Sept 29

Portwiture - tweet/ image correlator:

http://portwiture.com/

Murmur in New Jersey:

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/09/nonprofit_project_murmur_hopes.html

Dorito’s second interactive horror:

http://www.asylum626.com/

Nightmare on Elm Street trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-tSvrkKx2Y

Augmented reality shooter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cix3Ws2sOsU

Amazing Japanese video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw

Broken Saints site:

http://bs.brokensaints.com/website.htm

Nawlz - Online interactive graphic novel:

http://www.nawlz.com/

Tali Krakowsky on spatial design:

http://creativity-online.com/news/on-conversations/136612

Sept. 25-27

Foursquare - mobile app game:

http://foursquare.com/

San Fran city app store:

http://mashable.com/2009/09/25/san-francisco-app-store/

Henrietta Simson’s beautiful spaces/ places work:

http://www.manandeve.co.uk/news/henrietta-simson-in-spacesplacessensesplacessensesspaces-at-the-visual-arts-centre-portsmouth-virginia

The Disobedient Dollhouse:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=114229&id=519575655&ref=share

It Felt like a Kiss - locative project:

http://www.mif.co.uk/events/it-felt-like-a-kiss/

Edward Gorey film/ site:

http://www.edwardgoreyfilm.com/

Twyric - twitter haiku / flickr mash-up

http://twyric.com/

Twistori’s beautiful simple twitter emotion data viz:

http://twistori.com/

Twitterfountain - tweet/image mash-up:

http://www.twitterfountain.nl/

Sept 23-24

Dexter stop motion animation - creepy weird goodness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IozuteG0hI

A lot of Lego:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI

Google maps & Monopoly!:

http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/

Douglas Copeland’s design your own Generation A book cover:

http://www.customizedcoupland.com/

Level 26 - trailer launch on YouTube - CSI creator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6mIQOem-CI

Blue & David Ellis - Combo animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uad17d5hR5s

Hirngespinster/ Motion Book:

http://jawbone.tv/featured/2-featured/231-motion-book-explores-space-between-page-and-screen.html

Electronic pop-up books from MIT:

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/popables/index.html

Other lovely MIT projects:

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/projects.html

Sept 19-21

Speak City installation (Toronto):

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/arts/u-of-t-professors-video-is-louder-than-words-installation-gives-the-city-ne.html

Jenkins on aesthetics of transmedia storytelling:

http://henryjenkins.org/2009/09/the_aesthetics_of_transmedia_i.html

Isabella Rossellini’s green porno - Snail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BckqviVaWl0

Fragmented Orchestra:

http://www.thefragmentedorchestra.com/

HBO’s Imagine:

http://hboimagine.com/

Timo’s Nearness (love Timo!):

http://vimeo.com/6588461

Timo’s Sniff:

http://vimeo.com/6602990

574 clips - interactive photo website:

http://www.574clips.com/?shoeid=43

Big Spaceship’s Urban Daddy app:

http://www.bigspaceship.com/portfolio/the-next-move/

August 16-20th

Florian Thalhofer - very cool artist:

http://www.thalhofer.com/

Track your happiness:

http://www.trackyourhappiness.org/

Little Wheel game:

http://fastgames.com/littlewheel.html

Blu’s Graffiti video -

http://vimeo.com/993998

100 years of visual effects in five minutes:

http://gizmodo.com/5347365/take-five-minutes-to-watch-100-years-of-visual-effects

Amazing promo video - Johnnie Walker & Robert Carlyle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSIp76CvUI

July 24

Nasa’s interactive moon landing recreation:

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

Layer’s augmented reality app:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08

Nearest Tube augmented reality app:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fZk0HaIs4s

make your drawings come alive:

http://www2.shidonni.com/

The impossible cool - video archive:

http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/

Find yer pot app:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/19/cannabis/

Infinite Oz - beautiful interactive with gorgeous interface:

http://www.syfy.com/tinman/oz/

July 17-18

Indiegogo - Do It With Others...:

http://www.indiegogo.com/

Blue Eyes magazine - documentary photo site:

http://blueeyesmagazine.com/

Documentary photo narrative sharing site -

http://vewd.org/

Pixel Perfect Portfolios - archive of flash portfolio sites

http://www.pixelperfectportfolios.com/

Economist thinking space site - very cool interface:

http://thinkingspace.economist.com/

The Auteurs - online archive of cinema:

http://www.theauteurs.com/

NY Times on top Facebook game apps:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/arts/television/11facebook.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

5 business models for social media startups:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/social-media-business-models/

Augmented reality twitter viewer - around me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vbh7nHalCc

INNOVID - in-video game experiences

http://innovid.com/

July 5 cont.

