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R-Echos: how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen.
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R-Echos: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design.
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R-Echos: for some time, most Walker websites have been without an important branding element: a favicon.
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R-Echos: It is a simple task to control small electrical signals which are carried by the wires attached to the printer port of IBM-compatible computers.
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R-Echos: 5 years ago, the concept of working from any location seemed alien to most employers, but in todays rapidly connected world, it’s more common to find cutting edge researchers working without the constraints of 9-5 and the office life
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R-Echos: a great visualization of what the candidates are talking about
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R-Echos: An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th
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R-Echos: image of the poster found on ManyStuff
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R-Echos: Issue Magazine, another new web-based publication looking at the changing world of publishing and design
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R-Echos Custom turntables: ”
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables - About 5 ye
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R-Echos Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008, Sci-Fi Author & Space Visionary: ”
Renown science
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links for 2008-03-20
March 20, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: analysis, anayltics, animation, architecture, archive, author, blog, blogging, bones, boxes, branding, candidates, chaumont, clothes, color, conference, container, custom, dead, design, details, display, diy, drawing, economy, embroidery, etd, fab, favico, flux, furniture, future, generative, graphicdesign, GUI, identity, installation, interraction, magazine, methodology, mobility, motion, museum, pipe, player, poster, printer, process, publishing, scienefiction, screen, sculpture, signage, stream, structure, tangible, technology, topic, touch, typography, us, visualisation, vynil, water, webdesign, website, writer, writing, zeitgeist
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links for 2008-03-18
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Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.
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Problem: Some applications do about 90% of what I want.
Solution: Develop my own applications.
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A command line anywhere and everywhere (10.5)
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All things AppleScript(tags: applescript resources)
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encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined
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art & culture periodical; distributed both as a book and a magazine (depends where the barcode appears)
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the idea of a physical blog/reblog under the form of a Cabinet Of Curiosities
March 18, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, applescript, art, articles, biology, book, collection, culture, design, finder, framework, furniture, hack, interface, lifehacks, magazine, osx, philosophy, plugin, productivity, publish, resources, science, shell, software, tangible, terminal, tool, tools, wikipedia, writing, _curiosities
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links for 2008-02-20
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emotion is what motivated this post - it’s pretty damn intriguing…
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website that are much more than websites
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an overview of the future development of the internet, with a certain fascination for semantic web, it also speak about web of data, and a kind of ambient findability like series scenarios
February 20, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: api, application, data, database, innovation, internet, mashup, microsoft, news, object, semantic, services, tangible, technology, tools, trend, web2.0, writing
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links for 2008-02-04
what vs. how (tecznotes)
nice writing about design process at stamen. It is nice to see Pierre and I, we are actually quite right with all the thoughts we are giving about ElectroNest and how to manage the company/work/life - it’s all about utopia! :)
(tags: design process)internet usage statistics origami - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
a very nice tangible visualisation of internet traffic and flows; it reminded me the logo electronest designed for my own electronic presence on http://www.jeromerigaud.com
(tags: visualisation tangible schema statistics sculpture origami internet traffic paper)Declutter Your Desk how to make space on your desk - everything is hidden in the shade, still accessible but not messing all around (tags: ***** desktop hardware ideas lifehack organization productivity)
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography I quite liked the book of Robert Bringhurst - now, it seems like there is a nice web equivalent with the very specific issues of typography on screen (lower resolution, less control) (tags: screen typography webdesign ***** design display)
Creating a Color Scheme some explanations and insights about the color parameters and values I used to manipulate in picture editing software without knowing what it meant exactly (degreee, etc.) (tags: color howto tutorial photoshop hue degree)
How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks WordPress with a bit of subtlety: separating comments and trackbacks (tags: wordpress hack code custom)
Koyaanisqatsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “It’s not that we use technology, we live technology” - amazing and brilliant movie. it is the first of a trilogy (tags: film inspiration slow_motion technology nature society explosion)
CommentPress an amazing plugin that let’s you comment posts on a per paragraph basis; it brings feelings somehow of taking notes with a pen in the margins of a real book. (tags: wordpress comment plugin textuality discussion)
February 04, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, code, color, comment, custom, degree, design, desktop, discussion, display, explosion, film, hack, hardware, howto, hue, ideas, inspiration, internet, lifehack, nature, organization, origami, paper, photoshop, plugin, process, productivity, schema, screen, sculpture, slow_motion, society, statistics, tangible, technology, textuality, traffic, tutorial, typography, visualisation, webdesign, wordpress
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Analog color selection, tangible interface and live performance
Today I helped Amandine to take some pictures in London Field for her work - at some point I asked her to take a picture with my hand, in front of it, selecting an object’s colour: this was a proper analog color selection. (The setup was for one of her work which should be published on her sketchbook this week)
I would like to use this pink, please.
Delicious Library let’s you scan your books’ barcodes to generate your collection (it gets the isbn out of it, and from the isbn, the software grabs the title and cover from the internet), using simply the iSight of your Mac.
A bit in the same fashion, we could select a color by simply showing it to the computer. Clic! ColorBooth would let you then finetune the hue, saturation and brightness…
Somehow this idea of tangible interface is related with this video from Bob Dylan filmed by Pennebaker in 1965 where the text is displayed by the main characters of the music video story; the storytelling is essentially textual and I like it a lot. (thanks Patrick for the link)
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=PedxiosPF8U]
Even when we first saw the movie Minority Report, the idea of having tangible interface was nothing new. Nonetheless this idea excited my mind quite recently, especially since I saw the various hacks and experiments using a wii controler - one of those is by Johnny Lee, in the video below he explain you how to track your fingers in the same fashion as Minority Report.
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU]
Another one, in a TED talk, by Jeff Han who shows a high-resolution multi-touch computer screen and the various new interactions modalities ipod/iphone like.
A few weeks ago, I have been invited by Maki to a talk he and Kajsa were organising at RCA for their student of visual communication. The talk was by Aurélien Froment, he was presenting a live film project - so it was like a performance. A bit like a scenario mixed with a storyboard, projected live in front of the audience amongst which Aurélien was sitting.
The setup was quite simple: from the ceiling a hung camera was filming Aurélien’s desk where the show was taking place.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFd_bOjFgZg]
Here is a picture of the desk after the performance with all the elements of the film’s project :
He then showed a film he realised: a magician selecting images from a collection, playing around with them, in the same fashion as the Minority Report movie.
Meeting Aurélien was quite exciting since his work and what he shown at RCA this afternoon was really close from questions and pieces I have been developping for sometimes now.February 03, 2008
Categories: experiments, outdoor, tangible, thinking loud
Tags: collection, color, interface, metaphor, performative, photography, representation, tangible, textuality
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I wish this ceiling would be connected to parameters.
I wish this ceiling would be connected to parameters.I am sure you know already about the Nabaztag.
This device reacts to information, it acts as a tangible filters to information flows on your network and transform them into a audio or visual signal, diffused into your real world - allowing you to go away from the computer to focus on your ‘analog’ things and come back only when this very email you were waiting for has arrived: you are alerted by the bunny on your desk.
To be honnest: this little rabbit that talks to me or glow in the dark… it just makes me feel stupid. To me it’s not really something I would like to have to interact with. It really feels like being in Disneyland - except it’s at my home, on my desk… sounds like a nightmare!
But, despite my reluctance I have to recognise I am completely amazed by the gigantic potentials of the brand new applications which arise with intelligent objects.
On the other hand we could imagine subtle yet meaningful modification of our direct environment, (light coloring or dimming, for example) depending on alteration of our electronic presence. Design and culture to the rescue if I could say so: in fact, I just saw a few pictures from the exhibition of lamp by Ingo Maurer on lightscapes on http://maxspace.funporium.com/ which inspired me to share these reflections.
One of the first thing which came to my mind is the LightHives project by Alex Haw (another Bunkerer), even if Light Hive goes more about surveillance and community, while those application I’m referring to are more attached to the personal sphere and are a private representation - both share the basic principle of an abstract representation of a live activity
I wrote a bit about electronic presence and digital objects a little while ago on my personnal hub - but not as much as I talk about those topic everyday when working at Electronest; we should definitely write more about the ideas, concepts and projects that emerged since we started those discussions with Pierre.
Refering to electronic presence and digital objects is all about expanding conceptual boundaries and design process:
using terms like ‘electronic presence’ or ‘digital objects’ which are going beyond the simple scope of the web page design. The term ‘electronic presence’ does not only refer to an url with fancy images and well designed logotypes. ‘Electronic presence’ is closer to a global attitude towards digital mediums and cultures embrassing from the simple home page to the electronic installation (tangible computing) through customized content managment systems, home made software, generative application, etc.
An essential curiosity glues all the separates aspects of a digital communication together and supports the communication expertise background. A website can be an extension or a representation of an activity in real life.Lights or simple lamps could then be connected to the local network, and represent events that otherwise coul go unnoticed. It could be a violent reminder, or simple and discreet light dimming. By using light reflection on color, we could use the ceiling as a silent echo of what is happening on the other side of the screen.
LED Benches
Ingo Maurer, 2002
Glass, LEDs.
LED Wallpaper
Ingo Maurer, 2007
Plastic film with conductive circuits, LEDs.note: People behind the Nabaztag seems to be more clever than the aesthetic and culture their rabbit promotes; they have a Nabaztag API. Maybe I just should remove the plastic shell of that hideous thing and play with it a little bit…
edit: roof is the outdoor bit, ceiling the interior one - well well…
November 27, 2007
Categories: data beautification, designing, project, tangible, thinking loud
Tags: architecture, device, environment, info hub, interface, network, parameters, tangible, wifi
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mass media diving (old edit video)
this is an old edit of a video, introducing my MA researches about information fluxes. the main end product of it was a helmet, kind of personnal theatre which would plugs you to the infosphere in realtime.
click the image underneath to play the video in a new windowFebruary 01, 2007
Categories: data beautification, memory, typography
Tags: brain, control, flux, info hub, installation, mass media diving, mmd, physical experience, poetic, tangible
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