Team Shine Shine Shine‘s Lin Yi-Hsien and Margaret Huang made this privacy couch called ‘hide’ from multi-colored felt, and when you’re ready to come out of your shell it turns into a bean bag.
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Roger and Me may have been soft. And Bowling for Columbine was harsh to Canadians. But Fahrenheitt 911 was poignant. And Sicko made me cry. You won’t believe what Michael Moore did with Slacker Uprising – apparently he supports the Bush presidency. But Roseanne doesn’t agree. Watch and share, there’s no EULA.
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how things aren’t made
Transparency in manufacturing is fascinating – being able to peer inside the LEGO factory or watching how TCHO chocolate is made really gives you a feel for the product that you wouldn’t otherwise have. But transparency can also be selective: what about a photogenic cigarette factory or Nike’s pride about their only non-sweatshop shoes? Then again, there’s outright lies: that’s what fascinates me about Youtube user How Things are Made, with fascinating videos on the manufacturing of steering wheels (above) and this amazing insight into the compact disc manufacturing process (below). Watching manufacturing processes is deeply satisfying, no matter how real.
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virtual vandalism
Last month I saw Nokia champion Jurgen Scheible present Mobispray at Nightmarket 2008. He uses a cell phone to paint graffiti on anything through a multimedia projector. The real-time interaction is guided through a custom interface on a (of course) Nokia phone with an accelerometer to place and rotate dabs of virtual paint. It’s a full-featured version of GRL’s L.A.S.E.R. Tag. You can watch him in action painting military aircraft among other things on Youtube and below:
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disco doodles
Jay Silver is a master at technology for touching – his latest product (soon to be sold by adafruit industries) is Drawdio, a tool for making music with your drawings. He takes advantage of the conductivity of pencil lead to make a musical circuit simply by drawing. But to close the circuit you have to touch the graphite line, or better yet, touch someone who is touching the drawing. Instructions below:
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see-through walls
Chris O’Shea’s ‘Out of Bounds‘ is a gallery installation that allows you to see through walls by merely pointing a torch at them. Built in C++ with OpenCV and openFrameworks, it’s an elegant example of how Augmented Reality is becoming commonplace now that projectors and cameras are widely available. And with the advent of light-transmitting concrete it could serve as a useful tool for prototyping the kind of future we may one day have.
Out of Bounds from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
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lap sack
HP announced it would start shipping laptops in reusable cloth bags instead of the usual cardboard boxes, a step toward reducing materials that have nowhere to go but away.
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youtube your own adventure
One of the unexpected discoveries of the nightmarket.web workshop has been the ability to re-create a random walk through an urban space through youtube comments. The Bright Night team (Avalon, Odeson, Hung Hsiao-Mei, Jackie Yang and Jimmy), as part of the exercise of translating the unique experience of visiting a craft market in Tainan City, decided to post a series of youtube videos in a way that allows you to choose the direction to walk down the street at each intersection. You can try it out for yourself by clicking the movie above, when a comment appears asking you to cross the street you can click it to be transported along the way. Using Youtube’s recently introduced annotations, you can turn any narrative into a choose-your-own adventure by merely linking to other youtube videos from within the annotation.
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