INTERVIEW PROJECT - NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS
Another interview is up - I love the first still that appears when the site loads - wow! what presence
Another interview is up - I love the first still that appears when the site loads - wow! what presence
Chris O'Shea & rAndom International created this interactive installation composed of 64 swivel-mounted mirror objects. What I love about these kind of works is how individuals become immersed with testing the responsiveness of the system, and how unselfconscious individuals become, playing in way we would often never do in public. What the videos document is how transformative this installation is of place & space so that normal rules of public behaviour disappear.
This work reminds me of an installation I played with in the 2006 ISEA in San Jose, called Ping Genius Loci. There's something fascinating about responsive mechanical objects/systems that invites both play & a testing of the system - how has it been designed? will it surprise me? how much can I anticipate or not? are there easter eggs? I've lost a lot of time playing in these environments...
Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.
Chris O'Shea's Hands From Above is a lovely example of how installations can transform public places into play spaces - a simple concept & clearly engaging in execution
A new post from Starlight Runner's Jeff Gomez talking about their role in global transmedia storytelling (video in English). I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet but will after Wolfman! Will post on gems later!
Depending on the kind of world we will be living in - this is either whacked or brilliant - imagine the very trippy possibilities...
Google Maps now has an app that takes the Photosynth software a massive step further, in allowing you to integrate geo-tagged flickr images into the google street view - pretty amazing augmenting with crowd-sourced images.
What’s really mind-blowing however is the capacity now to drop in live streaming video, again geo-located to the site you’re looking at - wow - As Blaise Aguera y Arcas notes, the app can enable telepresence as the demo of the crew demonstrates in Seattle’s Pike Place market or it can pull in all kinds of metadata. The last reveal is the integration of Curtis Wong’s World Wide Telescope which allows you to read the sky’s constellations. The zoom in to the moon is amazing
I meant to post this earlier as I downloaded the Easy to Assemble app a few days ago and began reading Justine Bateman's Forty and Bitter blog, which is seriously funny. The app also gives you episodes of Illeana Douglas' Easy to Assemble webisodes and Spärhusen mockumentary trailers - so it's packed with content - still enjoying it!
Illeana Douglas has just launched another Spärhusen video on my Damn Channel. What I'm really loving about this rapidly expanding story world (and I want to say 'empire') - is how tangential the elements currently are. Why not a lost Swedish band doc/mockumentary as an interrelated offshoot to the Easy to Assemble webisode?
another beautiful and well-designed data viz
I'm loving David McCandless' work! I foresee oodles of time lost ahead