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Deadmau5 iPhone app

I think the albums-as-applications concept will probably go a lot further than just a simple track-mixing…

Adrian Hon: Turning the Whole World into Disneyland

Adrian Hon’s company, Six to Start, won Best in Show at this week’s SXSW Web Awards for their project, Telling…

Pattie Maes @TED: Unveiling the Sixth Sense

The last gestural interface demo I saw involved about a dozen precision cameras, several computer systems,…

Book Autopsies


Brian Dettmer creates these fascinating sculptures by carving into books and revealing the illustrations…

Pachube

I’ve been researching network-connected buildings and data services for my location-based storytelling…

Sekai Camera: Tagging Physical Space

Tonchidot defines their amazing Sekai Camera–in Japanese, World Camera– as a "social…

Ladies’ Interpretations of the Silurian

The Institute for Figuring’s  Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, an international crochet-art collaboration,…

Add-Art: Graffiti in Reverse

Add-Art is a Firefox extension that replaces web advertisements with curated art images:
Of the 100+ add-ons…

Postopolis LA

Dan Hill at City of Sound recently announced the next iteration of Postopolis, which will run this Spring in…

About

Jeff Watson is a PhD candidate in Interdivisional Media arts and Practice (iMAP) at the University of Southern…

The Future is Non-Profit

One of the things I’ve written about recently is why non-profit/microprofit businesses are the ones…

Blueful

Hypertext/IF author Aaron Reed’s latest work, “Blueful,” uses a variety of web 2.0 services…

Whopper Virgins

Burger King is really on a roll these days with oddball left-field marketing initiatives like the recently-cancelled…

IMAP Manifesto

This manifesto describes my intentions, aims and perspectives vis-a-vis my role as a theorist-practitioner both within and beyond the academy.

Location-Based Ambient Storytelling

A proposal for a directed research project that seeks to identify and implement a range of context and location-based storytelling techniques.

Imaging Dolphin Language

Using high definition audio recordings of dolphins, the research team, headed by English acoustics engineer,…

CBC interviews Clay Shirky

This week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing…

STS-124 Launch Video

Old and clunky though it may be, the Space Shuttle is still awesome. This spectacular video shows a full launch-to-splashdown…

Fotoplayer

This is what I want for Christmas. Talk about old-skool drum machines!
In the early days of silent motion pictures,…

Mir:ror

Not sure about the voice over, but this is actually a pretty great project. I imagine there will be a kind of tipping-point…

Pirates of the Amazon

Some creep just sent a legal threat to the lab where I work because a student bittorrented some software for research.…

The Making of ARf: Me, My Dog and iPhone

Proof-of-concept for an augmented reality pet running on an iPhone. Via Games Alfresco.…

The Long Awaited

Patricia Piccinini’s The Long Awaited.
H/T: whatshisname the stranger…

"Flying Floating Fish Air Blimp Thing"

…or FFFABT for short…
See also: AirJelly.…

Interactive Video Object Manipulation

Looks like Adobe is cooking up some pretty cool tools for everyday video manipulation and animation……

David Shrigley

David Shrigley is a writer and illustrator from Glasgow. Check out samples from his sometimes unsettling (and…

Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)

Pipilotti Rist‘s lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality.…

Ants!

EBR: How to Do Words with Things

A review of Ira Lingston’s Between Science and Literature, by Stephen Dougherty:
Or is it more like that…

Our cell phones, ourselves

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him…