Audio / video

I've mentioned the Decode: Digital Design exhibition I saw in london previously.  Here's another piece that was featured focusing on audio-response, entitled Solar Rework, designed by Robert Hodgin.  You can read about how it was built, here.


Solar rework from flight404 on Vimeo.

Dear Google,

Dear Google,
Now that I've condensed my mail, docs, photos, videos, bookmarks and blog onto your servers, please don't be evil with my data.
Thanks, Ben.

PS. Way to go re: China's censorship.

Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity of the individual expressed through personal information. In this networked world, in which we are thoroughly digitized, individuals are asking ‘How can I protect my information from being misused?’ Read more.

Social Media Week

Social Media Week conferences take place simultaneously in multiple cities around the world. The aim of each event is to advance the use and understanding of social media in the corporate, public and non-profit sectors.

The second annual conference will take place between February 1st – 5th, 2010 simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo. The five day conference will explore the profound impact that social media has on culture, business communications and society at large. LEARN MORE.

I'll be attending Social Media & the Haiti Disaster, should be interesting and hopefully insightful.

DJ Shadow - 6 Days

Six Days by DJ Shadow from 'The Private Press' LP. Video directed by Wong Kar-Wai, available on Vimeo.

www.djshadow.com

Design by Numbers

On my latest quick trip to London, I made some time to head to the Vitoria & Albert museum to see a new exhibit entitled Decode: Digital Design Sensations, produced in conjunction with onedotzero, a digital arts organization.  Touted as "the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations."

It was a very interesting combination of a number of different art/technology mediums, using computers to collect, react and interpret collections of data.  Along with the interactive pieces which allowed for immediate interaction, my favorite piece was a digital interpretation of flight patterns by Aaron Koblin "an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns."

Using a program called Processing - available via open source distribution - Koblin took FAA data of flight plans to produce a 24 hour time lapse map of flights over North America.  The final product is a visually stunning piece of art you can view below.


I highly recommend clicking here to view it in full screen.

When you start digging deep enough, there are all sorts of little treasures on the web, like Kobin/Processing produced Radiohead video for 'House of Cards' or the hundreds of videos in the Processing group on YouTube.  Watching these made me think of an earlier post featuring a Jay-Z video.

Atleti, Atleti...

My new favorite team on the continent:

But how long until I can meet the Mets?