A fun project/concept that will become a reality and will make being trapped in London traffic on a double decker more bearable.

There’s a call for artists to contribute to this project at their site.

Via ca.net. Fun.

I like this custom build of the Monome 64 with oversize punchy buttons. Check out the construction shots via the excellent CAN.

Inventive display matrix made with bottles, by Alex Beim. Check out his other work on his site and Vimeo.

via cdm.

They are from Stockholm and they have some beautiful products/projects/ideas.

Look at their website.

A Peasley Research manifesto/manual was left in the studio last week. Like everything else in that room, it has been cleared out. Too bad.

If you are curious about Peasley’s ideas and methods, a PDF version is here:

Peasley Research (PDF)

His name is Henderson Stevens. Any clues?

Mass collaboration; social responsibility and good will; bottom-up decision-making.This is a really great piece about how deep the transformation we are going through is and will continue to be.

Via Experientia.

This is a nicely executed video on design strategy and process (by Design Continuum) that I think you should watch.

Seen on swiss miss.

lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria. Visuals coded in openframeworks by zachary lieberman, joel gethin lewis and damian stewart (yesyesno).

Remarkable.

I’m no connoisseur, but it seems like the choice of visuals for VJs is often arbitrary. The resulting visuals that complement a sonic performance end up as a superficial layer that doesn’t push the total experience into new territory.

Addictive TV are not like that. Their work does explore mapping video and audio in a way that does take an AV performance to new heights. It would be nice to confirm this seeing them live.

They are featured on gestalten.tv’s latest video podcast. Watch it here.

Field is an open-source Mac-based media authoring system, built in Java by Marc Downie of the OpenEnded Group based on ideas formulated at the MIT Media Lab, and subsequently used for a variety of hi-def video installations and choreographic projects.

A thorough post on it is at cdm.

Video of many of those will be shared (soon-ish I imagine) so check this space for them.

Both IxD1 and 1xD2 banded together to help make the event run smoothly. As a thank you souvenir to the visiting speakers, we made some artifacts to help them remember their time here (if they get them past security on their flights home).

Mikko put some more photos on Picasa, here.

Arduino Mega is here. It has 16 analog Ins, and also 54 digital In/Outs (14 of them PWMs).

Welcome to the HUMlab Open House, Tuesday the 31 March, 13-16

If you wonder what HUMlab is about and what we are doing, come to our
Open House next Tuesday. Staff, students and researches will be
showing projects they are working on.

It will also be possible to explore video editing, electronic
literature and the virtual world of Second Life, to mention but a few
of the many attractions. As well we have coffee and cookies.

You are all most welcome.

Best,
Stefan Gelfgren
HUMllab

HUMlab is located in the basement below the university libary. Take
one of the stairs on either side of the library entrance to get down
to the lab.

http://www.humlab.umu.se/about

And iPod Touch too I guess (of which we now have some in the workshop). From Tellart.