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London CityDashboard http://citydashboard.org/london/ created by the @CASAUCL research lab, an interdisciplinary research centre dealing with digital technologies in geography, space & the built environment, at University College London.
The live data dashboard for the city pulls in TfL data, RSS feeds from BBC London news, geographical information from OpenStreetMap, weather data from Google, trends from Twitter, traffic cameras and water levels along the Thames. It also includes data from UCL’s radiation detector.
Based on a concept developed by Oliver O’Brien, Andrew Hudson-Smith and Richard Milton, here in CASA, developed and built by Duncan Smith and Oliver O’Brien.
via @purplesime
World Class Brass: Kinetika Bloco recorded at Notting Hill Carnival 2011 by Nightjar for BBC Radio 2.
The Kinetika Bloco is a young group of brass, woodwind, percussion and steel pan players, plus amazing dancers. Young people can join them for their Spring or Summer Schools.
Radio 2 calls them a “unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London edge”. They draw their influences from the Caribbean, Brazil, West and Southern Africa, New Orleans jazz, Funk and Hip Hop.
They’ve performed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Cultural Festival, London Jazz Festival, Thames Festival, The South Bank and at the Unveiling of the Nelson Mandela Statue at Parliament Square.
I used to work for Kinetika and ever time I hear the Bloco it sends shivers down my spine! They are absolutely amazing to see live.
.@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
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.
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”.
The internet is being tailored for us: @elipariser TED talk. ‘There are 57 signals that Google uses to personally tailor your search results’ says Eli, talking about the way the internet serves us information. No longer when we do a search on the internet are we getting the same results, no matter who we are.
This means that in all likelihood we are not being opened up to as many options as we had previously. Only those recommended to us via our previous interests or circle of friends or acquaintances. A cynic could say that the benefit is mainly for the advertisers and marketers who can now do very detailed behavioural campaigns.
via @thekingmob
Find a Mini car hidden somewhere (virtually) in Stockholm, keep away from pesky people trying to “steal” it from you and it’s yours at the end of the week! Gamification that does seem to work - I think it’s the running around bit I like, it linking back to the streets of the city. The fact that you can win an actual car helps incentivise too! Official site: MiniGetawayStockholm
I am mostly interested in their “insect cremations” : via helloyoucreatives
French Connection come up trumps with a great way of using YouTube - as “Youtique” (a posh way of saying a vamped up QVC with click throughs!). The presenter and content match is perfect, just wish the French Connection website was as good.
Nice and Interactive. The design by the guys at Poke makes all the little links fit nicely with the whole theme.
Another cheeky item of our Monday mailbox. This time about what your kids might be up to.
It also means that some young creatives have been watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq6xjTyw7zM
The Conspiracy for Good #cfg is a pilot game/story/something-a-bit-different that I’m working on. It’s pretty innovative - Heroes’ creator Tim Kring is writing the plot with Company P who make games, with Nokia supporting the technology and enabling everything to happen. The whole premise is around “gaming for good” and the project will support charities including Room To Read and the Pearson Foundation - building 5 real-world libraries in Zambia will be interwoven into the story.
The story started in Africa and now it’s about to land in London… There’s 4 actions happening that you can be part of - you’ll try and sneak around the city avoiding the evil Blackwell Briggs security and use Nokia Point & Find (provided) to find location-based clues. Sign up now, as places are filling up fast.
.@justdoit: A climate change tragicomedy featuring 3 organisations, 2 loose affiliations & 1 domestic extremist. No longer Swampy-driven clichés, activists are now people we all know - your neighbour, a friend’s brother, your mum! This new trailer shows a few snippets of the upcoming film, created throughout 2009 leading up to Climate Camp, to promote its new crowdsourced funding campaign to get the film edited and launched by 2011.
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.
