The O2 memory project
April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
So Saturday I hoped down to the Southbank for an afternoon of awesomeness with Charlie, Priyanka, Sam and Charles to see the O2 Memory Project. The instillation created by Jason Bruges, camera-captures panoramic movements and stores them within it’s digital memory bank inside. You can then go inside the instillation and see images that it has taken and here’s some for the photo album from Team Awesome
Although the project is a great idea, it wasn’t executed as well as I would have hoped however, we managed to add an additional BOOM (as Sam would say) to the project. After leaving the instillation, we went to the Hayward Gallery to see what other toys we could play with and stumbled upon these little cardboard camera’s that you put over the lens of your camera to make your photo’s a little more interesting.
Now OK these images didn’t come out as well as we had hoped when we put them over the memory project, but below you can see the effect it’s supposed to create below.
Rickroll flash mob
April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
So I am a little late writing this post but on Friday evening I headed over to Liverpool Street Station to take part in the Rick Astely flashmob. If you don’t know what a flashmob is then you can look here. If you don’t know what all the fuss is about with Rick Astley then you can find out here.
As flashmobs go, it wasn’t one of the greatest but it was still really fun nevertheless. 5:59pm people were loitering around the departure boards and as the final ten seconds took us to 6pm the excitement began. It is unfortunate that more people watched rather than participate as it’s not really in the spirit of flashmobs however, you can see what you think courtesy of my Qik video
Don’t click
February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I saw a few months ago but never actually noted it down until I wanted to show it to someone this evening. Imagine going to a website and never clicking. Trust me, it’s harder than you would think. German Artist Alex Frank designed and developed a website to test your surfing habits whereby the entire navigation of the site goes against your natural instinct and encourages you not to click, instead by moving your cursor you can unveil the layers within the site. Pretty impressive.
New York underwear flash mob
January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
On Saturday, 900 people gathered in New York for the latest flash mob courtesy of Improveverywhere for the 7th annual No Pants Subway Ride. Escorted by the NYPD, participants had to spread across three subway lines and stretched six per car. The event also took place in Boston, Washington DC, Portland, San Fransisco, Chicago, Toronto, Baltimore and Salt Lake City. Source: Trend Hunter
You are my Sunshine
December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Escape Partners and production
Talking CD cases
December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Pre Vu have launched a new talking CD case. The talking case allows you to send someone a video or music CD (or anything the size of a CD) with that extra bit of “you” attached—your own voice giving a personal 60 second greeting.
Digital paint brush
December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“I/O Brush is a drawing tool that explores colours, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up colour, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment.” This is a really great innovation and I am waiting for the consumer product version to launch. Source and images: MIT Media Lab
Barcode revolution
December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This is not new, but it is still cool which is why I am writing about it. Design barcode are a collective based out of
Social networking for bumps
December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Someone had to do it. Yes, Foops is a new social network due for launch in April 2008 for bumps. Now you don’t even have to be born to have your own profile page. Until the site is launched, the information available is currently limited but I will provide a full write up after launch.
Musical roads
November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Developers from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in
