, 5:08pm PST by elaine
video of an imaginary holographic 3d creation interface that opens virtual palettes almost anywhere and supports dynamically moving interactions with at least some ability to focus on the tiniest of details. uses motion as part of the interface in amazing ways.
Scott
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Posted: November 4th, 2009, 10:50am PST by Scott
Remember when AOL leaked 650,000 of its users’ search queries? For the first time, we got to see what real people search for on the web.
Now, thanks to Search Suggestion technology by Google, Yahoo, and others, you don’t have to wait for a corporate screw-up to expose search queries — you can do it yourself! Just type a few letters, and watch the most popular searches appear on top.
Dan
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Posted: October 29th, 2009, 10:12am PDT by dan
Just found some interesting content about how media will be delivered in the future, and the future of the web. I guess Thursdays are a forward thinking day of the week.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, interviewed at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 (06:10)
Elaine
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Posted: October 24th, 2009, 8:09am PDT by elaine
street games enhanced environments that you can play in. -
Posted: October 24th, 2009, 6:43am PDT by elaine
David Small design ecology design that can react to changing environments. Read here about research projects going on at the media lab. -
Posted: October 22nd, 2009, 4:58am PDT by elaine
Brian Eno and cybernetics is an article about the influence cybernetics and systems thinking had on Brian Eno's music. he started in a class where his thinking was challenged with group collaborations and rules. from that his approach included open rules-based approaches to his compositions.
Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards is a set of cards that encourage people to think differently when they get stuck on a creative (?) project. -
Posted: October 22nd, 2009, 3:54am PDT by elaine
I thought tractor dance was amazing but the police motorcycle dance here is at least as amazing. -
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 12:14pm PDT by elaine
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Posted: October 21st, 2009, 5:03am PDT by elaine
new order, true faith has interesting rotating plane in front of a guy's eyes, in the last few seconds. starts as a vertical plane and ends as a horizontal line. could be a way to connect larger amounts of information onto a source bit. -
Posted: October 20th, 2009, 8:18am PDT by elaine
bldr web site a web site for finding or donating information on making things. check it out.
