Good ad

It's not often I post commercials, but this one kinda worked on me. Nice looking car too.

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.

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.

FFFOUND this online.

FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!" Pretty cool idea. I just stumbled across this animated gif, and felt like sharing. It's from the design site todayandtomorrow.net

Andrew Zuckerman: Bird

I found photographer Andrew Zuckerman's book Creature absolutely fascinating, so much so that I had to share it as a Christmas present to my niece and nephews. His new book Bird just came out last month, enjoy a stunning video.