Procedural Painting
Syllabus, projects for ITP class taught by Daniel Shiffman, uses Proce55ing.
Myron (WebCamXtra) - Computer vision for artists
“Computer Vision & Well Connected Motion Tracking”
del.icio.us | embodiedinteractioninteractiondesignprocessing.orgprojectorvideo
Kiva.org - Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world.
Loan amounts per project seem to be around $500 each, but each lender can loan as little as $25.
del.icio.us | developingworldideathinkingvia:duvanderworldaffairs
One2One - a toolkit for creating personalized ambient media links for conveying togetherness over a distance
From the (defunct?) Media Lab Europe Human Connectedness research group
Interview with Joshua Schachter at the Berkman Center
Good Q&A. Privacy, groups on the way.
Exploratorium Weather Station
For kite flying conditions on the Marina Green and Chrissy Field…
Chris Jordan Photography
“Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by t
Interview with Dutch artist Theo Jansen - maker of giant walking “beach animals”
“For the last 15 years, he has been evolving a series of wind-powered animals, made of plastic tubes. When these constructions are fed by wind, they set into motion and transmute into organic-looking creatures; or beach-animals as Jansen calls them.”
Real-time San Francisco Bay wind pattern streaklines
USGS site with applet that displays (slightly delayed) animated wind flow patterns over the SF bay. Just indicates direction, not speed. (They do have a color-coded speed map in knots)
33 rpm design
Crapload of indie rock posters. Some common rock poster design elements. Neat printing effects.
The Swiss Poster Collection - Carnegie Mellon University
Long lost link, found again! Swiss poster design 1970 - present.
Patent Pending Industries
Quite a few concert posters. Silk screened, incorporates hand illustration, photography, stock illustration.
Ooh-aaar, cows do milk themselves, down on the robotic farm
A robotic milking system that allows cows to choose when they want to be milked, gives them a back scratch and a warm or cold wash (their choice.) Developed in Holland, and in use in the UK and US.
Speed Lever - Crank Brothers
$6 tool for quick and easy changing of a bike tire. I should pick one up, as I’m waiting for my old tubes to pop.
Multi-Touch Sensing through LED Matrix Displays - Using an LED display bidirectionally to optically detect finger touches
Two scalable techniques for enabling ordinary LED matrices to simultaneously act as multi-touch input devices. In 1977, Forrest M. Mims reminds us in one of his “Engineer’s Notebooks” that LEDs can also be used as photodiodes…
Border Film Project
We are distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border: undocumented migrants crossing the Arizona desert and Minuteman volunteers trying to stop them.
The City - Elizabeth Hickock
Photos of model San Francisco cast in Jell-O.
411Sync - SMS developer network
API for SMS/web interaction. Too bad my phone won’t let me send SMSs to non numeric addresses.
Customizing Audrey’s browser channel knob settings
Bonus: Audrey supports Flash 4 files! Who knew!
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.