Here’s the talk I did at Iris’ excellent Under the Influence day. It’s basically about digital experiences and magic and how the two are interconnected.
Hope it’s OK – from my perspective I think it wanders a bit at the end (I sort of ran out of preparation time). As usual I can’t bear to watch [...]
I discovered the world of visualisation gadgets through this excellent blog: http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/
They’re things that can basically turn a table full of boring data into interactive gadgets that you can publish and share as you like.
I thought it looked easy. So I tried it out.
I grabbed some European Internet Population data from here. Copied and pasted [...]
This is all going to seem a little strange. Why on earth would anyone want to remix a presentation in such a fashion?
Well it’s a funny story you see. I was mucking around with some basic VJing software. It’s a thing called Quartonian that can take a folder full of images and do crazy [...]
I’m a little gutted.
I just got the programme for the Brighton Festival and got all excited when I saw that Blast Theory’s location based cycling thingy Rider Spoke is coming to Brighton for a weekend! Woo hoo!
Then I called up to try and book. And it’s all sold out. Boo Hoo.
Read more about the [...]
I feel bad posting bad stuff about Adobe being as they’ve just launched 2 really cool things:
Buzzword.com is an amazing online word processor (the export functions are dead tight and you could almost survive without MS Word), and Photoshop Express (the free online Photoshop version) is pretty cool as well.
So those are good things. [...]
I was watching TV last night and an ad came on for continuing education. It’s one with fingers walking around the place. The ad was OK. I didn’t really pay much attention. But at the end of the ad the call to action was – “search for EMA online”. Not visit direct.gov.uk/ema or what you’d [...]
Brilliantly simple.
We’ve all had those moments when a site’s not working. And you wonder, is it down for everyone or just me? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
answers the question for you.
You enter a URL and it tells you.
Smashing.
I did do a double take on the Google ad served up in the bottom right of the results page though! Yowza!
Pregnancy tests are a staple of TV drama. You can’t have a soap opera without the cliffhanger moment when someone is waiting in a bathroom staring at a wet little stick to find out if they’re up the duff or not.
And these days the technology is pretty advanced:
I just love that line about ‘the most [...]
Dickon from work pointed me at: ABSOLUT MACHINES.
It’s so killer it’s not even funny. They’ve got a load of top drawer interactive music machines that you can play with over the internet. And the way they’ve done the queueing and stuff is really nice.
I’m not 100% sold on the old skool interface look, but [...]
You know sometimes when you see something so amazing that you almost forget to breathe while you’re looking at it. Well I’m just about finished hyperventilating after the end of this video.
The guys at Meek.fm have created something that creates an incredible relationship between typography, sound and a control surface. You can tweak type [...]
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