Buttons momentography by Ian Kynnersley and Sacha Pohflepp. Press the button to take a ‘moment’ and Buttons will memorize the time and start searching for a photo of that very same instant, taken somewhere else by somebody. Take a ‘location’ and it will use your location to show you a photo from the past, taken close to where you are now.

Christien Meindertsma, Makers & Spectators from robertanderson on Vimeo.

Interesting exhibition organized by Christien Meinderstma at MU, a space for contemporary art and design in Eindhoven. Makers & Spectators 2009 was an exhibition to analyze the way visitors look at different things.

In this project by Mark Selby “each camera comes with a map of a city to which it is configured, and allows one photo for each grid square on the map. When that photograph has been taken the camera is disabled until the next square is reached. In encouraging exploration, the camera becomes the tour guide.

Meanwhile, machines plot the photographers’ route through the city, producing drawings that can be overlaid onto the map, while the photos they take are printed as they go. These constraints aim to encourage more attentive exploration of the city, more careful consideration of which locations or experiences to record, and consequently, in combination with the materials produced, to allow the creation of more valuable records of experiences.”

“SignalGuru is designed to detect traffic lights and track their status as red, amber or green. It broadcasts this information to other phones in the area that are fitted with the same software, and—if there are enough of them—the phones thus each know the status of most of the lights around town. Using this information, SignalGuru is able to calculate the traffic-light schedule for the region and suggest the speed at which a driver should travel in order to avoid running into red lights.”

Via Economist Online

Interesting project by Industrial Facility: “Unlike other cameras, this camera has no view finder, but instead has a reflective surface that displays the end photograph in its true proportions. It is our most recent experiment with the relationship between product and landscape”.

By Telstar logistics

Scientists from UCL (University College London) have found out that our sense of time comes partly from observing how much the world changes, as we have learnt to expect our sensory inputs to change at a particular ‘average’ rate. Comparing the change we see to this average value helps us judge how much time has passed, and refines our internal timekeeping. These results suggests that our perception of time is not maintained by an internal body clock alone.

Dr Maneesh Sahani, from the UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, and an author of the paper said: “There are many proposals for how an internal clock might work, but no one has found a single part of the brain that keeps track of time. It may be that there is no such place, that our perception of time is distributed across the brain and makes use of whatever information is available.”

The study includes two key experiments. In one experiment 20 participants watched small circles of light appear on a screen twice in a row, and were asked to say which appearance lasted longer. When the circles were accompanied by a mottled pattern programmed to change randomly, but with a regular average rate, participants’ judgments were better – suggesting that they used the rate of change in the patterns to judge the passing of time.

In another experiment the authors asked participants to judge how long the mottled patterns themselves lasted, but varied the rates at which those patterns changed. When the patterns changed faster, participants judged them to have lasted longer — again showing that sensory change shapes our sense of time.

“Our sense of time is affected by outside stimuli, and is therefore highly mutable, which is something that resonates with people’s feeling about the passing of time,” said Dr Sahani.

“It is possible to bias people’s perception of time, which does not fit with the idea of a rigid internal brain clock. The answer to why this happens is that part of our perception of time is based on changing sensory input from the outside world, which we can use to improve our judgements of time in an environment where rate of change is likely to be reliable,” added Dr. Misha Ahrens, the first author of the study and a UCL graduate student when the study was conducted.”

Via ScienceDaily
Original picture by Richard West

Via Endgadget

Developed by Mudlark, “Chromaroma is an online multiplayer game that uses your journey data (obtained whenever you swipe an Oyster card to travel by bus, train or hired bike) and awards points based on how many locations you visit around London, and how often you travel.

Every time you swipe your card, you unlock something new in the game. The creators hope that it inspires people to try new modes of transport and explore new areas of the city they haven’t visited before.”

Via rb.trends