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Saturday, October 31, 2009

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


Friday, October 30, 2009

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

Friday, October 23, 2009

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


Thursday, October 22, 2009

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