Interactive Bus Stop

This exhibit, a concept station – the result

of two-year collaboration between MIT

and RATP on Smart mobility – explores their

emerging potential: the bus stop a

self-organizing landmark

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Creative Time - The Book

I just put an order in on amazon for this book - Can't wait to get my hands on it ! This is what they gotta say about the book on thier mini site for the book:

"CREATIVE TIME: THE BOOK exposes how this visionary cultural provocateur completely changed the notion of art in the public realm and made it possible for more than 1300 artists to create over 300 awe-inspiring works that enlivened and transformed the city over the past three decades. The book, published by Princeton Architectural Press, features 325-pages of photos and text by a wide range of acclaimed scholars and artists exploring the issues, ideals, and values that have defined the organization, as well as NYC’s history. From legendary projects such as Art on the Beach, Art in the Anchorage, Tribute in Light, and cloud writing to small and timely interventions that gave artists a voice – all gave us moments of surprise, often inspiration, and enabled us to experience the city in new ways."

Each cover is unique in that it represents a moment in NYC time which has been captured by the "The Urban Visual Recording Machine (UVRM) was a set of equipment housed in a truck reminiscent of a “pope mobile” with its large Plexiglas windows. The machines were programmed to record the colors, volume of sound and voices, and weather (wind speed and direction, temperature, and humidity) of each individual location for that moment in time. The data was instantly transcribed into an abstract visual representation of the environment, with graphic shapes and patterns created by the designers and Show & Tell Productions, and printed out on site with the time and date. Every 30 seconds, for 5 days from September 6-10, 2006, the truck traveled to locations of signature Creative Time projects: Times Square, Chelsea, the East Village, Coney Island, The Art Parade in Soho, and Lower Manhattan. 5,000 book covers, each capturing a moment in NYC, were instantaneously printed on site for Creative Time: The Book, bringing together new technology with artistic vision"



On the mini site you can also find more video showing the design process that the designers Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker of karlssonwilker inc went through.

Love Sport

A Great set of 10 animations devised by Grant Orchard & produced by Studio AKA for QOOBtv I have posted two of my favourites below, you can view the rest here.

Paint Balling:

Rival armies, guns ready to fire, camouflage vests, helicopters. Then explosions, ambushes, splatters everywhere. The most colourful game in the world goes awol.

The Dogs:

What’s so funny in watching some greyhounds running in circle behind a mechnical rabbit? Well, maybe this is why it’s so damn funny! Watch if you dare.

Satoshi Kon Interviews

Interview 1: [27.04.07]
In the interview, Kon talks about the other writers who have indirectly influenced his work, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick, and mentions that he is already writing the script for his next film. He expects this work, which he calls "a future folklore story," to be completed in about two or two and a half years. After he has completed several more feature films, Kon would also like to again direct a television series.
read the Tokyopop interview

Interview 2: [07.05.07]
Interview with Paprika director Satoshi Kon in Portuguese and in retranslated English. The interview covers his personal interests as well as his film and television work. Kon also reveals that his next work, previously described as a children's folk tale set in the far future, will have music playing a crucial role.
read the Papo de Budega blog interview

Apollo Apps so far....

Everyone is talking about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on your desktop. Here are the coolest, slickest and bestest apps so far.
read more | digg story

Wearable Technologies

Recent breakthroughs in “Wearable Technology” have certainly made us imbibe the wonders of the magic of the world of technology in the real sense…check out how!
read more | digg story

Music By Textile Experience

The XY position of the performer's hand contact moving onto the surface of the fabric is transmited to a computeur via a 12 Bytes resolution Midi card. This allows 4000 by 4000 points resolution. Two conductive fabrics are fixed on a frame, each one weaved with conductive threads in a different direction. When the performer presses any point of the textile instrument, the upper layer connects with the fabric underneath and the current eletrical value is sent to the computer.
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