Buttons momentography by Ian Kynnersley and Sacha Pohflepp. Press the button to take a ‘moment’ and Buttons will memorize the time and start searching for a photo of that very same instant, taken somewhere else by somebody. Take a ‘location’ and it will use your location to show you a photo from the past, taken close to where you are now.
Christien Meindertsma, Makers & Spectators from robertanderson on Vimeo.
Interesting exhibition organized by Christien Meinderstma at MU, a space for contemporary art and design in Eindhoven. Makers & Spectators 2009 was an exhibition to analyze the way visitors look at different things.
In this project by Mark Selby “each camera comes with a map of a city to which it is configured, and allows one photo for each grid square on the map. When that photograph has been taken the camera is disabled until the next square is reached. In encouraging exploration, the camera becomes the tour guide. Read the rest of this entry »
“SignalGuru is designed to detect traffic lights and track their status as red, amber or green. It broadcasts this information to other phones in the area that are fitted with the same software, and—if there are enough of them—the phones thus each know the status of most of the lights around town. Using this information, SignalGuru is able to calculate the traffic-light schedule for the region and suggest the speed at which a driver should travel in order to avoid running into red lights.”
Via Economist Online
Interesting project by Industrial Facility: “Unlike other cameras, this camera has no view finder, but instead has a reflective surface that displays the end photograph in its true proportions. It is our most recent experiment with the relationship between product and landscape”.
Last Tuesday was the opening of DOCument, the annual postgraduate work-in-progress exhibition at the Edinburgh College of Art. In the show, I’m presenting one of the projects I’ve been developing over the last months, the Distance Clocks. The exhibition is open until Friday, 15 July, when Sue Hawksley will be perfuming her performance haptic_dance.
Circa 1962
Scientists from UCL (University College London) have found out that our sense of time comes partly from observing how much the world changes, as we have learnt to expect our sensory inputs to change at a particular ‘average’ rate. Comparing the Read the rest of this entry »
Developed by Mudlark, “Chromaroma is an online multiplayer game that uses your journey data (obtained whenever you swipe an Oyster card to travel by bus, train or hired bike) and awards points based on how many locations you visit around London, Read the rest of this entry »
