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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Sekai Camera: Tagging Physical Space
Tonchidot defines their amazing Sekai Camera–in Japanese, World Camera– as a "social tagging device" for the iPhone. It combines most technologies in the iPhone 3G, from the camera and the GPS to the internet connectivity and its microphone. When you … Continue reading
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Tagged gps, iphone, public space, sekai camera, space, tagging
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Ladies’ Interpretations of the Silurian
The Institute for Figuring’s Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, an international crochet-art collaboration, is now on exhibit at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica: The IFF Crochet Coral Reef is a collective and collaborative enterprise. The reef project was created by … Continue reading
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Tagged christine wertheim, collaboration, crochet, institute for figuring, margaret wertheim, track 16
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Add-Art: Graffiti in Reverse
Add-Art is a Firefox extension that replaces web advertisements with curated art images: Of the 100+ add-ons available for Firefox, “adblockers” are the most popular. The most current, Adblock Plus, has over 18 million downloads (as of May 2008) since … Continue reading
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Tagged adblockers, advertising, firefox, graffiti
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Postopolis LA
Dan Hill at City of Sound recently announced the next iteration of Postopolis, which will run this Spring in Los Angeles. Viz: I’m hugely pleased to be able to announce another Postopolis, this time in Los Angeles, running from Tuesday, … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, conferences, dan hill, geoff manaugh, los angeles, postopolis, storefront, urban space
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The Future is Non-Profit
One of the things I’ve written about recently is why non-profit/microprofit businesses are the ones most likely to survive in an increasingly bleak future. As the economy, environment and global geopolitical situation continue to deteriorate, I’m pretty sure I won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, economics, manifesto, michael jon jensen, non-profit, tim o'reilly
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Blueful
Hypertext/IF author Aaron Reed’s latest work, “Blueful,” uses a variety of web 2.0 services to communicate a narrative. Telling stories in this manner is something that I expect will gain popularity and sophistication in the next couple of years, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged aaron reed, arg, blueful, chaotic fiction, interactive fiction, transmedia
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