Interacting with Digital Beings in Public
With “interactive” campaigns now pervasive, this compilation of digital billboards noticed when the context is within populated public spaces. A British Airways display with a giant billboard child pointing at … Continue reading
A World of Creators and Backers
Love the design of Kickstarters’ Best of 2012 Site which first slowly takes you through impressive statistics about the extent people are funding each others as creators and then moves to … Continue reading
Eyewire Game and Exquisite Forest
Citizen scientists and game designers might have had a moment of pride today. A round of surprised applause for the fact that a neuroscientist game, Eyewire, could temporarily be downed from … Continue reading
Designing Visual Lingo
A belated link pack with short ruminations: As the saying goes, a picture can convey a thousand words. Static photos can communicate unexpected concepts like these genetic portraits. I’ve been drawn … Continue reading
Digital Meets Physical Mashups: New Dawn of Sharing
After a long posting hiatus, semi-back. To paraphrase Bre Pattis, “You need to have more than one parent for your digital designs.” I was happily surprised when a series … Continue reading
Fabricating Ourselves
When 3D printing meets Kinect meets humans’ love for Polaroid portraits, we witness how Insta-selves could be a future common crowdpleaser. With custom software developed using openKinect and openFrameworks, Be Your Own Souvenir by … Continue reading
Paths Making Sounds
Walkers, subway riders, and drivers often listen to songs as the soundtrack to their journey. Wonder what it would sound like if my commute actually made music for me — … Continue reading
Pulse of the Nation and Hackability
Delayed hearting of this time lapse video of Twitter data visualizations. The dynamic “pulse of the nation” was generated from mood coding over 300 million tweets collected over three years, … Continue reading
Mashup Breakdown
Unlike some of my musical friends, I'm horrible at identifying specific samples from songs. At least for Girl Talk's All Day (372 song samples), I can look at Mashup Breakdown. … Continue reading
Visualizing Dating Data
What would a census based on online dating profiles reveal? Love the maps Luke Dubois created for his soon to be exhibited “A More Perfect Union” project — born of post-breakup openness to … Continue reading
