Here are a few innovative takes on music videos.
Black Mirror and Neon Bible for Arcade Fire are interactive music videos.
Take This Dance from Alljoines is horrible emo-music, but the concept of the
video is interesting. It takes data from different web-services and uses your
IP-address to customize the video to your location.
A little book (PDF) with nice work samples and projects where new textiles meet software, robotics and sensors in new objects/environments:
http://www.designresearch.ca/share/ResponsiveTextileEnvironments.pdf
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Pretty slow, but a great idea to get away from using the mouse and keyboard for navigation.
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RFID is a biased technology. Here are two controversing examples for the use of RFID.
Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things.
No Verichip Inside is a movement that is against RFID, especially Verichip,
which is a RFID-chip that can be planted to the human body.
And here is a crazy Slovakian religious cult, Angels-Light that is against RFID, saying that all depressed people have been
chipped by aliens and are going to chip hells.
Website with different kind of projects, from extreme visualization, rapid prototyping products, sustainable devices, processing applications and lots more.
Enjoy your coffee while you dig on this super interesting website. Also with an interesting interface.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
Some of the presentations from Microsoft’s MIX08 are now available online. Two that look particularly interesting:
Beneath the Surface – Daniel Makoski
http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/mix08/08_WMVs/UX08.wmv
The Story of the Ribbon – Jensen Harris
http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/mix08/08_WMVs/UX09.wmv
Be sure to check the other ones also from the UX Track. Silverlight plugin required on the site (grrrr…. I don’t like it. Lots of issues with it)
not sure if someone already mention them
but they did some interesting projects.
http://www.tinker.it/now/
http://chrisoshea.org/
http://postspectacular.com/comingsoon/start
http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/projects
http://www.dotdotdot.it/
http://www.twodotone.com/
http://www.waag.org/project/samsam
http://www.interactiondesign-lab.com/project_list.php?categoria_id=all
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Rhino for Mac is coming. So those of you that use Macs have to wait. They actually named it (oh dear) iRhino.
Otherwise, there are alternatives. Cinema 4D, Modo and Silo all have OSX versions. There is also Maya, but it’s way too crazy for a puny designer. Maybe worth mentioning are Blender, Wings3D and Art of Illusion, which are free. Art of Illusion and Wings are probably good if you just want a rough model and not learn a crazy interface. Blender is like any other 3D package and can produce
very high quality stuff.
Wikipedia: match moving is a special effects technology to allow the insertion of virtual objects into real footage with the correct position, scale, orientation and motion in relation to the photographed objects in the scene.
So basically you make a 3d object, which you can import to video.
These programs are free, there are more but they are expensive.
Icarus for OSX and Windows
Voodoo for Windows
Tracking 2D images to video you can do in After Effects.
Because we all know that design is about knowing software:
It’s coding. No visual feedback. You can use microcontrollers. Can make Java applets for web. Free.
Flash
It’s crazy.
No coding required. Visual feedback. Can use microcontrollers. Web plug-in discontinued. Weird interface. Full 3-D. Free.
Like Flash for humans. Nice interface. Some XML and some C# coding required in order to create
good working prototypes. Beta version is free. You can use microcontrollers with C#. Only for Windows.
Visual coding. It’s like coding, but without syntax. Max/MSP mostly for audio. Pure Data for everything. Pure Data is free. Microcontrollers; yes with both. Pure Data has now it’s own microcontroller, which you can control right from PD.
Visual coding like Pure Data, except a lot better interface. Yes to microcontrollers.
[update] better video of the piece, thanks to Dan for the link.
Absolut Quartet is an “automated multi-instrumental orchestral machine, a large-scale electromechanical sculpture consisting of three instruments and thousands of parts, working together to create one piece of music. The main timbre is a marimba played by balls shot from a robotic cannon. Other components include a series of wineglasses played by little robotic fingers and an array of robotic percussive instruments”
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/absolut_machines_amazing_1.html
Absolut Machines at http://absolut.com/absolutmachines with construction videos and web remote control.
Here is the source file for the little Processing sketch we built this week:
It requires the Minim library (get the full download with all the examples). Full library installation instructions and documentation on the Minim pages. Don’t forget to check the Processing language reference for code examples.