Scintillation - stop motion video with 35,000 photos:

http://vimeo.com/3114617

Lovely short love story:

http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html

‘create rich locater apps embeddable in your websites’:

http://mapspread.com/

Canon - ‘Tell your story’:

http://www.canontellyourstory.ca/

Brock Davis - Great simple concept for Porsche:

http://itistheworldthatmadeyousmall.com/projects/porsche/

Typography portraits:

http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/15-stunning-typography-portraits/

Concave scream’s book soundtrack viz:

http://concavescream.com/main.html

July 5

TU’s Surface: A film from underneath:

http://vimeo.com/4936492

Irregular flow: gorgeous video:

http://vimeo.com/156783

Firekites’ stunning chalk animation:

http://vimeo.com/4327464

Keith Loutit’s Helpless video:

http://vimeo.com/2482776

Keith Loutit’s Bathtub IV video:

http://vimeo.com/3156959

crazy stop motion video with wolf & pig:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4

July 2

Social collider - cross connections on twitter:

http://socialcollider.net/

Salman Ashrafi’s beautiful photo blog:

http://www.fotograficmemory.com/public/index.php?&action=page_show&id=1&resource_id=43

Tweetcraft - World of Warcraft twitter plug-in:

http://tweetcraft.codeplex.com/

Jonathan Harris’ gorgeous online interactive project on the Inupiat whale hunt:

http://thewhalehunt.org/

Jonathan Harris’ data viz of everything:

http://universe.daylife.com/

Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar’s ‘exploration of human emotion in six movements’

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

Everything obscure/bizarre;

http://atlasobscura.com/

Week June 29th

Blood Trail - trailer launched on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU2PxX0aBqw

cool digital creative Nathan Love:

http://www.nathanlove.com/

kids’ interactive storytelling site:

http://wemakestories.com/

zzzz - gorgeous data viz of tweets with zzzz:

http://www.abstractmachine.net/zzzz/

cool digital artist - Douglas Edric Stanley:

http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/videos/

Tweets in 3D:

http://www.twitt3d.com/

Just Landed data viz:

http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/just-landed-processing-twitter-metacarta-hidden-data

Week June 20th

Schematic's amazing touch wall:

http://vimeo.com/5326255

Eclectic Method - Tarantino remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEIPCOwY4DE

UK Holiday tweet map:

http://www.ukholsmap.com/

Interactive 3D cover from Popular Science:

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/popsci/

Twitter for busy people:

http://www.twitterforbusypeople.com/index.html

Thought Mesh - scholarly writing tags:

http://thoughtmesh.net/

Week June 9th

Self Control Freak - very cool interactive videos:

http://www.selfcontrolfreak.com/

Nokia Talking Heads - cool concept:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NdBPC77RI

Tag Galaxy - beautiful data viz:

http://taggalaxy.de/

Digital Slaves - multistream video installations:

http://www.vimeo.com/digitalslaves

Sufjan Stevens - data viz of music:

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/06/illinois_visualizing_music_the_infographic_interpretation_of_sufjan_stevens_music.html

Janine Rewell - beautiful website - silhouette paper aesthetic:

http://www.janinerewell.com/dollhouse.html

Week June 2

make your own Sasquatch!

www.livingsasquatch.com

Showtime/Kindle marketing campaign for Nurse Jackie:

http://econsultancy.com/blog/3930-showtime-bows-first-kindle-marketing-campaign

Emotional Cartography:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/06/04/emotional-cartography/

David Lynch's online interview project:

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/#/all-episodes

Julian Perretta's augmented reality interactive 3D pop-up book music video:

www.julianperretta.com/ride_my_star

Week May 24th

Upnext app - provides geo-locational info on iPhone:

http://www.upnext.com/entry.htm

extraordinarily beautiful video by Moray McLaren:

http://www.vimeo.com/4184445

excellent overview of user experience deliverables:

http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php

very cool Nokia email interface site:

http://www.nokia.com/urgent-redirects-folder/emailwithease

Ad Firm Boone Oakley launches site on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elo7WeIydh8

games as art

also, if you haven't played any of the games below, they're worth a few minutes for thinking about

games as art:

Jason Rohrer

Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

Rod Humble:

Marriage: http://rodvik.com/rodgames/marriage.html

Stars over Half Moon Bay: http://www.rodvik.com/rodgames/SOHMB.html

Amanita:

Samarost: http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/

http://amanita-design.net/samorost-2/

www.machinarium.com

Jeneva Chen:

Cloud: http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/cloud.htm

latest interactive online narratives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=HoOCiaxIZF4

must read essays: Manovich & Bush

Vanevar Bush: 'As we may think' 1945

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

Lev Manovich: 'Database as a Symbolic Form' 1998

http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warner/english197/Schedule_files/Manovich/Database_as_symbolic_form.htm

Lev Manovich: Software Takes Command. 2008 Downloadable book under CC.

http://www.manovich.net/

Manovich's Soft Cinema:

http://softcinema.net/?reload

Review of Soft Cinema: 2005

http://www.imageandnarrative.be/surrealism/manovich.htm