where's the screen

OPENSTUDIO

2006-12-05T23:39:00.000-08:00

OPENSTUDIO is web + art + community + economics. It is an open-ended experiment that couples a very simple drawing tool with an economy of artists, curators, collectors, dealers and viewers. Members can create and modify drawings, set prices and licenses, exchange and exhibit work, view financial records, and commission one another. It is a conceptual foundation from which we're continuing to develop further work in creative tools, collaboration, licenses, participatory media, law, and trust.
- Brent Fitzgerald

Interview via we make money not art found here.

worldmapper: the world as you've never seen it before

2006-11-20T16:00:00.000-08:00

funky non-geographical maps based on a wide variety of statistics

Sports Artist Sued for Mixing Crimson and Tide

2006-11-11T09:25:00.000-08:00

who says you can't make money making art? this guy makes enough to become a target of a lawsuit by his subject.

"Daniel A. Moore, a sports artist for more than 25 years, used to get sideline passes from Alabama, but now he is not welcome on game day."

New York Times article, registration might be req'd, but free.

GPS visualizer

2006-11-06T11:51:00.000-08:00

here's a neat-o site for GPS users - GPSvisualizer.com.

upload your tracklogs and choose a variety of mapping methods to produce visualizations.

saturday night i went for a walk around the perimeter of campus, GPS in hand (well, actually in my hood). i uploaded to tracklog to the site and made a couple maps. unfortunately, the aerial photos offerings on the site are pretty slim, so the tracklogs are overlaid on an image from 1991:

elevation

speed

Statistics Mapping

2006-11-05T18:16:00.000-08:00

Breathing Earth shows the approximate number of people being born, dying, and the amount of CO2 emmisions for any country in the world.

Neighboroo shows statistics from politics to race of every county in the US.

radical cartography

2006-10-23T19:56:00.000-07:00

yes, we're also using this site for some assigned readings, but the whole site is a collection of, well, radical cartography.

information aesthetics

2006-10-18T17:02:00.000-07:00

Check out this blog on the aesthetics of information. It's mainly about new ways to convey information but there are some great posts about mapping. Best way to find them is on the right hand side under "EXPLORE," choose the heading "locative."

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2006 machinima awards nominees (the mackies)

2006-10-17T21:55:00.000-07:00

"After a grueling screening process, which was spent scrutinizing an exceptionally strong field of entries, the 2006 Mackie nominations have been selected."

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what the heck is machinima?

global webcam view

2006-10-17T20:34:00.000-07:00

here's a neat-o mapping/animation video. time-lapse composite of webcams from around the world.

Draw in 3D!

2006-10-12T14:48:00.000-07:00

So this is a program that lets you draw in 3d virtual space. It's pretty neat...you can draw and then rotate the image and continue to add. Your composition ends up looking different from every angle....here's the link, hopefully Ii did this right :)

http://www.squidsoup.org/doodle/

MIT Sketch Demonstration

2006-10-11T13:45:00.000-07:00

Neat Interactive Sketch Demonstration

Amazing. I wish I could do this with my drawings. Like the game 'The Incredible Machine' that ruled my life as a kid, except you get to draw your own parts.

Courtesy of 'The Wooster Collective' blog, which also has a load of other interesting posts related to new media.

second life, pop. 800,000+

2006-10-09T19:50:00.000-07:00

"Second Life" now has more than 800,000 denizens, of whom more than a hundred are earning a real-world, full-time living there, selling things like virtual land, clothes, jewelry, weaponry and pets, or by offering virtual services, notably sex. link

color palette generator

2006-10-09T13:16:00.000-07:00

handy tool
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the long zoom - the ultimate 'mapping' video game?

2006-10-09T08:58:00.000-07:00

Most eras have distinct “ways of seeing” that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages of Cubism, the rapid-fire cuts introduced by MTV and the channel-surfing of the 80’s...But a decade or two from now, when we look back at this period, it is more likely that the work that will fix the long zoom in the popular imagination will be neither a movie nor a book nor anything associated with the cultural products that dominated the 20th century. It will be a computer game.

NY times article

the blind camera

2006-09-28T14:43:00.000-07:00

"It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject."

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Falling Water visualization using Half Life game engine

2006-09-03T12:30:00.000-07:00

using Half Life 2's game engine, Source, Half Life user Kasperg produced a model of Frank Llyod Wright's Kaufman House.
-but where's my gravity gun??

can machinima be beautiful?

2006-09-03T09:03:00.000-07:00

video game footage taken to another level. wonderful use of cheap & easy virtual camera "motion control":

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Politicos beware: You live in YouTube's world.

2006-08-19T21:05:00.000-07:00

"There's nothing in our world that seems to have the immediate impact of seeming to convey the whole truth and watching something come out of somebody's mouth, [with] your own eyes."
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trompe l'oeil at the ATM and pop machine

2006-08-16T16:30:00.000-07:00

a nice treatment of "depth" behind the screen:
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Online video games are the newest form of social comment.

2006-05-13T10:10:00.000-07:00

Slate article

"Video games that allow you to kill Osama, Jesus, and yourself."

In Tokyo, the New Trend Is 'Media Immersion Pods'

2006-05-13T09:43:00.000-07:00

New York Times Article

"Sometimes they look like nothing special, only marginally cooler than carrels you might find at a college library. But at other times, especially late at night, they seem visionary, an architectural realization of the social and personal life of the future."