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The making of ‘turntable rider’: “the bike wheels become jog wheels.The handbrakes become sound pads. Mix and scratch at will.”
Free Network Foundation: the movement against a centralised Internet. VICE speaks to Isaac Wilder, the 21-year-old co-founder of the a non-profit, peer-to-peer communications initiative striving to liberate the global Internet from corporate and governmental interference.
via @motherboard.
.@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
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.
“Feed your kids The Arts” :: USA positioning culture as a nutritionally sound breakfast cereal.
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
#codingforkids debate kicked off at the Guardian offices last night with a mix of around 50 people including education professionals, ex-teachers, those working in digital and technology and a few actual kids themselves! We Storyfied (live blogged) the event, so you can catch up here (thanks @rachelcoldicutt).
A few key points that seemed to reverberate with me:
Parents can be the catalyst here. So many people said that the event has inspired them to simply go home and play with their kids more, to work with them in simple game making programmes such as Scratch and to listen to what their kids want.
Coding, programming or the understanding of technology needs to be inbuilt across the board in education, not just restricted to ICT or similar. It’s a skill that’s needed whether you are learning English, Maths, Drama, Music, Geography, etc…
It’s not necessarily about building an ‘army of coders’ but giving people the knowledge and ability to understand what’s going on behind the screen. By creating a level playing field, cross-sector and cross-organisation working in the future should be so much easier as people will be able to speak the same language.
There’s loads of interesting tools out there already. A few mentioned were Alice created by Carnegie Mellon, Scratch made by MIT, WaterBear and Hackasaurus. @regulargeek has written about the tools on 36 resources to help you teach kids programming and Emma @hubmum has also written blog posts over the last month on the topic about how to initiate kids (or anyone) into coding.
I’m very pleased that the initial ‘cup of tea and a chat’ with Emma at Rewired State has evolved into us bringing together people to talk on the topic of #codingforkids and we’re inviting people to take on the next steps of making this a reality.
The BIG thing now is to get everyone - yes, YOU - pledging what they are going to do next. Use the #codingforkids hashtag on twitter to pledge, blog it and post it on the wiki. We’ve set a deadline of November 5th to get all pledges in and then we’ll announce them, coming back to check in with everyone in January 2012.
The wiki is open to all - please don’t be shy, add to it, amend, build it into the resource it should be. This belongs to an ever-evolving community of participants. And follow @codingforkids to keep up to date!
Innocent’s new #tweetandeat campaign gets people working, or rather tweeting, together to bring the price down on one of their veg pots. If enough (how many I wonder?) people tweet, then eventually the price can reduce to zero.
I’ve often seen this executed badly - I don’t see the point in tweeting with a hashtag just to be in the chance of winning something, but this campaign pools everyone’s individual efforts together and everyone is rewarded for participating. As they say, “Collective buying power is where its at”.
“Inkling” » a clip-on digital tool that captures your drawing (including additions & layers) in any sketchbook or pad of paper, using a special ballpoint pen. Quite clever.
The Art of Dancing is a pet project by Lewis & Luke shows them shaking a leg or two with a new daily dance in an everyday setting - think shopping centres, roundabouts, tennis courts - all in one take. Find them on Facebook and Twitter. I’ve just been googling for parodies of it - can’t find any yet!
‘Dead Drops’ a project by Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl. An anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space - USB flash drives cemented into walls, buildings and curbs. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and data.
Previously Adam has filmed people living out their World of Warcraft characters, made a giant Google Maps marker and placed CAPTCHAs in real life
Via:
My recent article in Arts Professional commenting on digital access in the arts, talking about Tate, Arnolfini, MuseumNext and Art of Digital, and how to set up an engaging and inclusive process to get arts organisations up to speed on the social web.
Print your own paper with the newspaper club
With nod to the blog paper, the newspaper club is currently testing in beta. It taps into the idea of merging the online and the offline - being aware that although digital content might be expanding at an exponential rate, people still love to hold a chunk of printed paper in their hands. I’m intrigued by the possibilities of pay per page printing (rates go down the more copies you print, natch) and aggregating the best content from the web to read at your leisure - preferably on Sunday morning, in bed.
It is funded 4iP and made by those creative people at the Really Interesting Group who are into “post digital thinking”.
