i just discovered the museums and the web conference website, a creative commons site containing all the latest developments in trying to market art to the masses through internet portals to museums. many museums have opened on-line portals, and some of them even exist in second life or their own on-line versions. once a museum […]
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artmarks
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how things are taken apart
panasonic has a highly evolved electronics recycling program, in part because of japan’s mandate that half of materials be re-used or recycled by manufacturers. their metec site shows the extend to which televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines can be broken down to their component materials for re-manufacturing. aside from the advantage of such […]
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virtual policy
my favorite video at this year’s siggraph animation festival (the compendium of the special effect industry’s efforts over the last year) only one piece struck me as pure art: U2 and green day’s music video “the saints are coming,” featuring an alternate reality where the US troops in iraq were redeployed to new orleans to […]
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XOXOXOXO
connor, matt and i are all here at siggraph on behalf of the medialab, the olpc and the creative synthesis collaborative.
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virtual world
why are virtual worlds so similar to our own? i spotted jun fujiki‘s OLE coordinate system here at siggraph: it’s an application that allows you to design and inhabit physically impossible spaces. aside from being beutifully designed, it makes a good point – you can make worlds in the computer that are far more interesting […]
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sunny screens
with the recent introduction of consumer electronics targeted to the developing world, a considerable amount of innovation has gone into making low-cost displays that work in sunlight and consume less energy. i spotted these two prototypes at SIGGRAPH today: the dual-mode reflective/emissive LCD in OLPC’s XO hundred-dollar laptop (above) and electronic ink in motorola’s F3 […]
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teaching tools
i have one new rule for design: things that teach are better than things that don’t. this jigger has a rotating handle that reveals directions for mixing common drinks via george nickolopoulos
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