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Christian Crumlish's excellent talk slides on patterns and anti-patterns in social software.
Originally from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by reBlogged
May 12, 2008
Perforated parts of wine bottle labels, so you can remember what you were drinking.
Originally from Noisy Decent Graphics by reBlogged
"In other words web 2.0 sites have two main classes of page: primary objects or resources and aggregation views which give their users multiple routes into the same resource. And that resource is located at a single URL. That last point might seem painfully self evident: 'one resource = one URL' but either it's not that obvious or it's difficult to achieve."
Originally from Google Blog Search: link:dopplr.com by reBlogged
"Games for playstation with only one color are extremely rare. I simply can only remember Rez and Vib Ribbon that dropped the highlighted grafics and forced all attention to the gameplay. The coming title Echochrome does similar with an outstanding simple gameplay. There is a man wandering in an "optical illusion" landscape. In the game you have to rotate the scene in that way, that the fellow wanderer will get his way through."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Jul 18, 2007, 7:35AM
I've been trying to re-find this series of java-based agent motion demos for, like, six years. Thanks, Processing Blogs.
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on May 3, 2007, 6:18AM
"Typefaces undergo a complex degradation procedure to be displayed as accurately as possible on screen via bitmap font files. Written in Macromedia Director, the PostBitmapScripter (PBS) type generator attempts to work the opposite way by using a simplistic enhancement routine to attempt a recreation of the original typeface from bitmap sources."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Apr 16, 2007, 5:33AM
"Working on a demo for the MPE system consisting a grid of cells, each playing the film Run Lola Run at 60×32 pixels. Each cell is one frame behind (or ahead) of its left (or right) neighbor. The idea here is to ultimately have enough pixel space to display the entire movie all at once, only in motion."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Mar 27, 2007, 9:58PM
"Fujitsu's technique works by taking advantage of the sensitivities of the human eye, which struggles to see the colour yellow."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Feb 24, 2007, 1:59PM
"Installation 'Pollock In Action' took place during the Kunsthausnacht at January 27th, 2007 in the Kunsthaus Zürich. 'Pollock In Action" is an Action-Painting simulator. Based on Stamen's Pollock sourcecode I built a physical interface to virtually paint like Pollock. The actual color was replaced by light. The brush is made from wood. Inside it: Accelerometer, Arduino-mini, EasyRadio RF-Module, RGB-LEDs."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Feb 6, 2007, 7:43AM
"pure:dyne is a new free, open source, Linux-based, bootable, low-latency, high-performance operating system with Pure Data (Pd) as its main emphasis.
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Now, needless to say, a big appeal of this isn't just tuning the OS to your needs - it's taking performance gigs wherever you go, ready to go, without having to worry about OS crashes."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Dec 19, 2006, 10:03PM
"These are old pieces, mostly done 1996-1998 but some are as old as 1994. They're taken from my original Evolutionzone web site, which first went online in 1996. For me there is a clear thread running through these pieces, connecting them with my current work."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Sep 15, 2006, 3:30AM
"The idea is simply to use the user distance from the display as relevant information to modify the content shown. The optimization of the content could guarantee the user to read it also when far, providing short and very readable content that can be very attractive and doesn't require particular effort. If interested to read more information the user can come closer to the display deciding when the quantity of information fits his availability."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 1:13PM
"Because envisioning feels good. It brings many of the good feelings that really programming brings, but it can't crash. So people pursue visions instead of code (lots of design before you code), and visions of visions instead of code (lots of object oriented analysis), and the worst of all are those who pursue visions of visions of visions instead of code (the methodologists)."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on May 28, 2006, 4:31AM
"If you've seen the movie Minority Report you probably remember the impressing gesture based computer interface that Tom Cruise uses there. ... Minority Cube allows you to control the rotation of a cube on the screen by simply moving your hand in front of your webcam."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged on Apr 12, 2006, 6:07PM
Collection of pop culture references to classic Spinal Tap "11" line.
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged
Wonderful combination of aerial imagery and 3D modeling. "Cascade on Wheels is a visualization project that intends to express the quantity of cars we live with in big cities nowadays. The data set we worked on is the daily average of cars passing by streets, over a year. In this case, a section of the Madrid city center, during 2006."
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged
Trailer for forthcoming sequel to the game that ate my 1989-91.
Originally from Processing Blogs by reBlogged
"The thing that sort of flabbergasts me as a professional graphic designer is that, somewhere along the way, they decided that all their graphics would basically be done in the same typeface, which is this typeface called Gotham. If you look at one of his rallies, every single non-handmade sign is in that font. Every single one of them. And they're all perfectly spaced and perfectly arranged. Trust me. I've done graphics for events --and I know what it takes to have rally after rally without someone saying, 'Oh, we ran out of signs, let's do a batch in Arial.'
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I'm not sure that the commander-in-chief proves his mettle by getting everyone at his rallies to set their signs in the same typeface, but as someone who knows how hard that is, I'm very impressed."
Originally from core77.com's design blog reBlogged on Mar 5, 2008, 9:31AM
"Yes, I know the term only too well.
Gilbert are you seriously suggesting that the sort of people who compose predictive text messages on their mobile phones would ever use a word like 'shit'?
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Our job, dear Gilbert, is to offer people not the words they do use, but the words they should use.
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We offer them COAL, or AMBL. Whereas we do not offer them COCK."
Originally from core77.com's design blog reBlogged on Jan 25, 2008, 8:28AM
"The (new) New Museum is now featuring New Silent, a series to take place every second friday of the month, featuring screenings, performances, and conversations about art and technology. The very first New Silent event is Nextcity : The Art of the Possible, which highlights projects that 'blur the boundaries between art, design and technological development', by Stamen Design, J. Meejin Yoon, and Christian Nold. The event will be introduced and moderated by Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware."
Originally from core77.com's design blog reBlogged on Jan 24, 2008, 9:44AM
Lovely:
"Towels take every day dirt and gradually become damaged. In accordance with such changes, you can downsize the towel with 'further options' from a bath towel to a bath mat, and then to a floor cloth and dust cloth. The towel has a vertical and horizontal textured surface that does not produce pile-fabric waste when cut with scissors."
Originally from core77.com's design blog reBlogged on Jan 4, 2008, 8:20AM
"Hire naive misfits who argue with you; encourage failure; avoid letting client input limit your vision; and fully commit to risky ventures."
Originally from core77.com's design blog reBlogged on Dec 31, 1969, 3:59PM
"There is randomness to the violence that makes any type of strategic approach increasingly more difficult. So much of the violence is unprompted.
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Law enforcement is better equipped to address feuds between rival gangs than an argument in the fast food drive thru that leaves someone dead."
Originally from oakland - Google News reBlogged on Aug 26, 2007, 1:17PM
Christopher Hitchens writes about Oakland for Slate Magazine:
"If this isn't softness on crime, then the term is meaningless. Residents have been complaining for a long time about the atmosphere of hatred and violence....
What were the police doing all this time, and why did Chauncey Bailey have to be murdered before they could be moved to act? Perhaps they were doing what they do best: confiscating marijuana and rousting whores so as to painlessly improve the crime statistics."
Originally from oakland - Google News reBlogged on Aug 6, 2007, 10:02AM
"Oakland police are investigating an early morning shooting outside a night club that left two people dead. The shooting took place just after 2 a.m. at Club Seventeenth on 17th Street and Telegraph Avenue."
No, seriously, wtf?
Originally from oakland - Google News reBlogged on Aug 3, 2007, 8:36AM