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Clay Shirky: What I Learned About Creativity By Watching Creatives

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:25:27 +0000

Clay Shirky describes five student projects that he thinks are pushing the creative boundaries - from interface design to how people cluster to build new work:

[via CF]

Blind Self Portrait

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:08:42 +0000

Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets' Blind Self Portrait machine does exactly what it says on the tin. You grab a pen, place your hand on the machine's surface and then close your eyes. Thereafter, the machine guides the your hand to draw a self portrait, using computer vision technology to track your face.

[via PetaPixel]

Slinky on a Treadmill

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:54:41 +0000

Because it's Friday...

UNIQLO WAKE UP

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:56:06 +0000

UNIQLO's new app wakes you up with music that changes with the weather:

Sounds of Aronofsky

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:51:18 +0000

A lovely supercut by kogonada. (Requires you to turn on your speakers, natch.)

RSA Animate: The Power of Networks

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:48:35 +0000

In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world:

SIGGRAPH 2012: Technical Papers Preview Trailer

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:10:29 +0000

Mind = Blown. If you're in any way interested in computer graphics and interactive techniques, do yourself a favour and watch this preview of SIGGRAPH 2012...

[via waxy.org]

The Forty Story

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:01:00 +0000

The story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened and "how his life has been tracked (and kerned) by forty years of Pentagram design":

One is one...or is it?

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:56:36 +0000

TED-Ed explores the many meanings of one:

Leap

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:04:32 +0000

Leap is a small cube (about the size of a pack of chewing gum) that, when connected to your computer via USB, creates a four-cubic-foot virtual workspace in front of it. Within this area, Leap will track all ten of your fingers simultaneously, and in three dimensional space, to within 1/100 of a millimetre. Such precision allows the system to recognise far more complex gestures than your average gestural interface...as you can see in this demo video...

[via bookofjoe / engadget|]

Happy Food

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:53:59 +0000

Something to enjoy in your lunch break from Yum Yum London:

Cosmic Quilt

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:35:23 +0000

The Principals' Cosmic Quilt, suspended from the ceiling in the video below, interacts with users as they approach it:

[via moco]

Rethinking Social Networking

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:31:47 +0000

Artist Jonathan Harris describes four trends that are reshaping culture in the digital age - compression, disposability, curation, and self-promotion:

[via Explore]

Ken Burns On Story

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:13:39 +0000

In this short documentary about the craft of storytelling, filmmaker Ken Burns explains his lifelong mission to wake the dead:

Østersøen

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:01:18 +0000

A beautiful stop motion video for the song Østersøen by Ödland: