Monthly Archives: June 2009

Lufthansas’s realtime airtraffic data simulation

By Ben Cooper | Published: June 25, 2009
Realtime data visualisation of 14,000 Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights worldwide. Visitors to Lufthansa’s Brand Academy in Frankfurt can interact with the flight data. Zooming in on specific flights or areas and listen to radio communications. Created by Whitevoid. From what I can see in the video: the instillation feels like the deck of the [...]
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Thoughts on augmented storytelling

By Ben Cooper | Published: June 19, 2009
Jen Wilson, of The Project Factory, presented ideas and realities of the mobile web at the ADMA class I tutor. Amongst other brilliant things we were shown this clip – HP MScape game prototype. The clip got me thinking. Story writing comes to life through a variety of mediums. A book, allows you to get [...]
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Lucky Country site live

By Ben Cooper | Published: June 18, 2009
Footprint Films engaged us to develop the digital strategy for their upcoming “Australian western thriller” release Lucky Country. Today we launched the first part of that strategy – the website & blog. Courtney, Cate and Nick (at Liquidshape who designed and built it) have all put in the hours to turn it around in record [...]
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73mph jet cyclist

By Ben Cooper | Published: June 15, 2009
Bob Maddox bolted a dual-exhaust pulse jet engine to the side of an ordinary bicycle, donned a leather jacket and helmet and then held on tight as he peeled off a 73-mph run down a deserted back road. Found these great pictures and article on WIRED
Posted in cycling, innovation, journeys / adventures | 2 Comments

WWDC 2009, Live from App Store visualisation

By Ben Cooper | Published: June 11, 2009
what you’re looking at: over 3,000 apps-and growing-are downloaded every minute from the App Store. This is a live feed showing the activity of 20,000 popular apps currently on the store. Every time a customer downloads an app, its icon lights up (5-min delay).
Posted in data visualisation, games / play, installations | 7 Comments

Short film feeling_lonely? by Rachael Turk

By Ben Cooper | Published: June 10, 2009
Watch this short film (10mins) in HD. It’s with great pleasure that I finally share Rachael’s film ‘feeling_lonely?’ which she wrote and directed. feeling_lonely? : Rob is “the man who has everything” (and everyone). But when 45-y-o ‘Mother Manchester’ catches his eye online, he gets more action than he bargained for. I’ve been fighting with [...]
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