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More liked posts“Technology should enable magic, not hinder it”: @shilo1221, creator of the Khoya storytelling ipad app.
.@hackneyhear launched in the itunes app store last week. Created with Amblr, the app triggers audio via GPS-location.
Hackney Hear: London Fields, allows the explorer to discover true stories of local residents, local celebrities and archive, along with new commissions from award-winning artists in the area and includes:
* Iain Sinclair unravels the layers of history in his beloved local park
* Performance poet Shane Solanki performs ‘the Lido’ at Hackney’s outdoor swimming pool
* Photographer Tom Hunter tells tales of the 1980s squatting scene
* Local residents tell the secrets behind their neighbourhood, from first kisses to gang etiquette
Shortlisted for TechCon Technical Innovation Award 2011
Supported by Arts Council England, Hackney Council and the Guardian
.@Flowmill : by @owlproject and @wna. A floating millhouse + waterwheel on the River Tyne, powering a series of mechanical musical instruments. Opens March 2012.
An ethereal, floating cloud inside a gallery. ‘Nimbus’ is a new installation of Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde in the HMK { HotelMariaKapel }, an artist residency programme in the Netherlands, with a presentation space in a 15th century chapel. He created the installation by ‘combining smoke, moisture and dramatic lighting’. Literature says, “Be on time, the experiment only lasts for a few minutes.”
Via helloyoucreatives and Design Boom.
Hacking the urban experience: John Locke @gracefulspoon and his Department of Urban Betterment think people should read more. So John has created guerrilla libraries around Manhattan with a sack of books and custom-made shelves, converting old pay phones into pop-up libraries.
In the style of Book Crossing, John hopes that New Yorkers will pick up unfamiliar titles while running their errands and then, perhaps, replace them the next day with favorite books of their own. Of the two guerrilla libraries that the artist has fashioned, one is still intact, the other has had its contents and shelves repeatedly stolen.
via Atlantic Cities and Design Boom.
Makego by Chris O’Shea turns your iphone (and lego) into a toy vehicle - an ice cream truck, race car or river boat. Select your vehicle within Makego, then interact through animations and sound. Created with Open Frameworks.
Cryoscope haptic weather forecasting device that lets you *feel* the temp outside (perfect for those too lazy to open the door).
And for cynics, “…the best trick of the Cryoscope isn’t its ability to hit a perfect temperature, but its ability to hit the perfect perceived temperature. Due to the ‘cold’ nature of metal, the temperature is adjusted to match human perceptions of hot and cold,” writes inventor Robb Godshaw of Syyn Labs.
via @michaelshorter
Greek artist Petros Vrellis creates an interactive version Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, through the use of open source C++ toolkit openFrameworks. The painting’s brush strokes are animated and the user can temporarily play with and change the painting.
Sweet Tweet - a physical output from a digital input. Each time Uniform agency gets a new follower on their twitter account, a sweet is a dispensed into their studio - through a playful cuckoo cluck and down a course, similar to a marble run.
This #iot approach can be used to incentivise and creating playfulness around various things, not just increasing Twitter followers. And the prize doesn’t have to be a sweet thing in the literal sense… How about a roulette of options - a ‘duvet morning’ or someone else making you a cup of tea?
Creepy? Or er… seedy?
Seed faces from http://www.etsy.com/listing/84586371/25-seed-faces
The Biscuit Nativity “with the baby Jesus as an iced gem, and a pink wafer for Mary” says the Present&Correct blog. Other gorgeous highlights on their site include primary coloured wooden block dinner sets, how to make cut-out 70s nativity scenes and vintage graphics wrapping paper.
“Feed your kids The Arts” :: USA positioning culture as a nutritionally sound breakfast cereal.
Codify is a platform that game designers, educators and students can use to create games or simulations. Codify allows users to build and play interactive games and simulations directly on their device. It was developed by three Australians from Adelaide - Simeon Nasilowski, John Millard and Dylan Sale. Kudos guys, love the clean simple interface.
Via Apps in Education Blog & jottingmatt
(via jotmatt)
The internet weighs the same as a strawberry - about 40g of electons in motion… Facts courtesy of @lakefield83 and @zconsortium.
READ MORE:
Weight gained from e-books: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25qna.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&sr…
Gadsby: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1466216735/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486…
Flash Memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
Map of the Internet: http://www.opte.org/
Size of the internet: http://www.martingover.com/2418/size-of-the-internetdata-growth-info-overload/
Weight of all electrons in motion that make up the internet: http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2006/10/weighing_the_we.html
Weight of all information on the internet: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/how-much-does-the-internet-weigh/article…
Smallest sand particles: http://science.jrank.org/pages/6039/Sediment-Sedimentation-Sediment-size.html
