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Lufthansas’s realtime airtraffic data simulation
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
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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WWDC 2009, Live from App Store visualisation
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).
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The Cans Festival, London.
Quick post… had to share. Check our man on the ground; Thaddeus Maximus’s photostream here
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Burble London: Audience controlled LED balloon installation
The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface of the structure. The public, both audience and performer, come together to control this immense rippling, glowing, bustling ‘Burble’ that sways [...]
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“Hello, world!”
a_v_code.jpg Originally uploaded by sns2006. A real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth. A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, [...]
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Atomic: full of love, full of wonder by Nike Savvas
Atomic: full of love, full of wonder Originally uploaded by benhamin. Essential viewing, the ‘Adventures with Form in Space’ exhibition at The Gallery of NSW (Sydney). Not all pieces get as much attention as this one… and rightly so, its fantastic. The whole audience seems to be tansfixed with smiles (and perhaps full of love [...]
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Gormley in da house
Gormley in da house Originally uploaded by benhamin. Its the 15th Biennale of Sydney, which consists of 85 artists & collaborators from 44 countries / 57 cities and held in 16 venues… Went and saw the Anthony Gormley installation at Walsh Bay, and this is one of the photos from the piece.. Highly recommend getting [...]
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Code Flinging Warriors
1. Two web artists (net.legends) will face-off in a ring to alter a web page – the cyber-ring — live. The resulting changes will be seen by the public on a screen and by web surfers on the net. 2. The artists will face-off for three hours using their skills of design and hacking to [...]
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SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network
The SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (formerly AI to the People) project asks the question: If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other “undesirable” – why not when you look like a rock star?
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Erwin Wurm exhibits me
Went and saw the Erwin Wurm: Glue Your Brain exhibition at the MCA Sydney on Saturday morning, with my good friend Melissa. Not only did we laugh and contemplate the humour and irony of Mr Wurm’s work, but we also took part in the exhibition. These shots were taken on my camera phone.
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