Albany Bulb
Dump turned informal art park in Albany. Buchanan exit off 80, turn left towards the bay.
Is driving easier when Mr. T’s riding shotgun?
Celebrity “plugin” for car navigation systems. “Mr. T gonna get you there in one piece … you gonna be there safely, or else!”
Chumby
“A compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web… And a chumby can exchange photos and messages with your friends”
del.icio.us | ambientinfoflashphysicalcomputingubicompweb2.0
Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last - New York Times
The result of some serious YouTube-related investigative reporting by the NY Times. We can only hope we see more and more of this…
[IxDA Discuss] Junior Designers
Members of the Interaction Design Association mailing list weigh in on how junior designers should pick the right place to get a job. (Don’t step into a situation where you have to be an IxD evangelist, right out of school.)
Cell Phone Disco
“Electromagnetic radiation of active mobile phone sets off the LEDs in relative proximity. Light shadow follows the conversation through the space.”
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The Ghost in the Buddha Machine: An Interview with Christiaan Virant of FM3
FM3’s latest release is a portable, hardware loop-player containing nine short loops of FM3 music called the Buddha Machine. A “remix” of cheap Buddhist prayer players as mass produced in China.
Point Reyes lodging - Pt Reyes National Seashore B&B: Abalone Inn
Affordable Pt Reyes B&B.
7.5th Floor - Mobile / Ubicomp blog by Fabien Girardin
“A blog by Fabien Girardin used for his Ph.D. thesis on collaborative work in the context of mobile and ubiquitous environments”
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Indexed - Vaguely self-explanatory
“This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others.” Collection of funny graphs, scatter plots and venn diagrams on index cards.
A Year of YouTube Submissions
Ghostly information visualization showing the increasing number of videos posted on YouTube.com over the last year.
Native session | EE Wiki
Fix for CI’s weird built-in session functionality.
YouTube - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
An amazing sequel to OK Go’s first dancing video - this time with treadmills!
Amy Youngs - Hydroponic solar garden
Glass blown hanging hydroponic garden. Collaboration by interactive artists Amy Youngs and Ken Rinaldo.
Processing.org - Basic Stamp serial communication
Basics of sending a stamp info via a serial connection from processing.
del.icio.us | basicstampphysicalcomputingprocessing.orgprogramming
the wanderlust for design » work by anthony stonehouse » an australian designer in london
Spotted in the typophile.com forum.
vintage wallpapers and wallcovering
Texture-riffic!
The Morning News - San Francisco Green Space, by Margaret Mason
I don’t know how she could have left out Chrissy Field. And while she says Ocean Beach, I say Baker!
Attitash | Alpine Slide
A scant 2 1/2 hours drive from Beau & Julie’s new hometown… a MILE LONG ALPINE SLIDE!!1!1!!
Emigre: graphic design into the digital realm - Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Emigre retrospective. Available at the SFPL.
washingtonpost.com - Gallery: Ron Mueck
Gallery of photos of Mueck’s exhibits. What technique.
Telegraph.co.uk - “Body of work” (Artist Ron Mueck)
Article on sculpture artist Ron Mueck who creates (sometimes giant, othertimes miniature) “hyper real” characters. Looking at his characters I can’t help but imagine that they live and breathe.
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.