The Wind at Crissy Field Center
Wind stats generated from the Crissy Field Community Environmental Center’s rooftop weather station. Nice live-updating csv for further parsing.
Exploratorium Weather Station
For kite flying conditions on the Marina Green and Chrissy Field…
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)
Radio controlled IR “trigger” for aerial kite photography
Probably more reliable than the whole “stick-lever to press shutter” contraption.
Post from Coffee Waffle on how he manages to live his life the way he does.
He chalks it up to not being beholden to a job as a way of defining yourself, challenging your comfort limits with new experiences, eating right, getting outside and not owning a television. Sounds like good advice to me.
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.