groovy apps
Interactive Art applications for the iPhone and iPad by Scott Sona Snibbe:
– Gravilux lets you with stars.
– Bubble Harp draws bubbles around your fingertips, recording and replaying your movements.
– Antograph lets you draw with ants.
Originally created in 1997 and 1998 for galleries and museums, these programs are now available for iPhone and iPad in the iTunes store. Or maybe even ripped off and appearing at a museum near you?
very nice work – more here
swing
sucker punch
Alex Pardee recommendation – he is doing some of the art work on it, lucky bastard. Thanks dude. Zack Snyder movie.
oh yeah, can’t wait for this one coming out . . .
“Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences.
My Minotaur
by David Alexandre
is print dead?
for all the ali lowes out there
Internet Explorer 6 . . . punch yourself in the face, and get me a pulled pork sandwich
I had to share this from www.newtoyork.com. It is once of the finest addresses to usage of Internet Explorer 6 I have ever seen:
“Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best experience possible. Honestly, I can’t even begin to think about what your entire experience on the internet must be like? (…probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars blow by you on their way to Costco to get gallons of mayonnaise and 60-inch plasma TV’s). How will you ever be able to use this website?????? You wont. You’re an asshole and your browser is an asshole. So look, I’m going to be honest: I kind of hate you. BUT we c-a-n make this work. Here is what I am going to need you to do: fire up your Toshiba ShitBook© that weighs about 45 pounds, wipe the Cheeto dust off the screen, download Safari, delete Internet Explorer from your computer, punch yourself in the face, and get me a pulled pork sandwich.”
blast from the past
who needs concave
griptape art rocks
Did you consciously buy that last purchase?
I have been reading a number of tech books of late and wanted to share some of the recent advancements there have been:
New technology allow cameras built into television set-top boxes to be programmed with algorithmic models that read our facial expressions and tell advertisers what we do and don’t like; Nielson is partnering with a number of tech companies to manufacture brain reading – called NeuroFocus – which is meant to take the guessing out of why consumers react to what they see on a screen or read or listen to.
New smart phones collect enormous amounts of data. Mobile telephone companies gather and store digital data on calls made and received and how long each lasted. In additional, the chips in the phone’s GPS track a user’s location, the length of stay, and other mobile users it is in touch with. Tapping this sort of data is known as as reality mining, and combined with data mining becomes more than scary.
Companies are “supposed” to keep customers data secure and not share it, however they have been selling it for a number of years to a variety of buyers. A company called Phorm have gone one step further, approaching telephone and broadband internet providers with software that tracks each consumer’s online activities, so that a “nameless” portrait of each consumer can be created. In return for sharing the compliant companies get new revenue “spigots”. In 2007 Phorm had done deals that covered two-thirds of Britain’s broadband houses. Information for 2010 isn’t available but the suggestion is that there is now 100% coverage.
Something to think about. Big brother has been watching for a long time but that was all he was doing – watching. Is he now actively dictating what YOU see.
Did you consciously buy that last purchase?
Shiel Yule 